One of the fun things about moving is getting to organize everything. Also, it is an opportunity to clean everything and figure out what to keep and what to get rid of. So back during the summer, we moved into our current home. Now this was a local move for us. We moved from one house to another about 10 miles away. Due to circumstances, it has taken us a while to get around to working on unpacking and organizing everything.
With my husband being military, he gets all the federal holidays off. So he has off today for Columbus Day. We are taking advantage of the day off to work on unpacking and organizing. As a homeschooling family, we have a lot of books (and I do mean a lot). Which means we have to have lots of shelves to put them on. So we are working to get them straightened up. As our children grow up. some books just need to pass from our hands into other hands. As much as I would love to be able to keep all the books we have, it is not practical. So we are in a season of passing things on to others. My daughter is now considered middle school/junior high, so the elementary books need to go. How about you, do you have things that you need to either clean, organize or perhaps purge? If so, I would love to hear from you. #blogboost
We have been in our current home for 11 years so I shudder at the thought of moving and going through all this junk. lol That said, we go through our books yearly and move out the ones that are 2 levels behind their current one.
ReplyDeleteThanks for kick starting me on Looking at the things I need to sell or re-gift. I'm here from UBC
ReplyDeleteAck... we moved five years ago and we STILL have things in boxes. At this point, it will be a matter of getting rid of things rather than figuring out where to put them... but it just doesn't seem to ever be realistic to go get into the boxes! (Elisabeth from UBC)
ReplyDeleteI've been in my home almost 30 years and serious decluttering is necessary. We were blaming it on stuff belonging to my adult son but he started going through stuff - it wasn't ours. One of my problems is books. Too many books, held onto too long. Yours is a good system. Alana
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