New resolution for the new year (despite fighting back urges to reboot 2010) is to get back to reading this thread on a regular basis. Maybe I'll have some time one of these days to read the declutter threads of the past few (ach! more than a few!) months.

Last Monday while bailing out the manager of JCPenney Optical at the other end of the mall (where I work for Sears Optical -- we're both licensed businesses within our host stores and are owned by the same company), I got talking to one of the JCP managers and discovered that her set of dishes is the Pfaltzgraff Yorketown pattern -- and I've been trying to de-clutter some Yorketown serving pieces that have been totally unused for over 30 years. I said I was planning to sell them on Craigslist and she said, "No you're not! I want them!" Wow! Getting rid of cubic footage AND gleaning some $$$ at the same time! (Still have to find the casserole, but I took her the soup tureen with ceramic ladle and the bowl and pitcher last Wednesday while Jeri waited in the car.)

Been getting some small items (bagged over a week or so as I find them) dropped off at Goodwill, especially while Tom was in hospital in Dover and I had to drive right past. Also have been giving stuff to friends lately -- a bunch of shortbread molds and cookie stamps (keeping my 2 faves), scarves, books, and last night a snow globe of a woman reclining in a bath tub with a glass of wine at hand. (Cute kitsch; got it for a nickel at a yardsale; don't need it cluttering the bathroom shelf anymore.)

Also doing daily de-cluttering of the woodpile, but I don't think that counts.

If I finally get Christmas presents mailed, does that count as de-cluttering? Felt so un-Christmassy and stressed this year that only my SS gift got mailed.

Speaking of de-cluttering the woodpile, need to bring some more in and then wake Tom from his nap.

Linn