T Minus 499 Days: Kid Art and Tote Inventory

I talked about Tub City and our Tote Inventory in my last post. I completed the tote Inventory update and I was wrong... we do not have 250 totes. We have 270. How many totes is 270? It is enough to fill an entire16 foot moving pod with totes left over!

Last week, started purging the nine totes full of kid art. The kids come home with a backpack full of papers, the papers get dumped onto the kitchen counter, the counter gets full, and all the papers go into a tote and sit there for a decade or two. The tote is in Tub City - out of sight, out of mind. We don’t care about it... u til we have to. As part of purging we had nine totes to purge.

We finished the purge today and got it down to one tote (with some room to spare). We filled another four trash bags! As mentioned before, to help with the purging decisions, I took pictures with my phone  of anything we thought was valuable. 750 pictures! The great part, however, is those pictures are taking up space in the cloud instead of in my basement.

As we cross over the T Minus 500 day mark, we have sorted through 30 percent of the totes, most of which are now piled up empty!!