Progress is progress, no matter how small...

Now that I no longer work across the street from a thrift store, I am a little less aggressive about closet and drawer cleaning. I still do the seasonal rollover, but not so much in between. That is, until, the big red box came to my neighborhood. Lately I see these drop boxes for clothes and shoes everywhere. So, although they don't take household items, it has made it far more convenient for me to drop a few items at a time, rather than build a big load I have to haul somewhere. So far, we've gotten one garbage bag full and several grocery sized bags over to the drop box. In the meantime, I work on the "stuff" in the basement a box or two a a time. It goes very slowly, but it is better than getting overwhelmed and leaving a mess out. The addition of my MIL's stuff hasn't helped much, but we've actually gotten some treasures. Last week her boxes yielded some inflatable stuff for camping and the lake, and yesterday I found a nice drawer organizer in the salon stuff. I have more hair product than we will ever use, but thrift stores cannot take opened stuff. Maybe the nursing home or Freecycle (tm!) can. It's hair stuff, not like someone spit in it.
Today we have a deliciously unplanned Saturday, and I plan to get at a few more boxes before the lawn dries out and I absolutely HAVE to mow it!!! Is it weird that I'm almost as excited about this as going to the lake?

Garage cleaning

Go here to see the starting of my garage cleaning.

Not much, but I did what I could until my back gave out for today. See what I can get done tomorrow.

One load to the dump, and general housework...slowly getting back on track. Hoping the long weekend helps with that.

Ok, so not much here, but check out my yard work pics on the other blog...

RED ALERT!!

T-5 days until company. Of course, nothing got done until the last minute!! I need to fix this!! DId get a lot done yesterday, though...

Easy does it

Didn't really feel like I got a lot done today, but I got out into the yard and started the firepit. We have lots of scrap from the bathroom project, so I burned that to enjoy while I puttered somewhat aimlessly about the yard. Though I had no real sense of purpose or direction, I cleaned up a lot of crap that was uncovered by the thaw, recycled quite a bit of stuff the plow pushed into the yard, and recovered some yard tools that were left out by the kids. I also did some trimming and lopping in the problem areas near the alley. If I can make this much progress every day, spring should look halfway decent around here.

Purge

We have six bedrooms in our home and four children. My kids have a sometimes-annoying habit of playing "musical bedrooms" with the extra one. One of them got a wild hair and decided to switch rooms today, but it actually works for me this time. We have company coming for 3 weeks in April from Germany, and the room she vacates will actually make a better guest room. In the moving process, we put together a huge giveaway box and dumped two bags of garbage. It's also going to give me a little freedom with moving some furniture around. Now that I am wireless, I plan to move my desk into the guest room.
I put a couple odd bits of furniture on freecycle today as well, so I feel like I made some good progress, after a few weeks of slacking.