Getting Bad at This

So, I'm thinking my goal is pretty much broken.  I'm thinking about throwing things away, but I'm not deliberate about it any more.  The though of blogging is even too much for me.  I went away again last weekend, so it was another weekend away from home and not throwing anything away.  I just haven't gotten back into it since I've been home.  Sigh.

I did throw away some socks tonight.  Before we went away, I pulled out all my unmatched socks. While we were gone, my husband did all the laundry in the house.  Once home, I tried to find any matches I could. The socks sat on my dresser all week.  I couldn't bring myself to throw them away. I kept thinking a match might pop up.  Tonight I got sick of looking at them. I said to myself that even if I found a match, I had plenty of socks and didn't need them anyway.

Deliberate About Random

Again, I don't remember what I threw away yesterday.  I do know, though, I am deliberate about the random things I'm getting rid of.  Like tonight, I wanted to write something down, so I opened my drawer that contains that big basket of pens I've mentioned.  I could have reached for a pencil or pen from the top drawer, or looked right in front of me in my basket of pens I take scrapbooking with me, but I purposely went into that bottom drawer.  I dug into the basket, knowing that I might come up with a pen that didn't work.  And I did.  In fact, I think I went through three or four pens until I found one that worked.  The non working pens went into the trash.

This is the kind of deliberate action I'm taking in throwing random things away.  I'm not necessarily looking for things.  I'm seizing a moment I have and making a deliberate choice. I'm getting rid of the attachment issues I have and I'm personalizing less.  The other day I threw away a travel coffee mug because it was leaking a little.  Why keep something that isn't working right, especially when I have so many more at home and will likely end up with a new one as a gift or from some event I attend soon?

I still want to take some deliberate time and purposely go through a bin or drawer or file and fill a trash bag.  For now though, I'm happy with the steps I'm taking and the strides I'm making.  This feels good.

A Night of Random

The stuff I threw away tonight was so random, that I don't even remember what I threw out!  I know I took some of the kids' drawings off the wall and took pictures of the rest of them to prep to take those down.  In fact, I'm not sure what is keeping me from taking them down now.  Maybe I should go do that!

Catching up!

Gosh!  It's been almost two weeks since I've blogged!  I know that I have to blog regularly in order to keep myself accountable!

So, let's see...
Wed., Jan 30 - a pen.  Yeah, just a simple pen, but I think a few weeks ago, when I forgot what I threw out, I had thrown out some other pens from a big stash I have.  I also took some to work.  This pen was yet another from that stash.

Thurs., Jan 31 and Friday., Feb. 1 - My desk was a mess!  I couldn't see the top after being so busy for over a week.  I took the time to clean it these two days, and tossed some stuff, recycled some stuff, and just made a neat desk.  I still have some piles to go through, but that'll be another day!

Sat., Feb 2 and Sun. Feb. 3 - I was on a ski retreat with some students for the weekend so I really didn't throw anything away.  On Sunday, I took home some of the unused food we had.  I was given the jelly to take home, but there was enough to probably make one sandwich, so I just pitched the jar.

Now, this past week I don't remember as much.  I threw away some slipper socks.  I have so many and so many are old.  I even have some from when I was in the hospital having the boys!

Wednesday I threw away a bunch of hand sanitizer.  I have a ton of them, and who knew they had expiration dates?  There were some that expired 2009, 2010...  Yikes!

Wednesday and Thursday I went around the house gathering some things to donate.  My church is putting together baskets of love and some of the donations they need are hand sanitizers (yup!  gave away more), bubbles (again, we have tons, and alot of it isn't opened) small candles, individual treats and candy.  I put together a grocery bag full and gave it away today (Sunday).

I'm sure there were random things at work that I got rid of, and things at home as well, I just don't remember them because I didn't write it down.  That'll serve me right for not blogging right away.

I really didn't throw anything away this weekend.  Again I was on a retreat - this time with women from church.  Since I wasn't home, I didn't have access to anything to throw away.  I did take to handfulls of back seat trash out of the car, and I threw away my name tag from the weekend.  I guess those are a couple of good things.  I ate all the candy in the goody bag too, so that didn't come into the house!  What a good girl I am ;)