June 26th, 2008 - Getting rid of stuff
Have been doing a lot of purging the last few weeks. Each week, I think I’m done for now and have made three Goodwill trips in a month. And I’m set for another one this weekend. Mainly, it’s baby/toddler stuff. Since we aren’t planning on more, there’s no point in saving most of it. We are keeping a box or so in each size of our favorites to hand down to Monkey and AnnMee when they have kids. (Only through size 3. Even if they were to have a baby in a year, that’d be 3-4 years before they’d need clothes Maggie wears now. That’s way too long to save stuff.)
A couple I know from work just got two foster daughters and they’ll be taking the indoor swing and highchair. At first, it was just the swing, but when I emailed her last night saying I’d found all the pieces, I mentioned the highchair again–and she’s taking it. We are thrilled to pass them along to foster parents. (I’d also offered clothes and toys, but they’d already hit garage sales the previous weekend.) The girls are younger than Maggie and they live on a small farm. We’re hoping to go visit them next week.
The crib still needs to go. For now, it’s still a handy place for diapers (since we never had a changing table and don’t have a dresser). We’ll see if the women’s shelter would take it.
Need to get the bag of baby bottles up for donation. And the cradle.