Cut the Fluff Challenge Wrap-Up

I didn't keep up with weekly updates, but there's not much to be shared on a weekly basis except for the photos (the last of which I'll upload tonight) (uh, maybe tomorrow).

It ended up being not that difficult at all. Selecting things was the easy part. We could probably keep going for a bit. The hard part is actually getting the stuff out of the house. This is why we still had all this stuff to begin with.

Anything that could be thrown away has already been thrown away. I think, actually, there wasn't much stuff to go in the garbage.

The dilemma we had was with stuff that is in really good shape and worth some dollars. So we decided on the following:

1. Clothing items will be taken first to a consignment store. Whatever doesn't get taken there goes to Goodwill. Neither of us has ever consigned anything before, so we're kind of nervous about this step. But will clean our stuff up and go to the store and see what happens. We're going to do one last closet purge and go to the consignment store (then directly to Goodwill) next weekend.

2. Anything that we can't bear to just give away is going to one of those stores where they put stuff up on eBay for you. Sure, we could lower the margins doing it ourselves, but (again) clearly we've been insufficiently motived thus far to do it ourselves. I figure their listing expertise will probably earn it enough to make up for the cost of paying them to list it in the first place. The little bit that we might get is better than the nothing at all we get for letting it sit in the basement or garage. We're going to the eBay store this weekend.

Kind of funny story. So all our stuff is piled up in a corner, either at the apartment or at the house. Missy's folks were at the house for dinner yesterday, and her mom made a comment about how nice this salad bowl is. "Missy, don't you just love it?" No question as to why it was sitting on the floor in the living room. Fortunately, her dad was carrying on a conversation of his own (with himself, I think) about the VCR ("Is that a Panasonic?"), so any (non-)responses to her mom were lost.

Speaking of the apartment, one more month until I cut that fluff. Yay! I had hoped to be all moved out by now. Hoping to do some major packing/moving this weekend, so we can schedule friends to move the furniture the weekend before Thanksgiving. I wanted to hire someone to clean it for me before the end of November when I turn in the keys. If that doesn't pan out, we'll still have Thanksgiving weekend to get it cleaned up.

I had thought we'd have weaned ourselves off using the apartment by now, but that hasn't happened at all. We stay on weekends, because we have things going on in town on weekends. And we spend Wednesday nights after choir. That's okay, though. It'll work itself out. I think we could get by just fine in there with nothing but the bed and internet access. Once the bed comes out, we'll have no choice.