Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full. More Stuff on the way to Half Price Books. This is the 2nd batch in as many weeks and is further evidence of our commitment to de-Stuffing our house. These bags are full of video tapes, CDs and DVDs of old movies, shows and programs that haven't seen the inside of a VHF/CD/DVD player in many moons. Time for them to go.
Oh, and cook books. Not the classic Betty Crocker cookbook that was a wedding gift, or the cookbooks published by the Walker Street church ladies, or the Wilbarger Street church ladies or the Godley church ladies. Rather, cookbooks like "Fifteen Fabulous Recipes for Crock Pot Delights." Maybe we should include our crock pot, too. I'm sure it's in a cabinet somewhere. But cabinets are not on the schedule. Yet.
Social Media has widely promoted the Marie Kondo series, where one examines each item in question and decides if it brings the owner joy. If not, you bid it adieu and a happy life at Goodwill. I decided to try that method. So far, I have failed to find joy in all the vegetables in the fridge, the electric bill and an old tennis shoe.
Actually, there is some merit to the "find joy" method. There are some things that we did not put in the bags. Things that will probably still be on the shelf when the kids clean the house out.
Like my Little Golden Book of "The Pokey Little Puppy." And maybe the video of Lamb Chop, the hand puppet. Lamb Chop saved our bacon in Prague one night - baby-sitting a very young, very distraught Jericho who simply would not be appeased...until we played the Lamb Chop video. And maybe the....
But if I find the other tennis shoe it's absolutely out of here.
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