The Clean Out The Attic Plan

I purposely did not schedule classes for the next three weeks because I wanted a block of time when it was not too hot or not too cold so I could actually clean out the attic.

Not scheduling classes is something I have to do many months in advance. So even though I put a block on these weeks I was talked into a class. That’s OK. IT’s one class, of three sessions that will be at my house. So no excuse not to do the attic.

I did allow a couple of private lessons to get put on the calendar. That’s Ok, they are on Zoom, from my house. Today I had to take Shay to the vet and I had a haircut. On the way to the haircut I stopped at Office Depot to get extra sticky post it notes to put on the things that need to mark as going from the attic to the dumpster. Those things didn’t take up too much time.

Then my mother’s car had the check engine light come on and was flashing. So I had to go sit in the parking lot of her retirement community and wait for AAA to come pick up her car. That was only three hours.

While I was there I decided I could stop at Costco and buy trash bags I needed for the attic.

I did schedule the arrival of the dumpster today and paid for it. It’s coming next Monday. I also scheduled the task rabbit guys who helped carry the Christmas out of the attic to come and carry the stuff out of the attic I want to get rid of.

So all that stuff left me with 30 minutes when I actually went to the attic and started opening boxes and looking at what I want to get rid of. The dust was extraordinary. I told Russ I needed the shop vac to go up the attic tomorrow.

I tagged about 20 things so far. I found a giant box of Christmas ornaments that I ordered after Christmas some time years ago and never opened before. So far that’s the only treasure I have found. Some boxes I have had since college, like my B & W speaker boxes that my father told me to always keep for when I moved. I have not moved those speakers in 35 years. I think the boxes can go.

Also I found three VCR and DVD boxes. No idea if we still have the machines, but I don’t need the boxes. I started looking at the pile of suit cases. I know that we have not used most of them in years. I think that they might be a good donation to shelters where unhoused people have to come and go from. I need to research that. Any friends involved in those who know the answer, let me know.

I did find the tread mill we stupidly put in the attic 20 years ago. That is going in the dumpster and that is why I need the men.

So I may be off to a slow start, but I did actually go in the attic today. Tomorrow I have a zoom and an eye doctor appointment in the morning, but then, I promise, all afternoon in the attic.