Purging T Minus 514 days: All the garbage

We are purging and throwing away so much stuff. My wife had suggested we rent a dumpster, but those are expensive to have for a long duration of time. Instead, we decided we would just put out an extra two trash cans every week. But would I get in trouble for doing that?

I called the garbage company and explained that we were spring cleaning and asked how much another one of their cans would cost. They told me the cost would almost double. Wow. But... they said our trash subscriptions allows us to put an extra 8 items out each week. An item could be a trash bag, or something large like a vacuum cleaner. That was a great answer because we had been putting out the equivalent of 3 or 4 extra bags each week and I was worried we would get in trouble.

I have several folding metal chairs. When the boys were younger, they sat in the chairs, leaned back, twisted and broke the chairs. Whenever they broke one, they didn't say anything - they just went and got another. This kept up until they broke all four folding chairs. I didn't throw them out because I thought I could just unbend them and fix them.  My honey-do list is around 12 pages long. I stay busy but there is just more work than I can keep up with! Fixing those chairs just kept getting placed lower and lower on my list. So, I purged them. Good bye broken chairs!

We brought several box fans from our last house nearly twenty years ago. Our current house has central A/C, so, we never needed the fans. Nevertheless, there they have sat in the basement for all these years. They are good working fans, well used, but functional. Now, they are purged.

We finally got Christmas put away. We love Christmas and like to keep it up through January. We have probably 20 totes and several boxes filled with Christmas decorations, so, putting away Christmas is a four or five hour job. I'm glad to say: task is done, Christmas is put away for another year!

We thought about what we might purge next. Over the years, the kids would bring home art from school. These little masterpieces were treasured and carefully packed away into totes. Uhm. Nine totes. That's right, we have nine totes of kid art. We are going to attack the kid art next. We'll keep just a few treasured pieces, take pictures of the best, and toss all the rest. That'll be a task for another weekend...