Sorting More Small Stuff

I've been doing more sorting.

Below are some of the few things I will take with me.

I wrote about my Amish figures here but know I can't take them with me - no room.

I've selected this pair to keep.  Daughters may each take a pair.

I have had a collection of rocks in a printers tray.  I got the idea to dump the shells our of this ginger jar lamp and add my rocks.  That worked but it's also very heavy!

We are selling the stuff we can't take through an online auction site called MaxSold.com

I am gathering like objects together to be lots.

This hutch hopefully will find a home with one of the daughters, if not it will sell on the auction.

I have two boxes going, one for each daughter of books I want them to have.

Of course they have the final say if they want to take them home.

So I continue to sweat the small stuff as our tenure as stewards of this house and land comes to an end.

Books are Treasures

Joining Tuesday Treasures.

Books are treasures.  I love to read and despite all that must be done to prepare for this big move I don't give up my reading.  Yesterday, as I had to be out of the house while it was inspected, I took myself shopping for a bit then to a park with a cup of tea and a muffin to finish the last book listed below.  I have my book club coming for supper on Friday night for the very last time at this house and I must skim re-read the book I selected for us "Growing Up" by Russell Baker.  Then its on to a very long tome on Hamilton that is the May book club selection.

Here are some recent reads that I offer as recommendations and I don't recommend a book that I don't like so count these as good reads.  There are real treasures!

1. A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

2. The Lost Mother

by Mary McGarry Morris

3. Girl Waits With Gun

by Amy Stewart

4. The Summer Before the War

by Helen Simonson

Two Local Churches

At first I thought this was a church converted to a house until I saw the sign.

This church was up on a hill and both access points had chains across.  Not very inviting despite their handicapped accessible sign.  I didn't think I should get any closer.

There are a few old quarries nearby so I'm sure its built of local stone.

It was a week day and I at least expected a church office to be open but then maybe the church is too small.

Joining Inspired Sunday

"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"

Whoever coined that phrase never had to experience downsizing.

Deciding what large stuff to take (furniture) is fairly easy.  We take what we need and what will fit.

It's the small stuff that major decisions have to be made about whether to keep or not.

Yesterday I purchased 4 new plastic bins.  My goal was to go through all my Christmas decorations which include a collection of nativity sets, a collection of Father Christmas figures, lots of ornaments since here we have had a very tall tree, and lots of house decor.  

I thought I would try to pare it all down to three bins.  I had 7 large bins and three small bins of small stuff to go through.

I took one bin out at a time and sorted through.  What I wanted to keep went into a new bin and what I didn't want went into an avocado box I got at the grocery store.  As a bin was emptied I could use it to sort unwanted things into.  That worked very well.

I did end up with some empty bins.  

I am very proud of myself.  I filled one bin and partially filled another.  That's one less bin to put into our storage space for Christmas.

Here's the filled bin.

I'm not giving away any of the small stuff I did not select to take until daughters get to go through it to see what they want to have.

But that's not the only small stuff to be sorted.  I'll be sweating the small stuff for days and weeks to come.  There's more in the attic yet and in other places in the house.