Day 292 - Scrapbooking & Photo Update

It's been a week since I started this office project.  So far, so good with my goal of doing at least a little bit each day.  The pile in the living room is definitely smaller, but there is still a discouraging amount of paper to sort.  I'm going to try and do more paper this week.

Today I also sorted through some scrapbooking stuff.  It isn't normally kept in the office but I had a scrapbooking day with a friend just before I started this project and all the scrapbooking supplies ended up added to that pile in the living room.  I also had another friend give me a sack of scrapbooking materials last week. 

We also are starting a project for our older kids at couples Bible study.   It includes decorating a notebook so we need scrapbook supplies.  I figured I might as well sort out some of my things while I sorted through my friend's to see what I could use.  I found lots of paper and lots of school embellishments, too.

Katie

Day 291 - Misc. Kid Stuff

Today I shifted some office supplies and brought a box up from our basement to find homes for its contents.

Of note were 7 reams of water damaged printer paper from our minor flood 3 years ago.  As it happened a whole case of printer paper was sitting on it's long side on the carpet in the basement office.  Due to its orientation every sheet of paper absorbed some water.  So we were looking at 5,000 sheets of paper with a wrinkly inch or two at the end.  We weren't about to let it go to waste so we slowly are using it for kids printables, coupons, directions, etc.  One year we even used it for the Christmas letter laughingly directing readers to the wrinkles at the bottom of the pages.

We still have over 3,500 sheets so I bet we'll use it again for Christmas letters.

We also got rid of huge box our new printer came in.  I'm not sure why it was still in our office unless it's because stuff just was piled on top of it?

I didn't find anything to get rid of out of the office today, so here's a different assortment of items.

1. Wand
2. Brush
3. Broken dress-up shield
4. Glitter hat
5 & 6. Fun cups but 2 are not enough when you have 4 kids
7. Candle I was burning to "use it up."  Why not just toss it?
8. Broken crown
9. Dried out glue
10. Lion/Griffin decoration
11 to 13. Broken chairs that went with a house we got rid of this summer
14. Broken beads
15. Random lego
16. Glitter glue
17. Parrot tailfeather
18. Shell necklace, broken
19. Bananas from Strawberry Shortcake kitchen
20 & 21. Big gems
22. fake flower
23. bracelet
24 & 25. Thomas Game Cards
26. something small and silver, I don't remember, but I can see it in the photo.

Katie


Katie

Day 290 - Calendars

I was busy sorting office supplies today and didn't find much to get rid of.  So I grabbed this huge calendar that I used several years ago for homeschool.  It's a bit hard to use just because of the rearranging numbers and the kids' attraction to sticky tack so we switched to regular old wall calendars.

I counted it as a full day do to all it's bits and pieces.  I remember paying major bucks to have this thing laminated and wonder if maybe that's why I kept it so long.  Oh well.  Maybe one of my homeschooling friends can use it.

Katie

Day 289 - Office Craft Supplies

Today I got more craft things sorted in the office and found more to part with. 

1 to 5. Huge manilla envelopes that are intended for passing around an office or a group of people.  Not sure where they came from or why I had them stuffed in a drawer.
6. Pink feather
7 & 8. Leather conditioner I only used my freshmen year of college when Mom insisted I needed it.  Since it's been hanging around for ten plus years I guess I can let it go.
9. Orange sticky dots
10. Sewing straight pins
11 to 16. Alphabet beads
17. String for beads
18 to 23. Fake flowers
24 & 25. Gunky cheap paintbrushes
26. Well-used watercolors

Katie

Day 288 - Kid Bits and Pieces

Today I didn't get anything new done on the office, but I did get all the bank statements organized which took about half hour between 10:30 and 11:00 pm.  Now I'm beat but I wanted to post so here are 26 kid items.

1. Plastic crown
2. Winnie the Pooh flashcard
3 & 4. Thomas UNO cards
5. UNO instructions
6. Lego train car, but not Duplo so our legos don't fit on it
7. Popped bath ball
8 & 9. Roll Around Balls
10. Gus from Cinderella
11. Marker Lid
12. Stem of a kid fake microphone
13. Scrooge McDuck
14. Belle
15. Butterfly
16 & 17. Crayon twistables, broken
18. Keychain whistle I confiscated
19. Glittery something
20. Gargoyle from Hunchback of Notre Dame
21. Jack Sparrow
22. Paper dog from Strawberry Shortcake
23. Broken hair thing
24. Dora friend - colorform
25. Teeny pencil lead - I didn't even know we had one of these pencils
26. A round plastic disc of unknown origin

Katie

Day 287 - Papers

This is the stack of papers I'm getting rid of today.  I need some insurance paperwork so I dug into the pile I was pretty sure contained them.  Sure enough, I found our current policies and I also found lots of papers to get rid of.

I also found all of these banking and brokerage statements that need to be filed. 

Katie

Day 286 - Kid clothes

I worked in the office today finding homes for craft items.  I pulled a few things out but not 26.  Instead, today selected 26 items are accumulated kid clothing.

1. Black velvet Christmas dress - headed for consignment
2 & 3. Ruffle socks - one has a hole
4. Pink capri pants with little stain
5. Blue capri pants that haven't had a matching for 3 girls.  I don't need to keep them for the 4th.
6. Pink skirt with athletic stripes.  DD #1 loves it, but I don't.
7. Green skirt that got one of those shadowy, all-over, undetermined source stains in the laundry.
8. Purple skirt that's too short for modesty with my tall girls.
9 & 10.  Little pink socks
11. Green flower onesie that is outgrown and has a small stain, but front and center.
12. Cute white t-shirt that got some purple paint on the back.  Gah!
13. Tights the DD #4 never wore and has now outgrown.  Consignment.
14 & 15.  Little dress socks
16 & 17. Cut monkey outfit headed for consignment.
18. Purple pants with a stain on leg
19. Undies with waistband hole
20. Undies with holes in leg elastic
21 & 22.  I love these boots!  So sad DD#4 only wore them once because I somehow missed getting them out of the closet when she grew into their size.  I found them when I was moving her up the next size.  Rats!
23 & 24. Sandals that are too small.
25 & 26. Worn out Daddy socks to make 26.

Katie