Day 265: Foam Bath Letters

These are foam letters for the bathtub. Our boys love letters much more than they love actual baths, so these seemed like a good way to trick them into tub time. 

They're cute, and as you can see in the above photo, the boys loved playing with them, both in and out of the tub. Unfortunately they also loved eating them:

Here's the thing. Baths may seem inherently clean, but if you have a toddler, you know this isn't true. Our boys get into the tub with 52 different types of dirt on them, and then just in case the water isn't grimy enough, they pee in it. And then they dip the foam letters in there and...yeah, gotta get rid of the foam letters.

DESTINATION: Trash.

Day 256-264: Costume Jewelry

I already did a jewelry purge earlier in the year, but apparently I have far more unnecessary jewelry than I realized.

Counting this as nine days. I dare you to challenge me!

1. stamped metal cuff
2. weird elastic enamel bracelets
3. Livestrong bracelet
4. green glass bead necklace
5. palm tree anklet (Yeah. An anklet.)
6. wedding hair clips that I didn't end up wearing at my wedding (a mere 7 years ago)
7. green wood bangles
8. bright blue hoop earrings
9. hippie dippe black rope necklace

DESTINATION: Goodwill and hand-me-downs.

Day 255: Unclaimed Sunglasses

If these are your sunglasses, I apologize. They appeared at our house after a party, and I emailed every I could think of who might own them. Then I posted a little "lost" ad on my Facebook page. The owners never appeared so I gave them away.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 253-254: Curtains

You know what's really expensive? Curtain panels. Every time we go shopping for curtains, it makes me mad because I know they're just panels of fabric and I know I could just make my own if I weren't lazy.

But I don't feel like making them.

But I don't feel like spending $50 on two yards of fabric, either!

This is the argument that goes on in my head whenever we shop for curtains. So the usual compromise is to buy cheap curtain panels. But when we moved here, I was like, "I don't like these curtains anymore. I want good curtains! Like an adult!" So I bought a set of good curtains for the dining room, and then a set for the living room. And then my credit card statement came in and I got mad again, and stopped buying curtains. That was five years ago and we still don't have curtains anywhere else. So, come hang out outside our kitchen windows sometime and enjoy the show! Just kidding -- don't do that.

DESTINATION: Goodwill and my niece.

Day 252: Wicker Basket

How many wicker baskets does one house need? I think the answer is less than whatever we have.

DESTINATION: I am 99% sure our neighbor took this.

Day 251: Big Mutha Truckers

We can't agree on where this came from. But we've never played it, even though it's obviously a very classy video game.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 250: Fairy Bucket

I used to be obsessed with fairies. I actually almost got a fairy tattoo -- I gave the tattoo artist a picture of a fairy sitting on a butterfly reading a book, and he was like, "Yeah, how 'bout just the butterfly?" which was a really good call on his part. 

Anyway, this bucket doesn't fit in with our decor anymore.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 249: Fishbowl

This fishbowl is awesome. It was about $2.49 at Christmas tree shop and perfect for my vaguely shore-themed guest room. But that guest room is now a playroom, which means there's no place for glass objects. Ditto the rest of my house, actually.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 247-248: Tape Recorders

Hello. I'm a reporter. Let me record this conversation on my casette tape.

I used these recorders for some awesome interviews -- oh hello, Brandon Boyd and John Mayer and Brittany Murphy and Jojo and everyone else who was famous before digital recorders got cheap.

I love my job.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 246: Green Shoes

I still think these are pretty cool, but it's really hard to work bright green patent leather into your everyday wardrobe. Or your business casual wardrobe...or your formal wardrobe...etc.

DESTINATION: Goodwill. I tried to unload these on Facebook because they're basically brand new, but I guess everyone else realized they don't go with anything. Or they're fugly and I just can't see it.

Day 245: Dust Ruffle

When I was setting up the nursery for Danger, I was adamant that we NEEDED to have a dust ruffle. Then the first time it got dirty, and we had to pick up the mattress to wash the dust ruffle, and then pick up the mattress again to put it back, I decided that maybe we didn't really need a dust ruffle.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.

Day 244: Old Business Cards

Probably best not to carry around business cards with an outdated address and photos from 2009. Right?

DESTINATION: Recycling.

Day 242-243: Pacis and Toys

I really wanted my boys to be pacifier kids, because it's like a Magic Crying Baby Mute Button. But they wanted nothing to do with it -- literally, in the hospital nursery, they were already spitting out their soothies. I was always jealous of my friend Chrissy who was like, "Yeah, K wakes up in the middle of the night but I just do a binky re-application and she falls back asleep." I bought pacifiers in every shape and size, but no such luck.

The other stuff is just random toys.

DESTINATION: Trash for the binkies and Goodwill for the toys.

Day 241: Giant Belt

Yeah, I don't think this fits me very well anymore.

DESTINATION: Hand-me-downs.

Day 240: Random Tray

I wasn't even storing anything in this -- I was just storing it. Kind of defeats the purpose.

DESTINATION: Goodwill.