Cleaning, Anti-Hoarding & General Stuff

I have been bitten by the "get rid of excess crap" bug.  Call it Spring Cleaning or what-have-you, I am ready to pitch stuff.  There have been times when I have worried about stuff going to a good home, whatever that means, but now?  Not so much.

Here is the plan:  With many apologies ahead of time to whoever I stole this idea from, because I don't remember where I got it!  I will concentrate on one area each month.  I have written up a list of each room/area and assigned it a month.  During that month this area will get cleaned up, cleaned out, paint touched up, anything that needs fixing will get fixed, anything that needs replacing will be replaced.  I think this is very do-able.

There are 2 weeks left in January and since I have already removed 65 cookbooks from the shelves here in the office, I will continue in the office for the rest of the month.  We have a HUGE box we are filling up with cds, books, and movies to go to the Half-Price Book Store.  It will be nice to have money coming IN  from that place instead of always going OUT!  : )

January - Office
Feb. - Living/Dining Rooms
Mar. - Family Room/Bar/ Closet

That's the order for this quarter.  The garage will be done in the month we have our semi-annual brush and large item pick-up.  The city has twice a year large items and brush pick-up where you leave all that stuff out at the curb and they come take it all.  Dead appliances?  Yes!  All the brush and limbs you can trim?  Why, yes of course!  Boxes of old garage crap like paint cans and such?  Certainly!

You can't ask for a better deal than this.  So, to the person who told me about using the room a month system, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!  This fits my personality to a tee.