Comments on: The kids get their purge on

By: Angelica

Angelica — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:11:58 +0000

Wow Laura,

You are a good mum. I remember watching my sister telling my kids to throw all the “junk” away from their rooms once. It wasn’t a very tense environment though but my nephew and niece were pulling such long faces…

By: Cassie

Cassie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:27:30 +0000

I noticed you have older children. I am assuming you did this when they were young, and that is probably why they have done so well!! Do you have any suggestions for how to do this with a 3 year old? I tried just swiping a few toys every now and then and packing them away for a yard sale, but he started asking “Mommy, where is my ____?”. I didn’t want to lie to him, so I told him I had pack them away. His little heart was broken! So I decided maybe it would be best to have him involved, so there aren’t any surprises. But….how to do that?! He wants to keep everything!!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:33:59 +0000

What do you do with toys when you purge them? We just had to throw out a whole bunch of toys, I felt so wasteful, because when we took them to Salvation Army and Goodwill they said nobody buys used toys because new toys are so cheap! I don’t live in a spot where we can have yard sales.

By: NerdMom

NerdMom — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:05:15 +0000

See, mommy has the problem. While I am perfectly cool with them each giving up what they don’t want, I have a problem. I have 4 kids that are 8, 6, 4, and 2 (boy, girl, boy, girl). So I struggle with donating the 8 year old’s toys (or any of the older 3) because I know that the younger ones want them desperately. So figuring out how to purge is really hard.

By: Becky L

Becky L — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:00:42 +0000

I down sized a little bit when a co-worker’s son’s class had a rummage sale earlier this month. Well they are having one in January. I think I need to go thru the stack of stuff in my bedroom and get rid of it and find places for the rest.
Working on my quilt today to send out for Christmas!!

By: Shawnee in Oregon

Shawnee in Oregon — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:39:11 +0000

IMPRESSIVE! I have a hard time of letting go of “stuff” and this is the time to do it. My 10 yo’s room really needs help, too.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:17:18 +0000

Thank you so much for making that verse come alive. It’s so easy to forget that our stuff really is just stuff. “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb and naked shall I return.” What a good mom you are to teach your kids such important lessons!

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:20:59 +0000

Congratulations on a job well done. I started doing purges twice a year several years ago, both before Christmas & all 4 of my children’s Bdays which happens to fall in Spring/Summer. It’s important both in clutter control and simplifying (our lives more than anything else). I too don’t want my children to have the burden of being emotionally attached to things so I help them along the way letting them go through the necessary steps to get there. It’s important in this society of “the more you have, the better you are”.

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:16:35 +0000

Lovely idea!

By: Susanne

Susanne — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:58:19 +0000

That is my big downfall. The “oh, that one?” question. But you’re right. My favorites are not necessarily theirs and I would do well to remember that. My son is not bad at the purge but my daughter is like me, finds it hard to let go of some stuff.