Let's sleep on it...or not

Nice queen size mattress and box springs (or foundation, as the call it if it doesn't have springs). Too big for the room and a friend's daughter needed one. 

Here is how it looks now.  Would like a twin size to replace it someday. 

What comes around...goes around

Recognize these plant pots? Go to the April 23,2014 posting. I had such high hopes. After letting them grow awhile, they died. So they are headed to a thrift store. In the background is a "Biodome seed starter". That's going along with it unless one of you local friends would like it. I have a "Brown Thumb" and I don't think I can get something to get started. 

The motivational sign

I decided to write this sign. Motivation to move it out. Give to Goodwill or throw in the trash.

"Failure 100% of the time"-chapter 1

I titled this entry based on my comment about the following item

Yes, it is an air mattress. Actually there are two air mattresses. You will note that both are deflated. That is how they served us on a recent camp out with friends. Here we are outside our tents

We went with friends and they are in the next 

We had a fun time but the two air mattresses failed. It seems like they last for two or three times, then they fail. All of them do. 100% of them fail after a few uses...

In the spirit of organizing one day at a time, I threw both of these away at the campground dumpster.

Two less items go home and clutter things up.

Take a break

What a beautiful day. We came down to Virginia Beach and took the early part of the day off from cleaning. 

Been busy the past few days addressing the foyer and making it less of a foy-er, and more of a foy-yeah. Put backpacks duffel bags and other paraphenalia  away. 

Looks lots better and fresher.... Like the beach. 

 

Medicine bottles

I admit (in times past) to throwing old medicine down the toilet or in the trash and spoiling the environment. :-(  Alas, cannot retrieve those things now. When a friend told me she had gone through her medicine and saw they expired in 2009, she was appalled. It made me think I needed to make a sweep of mine. I began collecting medicine bottles and have been waiting for County-wide "medicine disposal day". I kept a bag available to put the bottles in to collect them and this weekend I can turn them in. 

FYI The oldest expiration date is  December 13, 2001! Many are in the 2004-2005 realm. Again, I wanted to keep these "just in case"-I don't always abide by the expiration date.  

By doing this I am regaining about 1/2 cubic foot of space in the house!

How long do I have to hold on to papers?

Some people are directionally challenged.  Others are physically challenged. Still others are (you name it) challenged.  I consider myself PAPER CHALLENGED.  What I mean by this is I can't figure out how to organize my papers and what to save.   Yesterday I hit on an idea.  I am using a hanging folder box and going to all the paper places in my house and sorting the papers. Several of my hanging folders quickly filled up.

So this morning I stopped by my insurance agent and asked what I needed to keep. I took the thick folder shown here:

Then she sorted through everything and said that I only needed to keep the most current stuff. Take a look at the trash/shred vs the keep papers:

 

 

So I am pretty happy! 

Stopped by my bank this afternoon and the guy said, "You don't have to save any of it." 

It was a 1" thick folder. He asked if I wanted him to take and shred it. At first I balked, but then agreed to hand over all of the statements. I saved out my duplicate check copies but I can get rid of them as well. FREEDOM!