Delivered my car to the garage for it's servicing tomorrow, biked back home on a beautiful day. Sifting thru the stuff Amber threw out while cleaning her room today. Which was a lot, thank Cthulhu for bribery. Monetary gain does help a teenage aspiette pack rat see reason. 
How does that work? My prepubescent pack rat could use some reason.
Mine have gotten really good at "helping others by donating" things. It seems there is always some friend worse off than we are for the kids to identify with and help by giving them some special toy (one at a time - you don't want to piss off the other kid's parents) that they have outgrown.
I make a big stack if stuff to donate and, obviously some of it is junk, so I separate the
good stuff to actually donate to Goodwill, Salvation Army or displaced family relief drives while the remainder goes to the garbage. We donated over one hundred kid books to the library last month along with a lawn-sized garbage bag of toys from their rooms, which went to Goodwill. Getting rid of a piles that big streamlines the daily clean-up quite a bit.
