Clean-up

We made a to do list when we arrived home. The idea was to make use of our time before we travel elsewhere and we felt we needed to dejunk. We decided before we could dejunk our living space upstairs, we had to clear out our storage space downstairs, a task which seemed overwhelming to us, but, we were determined. So after having a sleep in, we tickled the storage space in the mid afternoon. We pulled all the boxes from the storage room, put them in our parking spot and started going through them . We made a throw away spot, a goodwill spot and a keeper spot. We manage to put five cardboard boxes into two plastic boxes, we made a pile for good will which included a couple of folding chairs, a picnic box, a picnic table and some xmas items we knew we would never use. We broke the cardboard boxes down for recycling, and we went through the remaining boxes. We managed to put all our pictures into one box, the xmas stuff we think we'll use into another box. I have about 12 carousels of old slides, which although i didn't get at today, my task is to go through them, pulling them from the carousel, cataloging them and putting them into a smaller box. I've made this may priority to have it completed by the end of the week. We'll see about that one. We reorganized the plastic storage boxes, putting the ones we know we will not need immediately on the bottom.
It was a fun exercise. Its amazing how much "stuff" you collect over time. We feel we made a good start, we'll leave what we have for now, and then revisit the space in a month or two and go through the process again. You have to wonder if this is necessary, but, dejunking is not easy. The question of, I'll need that, always crops up, even though we haven't used any of those items in months. I'll give us a 7 out of 10, because we started and i think each time you deal with you "stuff" it gets easier the next time. I'm hoping one day I'll go into my storage space and all I'll see is a couple of boxes, or, maybe none.