To chuck it, or not to chuck it- Spring Fucking Cleaning.
I've picked up these items like, 40 goddamn times and not known what the hell to do with them. In total, they probably add up to hours of me not knowing what the fuck to do.
Cords for a heated massage chair that I bought for my mom, whom I don't have contact with anymore.
A Mardi Gras mask that a dear friend gave me as a tacky travelling gift that freaks me the fuck out.
A couple of photos and cards from people that just bring up bad associations.
A book on orgasming that sucks, that I don't feel like passing onto any woman or trying to sell-
Stuff like that.
As a person who hates to help fill up a landfill, but just doesn't have the time to do anything with these objects except keep them in piles and move them from closet to closet and waste time thinking and writing about them- I just want the okay from the hipmama world to chuck them. Call me weird, but I always get this nagging guilt when I throw away stuff, even if it's just weighing me down. I can chuck it, right???? It's better for me. I'm not evil for throwing away old gifts or pictures of people I can't stand, or old Jesusy x-mas cards, right???
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Chuck it!
You'll feel so much better!
I'm doing the same thing on all counts, in the end I'm keeping some stuff, scanning other stuff and chucking the stuff that doesn't feel good at all.
but i'm hardly one to ask. i'm a compulsive purger, i chuck anything i'm sick of looking at.
If it doesn't make you actively *happy*, discard or donate. Eg -- chuck it. I love everything discardia. Lots of good tips and tricks there.
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
yah I need to get right on that. 
Check them out online. Free to join, free to belong. The purpose of this group is to keep still-usable items out of landfills and get them into the hands of people who want them. Members post what they want to give away. Freecyclers email the poster saying when they can pick up. The poster decides who gets it.
I have passed along of amazingly junky things that way, like empty glass spaghetti sauce jars and single pillow cases, plus nicer stuff like all of the gardening equipment I no longer needed when I moved to an apartment without a yard.
It pays to belong. In the past year, I've received a working sewing machine, a winter coat, a craft table, a griddle, christmas lights, and a hand weaving loom that would have cost me $600, plus weaving yarns and instruction books, all free, free, free.
Glamorous
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley
Cleaning here too! My office is full of boxes, I just put up new shelves, chaos reigns!
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WOW,. Just realized that I still have the dumb Mardi Gras mask and the orgasming book, and the cords....I still have EVERYTHING I wrote about in this post!!!!! Holy Shit. Time to really chuck it! Sorry, landfill. Or the Church next door. Or Goodwill.