With your de-cluttering momentum going, Kat, maybe you can help your sister discard or donate lots of stuff and keep what she takes to Alaska down to the truly important stuff.

I worked mostly in the yard today. The last of the fence planks are at the curb for morning trash pickup, and I got rid of a glass door that used to be outside my front door. I taped the frame to the door (it's all aluminum) and put a note "free" on it. It was gone in under an hour, and the guys who stopped asked if it was okay. I pointed at my new security door that had replaced it, so he would understand that it had was fine, just no longer needed.

It is interesting--a lot of this free and garage sale stuff is taken to family members in Mexico. I advertised "leftover stuff from remodeling" for a garage sale several years ago and the Mexican family that bought all of the barely used ceiling fans said this was part of what they were taking these to Mexico to the family. (I had replaced them with some less inexpensive Hunter fans.) At that same sale I had a corner for "free to a good home" for all of the harvest gold and avocado green stuff that had come out of my 1976 house. Amazing how fast that went--what goes around does come around! A gay couple building a retro house in the country got most of it. I'd love to see it when they finish!)

Guess I'd better save most of today's activities for the gardening thread.

SRS