Day 10 of the 500 Pound Declutter - Dresser #2

In case you're just joining us, you can learn more about my 500 Pound Declutter here.  Tonight, as Brian read one of the "Harry Potter" books to the boys, I saw my chance.  I could make a break for it and attack his dresser/bedside table.

Lovely, isn't it?

 

This spot has a variety of things going on.  First, as I have learned through this process (more than I already knew), Brian has trouble letting go of stuff.  And so he doesn't.  Sometimes that's good news.  Like when you need just that something-er-rather to fix something-er-rather or make something-er-rather.  Which leads to, well, a lot of something-er-rathers sitting around.  Like on his dresser.

I dug in and, as I have with the other declutterings, had a few good laughs.

See, if you point out the absurdity of most of these things to Brian, he will give you one of three responses:

"But I might need that someday!"

"It's perfectly good/I have been meaning to recycle it."

"It's too funny to let go of."

Starting with this one.  This falls into the "funny" camp.  I mean seriously, my brother's high school photos keep popping up around here like he's "Where's Waldo" or something.

This was a nice collection, too.  How kind of the boys to share their Indiana Jones action figure with Brian.  And even kinder they let him have it long enough to get dusty.

And next?  My personal favorite.   Not sure if, to Brian, these were "perfectly good" or not, but they sure were funny.  These frames are approximately 15+ years old.  Sure, lots of people have old glasses sitting around.  But Brian?  He's an eye doctor.  He gets new glasses when he wants them.  His office is filled with 500 pairs of very current, contemporary frames.  This is a guy with about 5 pairs of nice sunglasses.  But thank goodness we had these on hand, just in case.

It gave me great joy to get to and deal with these.  They have been driving me nuts for years.  They fall into the "They are perfectly good..." category.  Um, yeah, perfectly good 99 cent picture frames.  With pictures in them of people we don't know, but Brian happened to golf with at a golf tournament once.

Fortune cookie message, anyone?  I took this to be a personal message to me.

And just in case Subway brings back their Sub Club program, Brian was holding on to this.  Mind you, that program was phased out in 2005.  Clearly, also long enough ago to grow its own dust bunny.

By the end, I had cleaned and recycled and donated and put away plenty.  Adding up to 3 pounds.

Added to that, I sold our large baby stroller, and two baby gates on Craigslist today.  I have also sold several CDs on Amazon.

All of that combined with the dresser junk and I added 62 pounds to the total.  (And I am up $132, too)  Bringing the grand total to:

183 pounds