Dejunkin

I really believe in being thrifty. I love a good garage sale (especially when I lived in Spokane) and love thrift stores (the best I saw were in Colorado Springs), ebay or any other ways to save. I like to get and give a good deal. It feels great to let go of things that I will not use. I would even say it is theraputic. It is just like leaving behind emotional baggage (in therapy) and having new, clean space to think.

My mother is a horder and so is Günter's. Günter himself has the tendancy keep things (even empty boxes of things he buys...) so I am up against some tendencies that are hard to fight. Because I lived in a home that was somewhat junky, I try really hard to get rid of things as I go. It is hard because of my thriftiness.

I sometimes think I may need or want it in the future, so I should hang onto it. But you know where that leads. Anyhow, I have been doing great at dejunking the kids rooms and clothes (remember THAT post and pictures?). I give away most of the clothes to church friends.

My good friend (that is moving to Australia--boo hoo) had to get rid of things in her house and told me about two places here to get rid of things. There is a yahoo group called freecycle ramstein where you can post things you want to give away and people email back and take it. Also I discovered RamsteinYardSale (which is in rival with ebay in some ways and they can set up one in any location) . You post a picture and list a price and people email you, then you arrange when and where to get it to them. If you link to that site you can see all the stuff I listed. It really got me going.

It is a pain to take the pictures, resize and then post it, but nice to see things that have been sitting around house make some money. All the good stuff went fast and now the other things probably won't go so I will then advertise them with my church and with the freecycle to see if anyone wants them before I give it to the thrift store.

It is interesting the emotional reaction I have to all this. I was excited, then pushed myself to dig even more. I drug things down from the attic this evening and will post them tomorrow.

The kids had mixed feelings. Niki was very upset and said that he won't have any toys. We have kept Jenna from the room with all the stuff because I know what her reaction will be!

While I was up in the attic the kids came up and found new toys to have. It was like Christmas all over again. All my play therapy toys came out. I knew all the toys so well from my hour and hours of play with other people's kids and now I have kids of my own! I thrill came over me as I thought back to those years where I had this ache in my heart because I wanted kids and didn't have them.

Now my doll houses are being played with Jenna and Kaye's wooden doll house is now used as a garage for Niki's cars.

How blessed I am to have these kids and to realize my dream. I often forget this in the bustle of everyday life.

My house, heart and soul is getting dejunked!

Posted by Krista at August 25, 2008 07:35 PM