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SFB Weirdest Items Flung
We asked for your weirdest itenms flung in our January Super Fling Boogie and wow were there some good ones!! HEre they are!
I was decluttering my keepsake papers box, which I know I have done within the last 3 years. One of the items I found was a chart tracking my temperature from when we were trying to get pregnant. I really have no idea which child this was from, but our youngest is 8 years old!! It's a mystery how this piece of paper survived at least one previous decluttering.
Today I flung 2 giant, practically human sized "Kiss-Kiss" Bears that were raffled off at a local Hallmark store a few years ago. If you don't remember these bears, they were big sellers around Valentines day and were small, about 6 or 7 inches or so, and had magnets in the lips to make them lock together in a kiss. The 2 that I decluttered are about 4 feet tall and when sitting together and "kissing" take up an entire loveseat. They don't weigh a whole heck of alot for their size, but they did take up a considerable amount of space!
Smiles to my fellow FlyLadies- The absolutely most bizarre thing that I flung was...how do I describe this?...It was a tissue box holder/cover in the shape of a doll's head. Face was plastic and it had fuzzy, yellow hair. You had to pull the tissues out of the top of her head! I kid you not. I came across this doozy whilst flinging at my mother-in-law"s house. (I swear it did not belong to me.) It was under a bathroom sink and I practically had a heart attack when I found it. I went to show my kids my discovery and we laughed all the rest of the day. Who ever thought up this tissue cover was a seriously disturbed individual. It now rests in a landfill in Northern California. I hope it doesn't come back for me!
Hope you get a laugh, I did!
We have some emergency kits that I put together several years ago so if an emergency came we would be prepared. You know - water, food, emergency blanket, small candle, matches, small first aid kit - that type of thing. The last six years we have moved five times and carefully moved the kits with us - always knowing where they were. Last Wednesday, I decided to look in them. Imagine my surprise when a note on the food said, "Rotate before November 1995" Had it really been that many years? (Yes, it was more than 12 years ago. My DS whose clothes were in there had really outgrown them BY FAR! He was in kindergarten and now he is in college!
My weirdest clutter that was flung was a pumpkin left over from halloween which my son drew a funny face on. I kept saying I was going to bake a pie with it-never did!
Today in my fling fest I found a dried up grilled cheese sandwich up in the soffit in the living room. One of my children had flung it up there approximately 25 years ago! Yikes!!! There were also some children's vitamins they had fired off in a straw they used as a pea shooter.
Last night the sun was shining on the filthy kitchen window, so I decided to clean it. I opened the window to clean the frame and saw some old wires hanging out of the frame. I remembered that when we built the house 39 years ago, my DH had wired the windows throughout the house for an alarm system which was never completed. Over the years I had left the wires as I thought of the work he had done wiring it all up and that he might finish it one day, they never failed to bring up irritation at one more great 'unfinished'.
Last night I thought of FlyLady and getting rid of the old clutter. I realised that clutter doesn't have to be big and in your face all the time. It can be little like these wires and represent something bigger than themselves. I laughing and unhesitatingly reached for the cutters and snipped them off, from both sides. Freedom.
I just discarded a very worn giant turkey costume.
I found an item I brought at a yard sale(brand new)
called a hand held alarm you put batteries in it and
if someone is sneeking up on you press the top and a
loud siren is supposed to go off well I opened it out
the box put batteries in and it made the weiredest
whine I ever herd I dont think anyone would be scared
of that
The head of a ball-peen hammer (not sure if that is
how you spell it) Has been hiding in an outdoor flower
vase for 7 years..
This year my husband finally let go of a rusted out VW bug body and separate motor. He also got rid of a 3 wheeled motorcycle (motorcycle in front/rearend of a VW bug) that he never got to work. He had a stroke 3 years ago and hasn't been able to work on those projects. I never talked to him about getting rid of that stuff, but after seeing me flutter for several years now I guess he's caught on to the "let it go and bless somebody else" concept. He gave them to my nephew who really loved it and will get them running someday. Now he has his shop cleaned out so that he can work on other projects like woodwork stuff.
I have been decluttering my spare room (aka the clutter room) where I put everything I do not know where to put. This is slowly changing and becoming a craft and family game room. I was flinging some old boxes of stationary that I have had since I moved with my parents from Indiana to Georgia in 1980! In one of the boxes I found a letter I had written to my aunt that I had never mailed. This letter is a little more than 25 years old. So today I decluttered it by mailing it to her. I can't wait to hear how she responds. I was 13 when I wrote it and she was not married yet. Now her youngest child is nearly 13!
Last spring while my husband was outside with the kids, I sorted through a huge drawer filled to the rim with his old magazines. I didn't weigh them, but I filled several trash bags too heavy for me to carry with one hand. He had Consumer Reports going back seven years! That was longer than we'd lived in the house, which really amazed me. He's such a confirmed Pack Rat that I had to hide the bags until I could sneak them out the night before the garbage truck came. I couldn't risk putting them in the recycling bin where he might spot them. The next night I looked in the newly emptied drawer to assure myself they were really gone and they were All Back! Can you imagine how dumbfounded and frustrated I was?! My Dear husband laughed at me and said the garbage man wouldn't take them. I eventually got him to clean out the drawer again and it now holds my 3-year-old's art supplies and other valuables.
i threw out my daughter's umbilical cord, the thing that fell off from her. It was gross and moldy. I use to keep everything. I'm a lot better now. Didn't keep the umbilical cord from my son though, so i'm improving. ha ha.
One huge antique solid cast greasy iron printing press
from the 1920's-1930's from our basement It weighed
1500lbs. Had to be carted off using a roll back with
a wench. It was too heavy for 3 strong men to lift.
I can't believe the empty hole that it left!!!!
My 12 yr old DD was helping her younger niece declutter her room. I was very proud of her willingness to help, because this was not just a normal room, this was a room and whole house in crisis. My daughter got to the top bunk of her bed and found what she thought was an old fruit chip. Her niece kindly informed her, it was a 2 yr old piece of bologna. I thought she was going to die and now that's her favorite part of the story!
I have been fluttering for a few months now and am really into decluttering. It can be difficult at times with my two sons 15 and 4 and a loving husband who are all pack rats. My decluttering must have inspired my husband because this weekend he started to clean out his garage (no cars can park in our 2 car garage). I was so proud of the bags and bags of trash loaded and ready to be taken to the dump when my DH proudly brought in his retainer!@ My husband is 40 years old and has moved across the country and back again and lived in more than a few places but somehow that retainer has retained a place in our home. My DH explained how he'd had this retainer for so many years and wanted to keep it for sentimental reasons...I've been eyeing this retainer now residing near my bathroom sink for days. Today is it flung!
The weirdest thing I have flung are pictures of me giving birth. I love my babies, but I don't want anyone to see these pictures. I have had them in my underwear drawer for 9 years and today they were shredded never to accidentally be seen.
I recently flung a battery-operated miniature silver plastic disco ball. The ball was on a black stand and would rotate when a button was pressed. Shining a light on it caused an interesting disco-ball effect on the surrounding walls. I got it from a yard sale for a dollar when my mom said "Oh that's cute, you should get it!" (of course, she didn't want to get it herself!) Just goes to show how dangerous yard sales can be.
One of the weirdest items I threw out was the stuff I had saved documenting my former spouse's "indiscretions" which led to our divorce. It gave me a liberating feeling to move on from this stage in my life, although it took me a couple of extra moments to make sure none of it could be viewed by anyone else (shredding and/or burning). I have a feeling that a lot of folks are still holding onto negative stuff like that. Throw it out and LIVE!
The weirdest item I have flung was probably the box of wedding stationery and programs that was in our storage unit....leftover from my husband's first marriage in 1998!!!!! He had no explaination for why they were still hanging around (other than that he never throws away ANYTHING, it seems!). I got a chuckle out of finding them and flinging them....It was like throwing his ex-wife in the trash! We celebrated our first wedding anniversary this past July 4th...I hope he keeps me around as long as he did that stationery!
A huge bag of used, washed socks, presumabely for rags, mixed in with
several pairs of semi-destroyed shoes. 4 pairs of jeans from the past
decade with the inside thigh seams worn out . No longer my size, not
wearable in public, not suitable for donating. I couldn't figure out why
I'd kept them all this time until I went to throw them in the garbage, and
clear as a bell I heard my Mom's voice saying "You can MAKE something out of
those!". Wow, that's not going to happen. Into the bin!
We flung and very rapidly at that pumpkin orange velvet curtains for the
70's that got shoved to the back of the closet. Why would we ever thing to
keep them?
The weirdest item I flung was a plastic potty training urinal. I ordered it from a catalog about 15 years ago, when I was potty training my oldest son. I have three sons, plus a daughter. None of my sons ever took a shine to the thing and really didn't use it much. Plus, it was a pain to clean and just plain weird looking. My youngest son, 5, never wanted to use it. At first I thought I could pass it along to someone in the midst of potty training, but I thought it was too weird to give someone. I thought I'd donate it, but really, could you see the look on the faces of the people down at Goodwill if that came in a bag? No, I finally just stuck it in a garbage bag and took it out to the trash yesterday.
some lip balm that expired in 1999! The saddest thing: I had several of these, as they came in a multiflavored combo pack! I must have been dragging these with me in every move since COLLEGE. And that is a LOT of moves.
I was lucky enough the day before the super fling boogie started to have a young man who was wanting to recycle old cars for scrap metal stop by my place of work..he asked if I knew of anyone wanting to get rid of any old broken cars..guess what he came to the right place!! so far, he has hauled off four old cars that were just taking up space in my drive way! I can't even imagine how many pounds that is!
Super fling boogie in my kitchen: 2 cans of diet shakes, 11 YEARS OLD!!!!!
When my DH and I married a few years ago, consolidating two households into one was quite a challenge. We had no choice but to rent a storage locker. Half of the "stuff" in the unit is mine and half of it is his. Now here we are, trying to do our 27 fling boogie, and lo and behold what do we discover??? Nothing less than a 20 lb garbage can half full of wood shavings!!!!! OMG!! I asked him if he did wood carvings before we met...lol. He had no idea where they came from.
Hi, I flung a broken antique zither (musical instrument) that my son bought from a garage sale and attempted to dismantle.
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