That's awesome that you found your flash drive! I love it when stuff like that happens.

Angelique, I hear you on not wanting to add to the mess with new clutter. I've been much better at the resisting the temptation lately, although I keep thinking about how nice it would be to have a battery powered dustbuster

I like the cleaning up before Christmas challenge. I have a sort of informal challenge like that going on with a friend. Yesterday I threw out two pairs of mittens. Someone gave them to me last year and I never noticed that they were a) way too big and b) mismatched pairs!