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UFO's - Part 2
In the spirit of a new year and our first foray into Zone 4 for
2005, I am asking all of you to go to your bedrooms, throw open
those closet doors, dresser drawers and under the bed boxes (that I
know you all have no matter what we try to tell you LOL) and find
ONE only one Ugly, Funny or Old item to toss, but send us and email
and tell us what it was!! ~ Kelly
Here is Part 2 of the 2005 UFO's!!
Marla and Flycrew,
Greetings and what a great idea! My UFO is as follows:
Ugly - Two macrame belts from dresses I can't even remember.
Funny - The neck strap from a bathing suit I think I wore and threw out before DD15 was born.
Old - A sweatshirt I borrowed from my nana, who died in 1986, that I never returned and probably only wore once. Time to pass it on the a much "smaller" person.
Fluttering in New Jersey
Dear FlyLady Crew,
The lastest foray into the bedroom took me deeper into drawers than I'd been
in years. Wadded in a corner of my undies drawer were the lacey panties I'd
worn at my wedding 35 YEARS AGO! I wore them for a few anniversaries, but
probably couldn't get them on my 57 year old body if my life depended on it.
And if I did, even DH would be ROTFL.
The other item found in the bottom of an old what-not box was a lapel pin
made from the jaw bone of some rodent. It still had its little teeth and a
working pin glued to the back. I remember wearing it to show-and-tell in
kindergarten and that all the boys wanted it. Do you suppose that's why I
hung onto it all these years?
Fluttering in KS
As I boogied my bedroom closet two weekends ago, the funniest item I found was a very cheap Elvis wig that my boys had worn to do a lip-synch routine to a Grease song for their dad's birthday party. I was going to toss it but had an idea...
It happens that I was organizing an Invention Convention ("creativity with junk" night) for my Cub Scout pack the following week and wanted to do something fun to kick it off. I borrowed a white lab coat, wore that crazy Elvis wig and some crazier Harry Potter glasses, and introduced myself with an outrageously bad Teutonic accent as "Dr. Shtinkin Thinkin"! I encouraged our scouts to do "zum gut thinkin that isn't shtinkin", and create their inventions out of the trash they brought. I have to tell you that Dr. Shtinkin Thinkin was a huge hit with the kids!!
They had a ball inventing things out of trash and duct tape...and all us moms got to get rid of all kinds of trash and trinkets in the process. Unfortunately, I don't think I can get rid of the wig now, as Dr. Shtinkin Thinkin will have to make an encore next year! Thanks for the idea!!
spent all day yesterday flinging in the bedroom....one thing (no TWO) that "before flylady" I would NOT have fliung...2 of my son's baby teeth! When I examined them I asked myself , would HE ant thes??? would his future wife want them? would his KIDS want them someday (would I want MY dads teeth...YUCK!!!) Do i want to make earrings out of them>>>> hahahah OUT they went!!! probly the smallest things flung!! DS is 19!
Joyful FLinger
Today I was at Ikea and the COntainer store....idea shopping..bought nothng. Everytime I looked at a container..I thought "gee, the stuff inside has to be pretty valuable to justify spending MORE money to have someting to PUT it in!!!!
My items fall under the U-G-L-Y category. I threw out several pairs of "jockey" style underwear that I hate. I felt obligated to wear them because my mother gave them to me. She'll never know they are gone and I feel A LOT more feminine. :)
FlyBaby in Tennessee
one fuzzy green frog stick pin
Dear Flylady..
I am just a new Flybaby, only belonging to your group for a couple of months. You have inspired me to clean out many drawers and closets. They look so nice I keep going by and opening the doors just to admire my neat closets.
Now about my oldest find. Many years ago I bought material to make my dd some t-shirts and pants ,at a home party. Well needless to say I found the bag, still closed, with the purchase slip still in there. Dated 8-18-78. My daughter is now 34 with two children of her own. I am blessing a friend, that has small grandchildren and does a lot of sewing, with my material.
I am having so much fun with my decluttering, never thought cleaning could be so much fun.
Flybaby from SD
DH got a pair of gag slippers several years ago on Christmas Eve. They are these huge fuzzy gorillas and when you press their ear, they roar. The tradition in our family was to get new pajamas on Christmas Eve. The first Christmas with DH, (who had just moved to the US from France where he was born and raised), we spent at my parents house. My mom didn't want to exclude him from the family tradition so she got him these slippers. He was a good sport about it and put them on for goofy pictures that night. It was funny way back when...now they are just gathering dust! Fling!!
Flybaby in San Diego, CA
Dear Flycrew,
Today I decluttered my veil and "bouquet" from my hen's day 2 years ago.
It was a great day and we played mini golf and
had a kid's party at the golf course complete with nintendo games that
we were all very bad at. I was keeping it to show my kids but I have
photos. There is also a sign that says nearly hitched with a "P" plate
on the back but I don't know where that is so I'll have to declutter it
when I come to it. I did look very funny.
Flybaby in Melbourne
Where should I start with the things I flung today...the black bridesmaid dress from my sister's wedding that never was (almost 7 years ago), my husband's suit from when we were married over 10 years ago (and it hasn't fit in at least 6 years...too much good home cooking!), or the dress I wore in for my high school senior pictures that were taken 14 years ago this month! Nothing else too exciting in my room as this is the 3rd time it's been decluttered (decluttering the same room several times results in more things flung each time).
Thanks Flylady, Kelly, and crew for all you do! I've been fluttering for about 6 months and in the past two months feel like I can have meetings, etc. in my house without being embarrassed. I still have a lot to do, but it looks better everyday!!
Flybaby J in Nebraska
My husband had back surgery 30 or so years ago,,, in the very back of our closet there was his back brace, a big metal contrapstion ,, we've only been married 16 years, and every time we had a super fling ,, I,d say can this thing go yet,,,, well this Super Fling was the time,, and out it went,, I guess he was afraid he'd need it again some day,,,, the funny thing is he was 30ish, and now he's 67,, and about 50lbs heavier,,, and No one has use this kind of support for the last 100 years,,,,flylady said,"let them do it on their own " well never has finally came,,,
In 1992 I was an exchange student in Brazil. I was 16 years old and didn't throw ANYTHING away, for fear that I might 'forget something' that was said or done or seen... Those boxes of memorabilia from Brazil have come along on about 10 moves (apartments, houses, college, etc.) and I haven't looked in the boxes since I was about 18.
So now (10 years later), I threw out 2 black garbage bags including 4 journals that contained everything from gum wrappers to dried flowers to sand (glued to the pages) to every single letter that I wrote to my parents here in Canada (about 200 letters). I tossed the paper backing from a Brazilian brand of sanitary napkins (why on Earth I kept those, I'll never know!), chip bags, about 30 keychains, etc.
What a huge load off (and a huge load I won't have to take along to the home we just purchased!) Thank you for helping me gain control of my life. My husband and I are not so stressed anymore, we don't argue over whose turn it is to do dishes, and I have a LOT more time to spend with my sweet daughter, who is 11 months old.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
PS - I told a CHAOTIC friend about your site and she called to thank me for saving her marriage!
Dear Flycrew,
I finally did it with your encouragement. I threw out my old Raggedy Ann doll that I was given when I was a baby. I celebrate my 40th birthday next month! I slept with and drug her around constantly. Her face was so worn out that at one point my mom replaced it with a transplant of Andy's face. (Needless to say Andy wasn't my buddy and I was unaware of this at the time.) She had also been greatly patched. Her legs were falling off and my mom sewed a liitle bunting type dress for her to keep parts from being lost. She was very thin from loss of stuffing and being very well loved. I received a new doll when in 5th grade. She is loved but not in such a sorry state. I'm afraid I didn't toss her. My first doll was not only old but had become truly ugly. She is gone but her memory lives on!
A new flybaby in Ohio
Hello, this is a bit painful but I'm cremating my 45 yr. old stuffed tiger 'Oscar' that I used to practicing kissing on ---so I'd be ready when I began dating--I was 12-14 yrs. old at the time. He is like the Velveteen Rabbit, well loved. So I'm taking a photo of him, lovingly putting him in a box and...as I said, cremating him.
East Tex. flylady....Thanks for all you and your 'gang' do !
I found Pajamas. When we got married August 4, 1968 my husband received a pair of pajamas that he has never worn. I’ve washed them each time we have moved and placed them back into his drawer. My husband has *never* worn pajamas so why have I kept them?
I’m washing them one last time and giving them to my 13 yr old granddaughter who will love them.
Maybe I’ll toss his Speedos next year. He also has a very old tee shirt from his Army years that says “Lie down I think I love you”. It’s faded and worn so he must have enjoyed wearing it. LOL
He wouldn’t let me throw away a corset that I’ll probably never fit into again. It was fun going through these silly things from our past. Thank you for the laughs.
Love & Prayers,
one of your California FLYbabies
Hi Flypeople,
As a Flybaby of less than one week, I've found it very satisfying to get rid of the clutter in my bedroom. As a full time working girl, I find it so hard to get motivated to tidy the house when I'm at home - but have decided that 10 minutes a day is achievable - and so far, so good.
The funniest thing i've cleared out so far is my set of "pharonic playing cards" - a very classy souvenier I bought in the Cairo airport on a trip to Egypt five years ago. I suppose I must have a subconcious thought that I might have an urgent need for a game of gin rummy someday - but I think that day will never come. Especially now I've counted the cards and realised there are only 43 in the set. Bye bye ugly souvenier!
New Flybaby in Adelaide, South Australia.
I did the smallest 27 fling boogie ever in my master bedroom. I cleaned out my jewelry box. Now you have to understand – I don’t wear jewelry as a rule – never had the fashion sense to buy it for myself, so when others bought it for me, I’d wear it once, and into the box it would go. Because I never wore it again, who cares if the box was hard to find things in (just a box, mind you, no neat little compartments, so even if I did want to wear something, it took some time to untangle it from all the chains!) So, I dumped the works on my bed, and started sorting – out went the earring still on a card, the tarnished silver earring given me as a gift before I had children, I DID save the charm bracelet from my high school years, as well as a high school ring, but got rid of the paper clips, books of matches, safety pins, earring backs, single earrings, broken necklaces and so on. At the bottom of the pile, was a small white object – hmmmm – oh my, it seems to be a tooth. Now, my children are 11 and 15, not 30 or 35, so it’s only been there for a decade or so. BUT – I’ve no idea whose tooth it is, and it was a molar, so it wasn’t even the 1st tooth lost – which I could understand some weird sentimental clutterbug saving. Anyway – it’s gone, my jewelry box is done to two sentimentals and only stuff I really do wear. I only filled a small baggie with garbage – but it’s nice to have it gone!
When I was a little girl my sister and I did a lot of theatre. I really enjoyed the experience and many times they let us keep our costumes. I used these costumes for Halloween but then afterwards I couldn't bring myself to let them go for you know "sentimental reasons". My UGLIEST OLDEST items were these costumes. I even kept my sisters costumes so I had 2 of each. I had munchkin costumes from The Wizard of OZ '88. I had burlap bags with patches on it from Annie Get Your Gun '89. I had "orphan rags" from Oliver '91. I finally decided that these old ugly costumes were CLUTTER!! They are gone!
Thank you Flylady!
Get this! I was hanging on to a stained up baby bib with my name monogramed on it. I guess at some point my mother gave it to me and I thought it was worth keeping (or wasn't thinking at all). Its been in my underwear drawer for years. What was I thinking?!
Flying in Atlanta
Dear Flylady-
I found my diary which I started 45 years ago and finally gave it a ceremonial burning in our woodstove. I always thought I'd share it with my daughters, but there were things too private even now that were for my eyes only. Some of the memories were embarrassing or painful and it was freeing to dispose of them.
Thanks for all your loving help!
Flying in Wisconsin
Not sure if it qualifies as Old ( I guess it does) but after severe depression and anxiety, and months of advice by lay people and professionals alike, I finally found the courage to value myself, dump my Fear -- boy, THAT is old! ---and state and enforce a deadline and departure date for certain abusive individuals sharing my home. It was preceded by so much grief, struggle, denial on both sides, and struggle to do the morally right thing, that somewhere I lost the facts that everyone of us needs free to fly our own paths in order to live. As soon as that deadline was announced graciously and diplomatically, the abuse ended and we're learning to see one another as struggling humans caught up in something larger than we could handle, needing to be free. You can't weigh it on a scale nor label it as a victory as a Hallmark moment, but sometimes we have to set limits in order to literally live. As a psychiatrist said yesterday, "your bucket is already very full", so stop adding it to overflowing.
....A woven bag - like the ones you get on caribbean islands - with orange raffia flowers, and my name ........
* I didn't buy it as a souvinier - someone else did! (Not even my vacation memory!)
* I HATE orange
* My name was spellled WRONG!!!!!
Peacefully flying in MN
I found something that may be all three: ugly, funny and old. A baggie with baby teeth in it! I don't even know whose teeth they are, could be my DS who is now 18 or could be my DSD (darling step daughter ) who is 16 years old.
I flung a little stuffed "Taco Bell chihuaua" dog that said "I think I'm in love" when you pushed his belly. My husband gave it to me when we first got married ten years ago. It came free at Taco Bell with some meal deal. It was literally covered (like a blanket) in dust, hair and fuzz (gross!) in a forgotten pile behind our bed. I had never gotten rid of it because DH gave it to me, but I realized it was ugly and I had no where to put it and it was contributing to my dust allergies....and most important.....I have my wonderful DH in bed NEXT to me every night to tell me he's in love with me.
I don't need a little stuffed dog to do that. So.....Yo quiero! The dog has been boogied!
Flybaby in Nashville, TN
I am at work right now but as soon as I get home I am going to go my closet and toss an Amish dress complete with cape and apron. I was given to me 20 years ago by an Amish friend. I can't remember why she gave it to me, but it's hung there in the back of the closet for all that time. Did I think I was going to wear it??? LOL I am going to donate it to the High School Drama Dept.
This one is OLD.
My DH was a flinger long before our family became FlyWashed. That's why he was so surprised while he was flinging his closet last night. He found the suit he wore for his high school graduation--in 1977! (He did not want to pose in it for a picture--sorry!) Needless to say, the suit has now "graduated" out of our house!
Flapper in Massachusetts
Heya - I hope that it isn't to late to send this in but -
I haven't found it yet, but I know that it is in my bedroom - and
speaking of flinging some UFO's has really made me want to find and fling
it. I have my horse's tooth, somewhere in my house... when I was 13 my
pony was bit shy, and constantly in a horrible mood. A equine dentist
visted and removed a tooth that was causing her pain, the funny thing is,
the horse knew when it was time to say goodbye to that tooth, 9 years
later and I am only now understanding that!
Thanks Crew
Fluttering in Australia
looking for a box yesterday I found one full of bras from before I had
my kid in 1998. never having had a baby before I didn't know I'd never
go back to prebirth size. - flung
flying in WA
Oh, my...I've been reading the other Flybabies' accounts of things found lurking INSIDE various containers. I got nervous and dared to look inside one of mine, a makeup case bearing my childhood address--which stopped being my address 35 years ago. I ripped off the label and flung open the lid. Bear in mind that this makeup case with its emotionally and physically heavy contents has been tucked into a corner of my current bedroom the past five years and has moved with me SIX different times. Inside, I found the following assorted UFOs:
1. My scored application dated 10/23/68--for a Mississippi Drivers License when I was 16--I passed the written test, but FLUNKED the road test! Now WHY would I want to keep a reminder of THAT failure hanging about? It stirs up bad memories of my precious but eccentric grandparents, who insisted I get my license, but allowed me to drive the car exactly twice before my road test. I don't need to dredge up that pain! They had their odd behaviors, but they loved me in their own ways, I loved them, they're long dead, I've forgiven them and I've moved on. Besides, I've had a valid drivers license for 36 years now! I ripped my SS# off the flunked app and it's now flung.
2. Empty packet of birth control pills. I used them only the first year of my marriage--1975 to 1976, am single now and totally celibate. Flung.
3. An unopened prescription bottle of cold medicine for my then-husband--dated 08/06/75. Flung.
4. A straw trivet - moldy. Flung.
5. A half full and lethal-looking bottle of Chloraseptic--expired sometime in the 70s--probably a companion to the cold medicine. Flung.
6. Empty Penicillin bottle for somebody--no name--dated 5/18/76. Flung.
7. TWO mostly-empty HEAVY jars of Avon makeup, circa 70s. The makeup was too pasty and broke my face out, but I loved the classy black jar and intended to use them...for something. Flung.
8. A 2" x 4" mirror with the silvering mostly worn off. Flung.
9. Empty, TOPLESS bottle of Bonne Belle astringent-70s. Flung.
10. A dried-up piece of soap in an Aramis box--bought for my then-husband. Flung.
11. A full bottle of Vitamin C tablets--expired 4/12/68. Flung.
12. A half full bottle of Phisohex, circa 70s, because college was the only time I used it. Flung.
13. Hand-written lyrics and guitar chord sheet for "All God's Children" of my ex-husband's, from when we were in a gospel group together--1975. Flung.
14. Contact lens insurance policy--expired 05/13/75. Flung.
15. Artificial lash adhesive tube from college theater makeup kit--1973. Flung.
16. Rusty bobby pins and barrettes. Flung.
17. 4" wide paint brush in good shape--gone to tool box.
18. An unused MSU windshield decal, in good shape (1970). Slipping it inside my stationery box, to mail to a friend whose son goes there.
19. Manicure implements, from a blown-out manicure set. Contents in good shape--now relegated to my nailcare drawer.
20. Letter asking me to join a Christian Repertory Acting troupe that toured the world. They promised me I'd have employment for a year, room and board and a small living allowance, BUT that we'd never stay in the same place more than two nights in a row. An actor's dream, but...I turned them down! After four college years of training to be an actress, I realized I didn't WANT to live out of a suitcase and I didn't have sufficient drive to pursue that line of work. Even though my college major may have been a mistake, there was no sense making TWO mistakes. Deep inside, I wanted a nest and a home, even if it was just me inside it. And so, we come full circle, to where I am now, fluttering away in Flyville. I'll hang onto that letter today and share it with 17-yo DD, then toss it. We need to talk about her goals and life plans, about how easy it is to get caught up in other people's ideas of what you should do with your life, and how all the little day-to-day decisions we make all add up to shaping our futures. We'll talk about Flylady and her babysteps, and about how babysteps can work for or against us. If we pay attention and follow routines we consciously set for ourselves, then we can babystep our way into freedom, peace and fulfillment along the path God has graciously laid out for us. If we don't pay attention and just drift, then we'll follow the lines of least resistance with the whining crowd and babystep ourselves into sheer hell. Been there, done that. I do NOT want that for myself or for DD again. And so--THANK YOU, FLYLADY! I have a heavy garbage bag and a lighter heart, from just that one super UFO fling. I'm getting offline now, because I cannot WAIT to lug this heavy bag downstairs, out of the house and onto the street for the garbage guys. Heck, I may just FLY with it. :D
--soaring higher in Mississippi
I guess this falls into the Old category. I thought my nightstand was in pretty good shape, but I went through it anyway. I found the temperature chart from when I was trying to conceive my DS, now nearly 12! The chart is older than that though, because I used this at the beginning of my 3 years of infertility treatment. Now my middle-aged eyes can barely make out the tiny type on the chart. What in the world would I need this for? Flung!
Fort Worth Flybaby
What: My going away dress that I wore when my husband and I left the church after our wedding - 23 YEARS AGO!
I had the dress dry cleaned and it has been hanging in the bag in the back of the closet, in the house we rented and again in the house we bought. I have never worn it again, and now couldn't even get into it if I wanted to (lol)!
It is a very pretty dress, but too fancy to wear to work or to church. So because of Flylady I took it to Goodwill (along with lots of other stuff) to bless someone else. THANKS FLYLADY - I LOVE YOU AND YOUR STAFF
Babysteps, SP in NC
This isn't exactly something that I flung, but none the less interesting. My grandmother has kept everything she or anyone else has ever owned. She was finally forced to start cleaning out when her roof started leaking. Her daughter came from NC to help her, really to make her throw away some stuff. Among many weird things that they found were the bridesmaids dresses that my sister and I had worn in her (my aunt's) wedding almost 25 years ago. They were actually disintegrating, or as we say in the country, dry-rotting. Can you believe that my grandmother STILL did not want to get rid of them? Of course, they got tossed. And by toss, I mean they literally had to pull an 18 wheel truck under the window and TOSS, TOSS, TOSS.
Keep up the good work!
My dad passed away in 2000 and For some reason he had 2 sets of dentures. Well my mom sent a box of stuff over to my home that got stuffed in my closet because I wasnt ready to deal with it. But 15 mins at a time I got threw that box, and there was my dads Dentures. I tossed them with out a second thought thanks to you!
30 Day Flybaby in California
Just shredded about 4 old store credit cards to store's that don't even exist anymore. AGGGHHH!
Flybaby in UT
Ok, this is embaressing to even admit...My dear DH is somewhat of a packrat. EVERYTHING has a memory and has to be kept relating to any sport he has ever played....well I finally got him to get rid of a metal cookie tin filled with EVERY mouthguard he's worn since he started pee wee football at age 4.....he's 24 now!! (I let him keep 2...one from highschool and one from college) But we parted with over 30 mouthguards!!! Thank you FlyLady..without you...they would have been haunting me forever!
Fluttering in frozen wings in Maine
Here's a truly weird one... in my closet was a box with a broken full length mirror in it! All in pieces. It had fallen off the wall and broken on a day when the trash can was too full to add anything, so DH put the mirror in a box and shoved it into my closet. I meant to get at it a long time ago, but who wants to deal with broken glass? Well, it's gone now!
FlyBaby in San Jose
Why, oh, WHY did I still have a shoebox filled with solutions for contact lenses that expired in 1991?
Beats me! But under the bed they were. Not any more.
I was flinging thru my dresser and found a pair of blue jeans with black leather tassles down the side of each leg. This wouldn't have been so bad except that I've had them for 15 years and they haven't fit me in 10+ years!! Why I hung on to these, I don't know!
Florida Flybaby
Hi!
I took a picture of my UFO but I haven't gotten it on the computer yet, so I will just tell you about it... I got rid of my bear feet. Not my BARE feet, but my BEAR feet slippers my niece bought for me a few years ago. My dh calls me "Bear" and when my niece saw the slippers she just had to buy them for me! Since joining Flylady, I have no need for slippers any more, since my shoes are tied to my feet most of the time, so I flung them out!
Flying without bare or bear feet in Texas!!
These I actually found in my grandmother's house while cleaning out her
pantry for her one day:
A box of sunmaid raisins in a yellowish box dated the year before I was
born (I'm 30).
A browned and yellowed box of food coloring that contained four tiny
glass food color bottles with screw-on lids. The food coloring was still
inside. The price tag of 25 cents was still on the box.
She was still planning on using these items for baking until I convinced
her to throw them away. Guess where I get my SHEness from???
I would imagine that this one would rank as one of the oldest. This week I flung my Grandmother’s notebook from World War 2 candy stripe training at a local hospital. It talks of sponge baths and bandages. On the top of each page, Grandma lovingly wrote my Grandfather’s full name. She was only 15! They enjoyed 52 years of marriage before her passing in 1996. Love is a beautiful thing!!!
Marietta, Georgia
I flung something funny, old, and ugly: the molds the orthodontist made of my teeth before and after my braces! He told me to keep them, but never said for what or how long and I've had them for years, lol.
I'm so embarassed. Remember "leg warmers" that were all the rage after the movie "Fame" in the 70's/80's? I just discovered a box with two pairs of them inside. One is black/white horizontal stripes (how fat can you make your calves look, anyway?!) and the other pair is fuschia colored and FUZZY. UGH! And I used to actually WEAR these!
In the back of my linen closet sits a red backpack. It has sat there since I moved to my apartment over two years ago. This red backpack is in the way of my laundry hamper and all my laundry supplies, but I’ve never gotten rid of it or put it where it belongs. This is a vestige of a time (about a year before I moved that I was constantly shuttling between my parents’ house and my boyfriend’s place, night to night I didn’t know where I was staying until the last minute. In it were some tubes of skin cream, scrunchies, an old shampoo bottle (why I was savin a drop I don’t know, some razors and other assorted toiletries, a hooded sweatshirt a pair of shorts and some socks.
Thanks to you I finally put the clothes in the laundry, threw everything else out (except a CD I’d been looking for) and have reclaimed that valuable space.
Flybaby in NJ
Hi Ladies,
After reading about the other UFO's, I was inspired to look in my own closet and found a couple of items.
One is a pair of boots that I've had since I was a teenager in the 90's. I listened to heavy metal so they are black (of course), suede and have four buckles going up each side. I remember they always jingled when I wore them - about 10 years ago. Oh, and they have pointy toes too.
The other item is what can only be described as "hideous". It's a polyester long sleeve shirt that my DH somehow inherited. It's black and has a Hawaiian-type print on it, but the colors are really garish and bright, almost neon. He kept it with the intention of wearing it as a Halloween costume, but forgets about it every year.
Both of these things were covered in dust. Out they go, and I'm going back in to toss some more. Thanks for the laughs.
A NoCal Flybaby
Oh my goodness!!! I was just reading all the UFOs and LAUGHING------------that is until I got to the one about the baby teeth. It dawned on me that the "tooth fairy" always left my babies teeth in my jewelry box. My babies are 28 and 32. Do I win for the oldest? I have been half heartedly flapping for months---makes me realize I need to fling the "Per.........." along with the baby teeth and flap like there is no tomorrow.
Thanks bunches for all the love,
Fluttering in CO
This weekend I cleaned out a box of odds & ends that was in the back corner of my bedroom and which had been moved several times over the years. In there I found a stack of “welcome baby” cards. Well, baby is now 22 (almost 23) and out on her own! I will see if she wants them, if not, I will keep one or two special ones as mementos and out the rest will go!
Flybaby in Ontario, Canada
I am a real novice Flybaby ( one week) and I'm just starting to get the hang of things. The hardest thing is the 27 Booggie and the lace shoes. I really love my possessions and since we did a total home redecoration last year I feel I do not want to part with that much stuff again.Unfortunately my closets are starting to look packed again. During this week's zone clean up I came across a really ugly old pair of beige ortho shoes from 1993. Why I didn't throw them out last year is beyond me. I originally bought them because of a foot injury which quickly healed so they are still in excellent condition. They are a far cry from my favored platform or high heeled shoes. As I write this they are firmly laced to my feet and as I would not want to ever have to wear these out in public again, I do not have to worry about dirtying my new of-white carpets(decorator's idea).
There is one more thing I'd like to share with you. This week I registered for a weekend 60 Kilometer march for breast cancer. I myself am a breast cancer survivor but a couple of weeks ago I would not have thought I had the time (or stamina) to train for something like this. Since I started flying I realized that part of my problem was not having enough things to fill my days. My children live out of town, I am a retired school teacher and I do less volunteer work these days ( I peaked at 40 when I was president of an eight thousand member organization ).I exercise regularly and take a weekly course. I also run my own business from my home but I pay accountants and lawyers to keep things going smoothly. Unfortunately I am drowning in papers but I realize that I take too long to do everything so that I can feel busy. The timer is a great idea and I have already taken up too much time with this note.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Flybaby in subarctic Montreal, Canada.
Ok FlyLady and Crew,
I am going to try to keep this as "clean" as possible, but the thing I found lurking in my bedroom drawer is getting a much deserved removal. When I married my DH, almost 7 years ago, my friends threw me a bachelorette party, and one of the gifts was a candle in the shape of a certain part of male anatomy dressed in a tuxedo!!! I don't even know why I have kept this hideous thing, but I am so afraid something will happen to me one day and someone will come across this while going through my things!!! I don't want THAT to be my legacy! Consider it gone with tomorrow's garbage.
I love you all and God bless you for all you do for us.
Love,
Keeping it Clean in Tulsa, OK
In my closet, I found a piggy bank from elementary school with change in it, a painted skunk bank from the State Fair from elementary school with change in it, concert tickets from concerts from the 70s, a black plastic flute I played in elementary school, small bottles of perfumes (yeah right) that I purchased when in elementary school for my Mother which I have kept, jewelry from elementary school (which may be popular again now). I lost a diamond earring in my closet and have not found it yet. I will keep looking and hopefully it will show up. I probably vacuumed it and it is long gone. I have clothes from the 70s I have kept for "parties"? I have Cosmopolitan magazines with Burt Reynolds nude in the centerfold, Farrah Faucett on cover with her "Farrah" hair. I found record albums from the 50s that belonged to my Mother and Uncle. My record player from elementary school for 45s. I don't know whether to have a "yard" sale or Ebay some of these things. Most probably will go to recycling or to Goodwill. I did not find anything gross or old food. I guess that's good! I'll keep cleaning and going thru boxes and boxes I have stuffed in closets that I can't shut.
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