Out with the old, in with the...
...nothing.
Life with a family of four in 1,000 square feet is crowded at the best of times. Add in the fact that more than half the family members are pack rats, and it can get ugly.
We are attempting to do something about this. We had a yard sale this morning and we are really trying to get rid of stuff that we no longer need or use.
It feels good to find new homes for things we no longer use, and make better use of what we have because we can get to it (I found a bunch of the kids' games that had been "missing" for a while because the cupboard they were in was completely blocked by stuff).
And while I'm not ready to attempt to go 90 days without buying anything new (I stumbled across a blog of someone who was doing that) I'm definitely working to use up what we have before buying more, whether it be food, toiletries, yarn or fabric.
Punkin and I found five lengths of cloth that she liked here in my boxes of fabric and tomorrow we are going to the store to buy some sewing patterns (Jo-Ann's is having a sale) and make her some new clothes with fabric that's been sitting around for years. I don't know where I'm going to get the time to sew, but I'll do my best.
As the Italian likes to say, "our house weighs less now". It's good.
Life with a family of four in 1,000 square feet is crowded at the best of times. Add in the fact that more than half the family members are pack rats, and it can get ugly.
We are attempting to do something about this. We had a yard sale this morning and we are really trying to get rid of stuff that we no longer need or use.
It feels good to find new homes for things we no longer use, and make better use of what we have because we can get to it (I found a bunch of the kids' games that had been "missing" for a while because the cupboard they were in was completely blocked by stuff).
And while I'm not ready to attempt to go 90 days without buying anything new (I stumbled across a blog of someone who was doing that) I'm definitely working to use up what we have before buying more, whether it be food, toiletries, yarn or fabric.
Punkin and I found five lengths of cloth that she liked here in my boxes of fabric and tomorrow we are going to the store to buy some sewing patterns (Jo-Ann's is having a sale) and make her some new clothes with fabric that's been sitting around for years. I don't know where I'm going to get the time to sew, but I'll do my best.
As the Italian likes to say, "our house weighs less now". It's good.
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