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  • Last post for 2018. I'm working tomorrow so won't do any more decluttering.

    I did go to Goodwill today. We took over 3 cartons of stuff, an old golf game, several board games, and a VCR.

    I did another session in the basement going through the closet where we store a lot of our serving pieces, entertaining items, and such. I pulled out a bunch of things that I was pretty sure DW would agree with getting rid of. She came down a bit later and was good with all but one or two items and she added a couple to the pile that I thought she wanted to keep. I think the final tally was 16 items to donate and a few things into the trash.

    The other thing while cleaning out that closet was that I had realized that there were several items in there for which the box was also in there but they weren't together, so I put everything back into its box which helped condense things and free up more space.

    I'll pack up the items we are eliminating first chance I get and those will go in the next Goodwill run.

    I also went into the attic to search for the boxes for 2 items I want to resell. I found one of the boxes. I'm not sure if we actually have the original box for the other. If we did, the attic is most likely where it would have been but it wasn't. I guess that will probably go to Goodwill instead of ebay. I don't want to risk shipping it without the original packaging, and it isn't worth as much without the box anyway.
    Steve

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    • Goal was to find 18 items to donate/trash today to finish up 2018 and stopped counting at 43. Looking forward to the 2019 thread and continuing to find new homes for items we no longer use.

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      • Originally posted by MooseBucks View Post
        Goal was to find 18 items to donate/trash today to finish up 2018 and stopped counting at 43. Looking forward to the 2019 thread and continuing to find new homes for items we no longer use.
        I love this, I'm stealing it

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        • disneysteve do we have a new decluttering thread for 2019?? And your pm box is full you need to declutter that so peeps can send you messages

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          • Originally posted by Thrif-t View Post
            disneysteve do we have a new decluttering thread for 2019?? And your pm box is full you need to declutter that so peeps can send you messages
            We don't have a new thread yet. I'll start that right now. Thanks for the reminder.

            And thanks for letting me know about the PM box. I wish the system sent you a notice about that. Can you (or someone) please send me a PM so I can make sure it's working now?
            Steve

            * Despite the high cost of living, it remains very popular.
            * Why should I pay for my daughter's education when she already knows everything?
            * There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.

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            • Originally posted by disneysteve View Post

              We don't have a new thread yet. I'll start that right now. Thanks for the reminder.

              And thanks for letting me know about the PM box. I wish the system sent you a notice about that. Can you (or someone) please send me a PM so I can make sure it's working now?
              Nope still can't, this is the error message I get

              Can not send message. User disneysteve has exceeded their private message quota.

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              • Originally posted by Thrif-t View Post

                Nope still can't, this is the error message I get

                Can not send message. User disneysteve has exceeded their private message quota.
                Thanks. I'll report it. My inbox is empty.
                Steve

                * Despite the high cost of living, it remains very popular.
                * Why should I pay for my daughter's education when she already knows everything?
                * There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.

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                • Originally posted by Thrif-t View Post

                  Nope still can't, this is the error message I get

                  Can not send message. User disneysteve has exceeded their private message quota.
                  Try again. My inbox was empty but my sent box had me over the limit. Apparently with the new board, the limit is 500 messages. I think it was 1,000 before. I had over 800 but cleaned it out to less than 400 so see if it works.
                  Steve

                  * Despite the high cost of living, it remains very popular.
                  * Why should I pay for my daughter's education when she already knows everything?
                  * There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.

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                  • Originally posted by disneysteve View Post

                    Try again. My inbox was empty but my sent box had me over the limit. Apparently with the new board, the limit is 500 messages. I think it was 1,000 before. I had over 800 but cleaned it out to less than 400 so see if it works.
                    It worked!!

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