The 600 (the series!)

I guess that these posts on the progress to remove 600 items from my house is a series...thus the new title.

I have added a number of items to the house this week, mostly as I needed additional tops to wear to work.  Now that I have lost weight, my shirts were too large!  I was down to 5 acceptable tops for work.  If I neglected to do the laundry, I was out of luck!  So, I went shopping.  I also purchased a new pair of workout shoes, as my old New Balance shoes were causing foot pain.  The shoes were actually not supporting my foot well and causing additional supination of my foot.  I purchased a pair of Merrill's that are wonderful!  No foot pain at all after wearing them all day yesterday.

So, onto the progress of the 600.

My Motorola Xoom died a couple of months ago, and while Best Buy took back the tablet under the extended warranty I had purchased, they did not take back the cover or car charger (not covered under warranty).  I also had a docking station that was a freebie when I upgraded to 4G.  Useless to me.

Onto eBay they went.  The auction ended today and  now they have a NEW home in Florida!

total purged: 291
Total added: 22
total remaining to purge: 331

The 600! Yard sale!

Okay folks, today was the YARD SALE!!  Carolyn, Deb and I were very successful in purging our respective homes of items that we no longer wanted or needed.  Many, many items found new homes today! These were the photos I took before the sale began.  I did not photograph afterwards.  (OOPS) 

Now, I tried hard to keep notes on what was leaving, and while it was a challenge, I believe the below list is complete.   The total came to 167 items that I can best guestimate.
Total purged:  277
Total items purchased:  13
Total remaining to purge:  336

T-shirt      1 incense burner 1                                                   75 books
space bag	1
radio/cd player	2
Desk set (box, filer, pencil box	3
lamps	2
pillows	6
telephone	3
cell phone & accessories	6
glow necklace	1
candle	1
paper sorter	1
plastic container	1
computer mouse	1
latchhook kit	1
sign language cards	1
can opener	1
flashlight	1
sombrero	3
fabric bowls	2
picture frame	1
ribbon rolls	4
chess set	1
star wars battle ship game	1
suncatchers	13
popsicle sticks (bags)	3
frisbees	2
bracelet	1
library signs	12
balloon cutouts (packages)	3
DVD	4
clipboard	1
bar chairs	2
purse	2
boxes	2
metal carrying case	1

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!