Day 60 - Items #55 and #56

I'm hoping to be caught up by the weekend!!  Here are 4 boots that are being thrown out.  Yeah...it's 4 boots but I'm going to count them as 2 items.  Is that OK?  Liz passed these on to me saying "Here, take a picture of these and let's get rid of them!"  I always oblige my wife!  They're perfectly good boots but no one wears them here anymore.  We'll find a good home for them.  Out they go.

Items #53 & #54 - Travel Shoe Shine Kit and Battery Charger

Two more things going out today.  First there is a travel shoe shine kit.  You wouldn't believe the dust that was gathering on this baby!  I do polish my shoes but I do it at home before I travel.  I saved the shoe polish but I don't need the travel kit.  And then there is this ancient, and I mean ancient, battery charger.  Sitting it a cupboard above the washing machine, it hasn't seen the light of day for years!!  We don't use batteries in the same way we did years ago.  This can go.  Say...we're getting more shelf space around the house these days!

Item 52 on Day 57 - Slide Sorter

I'll get caught up soon but only 1 item today.  It's a slide sorter!!  And I've got 2 of them.  This thing takes us back to a time when you could take either slides or prints on your camera.  I lived in Regina and had to mail my Kodak slide film to Brampton to be processed.  Years later I would live in Brampton, not far from the old Kodak plant!!  I still have lots of slides that need sorting but I sure don't need 2 slide sorters.  This is the smaller one.  I wouldn't have used this at all in the last....20 years or so!  It can go!!

Day 55 - Items #46-51!!! Various Items - See Below!

OK.  I'm trying to catch up!!  I went through my closet and I'm throwing out a whole bunch of stuff to try and make up for my holidays and days I needed to catch up on..

Here we go!!

# 46 - A couple of white shirts that are really getting a bit frayed around the edges!







#47 -  4 Short sleeve shirts - Yes, there are 4 items but I'm only counting them as 1!!











#48 - 5 T-shirts.  I have so many t-shirts.  I think enough for almost 1 per day for a month!!  I can calmly say good-bye to these ones.












#49 - A very tight pair of shorts!  I know... you'd probably like to see me in these but , believe me, it is not a pretty sight!!






















#50 - A Pair of Black Shoes - They are kinda tight.  Kinda worn out.  And now, kinda in the garbage!!















#51 - 2 Long Sleeved Shirts - The winter is passed (or at least we hope so).  I've got a few long sleeved shirts I can get rid of .  Here are two!!

We'll be caught up soon!!!!

52nd day - Stuff #44 and #45

Still catching up from my holidays.  Went into the garage looking for something to throw out.  Stuff just jumped out at me!!  Like this wicker-sleigh-card-holder-type-thingy along with an old, old, old pair of winter shoes that I've used in the last few years when visiting my daughter's horse in the barn.  The shoes are in worse shape than they look.  To be honest, I think I've worn them twice a year for the last 5 years!!  I've got other shoes/boots I can wear when I visit Molly.  The shoes go to the garbage.  The wicker-sleigh-card-holder-type-thingy will find a new home through our local recycler, WasteWise!

Hmmm.... Day 51, Items 42 and 43 - 3 Toques!!

Well...I recently got back from 10 days vacation in Florida.  Hot sun, warm sand, blue ocean, red skin!!  But I'm way behind in my Throwing Stuff Out!!  Looks like I'm going to have to pick up the pace and throw out 2 or 3 things a day for a while.  Here we are on Day 51 and I'm only up to items 42 and 43.  I'm saying these 3 toques count as 2 items because I had that poll going.  The top vote-getter was the wizard's toque.  Out it goes.  In the meantime I found another nondescript blue toque, so I'm going to throw 2 of those toques and count them for 1 item.  Is that OK with you??!!  Back in the saddle after a great holiday, ready to get going on chucking stuff away.  One thing I'd like to pitch is my snow shovel.  We had like a foot of snow today, March 23rd!!  Sheesh!  Oh, Canada....!!

Throwing Stuff Out is On Vacation - But Vote in the Poll!!

We're on holiday in Florida until March 20th.  I thought I would get ahead of the game and get a week's worth of stuff thrown out but it just wasn't to be.  I will have to make up for it when I get back.  We'll have Double Days!!  In the meantime, you can participate in my Toque Poll.  Which toque should I throw out?  You have to sign in to be able to vote but you can vote for as many toques as you would like to see tossed out!!  Lemme know what you think.  See you after March 20th!!

41st Day, 41st item - Another Pair of Gloves

Came across these gloves when I was looking for something else.  They're pretty grotty.  They were great for a number of years and maybe had one more good season in them.  But they were hiding in a drawer downstairs.  I hadn't seen them for a couple of years.  I've got enough gloves to keep me warm.  I'll say good-bye to these before they fall apart and I will hope that, by sacrificing them, winter will all of a sudden come to a complete stop in Southern Ontario!!

40 days, 40 nights, 40 items!! - A DVD Player

The days are going by, the items are piling up, the house is emptying out....sort of.  Just want to keep this thing going.  Here's a DVD player that hasn't worked for a long, long time.  For some reason we've got 3 DVD players (one of those I've taken to the church), 1 portable DVD player, and a couple of laptops that can play DVD's.  And that's not counting this busted DVD player.  We don't have enough eyes in the house to watch all the devices that can play DVD's.  We kept this one thinking we might take it in to get it fixed.  But there's something about the obsolescence of technology that just doesn't make it worthwhile to fix things.  No point here.  Out she goes.

Day 39 - A Perfectly Good Golf Shirt

Well...it's perfectly good but it doesn't fit!!  I won it at one of those Silent Auctions at a community fundraiser.  This golf shirt came with another golf shirt and a dozen golf balls.  What I didn't realize when I was bidding on this baby was that it is XXXL!!  Yup, triple extra large!  Try as I might flex my muscles I just couldn't fit into it.  I'll try and pass it on to some of my... uh... larger... er... more filled out friends.  I've had this shirt for 4 months, just sitting on a chair.  Please go sit on someone else's chair!

38th piece of stuff - Clothes From Lindsay

It's only a little pile but it's a great start!!  My daughter, Lindsay has seen me taking pictures of miscellaneous bits of detritus and bric-a-brac and has decided to get into the act.  A cleaning of her room (which happens at least bi-annually!!) yielded this small pile of clothing.  We'll give it to people who might be able to use it.  We'll be glad for a little less stuff in the house.  Well done, Lindsay.  Puts of my going through my cupboard for at least one more day!

On day 37 - Snorkels

We're getting ready to head to Florida for our annual March Break holiday.  As we started packing things up we came across these cheap, plastic snorkels.  They were a memento of a previous Florida holiday when we swam with dolphins at Discovery Cove.  It was an awesome experience.  Everyone got their souvenir snorkels as part of the package.  Home in the van.  Into the cupboard.  Where they stayed...and stayed...and stayed.  Not a lot of snorkeling going on in Georgetown.  We've got the pictures.  We don't need the snorkels.

Number 36 - Broom Handle

This, too, came out of the furnace room - a broom handle.  Now, any guy worth his salt will not just throw out a perfectly good broom handle.  You can always use it to screw into new brooms (which I haven't), you could use it to tie your tomato plants to (haven't done that either), you could use it to poke something that needed poking sometime, somewhere (still waiting for that).  The reality is, this little broom handle was sitting right next to two other broom handles which just happened to be screwed into brooms, rendering this little baby useless.  Oh, that and the fact that I'm sure I've got 3 more in the garage, but it's too cold to go into the garage!!

35th Day - Clothes Hanging Rod

I went into the furnace room recently on a mission to find things to throw out.  I was not disappointed.  The question may better be put "Is there anything worth keeping in the furnace room??!!"  Here's a little something.  No, it's not the chair that we threw out yesterday.  It's the thingamajig on the chair.  One of those cheap metal clothes hanging rods.  It's a short rod.  Must have come out of a closet where we changed things around.  I really don't know.  It's been in that furnace room for-EVER!  But not any more.  G'bye.  More to come from the furnace room, that's a for sure!

34 Days of Throwing Stuff Out - A Well Worn Chair

You saw a few days ago that I threw out an old, beat-up Obus Forme backrest.  It could go because I got a new office chair for Christmas that doesn't require extra back support.  What I hadn't thrown out, until now, was the actual old office chair.  Here it is, and here it goes.  (It's been a busy weekend.  Just getting today's junk in under the wire.  Whewww!!  I just couldn't go a day without throwing something out.  Not now!!)

Item #33 - A Jar of Hazelnut Spread

Now why would I be throwing out a jar of Hazelnut Spread?  How about because it's not good for you!!  My kids used to have this on toast in the morning.  I liked it every now and again.  Sure it was chocolate, but it was also hazelnuts.  Had to be good for you. Right?  Wrong-o!!  In one tablespoon of chocolate hazelnut spread there is 11 grams of sugar! A toast-full of hazelnut spread is the same as eating a whole chocolate bar.  Bleccch.  Who needs that in the morning? Go back to peanut butter!!  PB has 1 gram of sugar per tablespoon.  The non-processed stuff, even less!!  Happy Saturday!

Day 32 - A Turtleneck Sweater

Busy day today.  I was scrambling to find something to throw out.  I went to my closet and grabbed this turtleneck sweater.  It's a bit thin.  It's a bit scratchy.  It's a bit small.  And now, it's a bit gone!  I can see me tossing out a lot more in the way of clothing.  Hopefully the weekend will give me a chance to dig deeper into the recesses of the house and garage for more weird and wonderful tossable items.  Clothing is not that exciting, but I'm keeping my streak alive and there is something about cleaning out the clothes closet!!  Go have a look at yours!!

31 Days!! A Month!! Out Goes a Decent Pair of Gloves

I was waiting until today to call it a month!  I'm a bit surprised to have made it to one month.  I've thrown something out every day and really haven't made much of a dent in the pile of stuff that I have.  What I've noticed so far is that this discipline has helped me throw some things out that have been sitting around for a loooong time just waiting to be gotten rid of.  So, here goes a pair of gloves.  Never wore them.  A bit small.  Not much padding.  Would I ever throw them out?  Probably not, until..... Now!!

30 days - A Pile... A PILE of CD's!

Finally got to one of those tasks that I've been meaning to do for a long time.  I had a mountain of CD's containing old photos, PowerPoint presentations, old computer software, and more.  I saved what really needed to be saved and I pitched what really needed to be pitched.  As you can see, there was a whole lot of pitching going on!!  I can see this Throwing Stuff Out process will lead to the completion of many more "Ya-know-I-gotta-do-that-someday" tasks!  Throwing this stuff out felt good!!  Woo-hoo!

Item #29 - An Obus Forme Backrest

For years and years I had a Obus Forme backrest for the chair at my desk.  I just needed the extra support for my back.  Last Christmas Liz bought me a new office type chair.  The new chair is designed so that I don't really need the extra back support.  I hung on to the backrest, thinking I might use it sometime.  2 months after Christmas I realize I don't need it at all.  It's kinda falling apart and looking pretty ratty anyway.  Glad to get rid of it!!  But I still have the old office chair in the garage, thinking I might still use it!  It may appear here soon.  Why do we hang on to things?  Interesting question!