- Put away ( it is in the wrong spot.)
- Give away
- Throw away
I am also on a mission to collect money for my 72 hour kit. The goal is 100$ in small bills and change. So, conveniently enough, my insurance company sent me a "Safe drivers bonus", of $20.77. A nice start.
In all my cleanings, I realised I don't even like half of the movies we own. So as a family we went through all the DVDs we have. If anyone was really attached to a particular movie it stayed. If there was no one who really loved it, it was leaving.
In town we have a little store called CD Zone. They buy and sell used CDs and DVDs. I called to see if I could sell them some DVDs. Sure, they said. So in I went with my box of about 30 movies, in hopes of getting $4 more dollars for my kit.
He looked through them, set about half aside and then turned to speak to me.
"Well, I can only take this pile. We already have too many copies of these ones. I'll give ya $20 cash or $30 store credit."
So I set off to Goodwill to drop off the movies I still didn't want in my house and grateful to have $20 in my pocket.
Though later I saw people collecting money for cancer research. My excuse for not giving to those kinds of things is that I don't have any cash. I did have cash this time. All I could think was "God has been so generous with you today, what is stopping you from being generous?" Ok, so I left with 5 fewer dollars than I had shown up with. Lucky for me God can handle this.
Look around your house, what do you have that you aren't using?
Now that makes sense. I think the 3 box method is something worth to try. I've been trusting these janitorial services (NYC-based) to do the cleaning, though. I would tell them how I would like to get rid of the garbage and keep the treasures. The commercial cleaning (NYC) service is actually a big help 'coz we a have a spacious space in our house, plus the backyard garden which I love its beauty to be maintained.
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