Truthful Tuesday

 

Soooo.... a couple of friends of mine are the owners of Pinsnickety. Those adorable pins for attaching your number to your saddle pad. And they needed a little help for some marketing they're planning and I offered to assist. It required me to stack my saddle pads. And guys? The result was shocking. And a little embarrassing. And if we're being truthful, it didn't quite include ALL of my pads. I didn't count. I've learned over the years to never know exactly how many things you have when it's obviously too many. But even I was kind of shocked. I actually stacked in three piles. One for the pads with the built in half pad (like Shiny wears), one for the baby pads, and one for regular pads. The regular pad stack fell over and had to be supported from behind. It was ridiculous. 

Clearly, I was shocked.

To be fair, I am very short. 5'2" and 1/4. So maybe it's 
slightly less impressive than it looks. But still. 
This is ridiculous.

It took like half my day yesterday to pull all of these out, stack them, (and re-stack them), and then put them back. But It was actually productive because I pulled out a few to sell. Not enough. But some anyway. 

So that's my confession. All of those saddle pads. Ridiculous. Someone send help.

Truthful Tuesday

You ever just accept that you're a total weirdo? I mean, we all know I'm quirky what with the silly outfits and all. But this weekend I finally was like, "yeah, I'm definitely weird." What prompted the acceptance you ask?
I was cleaning up the feed room, distributing the new supplements to the appropriate drawers, breaking down the boxes they came in. That sort of thing. When I found a bucket I had forgotten about filling...

 After I lost Jampy, and just a little before Shiny and Pammon joined the herd, I was putting away Jampy's things and getting rid of stuff I wouldn't need that had been his. I'm very much the type to file things away. (Possibly my feelings too...Whatever.) When I lost my Bud-Bud in college, the first thing I did was take all of his blankets down off his stall wall. I just have this need to clean up after something like that I guess. But filing things away doesn't mean disposing of them. And that is what leads to the bucket.

I had filled this bucket with Jampy's grooming stuff and his ear stuffies. I'm not sure why I couldn't toss what wouldn't be useful in the future or that I didn't need. But for whatever reason, I needed to pack them away. When I found the bucket, I still kind of felt that way. And so I kept it. It's found a spot along the wall so it's out of the way. But I guess I'm just not ready to let go of this stuff yet.
Does that make me a hoarder? (Maybe not, but the pile of crap in my dining room suggests otherwise.)
Anyway, there ya have it. I'm a brush hoarding weirdo. But I'm pretty okay with that.

Truthful Tuesday

Happy Tuesday everyone! I'm having some media difficulty so I had to change my plan for today's post. Don't you hate that?! I swear, technology can be so complicated sometimes...
Anyway, today I will admit to holding on to certain things for far too long, and yet still refusing to let go. Case in point: My high school back pack:

Pretty sweet right? That is the early 90's model LL Bean back pack. Pretty much everyone had one. I think during my sophomore year I started adding key chains and patches to it. There is no rhyme nor reason to any of them. But here are some of my favorites that are on there:

Bud and Andre were my horses the later part of my high school career. Well, Bud was my horse from middle school, and I kept him all the way until I started college when I sadly had to put him down when he coliced a month into my first semester. Worst day ever. But that's not what this post is about...
If my calculations are correct, this back pack turns 22 this year. That's kind of crazy, no? Should I still have this thing? Probably not. But I think I'm going to hang on to it for awhile longer.

Do you think this is the first step to being a hoarder? Do you have any items you've held on to for no particular reason, but don't want to let go of? Sound off in the comment section!

Truthful Tuesday

I think I'm a borderline hoarder. I have so much "stuff" I don't even know where to start to weed it out. I'm mostly referring to clothes... and maybe shoes. Oh and purses. Yeah.

Usually, during the winter, I go through my closets and fill up a bunch of bags to donate somewhere. But I'm thinking about maybe selling some of the nicer things to try and get a little return on my investment. I'll still donate a lot of course! But it would be nice to get a little money back. We all know I'll never give up my shopping habit, might as well fund it a little.

What do you all do with things you're not using or wearing anymore? Do you use ebay? Do a blog sale? If I listed some clothing, purses, HORSE STUFF!, etc under a tab on this blog, would any of you even look at that?