Off to a decent start

One of the things I decided to do this lent is to join into the forty bags in forty days movement that Faith and family is sponsoring. The idea is simple.... Get rid of forty bags of clutter during the forty days of lent. Since I have surgery coming up I have tweaked the rules a bit so instead of redding out one bag a day, I am working at simply getting rid of forty bags before Easter. Today I tackled one of the biggest clutter spots in the house and ended up clearing out eight bags. I have another full of bottles of perfume (when cleaning up after our Church's rummage sale last July, there were several bottles of Avon perfume and lotions still sealed in their boxes that were donated but didn't sell, so instead of then going to Good Will I brought them home. I intended to take them to the nursing home where Cindy works at Christmas time but I forgot about them. Today I found them so she will take them with her tonight. The activities director uses things like this as prizes for Bingo and other games so they are always glad to receive these things. As for the other eight bags, Goodwill has already accepted them. I will probably not have time to go through more clutter until the beginning of the week but for now I am feeling pretty good about my start.