Today I spent six hours up in my multi-purpose room which combines a guest bedroom, family TV room, my dressing room and the cat's room. It was ugly and I almost gave up before I started. But with the vision of
Carla's super cute wallet dangling in front of my eyes I persevered. I filled 2 garbage bags with well...garbage...and another 3 garbage bags with clothing donations, a bag full of shoes (which are really hard for me to part with BTW), a large comforter we no longer use plus a box of other donations
PLUS 2 large bags of coat hangers. Just wait til you see the photos! Possibly tomorrow, if not then Saturday for sure. So I've surpassed by far the 29 donated/purged items required for the challenge!
Here's a wee glimpse of what I was up against. There is a guest bed under all of that crap somewhere! I hope there's no forgotten guests! The 2 small bins on the left were full of 1/2 used toiletries from the sale of the trailer, the clothes basket is full of clothes from the trailer, some donations from Kazi, and yes that is my Halloween wig hanging from a floor fan that doesn't work anymore.
This horrible mess is my clothes closet. There are also clothes hanging off the door knobs as well as from hangers on the tops of the doors. And waaaaaaaaaaay too many shoes. But I like shoes. Shoes make me happy. I hate getting rid of shoes, it's like getting rid of close friends. I can hardly stand to look at this picture!
Right now I need a break. I didn't even eat lunch! I was up there for
SIX, 6 hours with just coffee to sustain me. (Don't worry - I had breakfast earlier and since I've come down I've eaten again. I tried on several pairs of pants and am happy to report that I now fit into a few more pairs so that helps out my wardrobe a great deal!
The bad news is I moved things, lifted things, carried heavy bags down the stairs and out to the garbage and my lower back is aching. Not sure if I'll bike tonight. I'm trying to do every other day on the bike and pedaled 20km last night. Only 360km til I get to Philadelphia so sure hope Judy gets back online soon!
So that's my news for today - it was an easy peasy
NO spend day as I didn't leave the house except to get my recycle bins. It's exam week and today is exam review day and since my students don't write exams they didn't have to be at school today and neither did I! So I put my time to good use, you know, making hay while the sun shines.
I'm thinking on Saturday I will attack the "dreaded challenge" which for me is the linen closet - I'm scared of that monster!
