The 600. More items sold!

e-Bay came through once again.  While I am not as huge of a fan of eBay as I used to be, there have been some recent successes for me.

Today, I sold my two Flocabulary books and CD's. 

So, that means there are  4 more items out of the house. 

In addition, on Friday morning, I stopped in at the Gleaner's House and left them with a bag full of clothes.  The total count there was 24 items.


 On Thursday morning, I gave Tony two network cables that were extras here.

Total Purged:  327
Total Added:    22
Total Remaining:  273

More than half way there!  

The 600

Vince announced today that he was taking his weight bench and weights to work. He plans to put them in the hanger for everyone to use. At first, I was not going to count them in the 600, but he said that he doubts they will return to the house. So, they count in the purge! I know the picture is weird, but I took it after he loaded everything in the back of the truck. The total removed is 18 items!

However, with the purchase of a new dress for the wedding, new shoes and some skirts for summer, I added several items. I did purge a pair of shoes that will go to Soles 4 Souls.

total purged: 110
Total added: 12
total remaining to purge: 502

The YARD SALE is this Saturday, so I will be posting photos and counting items on Saturday!

The 600

I had lunch with my friend Cherie today! While attending Freed-Hardeman University to earn our MEds, we spent many hours together talking, studying, planning, laughing and eating. Since we graduated, we have made it an annual event to get together after school ends to have lunch and catch up.

Since I am purging my house of a number of children's books, I offered to let Cherie look through my collection to see if she could use any of them in her classroom. Thus an early lunch gathering.

So cheers for Cherie, who took 20 books for her classroom. Or should I say 20 Cheers for Cherie??

Thank you, Cherie for taking these and giving them a new home where they will be appreciated and enjoyed.

Only 513 left to go.

The 600--more items removed!

Spring Break officially began today at 3:01PM.
Vince is leaving tomorrow to take some items to his brother Sal, and help his mom move.
I was slow on taking the photos, but here is the lawn-mower and aluminum ladder loaded into Vince's truck.







Here is a photo of the storage box on the trailer which is currently housing the following items: mower deck, spreader, tiller, and edger.




This is the green wagon that will have a new home tomorrow--a lovely freecycler named Wilda is giving this wagon a new home.










This brings the total removed to 71 items. We did add those 4 items, so I have 533 left to go!
Now that Spring Break is here, I will be able to get into the boxes in the garage to sort and price for the yard sale. I will also continue the household purge. None of those items will be counted until they are sold! But at least I can get a count of what is there!

The 600--items added :(

I am sad to announce that we have added 4 items to our household. Two of them are t-shirts for the Bunny Run Car show in April. The Car show is sponsored by the car club that Vince belongs to, as volunteers, we wear the club shirt each year.


Vince also purchased two nifty toys for his driving experiences: One is a camera so he can see what is going on behind his truck (very helpful in connecting to the trailer). The other is a GPS.

So now we have 540 left to purge.

The 600: Items 41 through 64!

Huge haul today!
I sold another book on Half.com: The Eleventh Plague! I neglected to take a photo of the book before I wrapped it up for shipment; so here is the one from Amazon.com.

Also, we dropped off our door prizes for the car show in April. Included in the door prizes were 4 sets of car placemats (each set has 4 placemats, so that is 16 items!), a helicopter kite, a table runner, a small quilt, a candle, a laser level, a 3-d wooden puzzle, and a poster set to color.









Only 536 more items to go!

600 Items (# 38, 39 and 40)

Today, I made a long awaited sale on Half.com. A DVD of Sommersby has now found a new home! (all say YAY!). Item number 38:
As I was searching for packaging material, I realized that I use new envelopes that were sent to me years ago by Terracycle. For a while, Terracycle had a glitch in their system. This glitch resulted in them mailing me a package of 4 recycling envelopes every week! Since I did not have a shipment to send out every week, let alone 4, I have quite a stash.

So, since these envelopes are all brand new, never used, does the envelope also count as an item purged?? I am holding off on that decision right now.







Items number 39 and 40 are the bike that I gave to Whitney and the bike chain that I will give her tomorrow.

I also identified several more items for the yard sale, which is scheduled for April 21st.

600 Items, week 2

Not much to dispose of this week, I dug around and located 12 t-shirts that need to find new homes. That brings the total removed to 37. Only 563 more to go!

I did clean up the garage a bit and found a few more items to put in the yard sale boxes. I am not actually counting items delegated to the yard sale piles until they are actually sold or donated somewhere at the end of the sale. That will be a photo opportunity!

The two items I listed on Ebay are still unwanted...the auctions end tonight. I will most likely relist them.

600 Items

We are adding an addition onto the house. This is a shot of the outside. This is where the new wing will be built. The window to the right is the bathroom window. Just beyond that is the window to the guest room.



Once built, the new wing will have a kitchen, living room and bedroom. The existing bathroom will be enlarged for her use as well.



My mother-in-law will be residing in the guest room until the new wing is built.





Yesterday, Vince informed me that the addition will add 600 square feet to the house. I said we should get rid of 600 items, one for each square foot.


He laughed.

I am going to track what we accomplish.

The basic rules:
1. Items purchased will count against this 600. So we should avoid buying anything else!
2. Trash and recycling do not count.
3. Consumables do not count.


I have started an excel spreadsheet to track and count what is removed. I will also attempt to document through words and photos how this experiment evolves!

Yesterday, I did sell two purses at the Expo, so that is a start. I just posted two items on Ebay last night and I have several items listed on Craigslist as well. I also have a load of boxes in the garage for the March/April yard sale, so I will be counting those items then!

Hopefully, I can motivate my spouse to go through his stash of boxes in the guestroom closet and in the garage!!!

Sunday UPDATE: Huge thank you to Jennifer for taking 22 children's books from my library for use in her classroom! She is also the proud owner of a new tote bag!
Now the total is up to 25 items!