I started small, but managed to create another whole carload to Goodwill.

declutter

First the Ceiva 1. A nice little device, and it was brand-new, but I was never going to activate it and the neat hack for it didn’t offer a lot of bang for the buck compared to other projects on the ‘to do’ list. Ebay revealed that the Ceiva 1 were not fetching enough to consider selling it (my bar is pretty high there). So off it went.

Today’s purge of board games was a little more difficult. I got rid of a couple more ‘mass market’ games that although well-rated, I never seemed to play: Boggle, Perquackey, Pictionary Junior, Balderdash Junior and a partial Abalone set. I’m very hard on ‘outsized boxes’. If it’s going to be a bizarre shaped box and be hard to store, it better be a darn good game. The game shelves are looking quite a bit better recently.

In the garage I found a large box of art supplies with various odd wooden bits. I remembering buying them along with a large lot of more desirable art supplies at a garage sale.

I got rid of all the bulky old-style life jackets, finding it hard to find a scenario in which I needed my own life jackets. Even with global warming, we’re far enough away from the lake that it didn’t make much sense.

Following the rule of ‘getting rid of duplicates’, I got rid of an old plastic wagon and a few ungainly large squirt guns from my sons huge collection.

Mix with a duplicate DDR pad, a possibly lead-lined lunch box, and a brand-new but unused ironing board, and we reach about 100+ pounds today…