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tokana's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life Purging (it's not as kinky as it sounds) So, a lot has been going on in my life (as you can see from this posting). Don’t get me wrong, by no means is this a gripe or complaint – I love staying busy – which recently I have definitely been. C and I are getting a place together. I’ve been packing up my adorable apartment and slowly moving it all into C’s garage for safe-keeping until our new place is ready. While packing it has become even more painfully obvious that I am addicted to shopping. I had sooo much stuff! If I think about it, C’s possessions are fairly limited. He has a really comfy king size bed, an old beat-up desk, a laptop, a few guitars, some sweaters, an iron and a living room set he inherited from his grandma’s TV room. Notice, that even though this list is rather short, it contains some rather large pieces. The majority of his belonging are clothes. Since our new place is not all that large, it was decided that I would get rid of my bulkier pieces. It was also decided that I needed to whittle down my belongings to something more reasonable. Especially with my plans to move across the country in the next year, it’s only reasonable to start getting rid of the unnecessary now. I couldn’t believe it, I had a total of 7 large plastic bins full of clothes that are the wrong season, wrong size, wrong style… AND, I had two closets and a standing hanging rack full of clothes that I wear frequently. Well, thanks to C’s minimalist influence and the pressure of my impending moves I decided to purge my collection and try to narrow it down to things that I will wear all the time in my closet and 1 bin of the other stuff. I succeeded! I was so excited about my accomplishment that I also narrowed down my flip-flop collection down from 28 to 14 pairs; I went from 22 pairs of shoes to 9 and from 39 purses, wallets and bags down to 12. I even went through my stuffed animal collection (yes, mostly teddy-bears) and got rid of the majority of them keeping only the sentimentally valuable or the incredibly soft. Now, if you’ve known me for any amount of time, you’ll understand that this is huge for me. Not only am I a huge pack-rat, but I constantly acquire new things while keeping the old. By the looks of my collection and belongings you would think that I would have to be quite old to have all this junk, but I’m only a 21 year old chick! So, I got in the mood to narrow things down and I did it and I feel great! So, I had these large pieces of furniture (a couch, futon, rug, and keyboard) and tons of clothes, shoes, purses and stuffed animals that I needed to get rid of before I changed my mind. So, this past weekend I had a yard sale. That’s right, I put down sheets laid half my life on my front line and asked others to come pay me for pieces of it. Saturday there were tons of shoppers, I sold at least half of my clothes, all the shoes, most of the purses a good portion of the teddy bears and most of my knick-knacks. But the furniture was still there. I had to get rid of it (not to mention the money could have been used). So, I lugged it all around the back of the house and then Sunday morning drug it all back out to try again. By 10:30am maybe, three people had stopped. I was so frustrated, but determined to get rid of it all, so I stuck it out. Slowly but surely people came and bought things. Between 11:30 am and 2pm I sold everything but the rug! I am still in shock! Not only did I sell everything, but I made over $400 at the same time and got a tan in the process! True I didn’t get to see C at all, but in general it was a very productive weekend. All that’s left is to drop the two trash bags full of clothes and stuffed animals off at a donation spot and I will be fully purged for 2004. Congratulations to me! The move is only 14 days away, we’re starting to get more and more excited…I’ll keep you posted. Thank you to all of the shoppers for making this post possible. Special thanks to Mom, Dad and Johnny for your expert assistance in furniture relocation and especially to Dad and Amanda for your charming company and assistance through the hot days.
Oh, and thanks too to the really creepy guy who kept walking by trying to talk me into donating it all or selling everything for 25% of it’s worth. If it weren’t for you pissing me off and making me want to spite you, I might have given up too soon. 8:57 a.m. - March 23, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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