The 3 R's: Reduce, Reduce, Reduce....

Well, those are my three anyway (the original being reduce, reuse and recycle!). Recycling is taken care of as part of our trash pickup, and I'm not so creative that I can see new uses for old things, but boy can I get rid of stuff.

I don't like clutter (see "about me"). I love to organize. Together, you have to clean out, throw away, recycle or reuse and get rid of that stuff before you can get organizing.

I had a few minutes the other day, and this is part of what I pulled out:

Well, that was the start at least. I decided to clean out the craft supply areas in our spare room (now a fort room), and in barely no time, I had two large grocery bags ready to go. After a quick post on Freecycle, they were out of the house in just a few hours.

On her way was a woman who said she worked with an after-school program, so I quickly filled up bag #3 with books by 8 year old had not read in six years a year or two, and I'm left with one of my favorites things:

Empty spaces.

It's one of my goals in life: To have empty spaces in my house. It's a decent size house; there are only three of us (six with critters), and in my opinion, we should have a lot of empty space.

How much stuff do we really need? I'm on a quest to find out.

A day of getting rid of "stuff" ranks up there with a trip to Lowes to pick up lumber for a new project.