Jami Nests

I definitely am feeling the nesting urge now. You may remember a few months ago when I attempted to permanently injure myself and trap Eddie and me upstairs by moving a computer desk. Lately, I've been itching to finish switching Eddie's room and the play room. To do that, I have to move the file cabinet in Eddie's room anywhere else. (By that I mean, the Husband has to move it). But to where? Well, the best option seems to be into one of our large closets, which would be fine, except that they are filled with the stuff I haven't put in the attic. Which is there because for the last 11 years, I've been pretty much randomly tossing things into the attic with the idea that we would never fill this giant open space. But, as of about a year ago, it was so stuffed with junk that going up there required a map, machete and Sherpa. So I spent this morning reorganizing the attic. I've thrown out: - computer box from the computer that died about 5 years ago. -all the boxes from the shower gifts from Eddie's baby shower. (My original plan had been to store all the things he grew out of in their original boxes. This is like trying to store Jello in the original envelope after you've made it.) -my text books from college classes that I no longer remember taking. -an estimated 5 million amazon.com boxes. -a box of Christmas cards, unused, with no envelopes. -10ish ripped, dirty or otherwise unusable gift-bags -5 cords from unknown appliances. -instruction books to 3 things we no longer have. I brought down from the attic: - a cute pair of sandals put there for no apparent reason -a small box of McDonalds toys that kept Eddie quiet for over an hour ("Look, Eddie! New toys!") -three giant garbage bags of stuffed animals, mine from my childhood. I had always planned to use them to decorate my kids' nursery. Then, I worried they'd be too dirty for a baby, now I realize the last thing we need is more toys. They are going to FreeCycle. -a box of seashell, starfish and sand dollars collected over many trips to Florida, also being FreeCycled -My last unopened wedding shower gift!!! Only 14 years after the shower . . . a box of tupperware knock-offs I put away for when my original set wore out/got lost. And forgot. But now, I have all bowls, no lids, so I'll be pitching them and using my wedding tupperware. Still quite a bit to go, but man, you can see the back of the attic there.