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Paralegal Raises Money for Food Bank by Purging Household Items

By Lynne DeVenny

Friends and family laughed when I got married this fall but insisted, "No wedding gifts!" Instead of registering for gifts, I suggested that we "unregister" and just have people come over to our house and take anything they wanted.

But I was serious. Living in a very small space with two teenagers makes me long to rent a dumpster and purge what feels like a claustrophobic excess of material goods.

Reading about Boise paralegal Kathie Brack's (employed by the Idaho Attorney General's Office according to its Employee Directory and her public LinkedIn profile) purging of her home - and invitation to her friends to come over and take any of the excess items they wanted in exchange for a donation to the Idaho Food Bank - renewed my resolution to clean out my own small space in 2010.

Brack told The Idaho Statesman why she opted not to have a yard sale:

I moved everything out of the first floor - closets, china cupboards, even the pantry - which has been my New Year's resolution since George HW Bush was president. It was clear that I collected too much stuff for one household - well, maybe for three or four. I have so many nice things, but really, does anyone need this many sets of dishes?

Once I got everything in the garage, I was disinclined to bring it all back in. I can't bear garage sales; besides, if people paid me for these things, I might be inclined to buy more. The point of this exercise is to reform my acquisitive ways, after all.

Simplify my life. Ya'll come get my stuff :)

Source: IdahoStatesman.com

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on December 27, 2009 (boomark / email).