Goodbye stuff!

I am not a sentimental person. I don't like keeping "stuff". 

Definition of stuff: anything I don't use on a regular basis.

Luckily, I have a husband who will go along with this.

Since I moved out of my parents in 2008 I have moved eight times. Eight times in 7 years! I hate moving because I hate packing and unpacking and finding new places to put everything. But I also love moving because it means I am forced to go through everything. If it doesn't have a purpose I don't want to lug it around from place to place so I get rid of it. (Just ask John, when we were packing up to move to Utah I had a pile outside our door that we were not keeping! It was great!)

Having a baby makes this hard. She has so much stuff (we are very minimalistic with her and still, so much stuff!) and while a lot of it she doesn't use anymore we probably should keep it. What I hate more than stuff is spending money when I don't have to. If we lose all the baby stuff she doesn't use we will have to buy it again for the next baby. Boo. 

Which brings me to the past few days. I have been organizing (read: getting rid of as much as possible) Olivia's clothes she has grown out of. Leading me on a rampage through our whole apartment. I filled bags with clothes she never wore, were stained, or were ugly, I went through my clothes and did the same (and I'll probably go back through my clothes again). I've gone through our closets and consolidated a lot and bagged up more. I want all the stuff gone!

My plan is to go through everything, which isn't a lot, but there is still too much that we never use that needs to go! 

We are spending the summer in Texas and hopefully will be subletting our apartment to a friend. We are only taking what we absolutely need and I don't want much left in our apartment besides furniture and winter clothes.

So far I have 6 trash bags (bursting full), a huge bin, and a box filled with stuff that we are getting rid of! And that's just from our bedrooms. I still have the hall closet, coat closet, bathroom, and kitchen to go through!