After reading Don Haskell's clutter book I feel I am doing very well at "dejunking" as he would call it. I laughed out loud for several chapters-he is so funny. I liked how he got into all the things people buy for various holidays-although I don't do that. But since moving upstairs I realize how much I like it. I feel like I am sleeping in a hotel and that is because there is nothing in the room except the bed and my clothes. There isn't even anything on the dressers. Yesterday I decided to attack first my closet, giving away several pairs of pants that don't fit right and never will, then went after the closet in the downstairs small bedroom. Threw away a lot of old school papers from my youngest preschool days (he knows how to read and write now so I don't need the evidence), I did save the nice books that the teachers put together, they're more like scrapbooks. Then into the other kids bedroom where I threw out "Trivial Pursuit" it has been sitting in that closet since we moved here and that was in 1993, I feel bad that it was in my son's closet so long and he's now 14 and moving out of the room. I also went under the bed and found a huge box of school papers, including a lot of 3rd grade math (he's in 9th grade now) WHY was it there, I don't even know. Then onto the leappad box. Brought them so much joy in their early school years. Again, memories of oldest son using the little music program when he was 5. Unfortunately could not get the thing to work. Did not throw that all out since I thought my students might like it if I could get it to work. Still doesn't belong in their bedroom. I "gifted" all kinds of preschool games, art supplies, etc. to husband's job where they have a family visiting room. I do much better with clothes and things than I do with my own papers, but it is liberating to actually toss the bags in the garbage, and give other bags to people who might get joy out of them. I liked the Haskell book because it was not so depressing, you could see the humor in your actions.