The Grand Cleanout - June 2014

I have not made a lot of progress in my goal:

To be ‘move ready’ by June 2015

since my post at the end of May. We donated 6 boxes of books and tapes - which cleared out a corner of the dining room where they had accumulated. There are a couple of bags of clothes for the donation box and some old electronic equipment to take to Best Buy for recycling.

I’ve been thinking about how to proceed and mark my progress.

• Picking one room each month and focusing on cleaning it out completely of unneeded ‘stuff’ is one perspective.
• It is also clear that we have a huge number of ‘keep sake’ boxes; it was easier to just put anything we gleaned from outings or my daughter’s school years into a box until it was full…and then start anther box. The plan for these is to clear off the ping pong table and start sorting by year….and recycling papers that we really don’t need to keep.  I’ll plow through 2-4 boxes every month.
• There are a few milestone events to keep in mind. The neighborhood has a yard sale in September so that is the time to get rid of any furniture we no longer need. And donating any Christmas ‘stuff’ in October would be just in time for use in the 2014 holiday.

So - now I have a plan…..and am getting to work!