Believe me when I say - and I will probably keep saying it - this move has been the biggest disaster ever was. I have spent all afternoon and a couple hours after dinner sorting through the Calico Critter boxes that I finally found in the storage building yesterday and brought in after 2 rows of boxes decided to just rain down on top of me. Our little outside storage building is obviously angry at its state of complete disarray as well. (And it used to be so nice! Hold on, little storage building. We will get you organized too.) These Critter boxes are hopefully the last remaining bit of Critter we will have to sort through. We made the decision sometime last week to simply set out by the side of the road nearly all of our Critter houses for people to pick up for free. We simply do not have the room to store it nor the energy to try and list and sell all of it. Do I regret that decision? Not for one second!!! I hope whoever picked them up is really enjoying them. They got some steals.
The stuff I had to go through today was the accessories and furniture pieces. Can I use the word disaster again? The boxes were not packed in a neat and organized manner. Oh no. No no no. It was all thrown haphazardly in there. Thankfully some things were actually in bags, such as the chocolate set, but basically everything was in a ruckus. I remember clearly the state of mind I was in when these boxes were packed in such a way. I really can't look back on myself and pass judgement. It was not an easy time. And the only solution that we had at that time was to throw stuff in boxes and get it out. Which has now led me to have the pure joy of spending literal hours sifting through it all and organizing what is being kept and what is going.
I am fairly pleased with the progress. But am I done? No. The living room is still littered with get rid of bags and the stuff that I still have not sorted. ;"( At least there is some progress. I decided after a few hours of that to take a break and go through my Critters themselves and just clear out the extra families and figures. I really have to think about who I have the space to keep at this point. I kind of surprised myself with what I decided on. All of my Woodzeez, gone. My few Honey Bee Acres, gone. As for my actual Calico Critters, I decided to keep just a dozen families. My goal at first was maybe only 7 families, which soon grew to 10 and finally, 12. That's it.
I am quite happy though. It has been such a battle with myself of grabbing everything cute and feeling desperate for more and more Critters. I really wasn't enjoying them. I couldn't do much with them, and having them closed away at a storage building in town, or in boxes and containers in my then room, really wasn't very fulfilling. I suppose the only way I was "connecting" with them, if you will, was to buy more. Stress buying. Sheesh. It's never a good idea! I even cut down my baby collection. I now only have a few babies per family and let go of all the extras that I have been hoarding. (Who needs 18 of one baby kind?) That's really huge for me. In reality, I want to be able to make all of my Critters more than one change of outfit, and considering how many I had, that would take forever.
After I sorted everybody out, I had some fun and worked on naming everyone. Most of the names I used I had already come up with, even if it was for a family that I am no longer keeping, so I didn't have to think of much that is new. I'll write a list later on and post it of who I have and how many of each family as well as their names. I'm kind of Critter listed out right now and still have a few more to name. My last family I do have to think of something new, and my brain is in grind mode ATM. I'll enjoy doing that later.
Once I am done sorting through Critter Disaster, I would like to get all of my Rainbow Highs listed on eBay. I started listing a few things yesterday. I am keeping my Shadow Highs, just not the Rainbow Highs, but all of this is a subject for another post. I just hope the storage building doesn't throw more boxes at me when I go out to find the Rainbow High clothes and stands!
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