Sorting and More Sorting

I’ve now spent a chunk of the day for the last 3 Saturdays cleaning out and sorting my mom’s house. Most of the family has been chipping in and helping. She had so much stuff in that house. It’s hard to believe that we already cleaned out when they moved and downsized. We’ve thrown out so much food storage that was either opened and we couldn’t figure out what it was, or it was expired. We thought we were almost done until today when we opened a few cupboards we hadn’t been in. She had so much home canned foods. We divided up a lot of it but just could not take it all. I have no idea where I’m going to put everything I brought home. But I will be enjoying some home canned food this year for sure. And planning meals around some of it to get it used up before it goes bad. 

She would kill us for the mess her house is in right now, but there’s no getting around it. We had to get stuff out of places to see what it is. We are planning right now to have an estate sale in 2 more weekends. Hopefully, the weather is nice. We are “selling” most of the stuff for free, if only somebody will take it. So I’ve got 2 more weekends of being over there and then we’ve decided to take a break over Easter weekend and then General Conference weekend. After that, we will be making runs to the thrift store and dump. We do hope to have it up for sale sometime in April though. 

I’ve got my own goal to start getting my crap in order as well. I bought a book I can write in to help me get it organized but I’m going to get it done this year for sure. My own house is kind of filled as it is. Ha ha ha…