This blog carnival is truly as easy as it sounds…

Each week, Elizabeth at Confessions From a Working Mom and Tamara at The (Un)Experienced Mom pick a category, then ask us to share our Top 3 thoughts on it.

This week, they want to know…

What are the Top 3 things you should have thrown away… like, yesterday?

Well, anyone who knows me will tell you that I have serious hoarding issues! I have a lot of clutter in my home. Therefore, I could probably give you THIRTY things I should have thrown away! :0

3.) My Baby Paraphernalia - Even though my twin daughters are now five years old, I still have bottles, steraliser, breast pump, cot mobiles, baby blankets, cot bedding, nursing cushions, etc…  I’m not sure whether Hubby and I will ever have another baby, but I suppose I have hung on to these items in the hope that we might!  I am quite broody at the moment (Hubby probably not so much!)  We’ve probably left it too late now anyway, as I am in my late thirties!  I just can’t bring myself to throw these things out, as that would be admitting that I’ll never be pregnant again!

2.)  Old Desktop Computer – I have a large wooden computer workstation/cabinet taking up a lot of room in my spare bedroom.  I haven’t used the PC in about 4 years, since it malfunctioned.  It wouldn’t switch on, and I think it probably might just have been the fuse in the plug.  I have since acquired a laptop and a netbook, which are far easier to use.  I have been meaning to get rid of the cabinet, monitor, keyboard and the (now useless) floppy disks for quite some time now.  I intend to keep hold of the actual processor to see if I can salvage some of the old data on it.  In particular, I would like to salvage my family tree data and some plot outlines for a few novels that I was working on.

1.)  College Stuff – I still have all my old college textbooks, modules, notes and assignments.  As you can imagine, this takes up a LOT of room in my spare room.  My reason for taking this stuff with us when we moved house five years ago was that I had fully intended to train to be a college tutor myself, and I had thought that the material would come in handy.  I have not, as yet, enrolled in the postgraduate course required to train to become a college lecturer.  I probably never will.  Even if I did, the textbooks and materials are probably too far out of date by now to be of any great use to me. 

I reckon I’ve just talked myself into doing a major Spring Clean this weekend!  The college stuff is definitely going, as is the computer stuff but….  

…erm… I’m still not sure about the baby things!  I reckon I’ll just keep hold of that for a wee while longer yet!…. 

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