borderline horder

Today, I was cleaning out my old makeup desk that hasn't been touched since we moved here (one year ago). WTF, Audry?  I had so much costume jewelry, old makeup, hair junk, and makeup bags. What's with all the traveling makeup bags? I once subscribed to this really cool program, IPSY, that would send me samples every month and it included a makeup bag. (I now know I don't need to spend money on a subscription for junk I don't really use. So, bye bye IPSY, it was cool while it lasted.) But, do I really need to be keeping these bags? Then I thought about my baby.  What if I have a little girl who LOVES to play dress up and use makeup bags as her little clutch? Well.. she doesn't need 8. So here's today's purge. 6 makeup bags.  I kept one full of costume jewelry for my future daughter. Then, I kept one for myself for traveling or whatever these are for.. and put SIX in the Savers box. Ain't nobody need 8 of these things.

Purge and stuff.

3 trash bags full of clothes gone today - mine and Grant's.
Yay!

Yesterday, I cleaned out our garage. HOLY COW. I was able to burn an insane amount of wood Grant was "saving". All the leftover like 5 inch pieces and little chunks from our ceiling. 3 bonfires FULL. I couldn't believe it was all hiding in there behind his car.  I also found a bunch of garbage and shoes and broken junk I was able to get rid of.  Our garage is so big now!! It's embarassing, but I didn't even know we had a built in dog kennel in our garage because there was so much stuff piled up around it.  I don't think I would ever lock our dogs in there but nice to know we have one.  I also put up a shelf and lined up all the jugs of oil/gas/paint/whatnot. I'm really proud of this garage cleaning accomplishment, it took me the whole afternoon.  I was able to find my "weiner flipper" (a tool for roasting marshmallows and hot dogs over the fire. Woohoo! Successful day :)  There is still a huge pile of cardboard I need to break down and get to the community recycling center. I can do that today.

I LOVE HAVING THE TIME TO DO THESE THINGS!!!!!

Today, I set up a drying rack outdoors. ooOOOOoo I know, small step for most people. Big step for me. Waiting for my first load of laundry to finish washing that will be hung outdoors to be dried outside.  Last week I made all homemade laundry and dishwasher detergent.  The laundry detergent is working well and makes our whole upstairs smell fantastic. I'm not sold on the dishwasher soap quite yet. I need to get better at rinsing, or the dogs need to get better at licking. One or the other.

That is all.

seeking significance

"1. Realize life won’t last forever. Everyone knows that life will come to an end – but no one likes to think about it. That’s unfortunate. As soon as you start thinking about the end of your life, you begin to live differently in the present. You are never too young to start thinking about your legacy. How do you want people to remember you? And what do you really want to accomplish before you die? Make a list. Post it somewhere… because rarely will “drive a really nice car” ever appear."

Life isn't forever.



I made my significance list today and hung it on the fridge. Wouldn't it be awesome if it stayed there for decades? With space to grow?