Where lipgloss goes to die

So I emptied out my purse today and I realized something about myself, I have serious issues with lipgloss.
This was all in my purse along with my abreva. You never know when you might have a herpes outbreak on your face.
There are a total of 11 lipgloss/lipstick/chapsticks in my purse, and I usually just put it on once then forget about it during the day.

 I just bought this doozy here and I really wanted to love it, but it makes me look like I have third degree burns on my lips and it doesn't stay on at all. It's supposed to be a lipstain and lipbalm but it doesn't look nice. The color is "instinct" by Revlon Just Bitten. 

The rest of the stuff is boring: hair ties, glasses and a tape measure because I always need one; deodorant and a nail polish that doesn't even belong to me.

This is my wallet that I always carry with me rather than that big ole flap wallet with all the insurance cards, baby pictures and receipts to stuff I don't even remember buying. My friend made this about 2 years ago and I love it.  But I hate sushi, go figure.
Because I am doing the 40 bags challenge, I am going to throw away almost all the crap in my purse and go down to maybe 3 lip items.
That just means I will buy new ones that probably look exactly the same.

40 bags Basement part 1

I was busy yesterday with crafting and the weather here is so beautiful that I had to go outside a lot so I didn't do much cleaning but one little sore spot in my basement did get taken care of and I am very happy with it. I didn't have to do much in this in one room but put the shelf in there that I took out of the kids bedroom but not having everything on the floor made a big difference and yes I do have a ton of booze.

 

 

 Tomorrow I won't wimp out and pick a bigger project, I promise.

The Room of Doom

I have been dreading doing the "Sandwich Kid" room because it is the worst room in the house and I knew it would take me the longest. It took me all day, and it was 9:00pm when I was finally done.  I didn't even do her closet yet because it was too late.

This is basically what her room looks like all the time because, unfortunately, she is a hoarder.  She also likes to hide things like 7 Tupperware dishes full of school food; I threw them out because I was not about to touch the stuff that was in it.
I threw away about 4 bags full of stuff, including erasers, pencils, pens, trash, stuffed animals and papers for a class she isn't in anymore, puzzle pieces, barbie shoes and the list goes on.
It's unbelievable how bad it was! I go through her room every couple of months so I don't know how this happened.

I made her help me and while she didn't do much except play and fight me on what could go in the trash, we talked about a bunch of different stuff like how much she dislikes Justin Bieber now (I'm glad I didn't buy her tickets to see him) because he does drugs and he is in jail. She also told me about school and how it's going and just plain small talk, but we laughed a lot and listened to mix cds that I made her 2 years ago.  now tonight I will finish her closet and then move on.

I'm just glad that I got that out of the way.

Starting 40 bags challenge again

I have been wanting to do this "40 bags in 40 days" challenge for the last 3 years, and every time I start, something happens and I quit. Well this year shall be different, I promise! I started in the upstairs bathroom that is also my closet, so I had a lot to sort out and give away, throw away.

Yes, these are before pictures but it doesn't mean that my bathroom usually looks like this. I didn't take a picture till after I had pulled a bunch of stuff out and thrown it on the floor.
I got rid of a lot of clothes that I have held onto forever, even though I was never going to wear them again. I definitely filled at least two bags full of clothes and about 4 little trash bags full of odds and ends.

Even though it doesn't look like it, I did get rid of about 5 bottles of perfume (which is ridiculous)!  I should be ashamed for having so much crap.

 

See me trying to hide my picture taking?

It took me about 4 hours because I washed all my makeup brushes,  refolded all my clothes, and posted a bunch of stuff to give away on Whatsapp while I was cleaning it out, so I was taking pictures and sending messages a lot of the time. But I did get rid of it so it was worth it.
I feel so much better in there now, and I found stuff that I had been missing for a while, including earrings.
Tomorrow I am starting somewhere else in the house, but I don't quite know where yet because that's how I roll.