Reduce, Reduce, REDUCE!

Yesterday evening I picked up a few boxes of my belongings that I have been storing in one of my parents garages...

I honestly cannot believe how much CRAP I have hung onto for so many years!!! Seriously...some of the stuff was meaningful, but a lot of it was embarassing, sad, and most of it was just plain J-U-N-K!


Seriously, who needs to hang onto a speech about gun accessability that I can only imagine I wrote in high school...or a box full of broken knickknacks, which I have known were broken for at least five years????

My goal was to go quickly go through my stuff and reduce my boxes by about 50%...and then at the end of the summer I would like to go through everything again- after I've dejunked and organized the rest of the house.

I think I was pretty successful! I got rid of a lot of boxes, and filled three-fourths of our massive outdoor garabage and the enitre recycling bin!

Now I need to work on my basement...