Rock Chick, welcome to our reducing club! Empty the boxes, recycle or sell what you can, dump or donate the rest, flatten the boxes and recycle them. Easy, right? (Tongue inserted deeply into side of cheek.) Good luck!

This morning I took a look at a couple of dozen paint cans from working on the house six years ago. If there is much in them, they'll go to the city paint collection site to be blended to paint over graffiti. If there is a little I'll pour out the paint on a cardboard flat to dry, let the can dry, then toss it in the recycle bin. Paint isn't supposed to freeze so I've kept it in the house, not the garage, but I need to reduce the amount. I'm more likely to repaint the entire room something else than retouch, so I wonder at keeping any of it.

Also--I went through my earrings. Pulled out those I never wear for donation. Single ones I liked are all in one place. If the mate turns up, maybe they will be reunited. Tossed old backer cards. Emptied out one wooden box on my dressing room counter top.

This afternoon I will set up my barbecue grill--I have the Mother-lode of paper files to get rid of and I'd be all day at the shredder. I'll set these up between the grill wires and let them burn down at their own pace, with the cover on to prevent embers. One thing about having worked for the Forest Service for several years, I'm really good at burning stuff safely! I am to empty that big file.

Oh, and the last of my old fence goes to the curb today for tomorrow's trash, and I'll prop a good (but not needed) glass screen-type door there and put a "free" sign on it. And I'll tape the hardware to the door.

SRS