Do you ever want to just get a skip?

[KimiTheChristmasCracker]

Cleaning up at DH1s today ready for the christmas influx (do it every year and always feel the same) and i just dont know how we (make that our children) have so much stuff. I mean we live in two houses now and there is still too much stuff.

I delved deep in to the world of under the bed's (boys still have their rooms here as well as at the new house with NP) and there are toys under there that have never been played with.
I took bags and bags of stuff to the charity shops in the summer and gave a friend bags more for her son (clothes mostly).
Now neither house is a dump or a mess but i just feel im drowning in things.
We have 100s of book's and video's and C.D'.
I have bags more stuff to go to the charity shop, another bag of clothers for my friend and 3 bags of rubbish (bits of this and that and smellies from the bathroom that just have a bit in) 3 bags from 4 rooms. Sometimes i wonder why on earth we have so much stuff. DS2 has 3 of one game and 2 of another game ffs.
Ok i think NP has a point, my kids are spolit.
well back to the bin bags and bleach, rant over.

nah you don't want a skip

you need one of those orange bags from b&q

they are marvellous and they don't require 7 parking spaces either

Right with you there kimi, i have just taken four huge bags to the clothes bank and hav'n't even started on the toys. I feel sick looking at it all and how much has been spent on the DCs.

and come Christmas more stuff will need to find a place, i need to move the furniture around in the living room and the den for the christmas trees and it just seems that it is never ending.
And much as i love my mum i know she will arrive christmas eve with sack loads of stuff for the boys.
sorry to sound ungrateful, im not really but i just feel like im drowning in stuff

Could you donate some to Soapboxes Christmas collection?

When we moved house it was truely shocking how much stuff we had that we didn't need/use/want. DH must have done about 20 runs to the dump with car fulls... and it's a big estate car! The charity shops around town must have been given 6 bags of stuff to.

I wish I could have turned back the clock, never bought the stuff, and then paid off loads of debt with the money.

I have stuff for the charity shop, for my friend who has a son younger then mine, stuff for the school xmas fate and i have signed up for soapbox's appeal as well as the shoebox appeal from DS2s beavers,
i have just managed to get the den sofa at least a foot closer to the wall .
I do this twice a year and i always swear to myself NOT to get so much stuff again.

sad thing is there are people in this world with nothing and we have so much that we take it for granted,