Pack rat or hoarder? You make the call.

I admit it, openly and with some shame.  I am a beauty hoarder.  So today, I set out to clear some space and just share my stash with somebody else.  I hope the girls at work want this stuff!

I subscribe to two beauty boxes each month, Birchbox and Ipsy.  Every month, for $10, they send me five beauty samples.  Makeup, skin care, hair care, fragrance.  And I LOVE IT!!  I love getting those packages in the mail.  I look forward to getting those packages in the mail.  

But ten samples every month tend to pile up!  I can't use them all.  Last month, I gave a bag of them to the girl who cleans our house but still, they are stressing me out.  Seriously.  Stress.  Because really, I don't just hoard beauty products.  I hoard vintage sheets, towels (we have 59 towels in this house!  For just two people.  Good grief.), just things we've picked up here and there at estate sales.  I have drawers in a dresser that I'm filling and there are boxes and boxes of stuff in the attic with things to sell in my booth at an antique store here in town but that's another blog post.  Later.  

But today!  Today I cleaned out the beauty stuff!  I am so proud of myself.  I feel so freeeeee!  

This is before.  Very sad and stressful.  I hated to even open this drawer.

And this is after!  I only kept the things I USE.  I had 19 bottles of nail polish.  I kept my five favorite colors.  That's it.  

There are bags and bags of things that I'll just give away.  

I am inspired to tackle every drawer and cabinet in this house!  Woo hoooo!!

Wow. September.

This summer has just flown by!  With Larry's three eye surgeries and our trips to a new foot doctor and a new dentist (because I need six new crowns of course I do), we have had a crazy couple of months.  

Last month, I was moved to another office at work to be the admin for one of our flights and I bought a new Jeep!  Well, a new-to-me Jeep.  Turns out I had some retirement left unclaimed at Citigroup so I hurriedly claimed it and bought a right-off-the-lease Jeep.  It's my very first ever SUV and I love it!  It's also the first ever car I was able to pay cash for.  That was a great feeling!  It's white and I named her Pearl.  

Gardening this summer was a flop.  It's September 1st and we just now today ate an atomic grape tomato.  A tomato.  One.  There are a couple more on the vine but the peppers didn't do a thing and the sunflowers kinda disappointed me, too.  I pulled up the last of them today.  Oh well, there's always next year!

We'll be beach bums toward the end of the month and I am so looking forward to that.  And then a trip to the mountains in November.  

And then Christmas!  Good Lord, time, slow down.