Last week the Porch team shared which kinds of schoolwork, supplies, and other items you should keep while cleaning up your end of the year shelves and drawers. This week the team will be talking about what you should NOT keep.
My tips from last week's post included what books I keep, and Julia also had some excellent ideas about books that she keeps. You'd think it would stand to reason that if a person followed those tips then what was left would be the books you get rid of. Not necessarily. While my family may enjoy certain books, I don't keep them on my shelves if they are easily borrowed from the public library. As I said last week, I only have so much shelf space, even if I do have two rows deep of books per shelf!
What else do you get rid of? Sometimes it would seem obvious that you toss out hardened clay and dried up markers. Still, I have found myself keeping some of these things over the years thinking that I could do something with them. What I don't know!
I also get rid of the things that irritated me over the last year. If not removed from my house all together, then removed out of easy reach for my children. For instance, beads drive me crazy. They are all over the place, even when the children try to be careful with them. Due to my bead phobia, we tend not to use to many of them so I'll pare down the beads to a small container and get rid of the rest. This way we still have some if we need them.
I hope you'll enjoy what the Porch team has to share with you this week!
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