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May 2, 2012 By Dana White | 8 Comments

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why do we still have that at ASlobComesClean.com decluttering toys for garage sale

As you know, I’m having a garage sale soon.  Hopefully this Saturday.

One good reason to have a garage sale is that it helps me look at my house in a different way.  I suddenly see things that have long been invisible.

Like this LeapFrog fridge set.  My fridge has been covered in those letters for YEARS.

Not just 26 letters, either.  I actually had the letters from two sets.

Huge amounts of letters stuck on my fridge . . . . that no one ever played with.  As evidenced by the fact that the main part of the toy was stuck way up high where no one who would play with it could.

And really, it’s been months since even our youngest would have any use for the three-letter-word-creator.

Hopefully, the toy will go to a family who will use it.

Regardless of that nice-and-noble thought, my fridge is much less cluttered without the huge mass of letter-magnets-that-aren’t-strong-enough-to-be-useful-as-magnets-and-constantly-fall-on-the-floor-and-are-really-rather-slippery-when-you-step-on-them.

 

 

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  1. Kristine says

    May 3, 2012 at 9:06 am

    haha! I still have those on my fridge! Bought them when my 2nd child was little. Unfortunately, I now have 6 and they’re still being played with. Maybe someday I’ll be able to go a day without stepping on them.

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  2. Donna says

    May 3, 2012 at 11:17 am

    OUCH! Those boogers hurt!

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  3. kris says

    May 3, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    I just brought the basic letter one up to my parents house in Feb. My youngest is 7. The 3 word speller one is going up this summer. If my sister wasn’t pregnant I’d have just left them all on my fridge!!

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  4. kris says

    May 3, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    3 letter not 3 word…

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  5. Slob with OCD says

    May 3, 2012 at 5:13 pm

    Not noticing/not removing the too young for your kids game thats on your fridge that you open 16 times a day is the exact same kind of slob vision I really identify with.

    I have worked really hard to make my living room nicer (instead of my perfectly organized backs of closets no one sees. I’ve started having clients over to my house for bodywork (wow is that a slob challenge) After carefully putting away the toys, and vacuuming before each one, and making things as neat as they can be until I get a taller feather duster, I looked up at my mantle after someone had left the other day.

    Next two my much beloved and carefully arranged Figures, next to the kids less carefully chosen but still okay toys from oxaca, I realized that on the end of the mantle was a a box of river rocks I had taken away from my kids because I got tired of picking them up. Not just any box, a box that used to hold diaper wipes.

    On my mantle. The most visible place in the house.

    Oh and I took them away from the kids probably a year and a half ago.

    Sigh.

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  6. Christie says

    May 3, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    I look forward to the day those can come off my fridge. Of course that day will probably come and go long before I realize it and they will still be there. Oh, how I can relate to the comment about the river rocks!

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  7. Kim says

    March 25, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    Thank you so much for making me realize I’m not the only one… Struggling with this sort of ridiculous-ness daily. Reading this makes me able to tackle these things, one at a time and realize I’m still making progress….even if its slow!

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    • Nony says

      March 26, 2013 at 7:37 am

      You’re definitely not the only one!!

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