Week 26 – Garbage bag full of clothes to goodwill. About half of these were things I was keeping on hand to repurpose, but decided to let them go so I don’t have to move them in September.

Week 27 – I took a garbage bag of clothes and two big, noisy baby toys (that Hazel has outgrown and that I don’t want to move) to the consignment shop, but I forgot to photograph them. Instead, here are two pairs of jeans, leggings, and two shirts that I bought with part of the store credit from my last drop-off :)

Week 28 – Selling some records.

Well… I think that’s over. Three days of sleep deprivation was rounded out nicely by a morning of sleeping in and then a happy baby exploring this foreign terrain known as The Yard.

I realize I’ve gotten behind on my new year’s resolution – I’ve been doing things and just not photographing and posting them, so here is my catch up for weeks eight, nine, and ten.

Thinned a big heap of Hazel’s outgrown / winter clothes – 2/3 put back for future babes and the rest into a box of clothes waiting for the consignment shop to start taking winter things sometime this summer.

Sock & underwear purge – a thrilling Saturday night.

Thinned out some beads and charms – these will eventually make their way into the destashed supplies for sale in my Etsy shop.

Last week we were talking with Mikey’s mom about the possibility of adding her to our family cell phone plan to save her some money. We did all of the research and she picked out a phone and was all set to deposit money for it into our bank account when I got a piece of AT&T junk mail (that I almost threw away without reading) offering a code for a really nice phone for free if you added another line to your family plan. She and Mikey are always, always falling into things like that. She wasn’t even surprised when I told her to forget about the bank deposit because she could get a much nicer phone for free.

So, this morning when I was packaging up Etsy orders I started thinking that maybe I should try something a bit more sustainable when I next need to print business cards. After dinner I opened up my email to find an Etsy newsletter, which included this link – 50 free business cards from moo.com. They do reeealllyyyyy nice, delicious printing, but I’ve always opted for cheaper options. Even though this offer includes a small ad on each business card and $5.00 for shipping, I took them up on it anyway because the ad offers a discount code to whoever gets the card. I wanted to see how they turned out using my photos, and was impressed by the sustainability of the cards: 100% recycled / recyclable / biodegradable, chlorine free, and manufactured using wind power. I hope they are pretty! I really should have business cards that actually feature photos of my products, and Moo lets you do a mix of lots of different photos in the same order of cards. Possibly worth the extra money – we’ll see when they get here.

Listening: Will Oldham
(I am) Reading: The Poisonwood Bible
(Hazel is) Reading: Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
Working on: blue & gold blanket (which I always work on to ease the distress of having a molar-getting kid, for some reason); Easter basket goodies; custom jewels

There is radio coming through our computer speakers very, very faintly. With the volume up high enough that link-clicking is completely deafening and my ear against the speaker, I can barely make out the song.

baby, baby, baby… where did our love go?

Weird.

So on Wednesday we moved to Parkersburg. With hours and hours and hours of help from Caitlin and Ethan (who are amazing and are owed a lifetime’s supply of beers from Mikey & I) and from my mom, we finally loaded almost everything into our car, my dad’s truck, and the too-small uhaul. Dealing with them was a fiasco, but they kindly refunded half of what we paid them when I mentioned that we really wanted to use their services again at the end of summer to go to Canada. There is still a little bit of stuff left in our storage room in the basement of our (now old) apartment building, and we’re coming back to Morgantown tomorrow to see music and get all of that stuff.

I had so many summer project ideas in mind, and something new has topped all of them: GET. RID. OF. STUFF.

I thought we’d gotten rid of soooo much. We took a carload and a half to goodwill, threw out a lot more that was no good. And we still have way too much. My mom says “it’s tough when you’re an artist in a musician and you have so much stuff to make other stuff”, but I don’t feel like that’s a good explanation. I let go of a jug of sand from our honeymoon – that was a good step. We’ll see how much progress we can make.

Time for errands and visiting our baby kiddens at my parents’ house.