Monday is such a great day to dive into a room and declutter it. According to the 91 day challenge list, this should be the week to do the kitchen and pantry. Since hubby and I are over achievers, we zipped through that room last week. This is the part of the challenge when hubby and I are veering away from the way the list is laid out and will do what room we feel needs to be worked next.
Today, we ventured into our guest room. First thing we did was take the futon and make it back into a couch. When opened up it is a queen sized bed. That takes up an enormous amount of room in that bedroom. As soon as we got the futon put up we opened the closet and were so happy to see I had already gone through it back in October. The only thing left in the closet is my wedding dress from 1973, the veil for the dress and two boxes of Hummel Figurines and plates from my moms estate.
The wedding dress is going to be shipped to a local organization that makes angel gowns for sweet wee ones that do not get to grow up. The veil will be donated to St Vincent de Paul. As for the Hummels.................They are collectibles and finding a collector has proven to be next to impossible at this time. None of my relatives what them. In fact, I have a cousin trying to find a buyer for her mom's collection too. They just need to stay in the closet until further notice.
The biggest part of our day was spent on the two bookcases in that room.
Hubby bought these bookcases over 40 years ago from an unfinished furniture store. He painstakingly sanded, and polyurethaned them. It took him several months to get them smooth enough for his liking. They are 100% oak. They have gone from Arizona to Texas to Pennsylvania and back to Arizona. They are super sturdy. Unfortunately, they are tempting to fill with books, whether you read the books or not. The case on the left has been gone through. The one on the right has just been started. We will finish it up tomorrow. My hope is to completely empty one of these.
Here is what we have culled out so far.
The books on the left are going to Goodwill. The ones in the middle will go to St Vincent de Paul. The mess on the right will be trashed. Amazing how many books we have. There are still two bookcases in our family room to go through as well as a barristers case in the office that is full of books too.
Here is a photo of one of the bookcases in the family room. There is one just like it on the other side of the fireplace.
The people at church call my husband the 'book man'. Big surprise, huh. LOL
I will be happy once all the books have been gone through. This has been the one area of the house that has bothered me the most.
Other things I did today were; grocery shopping, cooking chicken for the dogs, cleaning veggies for lunch and dinner, empty the dishwasher, completed 1 load of laundry and worked on the Havana. It is now that time of day where hubby and I are watching the news and I am getting ready to start prepping for our dinner.
How has your day been?
Until next time........................................................................
That is a great culling out of books! Most impressive. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat job, I’m tackling crockery and glasses today and my husband has 26 pint glasses and we have over 30 mugs! It took some negotiation but we have 10 glasses going. We had an interesting conversation about a quiche dish...I don’t like quiche, pastry doesn’t agree with me, this is a huge dish, never used it and he said ‘but one day I MAY take up baking and MAY want to make quiche for myself’. I replied if that day comes I’ll buy you a dish that makes a quiche for 4 people instead of the party platter sized one that would make 12 portions’. He finally agreed. That’s me done for today, be grateful your husband is so on board.
ReplyDeleteReading Liz's (HighlandHeffalump's) experiences makes me chuckle every time. :)
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