My Little Hoarder

Maybe it is due to being an only child. Maybe it's separation anxiety. Or maybe it's genetic. My child is a hoarder. She "collects" things in drawers, in bags, in purses, on shelves, inside empty cigar boxes, anywhere there's a crevice. But this year we started the new school year with a goal to manage the collecting! SO, she eliminated ALL Barbie stuff (2 square meters of space cleared), bakugans, broken jewelry, and books. But the hardest thing was to reduce the number of stuffed animals in our house. The girl had over 200! Lat year, we took all but 30 and put them into a box in the basement. She could take one out of there only if she put one back in. In theory keeping the number of loose ones to 30. Though we thought to consider new additions...  Anyway. this year she agreed to 1) reduce the number out at one time to 20 2) give Isabel (our neighbor's baby) the ones that would be fun for a baby to play with and 3) agree to re-look at the stored ones every couple of months and give away any she didn't want anymore. I am proud of her as I know this was hard for her. She says each one has a "memory" and can't bear to part with it! 

So we took some pictures of all them. And hopefully the pile will be smaller by Christmas!!!