Still a Semi Packart

 Maybe Packrat is not the right term. I don't think anyone starts out to be a packrat. But things just seem to multiply. It seems I can throw out bags and bags of stuff, and those empty places just seem to find new items. 

I must say there is a lot less this year than last year. I think I have almost gotten everyone's stuff back to them. There is still a toy cabinet from when the kids were small. It has all been here so long, I am wondering if it should just stay a bit longer. I wonder how much those old toys would be worth on Ebay?

Did you every notice when you tear a room apart to clean it, it looks worse than what it did before you started? That is, till it is finished. Oh, to have a week, with no interruptions to just go from one end of the house to the other and get rid of stuff. It is those interruptions that get one.

As I get ready for spring markets, and get everything together for that, then I can clean the sun room, as the market stuff will be in the truck. That will give me room to sort and shift and get rid of.

Also the spring/summer yard decorations will be outside in the yard. More room in the house. When I get the basement done, I will be dividing it into sections. The work room with all the power tools will stay, but the work bench will be clean. I am saving the 23+ gallon ice cream buckets I have found so far, to sort the stuff on the work bench. When everything is back in it's place, the bench will be clean. The paint room will also be clean, as I have found out how to get rid of all those old cans of paint. Come summer they will go outside and I will take the lids off and dry them out and then they can go right in the garbage can. I am only saving cans of paint less than 5 years old, and paint that actually matches something in or on the house.

Before I can do the rummage, I have to straighten out the garage, but of course I have to wait for warmer weather to do that. That should only take about half a day. A lot of that will also be thrown out. I did the shed last year. Now it only has 4 items in it. One of which will go on the rummage, one that has to be tested to see if it still works, if not, out it goes. When the garage is cleaned, those last 2 items can go in the garage. All the lawn and garden stuff can then either go in the shed or in the garage. I would like to get rid of that shed. It is metal. I keep hoping with every wind storm we get that it falls over. Maybe it needs a bit of help? lol The idea is not to get caught helping it.