Spring Cleaning

My Spring Break is almost over. If you don't get a Spring Break you probably don't feel that sorry for me, but man I feel sorry for you! :)

Anyway, each Spring Break I try my very best to do lots of Spring cleaning. I get more done than I would during the week after coming home tired from work and I don't want to spend the time I have with Kaitlyn and Cody cleaning. But this Spring break was different. This Spring break I watched a show called Hoarders. Yep, Hoarders. The name says it all, but you really have to see an episode to truly get the level of hoarding that some people do. It is down right amazing - but in a very, very, awful way.

Now, I do not consider myself a bad hoarder by any means, but there is a lot of stuff I have in boxes that I have to reason to keep. I've come a long way folks, trust me. I was a little girl that refused to give any of my stuffed animals up because I thought they all had feelings. (The Velveteen Rabbit did not help my theory out any either) And my parents had garage sales when I was younger and I would always end up in my room in tears because my stuff was leaving. Like I said - I've come a long way.

But now I'm at the point where I am a mom and I want a household that is organized for my daughter. I want her to grow up the way I did - in a clean, organized home. So that means getting rid of all the "stuff" every now and then. So I've gone through closets and got rid of clothes and shoes I don't wear (or have no business wearing for whatever reason). That part was easy. But then I came to downstairs "miscellaneous closet." (Feel free to enter a good DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN here.) Talk about stuff I didn't need to be keeping. I had three cameras in there that I didn't even use anymore. I had kept the first Canon Rebel I ever bought right after my high school graduation...it took film. But for some reason I've just never been able to let it go. Until I watched Hoarders. I kept thinking to myself as I watched that show, "It's just stuff. Just get rid of it already." Well, I wasn't practicing what I was preaching. Sometimes that is harder than it seems. Now, I still don't get the whole keeping pizza boxes and old jars like I saw on the show, but the stuff that has memories - that, I totally get. But I am proud to say that Mission Arlington now has a TON of my stuff - including cameras. And now we have more storage space - yay! I also talked my hubby into getting rid of the old Nintendo (yes, the original one) and his old x-box plus all the games. They just sat in the closet with no use at all...except for the memories for him. I did tell him he could go get a new softball bat if he got rid of all of it. But he REALLY wanted that bat, and the bat stays in the garage and I get even more storage space now, so I still think I end up with the better deal. Although I'm pretty sure my sister-in-law isn't going to be too happy with Cody, because he didn't take it to Mission Arlington with all my stuff - he called up his brother and asked him if he wanted it and of course he said yes. Sorry Candy!!!

So now some of our "stuff" is no longer ours, and really I'm very okay with that. I still have the memories and God willing I always will. And we are not finished making memories - not by a long shot! :)