Garage Sale

Happy Tuesday everyone!

 I managed to get everything out of my attic that I wanted to sell this past week so we had a little yard sale at our house on Saturday. Considering all of the stuff that I brought down from the attic, there really wasn't that much  after I got it outside.   I think my daughter had more to sell than me. She also had a lemonade stand.

I know that my daughter's head is not there. We do not put our children's pictures on the internet. Check out her pretty painted toes on her DIY foot stool!

 It wasn't too hot but the people stopped coming just after noon so we packed up the leftover items in my van to donate and had some pizza. My daughter made about $10 between her toys and lemonade. I brought in $35 for all of my small stuff. 


It was a productive day but I would much rather be going to the yard sales instead of having one myself. I have been going to yard sales since I was a kid. It is one of my favorite things to do.

Time To Clear The Attic

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend!

Our family is finally feeling better and I have been in the mood for a good project. Knowing that I had an extra day off, I set my sights on our attic. 

Each time I declutter a room, I store things that I want to sell in the attic.  Last week as I opened the attic door to put something else in, a previously stored item fell on my head. I am very thankful it was a comforter.

 Time To Clear The Attic!

 Here are some before pictures of our attic.

I unloaded all of the items that I had been storing to sell. Here is a picture of the mountain of stored stuff from the front of my attic. 

I cleaned our attic last winter but I need to down size my holiday decorations and purge a few more things up there. I will do my best to do it this week. I can only stay up there for a short time because it is so hot in the afternoon when I get home. 

If I get everything done by Friday, I am going to have a garage sale. I was planning to have it later when it is cooler but I am tired of looking at all of that stuff. 

Lets see if I can do it! 

Does anyone have ideas on how to make labels stick to plastic boxes in the attic? 

I have tried packing tape, scotch tape, and duct tape with no luck. The heat just makes the labels fall right off.

Closet Dreaming

Happy Monday Everyone!

 I wanted to begin purging my closet this past weekend.  This activity was delayed due to sickness in our family. While resting, I was thinking dreaming about the new closet that I want to have. I found these great ideas on Pinterest.

Idea #1   I love the separate sections to hang clothes and the drawer space! 

Via

Idea #2  I need two of these! I have lots of shoes.

Via

Idea #3   Ironing board on the wall. What a great idea!

Via

Idea #4  A laundry chute! My favorite! It looks like a boat winch :)

Via

If I could get all of these ideas to fit in my closet, I would be so happy. 

 You will never know unless you try :)

Unruly Receipts

I have a confession. I hoard receipts. I have had times in the past when I have tried to find a receipt for something that I wanted to return only to conclude that I must have thrown it away.  So now I keep every receipt just in case I might need it. 

I realized that this habit had started to cause problems in my purse while trying to find my keys that had dropped into the black hole.

 I dumped out the contents of my purse on my desk. I just couldn’t believe how many receipts there were. The rest of the things I found weren’t so bad although a few things had me scratching my head.  

 Here is a rundown of the things that were in there.

Perfume

Eye makeup

2 small bottles of medicine

A memory stick

A hand full of Splenda packets (My husband only uses Splenda)

Note pad with pin

Hair tie, bobby pin, and clip.

A fun and J card from Justice (My daughter’s favorite store).

A penny

My wallet

Reward card key chain

Keys (Hey I found them!)

2 soda can tops (We collect them.)

Chip clip (Why is this in my purse?)

Screw (Where did this come from?)

25 receipts (WOW)

There has got to be a better way to deal with those pesky receipts. While I gave that some thought, I took out the last 4 items on my list above and put them away except for the receipts.

Then I put everything else back in my purse.  

That’s Better

I have decided to take the receipts out of my purse each day and keep them in my office.  By doing this, I can still keep the receipts for a while in case I need them and my purse is organized. Win Win. 

 
















 I found this cute little book to store them in.  It hides the receipts and it is small enough so that I don't collect too many before I have to go through them.

The unruly receipts have been tamed.

                   Simplify Life One Step At A Time