Okay, it's like this.

While the weather is still cold and dark and skanky (or moist and clammy, for all you people who live in warm climates), I think it's a perfect time to get a jump on spring cleaning.

Here's my challenge for the week:

Get a bag. Trash bag. Grocery bag. Whatever

Find TEN THINGS in your home to THROW OUT.

It could be ten things in your closet you can give to charity.

It could be ten ripped up, yellowing, nasty looking papers that have been cluttering up your refrigerator or bulletin board.

It could be ten books you KNOW you'll never read again, or ten CDs you can sell to the wrecka stow in exchange for something you might actually listen to now and then.

Or whatever. And I'm not talking about plain ol' garbage you'd throw away anyway. I'm talking about stuff that sits around your house and gets on your nerves.

And it can't be alive, either.

OH - and let us know what you threw out!

Thank you, that is all.
Anx

PS - If anyone wants to sex up this thread with racy pics of themselves, go right ahead. It needs all the help it can get, and it's too late for shame now anyway.

I have the same plans too. Do my spring cleaning and throw out stuff and donate stuff to charities.

[Spring cleaning edit]

i'm lucky - i have a charity shop, a used bookstore and a couple of used record stores all within a few blocks in my neighborhood...a few times a year, i fill up as many grocery bags as i can with unwanted stuff, then go on a donating and selling spree. it's very liberating.

already done. i'm always doing that. i have an aversion toward owning too much stuff; for whatever reason it makes me antsy if my space is cluttered. i'm always recycling stuff to thrift stores.

anyway this morning i weeded out my filing cabinet and shredded my old tax records from 1991 to 1999. don't know why but i feel better

Anx said:

how about a naughty limerick?

There was a man from Ghent
Who had a penis so long it bent
It was so much trouble
That he kept it double
And instead of coming he went.

Anx said:

Don't u dare give your Prince stuff away. I'll take it off your hands

XxAxX said:

smutty.

:jer ....ehhh... REPORTED!!!

luv4u said:

oh, never ever ever would i do that. and if i ever did, my mom called dibs on my prince collection years ago.

There once was a man named McGill,
Whose acts grew exceedingly ill,
He insisted on habits,
involving white rabbits,
and a bird with a flexible bill

Anx said:

That is what I am doing today...I just moved in here in Sept but I brought a few things I did not needs- well as far as clothes go. I did not take the time to sort them before I moved out. So- I am sorting it out now so I can give to the local homeless runaway teen shelter.

I've been getting rid of one item per day for about 4 months now. It's a very good thing. My place is becoming much more pleasant.

And yeah, it helps that I have used any/everything stores within a few blocks.

Spring cleaning in the nude pix.....coming right up.....


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

don't tease me mister...

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

don't write that check if ya can't cash it!


(and yes, that was a sly reference to money shots.)

I started doing this about a week ago and gave away 4 sweaters and 2 Looney Tunes tee-shirts. A few months ago I gave away bags full of clothes and household items to charity. I'm sure I'll be giving more away very soon.

I'm doing this right now.

I've gotten rid of

1. clothes
2. shoes
3. bills
4. deodorant with a perfumey smell I never liked
5. pay stubs
6. a hairball
7. magazines
8. cell phone chargers
9. pictures my kids drew for me ( I seriously canNOT keep them all...)
10. a candleholder that matches nothing

It feels soooo good...

I'm the only one who listed ten things.

What do I get?

FunkMistress said:

That's all I got.

FunkMistress said:

you get a big bag filled with ten completely useless items from my apartment!

I have been shreadding stuff for two days now and I still have not made a huge dent. But, it is very therapeutic. I'm learning to let go and God knows I am such a procrastinator and packrat. I haven't felt this good in so long.

Stymie said:

when i see those big gaps of space in my closet and my bookshelves, it feels AWESOME...of course, i have boxes of other crap i can fill those gaps in with ASAP, most of which i'll probably end up throwing out next year.

Anx said:

FunkMistress said:

1 deck miss cleo tarot cards (which i thought were kitschy at the time and a steal for a dollar, but they are SO UGLY)

1 VHS tape "no more tears", featuring jan crouch

1 floor length performance fleece grey david bowie "reality" magician's robe looking thing that i got as a gift and i don't know what to do with

1 knit amoeba looking thing made for me by an ex

1 "buy one, get one 1/2 off" coupon for local steakhouse

1 copy, "infinite jest" - let's face it, if i can barely get through an imago post, i'm not gonna be reading this.

1 garlic mincer crushy thing, which i never use because i am lazy and like the stuff in the jar

1 tube mud facial stuff which is kinda cool but i never use

1 half-bottle of stanley steemer cleaning fluid (shit ain't cheep)

1 mostly-burned coffee candle - i think it might have half an hour left to it, and there are still some beans in there, you can cover them in chocolate and eat them if you wash the wax off first.

Anx said:

You can so send those to me if you want!

superspaceboy said:

i am SO serious when i say these cards are some HARDCORE fug.

I start my spring cleaning January 1 every year, so I kind of have a head start but here's what I threw out:



1) 5 pair of pants (Gave to charity)
2) 12 shirts (Gave to charity)
3) Every white and black sock I own (I replaced them all with the same white socks and same black sock types--that way I never mismatch).
4) 12 books (donated to Public Library)
5) Olympus Camera (it was the one I dropped in the River last year during a canoe trip--useless).
6) about 40 software titles (That are now outdated)
7) old porn magazines (I now have zero)
8) a bunch of carboard boxes that contained things I bought last year (music keyboard, mini-vac, etc.)
9) an area rug that was skanky and not worth donating
10) an office chair that I replaced
12) an old incense burner
13) an old lamp that doesn't work
14) a pair of panties and bra (not mine you idiots! )
15) old underwear
16) a jacket that had paint on it--not worth donating
17) A bunch of CD cases to CDs that were scratched or have already been transfered to mp3 format.
18) old paperwork no longer needed
19) non pornographic magazines
20) cups and glasses that don't match the ones I like or just look ugly.

the site you need to help you get through

http://www.flylady.net/

ZombieKitten said:

interesting. this looks like the kind of stuff i should get my mom. she's finally renounced her packrat nature and she's going on a huge purge this year. she loves helpful hint books like this.

Anx said:

my client suggested this to me - she obviously thinks I need help in this department

BTW, I updated my Getting Rid Of Shit blog:

http://nevermiss.blogspot.com

I'm off of my book-posting spree for a minute. . . but more books are going soon. . .