put on your sunday best, kids...we're goin' to the dump.

the last few mondays, it's been sort of our destination lately. you see, rin and i have been cleaning house as much as we can. we started about three saturdays ago. on this day, rin and i began in our room, going through our old clothes and old papers. also going through things that we just don't need as well. 4 big black bags of clothes got sent to st. vinny's and we wound up with seven big black bags of trash and shredded paper. that next monday we went and dumped the trash at the, well, dump. the girls were both disgusted with the smell that it put forth.

the next saturday was working in the boy's room and more of our room. plus other places that needed to be cleaned out. six more bags later and the dump was in our sights. this past saturday, we were able to finish up the majority of gutting the house of the things not needed. rin found old past paid bill slips and old year's papers that weren't needed anymore. i got to clean out the garage yesterday and found more stuff for the dump. i had a huge cardboard box that i used for garbage and a couple smaller boxes. those got taken to the dump today. we are also having a garage sale here in a few weeks, so we've been putting off things to the side for that day.

last night, after we finished our shredding, we found more things that needed to be destroyed, so they are waiting in our bin. soon i get to actually start the cleaning of the house now, not the cleaning out of the house. and then the yardwork begins...