more of what to keep and what to toss

Along with any organizing project comes the daunting task of what to keep what to toss and what to give away. Such is where I'm still at, LOL! I've gone though my punches again and again weeding out even MORE of them. I know that if I just sit myself down and think long and hard about it that I'll rind myself of at 90% of them keeping only the basics (circle and square punches) plus a couple of other shapes that I don't have a Quickutz or Sizzix die for or that I don't have that particular shape available on any of my Cricut cartridges. My goal is to streamline my collections to those items that I will actually use most often rather than a handful of little things that I'll use once or if I'm really lucky, maybe I'll use it twice (did you feel the sarcasm there?). If I don't do this, they'll sit there collecting dust and taking up precious space and add to our weight allowance on any future military move.

I was at Hobby Lobby yesterday looking for a specific storage item and after looking at it long and hard, I talked myself out of buying it. You see, I had bought myself a Zutter bind it all machine and I was thinking of getting the little aqua blue storage bag for it. I have a 40% off coupon and could get the bag for $18 (retail price $30 before the coupon), but once I looked at it I thought to myself, sheesh! I could design and make myself a bag much cuter than that one! I also looked at the "tools" that I could buy and gave myself a good laugh. I already have all of these and mine are made by Craftsman, again I could design and make a nifty storage bag for these too. But for now they are in a designated "tool basket". I dare say that those Longaberger booking baskets sure to come in handy in my scrapbook nook!

Alright I'm outta here! I've got more organizing to do. I think that I need to go through my stamps next...oh my word is this ever going to be a BIG project, LOL!