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  1. 05-30-2007, 10:20 AM #1
    Bananas
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    Purge, purge, purge...

    I only had students first hour yesterday. So we made sure all my furniture was labeled and we moved it into the hallway. Since I am one of the few without a homeroom, I needed to do this while I still had students to use their muscles!

    I have been going through shelves, cabinets, and files with a fine tooth comb. I am hoping that the custodian does not come into my room to work this morning, and instead waits until the summer crew us here. It is a disaster area. 8O I have four stacks between 3-4 feet high of old textbooks to get rid of. Books for subjects I am not teaching at this time. Books from 1990. Lots of paper to recycle, and some documents to shred.

    Today is an institute day, and we start at the high school for our breakfast given by the school board. Then our EEA meeting, and then onto our building to work in our rooms. Noon lunch with appetizers to send off our student teacher and RIFed music teacher. (Making to mental note to stop at store and get some food.) I need to decide what books to take home over the summer to look over for instruction.

    This motivated purging sure is a good feeling. It is sorely needed at home. Time for me to go home and work on some hot spots there. Need to get rid of some things to make room for other things. I have all of Mom's belongings to go through and round up. I need to toss, donate, and inventory the rest and take pictures. Then the family can look over to see what they would like of Mom's.

    Now, if only I could convince hubby that he can get rid of a lot! I hope he gets the bug. He is a packrat! All the stuff stashed around his chair that I had to pull out to vacuum and clean the baseboards. Left the stuff out as I would not remember what was placed where. Now he has that on the outskirts of our coffee table, and I will need to move them all over again. :roll: I might just need to vacuum that during a commercial while he is watching a Cubs game. He can help move the stuff then.
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  2. 05-30-2007, 11:57 AM #2
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    Purging is my goal this summer also.

    I did it a few years ago so it will not be as bad this summer, but still needs to be done to make room for the fifth grade materials that will wander in here at some point before school begins.

    Thank goodness we have AC.
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  3. 05-30-2007, 03:58 PM #3
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    I did a major purge two years ago. Up until that point I still had thoughts of going back to high school teaching, so I had all of my high school stuff still in my cabinets and closet. I threw away a lot of it and took the rest to storage in the garage attic.

    When we bought our house, we inherited the "stuff" of the woman who lived there originally . . . boxes of school books and papers. At least I'm not the only teacher packrat.

    I've found that I'm better at throwing out at the end of the year than the beginning. I used to just shove everything in the closet and in boxes and then clean and purge it the next fall . . . and I was always overwhelmed. A few years ago I started cleaning and throwing out as I packed it away, and it's much easier to put my room together now.

    All I have to put my name on stuff now. And I just found out that the kids are going home at 1:00 on Friday instead of 3:15. Woo-hoo!!
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  4. 06-01-2007, 08:06 PM #4
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    We aren't out until the 20th. How can the last month be sooo long?
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  5. 06-03-2007, 03:33 AM #5
    Barbara S
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    I am retiring this year after 30 years of teaching middle school English. I have been throwing/giving away a lot of materials. You can barely tell I've gotten rid of anything. I was very adept at stowing away materials.
    PURGE NOW!!!!!!!! Do not wait 30 years!!!
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  6. 06-04-2007, 03:46 AM #6
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    Congrats on your retirement! That is an awesome accomplishment

    I too clean out my room at the end of each year. I can't believe the stuff I've accumulated in such little time! I think I get tons of stuff because teachers give stuff to me on their way out!
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