40 bags - Day 15

Working hard today, we have cleared out 5 bags of trash. Most of the credit goes to Katie, who started clearing out her closet, and John who broke down a lot of cardboard boxes and came up with a full, black trash bag of styrofoam packing peanuts to discard.

Katie and I also filled a bag of games from her closet to donate, including two Battleship games. Joseph has a third, wooden Battleship set that gets played all the time, and the plastic ones were gathering dust. She's still working on her closet, so there may be more to donate as the day goes on.

The cleaning continues, too. John pulled everything out of the laundry room today and we vacuumed, mopped, and even pulled out the dryer vent tube and vacuumed the pipe that goes out of the house. So the laundry room is completely cleaned for Easter, now. Too bad I can't count all that lint as a bag. ;)

I am feeling encouraged again. After Meghan got sick and we lost a week, I was worried that we wouldn't really be able to make much progress in the house. With a move coming in only 18 months, I am feeling the pressure to get rid of things that are not worth shipping 5,000 or so miles to wherever we go next. It's a relief to know that we will continue to make progress here this Lent and will have another Lent to go through the house again before the move. Hopefully, that will help us stay under our weight limit in our next PCS, which will make everyone breathe a little easier.