Day 164 - Hall Closet

My MOPS group is collecting donations this week for a pregnancy resource center.  I went into my 'gift stash' in the hall closet and found all of these items:

1. Size 6 diapers

2. Baby Washcloths

3. Toddler Underwear

4. Pacifiers

5. Sleeveless Onesies

6. Infant pants

7. Nail Clippers

I thought I might as well find the rest of my daily 26 while I was in the closet.

8. Box for my jewelry box. I kept this because I moved so much in my young adult life and I wanted to keep the jewelry box safe, but now that we're pretty settled it's just a box taking up room in the closet.

9. Box for a fan we don't have anymore. I kept this initially because the fan fit inside the box inside a carryon suitcase which was great for vacation and needed white noise for the kids. Fan died.

10. Box of 3 Lenox frames.

11. Teeth whitening kit I bought about 7 years ago from a dental hygienist friend

12. Diaper cover

13. Diaper cover

14. Crumpled Gift bag

15 & 16. Packages of foil squares

17. Graduation Tissue Paper

18 to 20. Sunscreen stickers

21. Back massager

22. Starfish Girl - I picked this up somewhere because I thought it would be a hilarious white elephant gift but I didn't get to use it last Christmas and I don't want to hang onto it for another 7 months.

23. T1-81 Calculator

24 to 26. Sterile pee cups

Katie

Day 162 & 163 - Crayons

Today DH was digging through the crayon box and I was wondering what he was doing.  Shortly, he handed me two ziploc bags and said, "Here's two days of twenty-six."  I made a face and said, "Crayons?"  His reply was, "Sure.  It's stuff that will be out of the house." 

So here they are, in deference to DH's participation.  Two days worth of discards.  I'll try to have something more substantial tomorrow!

Katie

Day 161 - Stuff Hidden From Company

We had two new families over for dinner last weekend and as their arrival neared I swept many things off my kitchen counter into a box.  Does this embarrass me?  Apparently not since I'm posted it for the world to read.  Hm.

Today's selection is all from that stuff I swept off the counter.

1 to 4. Homeschool plans (I make these once a week)
5.  Several sheets of notes for a short public speaking thing a couple months ago
6 & 7. Kits for baby handprint things
8. Warrantly for 5 year old mattresses
9. Bible study notes from a study I did over a year ago
10. Receipt from September 2011
11 & 12. Reminders for our dentist over a year old - we just got new annual reminders.  Whoops!
13. A mailing from a charity we wanted to contribute to
14. A Bible storybook my kids destroyed
15. Serendipity book my kids destroyed
16. Baby picture book my kids destroyed
17. DD#3 art project
18 to 20. Magazines I was saving to finish the puzzles.  There will be more puzzles another time.
21. DD#`1 Sunday school art project
22. Packing material - styrofoamish - I was saving for an unknown purpose
23 to 26 (plus a few) - DD#2 drawings for me that all say "mom" on them.  I just can't save them all!

A couple of notes - I am a book lover.  It makes me so sad that my kids have managed to hurt the books shown here today.  I could have mended two, but it's just not worth the time/effort involved.  We've had several grave conversations about caring for our books, but the baby still gets hold of some things she shouldn't.  I can't believe what accumulates on my counter.  It's like I just keep adding to the pile and don't realize what's tucked in there!

Katie

Day 160 - Small Kid Toys

1. Pez Dispenser - Hello Kitty's friend
2. Pez Dispenser - Hello Kitty
3. Pez Dispenser - Fawn the fairy
4. Pez Dispenser - Silvermist the fairy
5. Jasmine lipgloss
6. Foam dart
7. Bead ring
8. Littlest Pet Shop neck accessory
9. Shark toothbrush holder
10. Magnet
11. Crocodile
12. Rubber ball
13. Tinkerbell gamepiece
14. Littlest Pet Shop neck accessory
15. Fabric square with an animal scene
16. Pig
17. Horse
18 to 20. Tiny, impractical paper clips
21. Christmas ornament - painted and glittered by a girl
22. Whistle we got for free somewhere
23. Press-on nail
24. Bead - part of a build-a-bug craft
25 & 26.  Broken strands of beads

A lot of these I just get tired of picking up repeatedly and trying to find a home for them.  When they don't have a home, they never really get put away and I just keep picking them up.  I felt good about getting rid of all this stuff today.

Katie

Day 159 - Clothing Assortment

Once again, folding the laundry yielded a number of items making today's selection possible. 

1. A shirt DH doesn't want anymore even though it fits him beautifully and he's a hard size to find!  I want him to keep it, but I'm not the boss.  ;)
2.  A worn out dress shirt of DH's.
3. A shirt of DH's that needs to be ironed.
4. A worn out T-shirt of DH's.
5. A sweater I've had since high school
6. A long-sleeved shirt I love but I must have snagged it somewhere because there's a small hole in the knit fabric that I can't fix without it being obvious.  Rats!
7. A dressier tank top, but I'm trying to set a no-spaghetti-strap example for my girls.
8. A sweater DD#1 likes but it's a bit short and thin so I won't save it for the next in line.
9. 18M top
10 to 13. Tights with holes/runs.  With 4 little girls we go through a lot of tights!
14 to 17. Socks with holes in the heel. 
18 & 19.  Socks that a little girl wore outside and stained
20. 18M dress
21 & 22. Worn out undies
23 & 24. Shoes that fit DD#4 but don't stay on well to DH's great frustration.  So he decided these need to go.
25 & 26.  Sweet little Robeez DD#4 has outgrown.

Katie 

Day 158 - Small toys

This assortment has been collecting in the corner of my bedroom.

1. Dairy Queen toy tray
2. Baby plate toy
3. Lid from play kitchen
4 to 7. Bread slices
8. broken red monkey
9. Easter egg DH painted.  Funny story: I thought he had painted it when he was a kid and that I was supposed to save it as a childhood keepsake.  He just told me it was only a couple of years old.
10. Hair clip
11. Lid from play kitchen
12. broken hair clip
13. Tinkerbell game piece
14. Gem from something or other
15 to 21. play kitchen utensils
22. watermelon
23. Strawberry Shortcake
24. Beast with enchanted rose
25. Owl from Pooh
26. Owl from Bambi

Katie

Day 157 - Alphabet Blocks

I love these blocks!  I wanted them from the time DD#1 was a baby, and I finally found them at the consignment store last fall for just $12 and I had store credit.  I couldn't resist and DD#4 would be just the right age for them.  Well, she doesn't like them as much as I do .  .  . And I'm so anal I have to put them away just right every time and it takes too long.  Goodbye blocks.

Katie