So I first heard of this 40 bags thing from another blogger. She is catholic and for lent she is giving up "stuff" with 40 bags in 40 days. I LOVE IT! I want to give up stuff too! So I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for lent to come. Each day I ask Arick, When is lent again? Until one day when he was so sick of me asking he said, Why dont you do this clean up thing sooner? You are not catholic so you dont have to wait.
My first response was, but if I do it sooner what will I give up for lent? His respone, again you are NOT catholic so you do not have to give up anything.
OH YEA! Hmmm...why didint I think of this? I just thought participating in lent sounded fun. Dumb I know.
Anyway, I started my 40 bags in 40 days except I have a feeling it will be a lot more then 40 bags! Tonight I started with my clothes. I seriously have WAY to many clothes and I do not even wear half of them for the most part. I am so sick of my closet being FULL to the brim and clothes constantly falling off of the hangers. Seriously people I have 3 FULL sized closets of clothes. All of Aricks clothes are downstairs in the basement. I know that sounds awful but dont worry he prefers it.
I made my list of rooms that I am going to attack and each day I will work little by little. I can not WAIT to take all of this "stuff" to Goodwill. The only exception I am making are with Jacob's clothes and toys. They are going in a rubbermaid bin in the basement.
I will post pictures of the before and afters. I was going to post the before pictures right now but I am SO embarrassed I just can not bring myself to do it. Not until I have an after picture to make it better. I dont know what happened to me. Normally I am so good with having things orderly, and minimal. This winter the JUNK just kept coming in and I would put it on a shelf or in a cabinet and think...I will just deal with that later. Later never came and now I am losing my head!
Alright so here is what I will be working on.
Bathroom cupboards and drawers
Jacob's closet and armoire
My closets
The kid cabinet
Tupperware cabinet
Bookshelf in the spare bedroom
Hall closet/linens, bath stuff, and games
WISH ME LUCK!!!
Oh sounds like so much fun!
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