What is funny about this years clean up is that I didn't bring much in last year. lol.... so all of this stuff was stuff we had decided we were keeping.
Like in my other thread, this year feels different. It feels like I am at another level of decluttering. The level where the things you have left have to be streamlined and compact. The level where you don't have too much, but you still have more than you need. Does any one know what I am talking about?
Anyway... I went through the closets. I took 4 bags of clothes out of our 4 closets and the coat closet (admittedly most of it was mine and Dons), and then went through the toys again. They haven't gotten toys for about a year (we have been getting them one large gift or a set of gifts instead of random toys), so there wasn't much there to get rid of... that I was allowed to get rid of that is. There are about 12 stuffed animals that I would like to see go that are apparently new "favorites".
Sometimes I just want to do it anyway, because they really genuinely DON"T use them. But you can't argue with an irate 5 yr old about the stuffed rat puppet that grandma gave her. There is just no point. lol... After the toys I went through the shelves. We only have 3 sets in the house and they are small, but I got a small paper bag out of them anyway. Books we don't use, a couple broken cd's that just got thrown away, a few movies that went to the Connection (a used Cd and DVD credit place) etc. Dh's old suits we donated to the free store at the food co-op.
It feels much different this time. Like I am on another layer of the clutter. But it feels good to still be on top of it.
Val
) Then yesterday, ds wasn't home so it was a great time for me to go through more stuff and wow, I was able to take a few more bags out of here. 
I love living simply.
so happy to be 8
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