Mail & Cleaning out Closets

On top of all the other TODOs that we still need to complete in the next 15 days (YIKES!) we also have to get our house ready for our friends to move in!  This means cleaning out closets so that they can move their stuff in and trying to get rid of as much snail mail (mail coming to our physical mailbox) as possible.

For anyone that has tried to “unsubscribe” from random catalogs and junk mail, you know how frustrating this is!  It doesn’t matter what you do…it is still mailed to you!  I have called the companies as well as gone online and “unchecked” all the check boxes in an effort to scream “STOP MAILING ME STUFF” but they keep mailing.  They say it takes at least 2 weeks to get off the list but I have been at this now for over 6 months and it is still not working. Finally,  I did find an App that has helped with cutting down on junk mail!  It is “PAPERKARMA.”  You just take pictures of your junk mail and hit unsubscribe.  They contact the company and unsubscribe for you and send you updates! PAPERKARMA is awesome!!!!

As for closets, this trip really hit me as **REAL** two weeks ago when I packed my cowboy boots!  WOW!  We are really going!

 

Conventional wisdom says that you need to move to keep clutter so a minimum and since we haven’t moved for 9 years, my closet was starting to be ridiculous.  And to be honest, I haven’t missed any of it over the last two weeks!  Maybe I will just drop it all off at the Mercer Island Thrift Shop when I get back!  All of it but the cowboy boots of course