Christmas...the day after...

Christmas went off without a hitch yesterday. Even with Tim spending the night, everything went very well. I also reused all the gift bags the girls got gifts in throughout the week from various people so we didn't create anymore trash!

This, the day after Christmas, I took inventory of all the "stuff" in my life. My 5 year old has more clothes than can fit in her dresser and closet combined!! Is that really necessary? I am packing up HALF of all of our clothing and donating it the the local women's and children's shelter. This year, I've given up the television, and won't buy any more movies or cd's-the computer works just fine for any movies we might want to watch or music we want to listen to. I've been canning for about 2 years, and am trying to be more proactive in my sewing and knitting-refashioning clothing instead of buying more.

I've lived in a fairly large, old farm house for the past 2.5 years, and as you can imagine, it's gotten pretty cluttered with random junk. My goal for 2009 is to purge completely of anything unnecessary and impractical. I'll keep a few sentimental objects but most of it is outta here!