If you're here to judge me, it would be a good idea to just look away now! I promise you this is not going to be pretty! So let's just get that out of the way first thing! If you want to see someone try to recover from her hoarding tendencies then by all means stick around... hopefully I won't grab you and throw you out with the rest of the garbage! ;)
Yeah, yeah... I missed posting my 10 things yesterday... my first day. So what?! I was busy trying to put this blog together! Geez! Don't fret, I have indeed thrown away my 10 things for January 1st and here they are!
To some it may look like a bunch of garbage, and I assure you they are right. But, for some reason these are the kinds of things I walk by every day and never see. Or when I do see them I see a use and purpose... I don't realize they are crowding my life!
1. The Hungry Howie's Pizza box. You see that brown strap on it? That's because it was my son's trick-or-treat bag when he was a slice of pizza for Halloween 2008! Yes, the box still has candy in it and has been sitting on the top of my refridgerator for over a year!
2. & 3. Well, since I'm finally getting rid of 2008's candy I might as well send off this year's as well in those two jack-o-lanterns. Okay, I admit it! I looked inside and saw all those glorious suckers that could make my life easier on days when I need a bribe for my kids... and I picked them out and put them in a Ziploc bag and stuck them in the cupboard! Shhhh!
4. In the spirit of the holidays being over for 2009 I decided to grab the box of Christmas cards from 2008! Yep, they've been sitting in a box on my counter since last Christmas! I have to say though that I consider this a big win since the thought crossed my mind to cut off the pictures and repurpose them for something else... and there was a whole pile of perfectly good envelopes in there as well. But, I closed my eyes tight and tossed!
5. See's Chocolates! Need I say more? Who wouldn't want a box of those sitting around??? Those were given to me by my dad back in June after the birth of my 5th son. I resisted the urge to pull off the lid to see how many half bitten chocolates still remained inside!
6. Being the SAHM that I am, I don't have much use for clothes that need dry cleaning. I mean seriously, with 5 boys I'm either puked, slimed or pooped on daily! And let's not forget the stray spit wad grazing my backside! Therefore I have absolutely no use for the Dryel that has been sitting on my laundry room shelf for over 5 years!
7. You see that roll of T.P.? You're asking yourself why would I throw away a whole roll of T.P. I mean there are so many uses for it! Even if it's old and a little dirty it could still be used in an emergency or at least to get back at the neighbor who keeps letting their dog bark at all hours of the morning! But not this roll of T.P.! This one has taken on a more solid state since at some point some sort of cleaner was spilled on it and then it was left to dry and take up space on my laundry room shelf. Enough said!
8. The mysterious brown sack... is it empty or does it hold a treasure? I'm sure you don't know the answer to that, because on one hand you are realizing that I am the type of person that would hang on to an empty brown sack for yeaaaaaaaaaaaars... but on the other hand you also know that a person like me needs as many places as possible to stash stuff! I won't keep you waiting any longer... it's filled with old worn out socks! Who wouldn't want an old worn sock to slide over their hand on dusting day? What's dusting?
9. An empty laundry soap bottle. Someone really should put a trash can in my laundry room... the one 5 feet away outside the door into the garage is too far away!
10. A box of Clorox Ready Mop pads. These traveled with me from our old house over 5 years ago. I've never used a single one on my tile kitchen floor in our current house. I actually pulled one out of the box and looked it over. To myself I thought, "Hmmm... these are expensive, I really shouldn't just throw them out. Hey, wait a second... that looks like the same kind of dry-weave that comes on my maxi pads..."
That's it! My first day of purging! I keep telling myself that I was not injured in the process! Now on to tomorrow... or I should say today!
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