We did more adding this week then PURGing, but it's all good. We just bought a huge hunk of metal called a 2001 Toyota Sienna minivan and it obviously takes up a lot of space in the garage. This new addition was necessary for another new addition, which is our 3rd child, who expected to be born in mid-October. We just found out this week that I'm 12 weeks along. SURPRISE! As you know we weren't planning on this or else I wouldn't have PURGEd so much of our baby stuff such as the car seat and various other useful items. So we're excited about the baby, but PURGing will be a lot more interesting because there were many things I was planning to PURGE and now need to keep plus, we'll need more stuff for baby #3, especially clothes because s/he will be born 6 month off my other kids and hand-me-downs won't work well. PURGing has never been more important!
This week, in order to fit the minivan into the garage, we needed to PURGE some things. Honestly, we didn't spend too much time doing it and mostly just shoved stuff around. We took several things to the curb to be Freecycled and all were picked up in a couple hours:
#82 at least 8 Clay pots of various sizes#83 3/4 Bag of Scotts winterizer fertilizer
#84 1/3 Bag of Scotts summer guard
#85 Several metal garden stakes
Then we picked up
#86 Various papers, receipts, plastic bags, and other pieces of trash
We trashed or recycled that stuff. This was the first week since starting PURGE that our garbage can was full. I'm so glad most of our stuff is staying out of landfills, at least for now. We'll definitely take another sweep of the garage, but that was good enough to get us started and not burned out.
Sorry there is no picture. I took the stuff out to the curb and it got picked up so fast. We might not have pictures for a while because I broke our camera by dropping it right before our sonogram this week. Ugh, that's another thing we need to get, a new camera. And this is how our house can get full of junk if we don't actively PURGE...
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