Day 194 - 5 Years of Bank Statement

Are you so impressed with my artistic abilities?  I was impressed with myself.

These are bank statements dating 2007 to 2011.  Shouldn't this be enough for a day's worth?

Katie

Day 193 - Spider-Ham & Superman Comics

Today's assortment includes more comics DH is ready to part with and papers.

1 to 5. Spider-Ham comics

6 to 9. Superman comics

10. Wireless Card for our old laptop that didn't have a router

11 to 26. 16 months of receipts that were snugged away on a shelf.

Katie



Day 192 - Groo Comic Books

DH had a stack of comics in the office he has agreed to part with.

25 GROO comic books
1 Spider-Ham comic book

Katie

Day 191 - Kitchen Drawers

I was searching high and low for my strawberry/tomato huller this week and couldn't lay hands on it.  Rats!  I did, however, empty two kitchen drawers during my search and found a bunch of random things to include in ProjectTwentySix.

1. Paintbrush
2. Cake tester
3. Thermometer cover
4 & 5. Lids
6. Spatula?
7. Directions to circular egg molds
8 to 14. Pampered Chef inserts for various gadgets
15. "erin" keychain I have been carrying around since 1995 or 1996 when I bought it at my high school job for my oldest friend.  Don't know why I never gave it to her and it's been hanging out in a kitchen drawer for 5 years.
16. Magnet book
17 to 26 (plus 8): Magnets for the book.

Katie

Day 190 - Final TMNT Action Figures

Finally!  This is the last bit of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collection.

Here are 16 action figures and over 10 accessories.

One turtle's legs are pulled of his body, there's an Olympics skiier, weightlifter, & swimmer, Casey Jones, and even a dinosaur for a turtle to ride. 

I will admit after all these days of turtles it was kinda fun to go through them all and remember from my own childhood even though these were all DH's. 

Katie

Day 189 - Bringing Out the Summer Clothes

I pulled out DD#4s summer clothes this week and found lots of things for the project.  Who knew I had 5 bathing suits in her size?  I also was happy to find some outgrown suits & hats to round out the 26 items.

1. Outgrown short-sleeve shirt
2 & 3. Outgrown long-sleeve shirts
4 & 5. Outgrown bathing suits
6 to 8. Long-sleeved onesies
9 &10. Bathing suits that will fit DD#4 this summer but she has 3 others so parting with these.
11. Outgrown party dress
12 & 13. Outgrown Long-sleeve dress & bloomers
14 & 15. Outgrown  Scottie dress & shirt
16. Summer dress
17. Brand new summer outfit
18. Khaki dress
19. Outgrown black skirt
20. Outgrown summer pants
21. Summer pants
22. Mariners hat
23. infant hat
24. Gap hat
25 & 26. Bathing suit & skirt

Katie

Day 188 - TMNT Accessories & Bus

We're getting close to the end of the TMNT collection!  I am glad DH was ready to let this go so I didn't have to look for stuff for days and days!

Todays 26 items include 25 accessories and a cardboard bus that used to hold cookies.

Katie

Day 187 - TMNT Accessories including Fire Dog?

Today it's even more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle accessories, but this batch has a pretty cool little sidekick.  It's a dog with a fire hose and helmet.  And on the right are some roller blades.  Remember this is like 1990ish.  

Katie

Day 186 - TMNT Stickers, Card Packs, Food Packaging

This is still more of DH's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collection.

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1. Puffy stickers in packets
2 & 3. Cards from the 2nd movie
4 to 13. Cards from the 1st movie
14 to 17. Individual stickers
18 to 27. Wrappers from card packs
Bonuses: Wrappers from fruit snacks and fruit chew candies

Katie

Day 185 - More TMNT Accessories

Yes, even more accessories.  Now I have to decide do I just toss it all together and donate it or should I try to match up accessories to action figures and sell them at a garage sale?

Katie

Day 184 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Accessories

26 random TMNT Accessories

Katie

Day 183 - TMNT Football & weapons

Oh, yes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continue . . .

1. Football molded into turtle shape
2. Pizza weapon
3 to 5. accessories
6 to 26. Other weapons

Katie

Day 182 - TMNT Helicopter and Van

Today is yet more of DH's childhood Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collection. 

1. Helicopter
2 to 6. Helicopter parts/weapons
7. Bus
8 & 9. Fire extinguishers
10 to 13. Trash cans & lids?
14 to 17. Bug launches and 3 bugs
18. Some other Vehicle
19. Gun
20. Cleaver
21 to 23. Star weapons
24. Shredder shoulder pad
25. TMNT Movie button
26. Ball molded into turtle shape
bonus: Bucket that once held turtle goo of some sort.

Katie

Day 181 - More Turtle Action Figures

Today's 26 items include 14 figures (some with accessories in hand), a ball that is molded to look like a turtle, and 10 loose accessories.

Katie

Day 180 - TMNT Comics, Bank, & Cardboard

Here's more of DH's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Collection.

1 to 12. Cardboard backing for turtle figurines
13 to 16. TMNT Magazines
17. a TMNT and Bart Simpson TV Guide cover
18 to 24. Cadrboard cutouts of some figurines
25. TMNT Water bottle
26. TMNT plastic bank that originally came full of cookies

Katie

Day 179 - TMNT Figurines

Today's selection includes 26 various figurines from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 

These are mostly NOT turtles, interestingly.  There's a moose, a clown, the rat, a chef and bunch of other weird stuff I guess you'd have to be into TMNT to recognize.

Katie

Day 178 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cardboard

These are cardboard pieces to many of DH's childhood Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collection.  I'm not sure why he kept them or more important why I have kept them around for 8 plus years!  At least they will be useful to figuring out which toys/weapons go to which figures.

Katie

Friday Narrative - TMNT Bonanza!

I'm late on the Friday Narrative but I just want to give a heads up that the next week or more will be filled with DH's childhood Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle collection.  Sorry it's boring (unless you're a huge TMNT fan . . . maybe), but I'm behind and this will help catch me up!

Katie

Day 177 - More Boxes & Packing Materials

Okay, these are the last of the boxes (I think) that were in the basement 'ebay' closet. There are 13 boxes and well over 13 other carboard pieces that I probably thought to use when shipping in manilla envelopes to make the packaging more sturdy.  I was surprised to find a box full of them as I didn't know I'd saved anything like it.

That closet gets emptier & emptier.  Next up will a bunch of stuff I thought I'd try to sell on ebay.  After four years of managing to sell maybe a dozen things I'm just putting in all in the garage sale.  I want it out of the house and someone else can sell it on ebay if they think it's just that good.

Katie

Day 176 - Playdough

DH's job has excellent benefits.  One we particularly enjoy is significantly subsidized in-home childcare.  It has a limited amount of hours per year but we find it very helpful when I need to go to the doctor for myself or for one of the kids.  Rather than DH coming home from work in the middle of the day, a caregiver comes to the house and I don't have to take 4 little girls to an appointment.

Earlier this week we used this great benefit, and for the first time had a not-so-great sitter.  She was nice enough but she let DD#3 play with playdough and it ended up all over the table, the kitchen floor, the carpet in the family room and even down the hall in the office carpet.  It was all rolled into tiny pellets of mixed colors.  After a large clean-up job in which 95% of the playdough was thrown out because it was completely dry, I also decided to throw out a bunch of the little jars the playdough has arrived in over the years.  I was surprised to find these are NOT stamped as recyclable.  Bummer.

I think I'll have to restock our playdough supply soon.  Good thing DD#3's birthday is just a few days away.  I was having trouble thinking of what to get her that won't add to the clutter and that's she'll enjoy.  Fresh playdough is a perfect solution.  I'll just a get a 4 pack - let's keep it simple!

Katie

Day 175 - More Boxes

Yes, it's even more boxes from the basement 'ebay' closet.  Here are 26 that I saved.  It was a little fun to see what we ate 4-5 years ago.  The chicken nuggets from back when had a Costco card, lots of graham crackers, major instant oatmeal, some organic and some not.  Most interesting is the pink box of instant oatmeal called Monkey Brains.  I picked it up at my favorite clearance food store a whole buck - the price tag was still attached.  =^) 

Katie

Day 174 - Kid Papers

I cleared out a few paper piles from the office today.  These are all kid art projects.  I tend to set these "gifts" aside in a place where they kids won't see them.  If anyone asks about a particular card or coloring sheet or picture I can usually lay hands on it.  If noone asks for a week I generally toss it.  The stack on top of the fridge gets regularly reycled but I guess I forgot there was also a stack in the office.

Katie

Day 173 - Boxes

My most recent foray into that basement closet yielded all these boxes.  There are 26 and it took about 15 minutes to collapse them all for recycling.  Why do I have so many?  I was going to sell stuff on ebay, of course, and needed the boxes for shipping.  Silly me.

Katie

Day 172 - Kid Clothes

I had about 7 loads of laundry sitting on my couch all week . . . I finally got it folded and found lots of things to part with.

1. Winter coat
2. Read sweater - will be outgrown by next winter
3. Pink corderoy jacket - super cute but we have so much outerwear that doesn't get worn!
4. Red fleece
5. Pink hoodie
6 to 13. Outgrown items
14. Sweatshirt completly ruined when DD#2 got berry juice on it and tossed it, wet, in her laundry basket.  It's covered in berry stains and mildew.  Rats.
15. Love this tank, but when I put it on DD#3 for the first time this summer it had a big hole in it where she probably took scissors to it LAST summer.
16. Totally stained kitchen washcloth
17. A sock that got sucked into the vacuum and destroyed - can you see the holes?
18. Matching sock
19. Tights with a hole
20. Diaper cover whose velcro isn't sticky anymore
21 & 22. Shoes whose velcro isn't sticky anymore
23 & 24. Shoes DD#4's motor therapist says not to use anymore
25 & 26. Shoes DD#4 has outgrown.

After all the super easy posts lately this one felt like a lot of work!

Katie

Day 171 - Bubble Wrap

Oh yes, it IS a giant pile of bubble wrap!  While I'm sure my kids would have loved to go crazy with this abundance of fun . . . I gave it to my neighbor who is starting to pack up her house for a move this summer.  It filled two trash bags.  But I am not a completely heartless mommy, I did set aside a few pieces for popping fun on a rainy day. 

This was also all on the floor of the basement closet.  I don't know how long it's been since I've seen the actual floor of the that closet, but it's visible in patches now.  Hurrah!

Katie

Day 170 - Kid Stuff

During my couple weeks off a pile of kid offal accumulated.  Here's what I gathered.

1. Half of butterfly wings

2. Popped blow-up globe

3 & 4. Fake flowers

5. Piece of a kitchen toy

6. Tinkerbell PEZ

7. Plug to a piggy bank

8. Half a McDonald's toy

9. Broken toy ring

10. Straw I get tired of picking up

11. Big bead

12. Ceramic cupcake top

13. Award ribbon

14. Party prize sunglasses

15. Random toy - I think it's from 1980's My Little Pony

16. Sunday school project

17. Little magnet

18. Ripped play money

19 to 26 ( plus  a few more). Paper doll Barbie and some clothes circa 1989.  Barbie got ripped (*sniff) and this is a toy DD#2 never manages to pick up completely or independently so we're letting her go.

Katie

Day 169 - Air Pillows

This is a huge pile of air pillows that I have accumulated somehow.  They were all on the floor of the basement closet I'm trying to empty.  There are well over 26, but they're air pillows so whatever. 

Katie

Day 168 - More Real Simple, other Paper

1 to 6.  More Real Simple
7. MOPS Magazine
8. thirty-one Catalog
9. Lawn mower manual
10 & 11. I don't remember what this paper is and I can't tell from the picture
12. Tinkerbell craft book with fairy characters developed before John Lasseter took over at Disney.  He changed them all to the fairies that are in the Fairy movies. 
13 to 26.  Birthday cards for DD#1 for her 4th birthday back in 2008.  These things keep popping up.

Katie

Friday Narrative- Basement Closet

Just a quick note today.  I'm still working slowly on the office, but will have a few posts this week emptying out a basement closet.  It runs the length of our stairs and is pretty full of packing materials and things I figured I'd sell on ebay one day.  I need to empty it to continue our very slow basement remodel. 

I also am getting busy pricing garage sale stuff for a sale I have with my cousin every year.  That's coming up in a few weeks so I'll be very busy sticking tags on a huge amount of stuff that's accumulated for ProjectTwentySix. 

Katie

Day 167 - Real Simple Magazines

My Real Simple magazines are up to three years old.  I really, really hoped to read them but I am realizing this is just not a stage in my life when I get to enjoy magazines much.  Those little legs belong to DD#3. 

Katie

Day 166 - Office Clutter

These things were intended to plant my seedlings.  I used a few bottles, but no egg cartons.  They all went to recycling.  9 bottles, 4 cartons

These are a few more office things I gathered to make up a full 26 for today.

14. Empty blue card box
15 to 17. Boxes that some figurines came in.
18. Paper organizer
19. Anne Geddes autobiography
20. Barbie book
21. Far Side history/biography
22. Dilbert book
23. Advent wreath
24. Candle & holder
25. Hearts from some art project
26. An art project that has lost several pieces so it's not worth keeping.

Katie

Day 165 - Ribbons

Today I was searching for a hair ribbon for one of the girls and was frustrated by this mess of ribbons in the bathroom.  I ended up, like always, just trimming a length of what I needed from a spool.  I even keep a plastic shoebox full of spools in varying colors and a pair of scissors in the bathroom.  Why do I have a bag of random ribbons that make me crazy?!?

Here's what was in the bag, plus a couple other items.  Noteworthy are the "ruler" ribbons I bought way back in college when I loved to make pigtails and have never, not once, worn them.  Not my best purchase.  =^)

Katie

p.s. Shout out to Dayna for reading faithfully and asking where I've been!  Just busy with bigger priorities, but shifting focus back here for a week or two (hopefully!).