Stuff...

This weekend was an early "spring" cleaning. Greg and I are trying to get rid of 100 things in the month of January. This weekend we took on two rooms in our house. We set up a list (stuff/what to do with it/gone or not gone yet) and went to it. By the end of Sunday we got to 70 things! I'm so excited. It's amazing to me how much 'stuff' we accumulate in such a short period of time. Yes, some of this stuff is just clothing but actually I would say it's only about 10% of the list right now. We physically got rid of some of the stuff yesterday and I will be making a stop at the Goodwill today to get rid of more stuff as well as going to Half-price books. Then on Wednesday we will be donating some more stuff at our church's food shelf/clothing shelf. We put a bunch of stuff on craigslist and ebay so we have to wait about a week with that stuff and if those don't sell they are going to be donated too. It feels great to de-clutter the house some. If Greg is reading this I know he is either smiling or laughing because he knows how much i hate clutter. There are days where I just want to throw everything out but Greg and I are balancing each other out on this one. It has been fun to be able to see how much stuff will be gone out of our house by the end of January. I even took a peek at the list this morning and got a huge sense of accomplishment, the nerd that I am. I highly recommend anyone to try this for a month. It's a great goal and actually it's kinda fun.