The greatest nation in the world is donation

I have a donation all ready for pickup tomorrow morning.  The Leukemia Society is one of the many organizations that sends out those cards in the mail saying they will soon have a truck on your street for picking up donations.  I have been receiving those cards for the whole ten years I have lived in this house, and I have always intended to have someone simply pick up my old stuff off of the porch.  I have even bagged or boxed up several things over the years, but I had never actually put the stuff on the porch.  I got it all together this morning, and my donation looks pretty big to me.

I am doing a lot to thin out my possessions before we move.  I put six bags of books into my car today, picked up Cas, went to Half Price Books, then had a nice lunch.  I took everything to the buyback counter at the store, and they offered me $25 for the lot.  Sold!  I was just glad to have two easy-to-carry pieces of paper currency instead of six heavy bags of books.  Walking out of the store was a lot easier than walking in.  

So, with the Best Buy trip for recycling Monday, the book buyback today, the donation tomorrow morning and the garage sale slated for the weekend, I have really decreased the number of things that have to move to the new place.  It just doesn't make any sense to pay someone to move things I don't really want to keep in the first place.  

Tomorrow, I have to mow the grass as soon as it's appropriate in the morning, then I need to shower and get ready to go to our home inspection.  For now, I need to get some dinner and maybe get a little more work done in my current house.