This summer was a wild ride full of birthday parties, travel, camps, swim lessons and one unexpected storm resulting in a 4-day long power outage. We are still getting back to normal around our house. Since we are 2/3 of the way through 2011, I need to get back on track and finish this project by year end. By this point, I should have rid our household of about 243 items. I had gotten rid of 278 items before March so I’m sure I’m still on track. Nevertheless, let’s recount.
During May I was stockpiling stuff for the yard sale. At the June yard sale, I managed to sell about 75 items including some large items – patio table and chairs, camping chairs, baby items, etc. During June, we took a lot of the unsold yard sale items to Goodwill – a total of 107 items. In July many of the baby gear items that did not sell at the yard sale went to the local children’s consignment shop – a total of 10 items. Even though the number was small, the impact was large because I got rid of some large baby items – pack and play, changing table, baby swing, etc. In August I took another 80 items to Goodwill. A total of 550 items have left our house in 2011.
The current project is to clean out my daughter’s room and give her a space better suited to a school-aged kid. This means clearing out the rest of the baby stuff and outgrown clothes. Since I’ve already consigned the big stuff, I’m left with the stuff that the consignment store will not take. I have another option in one of those semi-annual multi-day consignment sales. They are more generous in their merchandise and take a larger variety of stuff including maternity clothes. This is the first time I have participated in this sale so this is a bit of an experiment. I’m sure I’ll have a post about that after the dust has settled. The long and short is that I’m back to stockpiling which I hate. However, the sale takes place in September so I will be rid of this stuff soon enough.
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