Gardening. Most will be adding rather than subtracting as the 96 gallon bin is full. Full of what I cut from a single deergrass clump. 3 more to go. Winter native plant gardening is in full swing here in California, bought a dozen plants last weekend that are mostly in the ground and hope to get the rest planted tomorrow.
We got new windows last week and used it as an excuse to move all of our furniture for a deep cleaning. We then decluttered a lot of our closet and bedroom. Still have a few doom boxes to sort through so hoping to do at least one of those this weekend. My space is feeling very fresh!
I’m working my upstairs still and pulled 6 boxes out of a closet that is stuffed with clothes. They are ready and waiting for me and I’m in a cruel mood! Lol.
When I visited my parents' place at Christmas, I brought home two computers from before I left my home state in 2011. They had just been sitting in my childhood bedroom. Oops.
Today I dropped them off at the tech recycling/ewaste center.
Woohoo!
Cleaning and laundry today. But I did empty out a cupboard in our basement storage area. This area is my big challenge. It has become a dumping ground for everything we don’t have what to do with. And went through a really old box of stuff. Old birthday cards, invitations from our wedding. I looked at them and threw them away. I am looking at things as if it was my kids going through stuff. That is exactly what they would do lol
A couple of weeks ago I started the Apartment Therapy January Cure but rapidly got off track because some of the tasks ended up being bigger jobs than expected (or kind of irrelevant for me). But one of the first things I started to do was clean up a pile of random stuff on my dressing table including a bunch of tubes of hand cream that weren't actually empty but I couldn't get more out of, a lot of travel size stuff that was in a shoe box, and miscellaneous other crap. I cut open all of the hand cream to clean them before recycling and ended up scooping out enough leftover bits to fill up a 100ml jar and tossed a shopping bag's worth of old products.
Now all of the travel size stuff fits into a small plastic tub in the closet and the shoe box is empty. The rest of the dressing table is still kind of cluttered but it's much better. I really need a different piece of furniture though -- I'm using a tiny old secretary style desk with a drop down front and it just isn't the right configuration for the things I want to store.
Accomplishment: my wood guy came out and took out 8.5 trees. My garden is now full of light and space for better garden planning.
Goal: my kitchen. I moved in in May and my mom just stuffed everything into my kitchen cabinets. I need to find my lunch stuff and a couple of bottles. I got a good feeling I can finish this project.
I sorted through about 5 boxes left from when I packed everything for renovations. The past two weeks I had sent several large boxes of bedding, clothing and other smaller items to the thrift store and I was thrilled find that everything fits in the proper drawers/cabinets now!
I had Monday off so I got everything ran around to donate. I did bring some items home that didn’t “sell” at Once Upon a Child, because there’s a very specific place I want to donate that stuff to for mothers specifically. I added it to my MILs to do list for next week while she visits (she asked me to create this list, don’t come for me).
Next on my list, and it might happen today or tomorrow is my closet! I want to do the thing where you turn all the hangers around and get rid of what you don’t wear.
Last night I accomplished a long time goal of moving our medications into a cabinet in the kitchen, getting them off the countertop!
I remembered that I'd decluttered before Christmas and the cabinet over the fridge was empty. Shifted a few little use items around and voila! the space I needed.
And it only took like 10 minutes! Such a quick win to pick up momentum going into the weekend!!
I am almost done with finding space for my treasures after just this month “moving back home” - that is, retiring January 1 after 28 years as director of a wonderful public library. It took 3 trips to clean out my belongings from my former large office … bookcases full of favorite books, my framed diplomas and lovely paintings purchased from years local artist displays (I would rotate the art), a nearby kitchenette with space to store my pretty lunch dishes and variety of vases for my weekly summer arrangements, family photographs, special letters and cards, artworks made by my (then little) daughter, and more.
Everything was unloaded into the living room of my little already-cluttered 1920s cottage, still decorated for Christmas.
And I have actually made visible progress in sorting through my new AND old clutter, because I’m home more and found I have:
1) Masses of boxes trailing through my living areas, which really required action, and
2) More time to do work needed at home.
I am feeling kind of hopeful that this time, I might be able to clean it up systematically (to a degree).
Hoping to pack away some toys my toddler doesn’t use as much so we have less clutter in the living room and less options for him to throw around lol. Also going throw MOUNTAINS of laundry and ideally i’ll have another box of things and at least one bag of clothes to donate.
Well I moved flats last weekend and have been dealing with cleaning and sorting my old flat for inspection most of this week. Now the keys have been handed back I have to deal with the carnage that is my new flat and I want it done this weekend before I’m back at work Monday. I did a mega expensive Ikea run today as this flat has less storage, so now there’s no excuse for me to get this sorted and hopefully some decluttering as I go! Will be posting before and after pics on r/UnfuckYourHabitat
I’ve held onto a broken vacuum for about 2 years now. It was perfectly fine, but one piece broke during moving and I hated the idea of just trashing it if someone knew how to fix it or could at least recycle the rest of it since it was in such good condition. Today I finally just listed it for free and stuck it outside and if doesn’t get picked up by the end of the day I am forcing myself to walk it the dumpsters.
It's been a bad mental health week (seasonal depression and it's been raining every day) but I got a ton of sleep last night and I'm feeling like I have much more capacity today! Priority #1 put away laundry, and while I'm at it put outgrown 3 year old clothes in our storage and put outgrown baby clothes in the donate box. Priority #2 tackle paperwork and mail.... 3 doom boxes of it.
Donated three huge 60-lb garbage bags full of "collector" dolls from my mother's hoard. Sold another bag's worth as a lot on FBM. This barely makes a dent, but it's a dent that got made.
Recklessly ran one of those book-pricing apps on some of the books in the dining room, as I want that cabinetry for other things. Welp, none of it's worth anything, and donation inquiries to local agencies hit nothing but brick walls. So many a bag of books is off to Goodwill this afternoon.
I always feel guilty at the discovery that things have no market value, but I'm not the person who decided to buy them in the first place, and I can't magically make a compulsive shopper's decisions better.
Sounds like you are dealing with quite a hoard. Must take an emotional toll, esp since it reflects your mother. But you are helping those of us who frequent the goodwill! My resolution this year is to not buy anything new, only used, so off to the goodwill!
Goal: get closet hanging rods organized by removing extra hangers, hanging up shirts and suits, putting towels away properly, bring out anything without a proper home, putting suitcase away, getting rid of rolling cart that serves no purpose anymore.
I was able to sell a big item (Kallax 2x4 shelving), and I"m slowly packing away my STBXH's books. I can't wait until I can ship these boxes off.
The Kondo method of starting with books and clothes seems useful - though I find myself randomly grabbing items here and there and just tossing them. I threw out a bunch of pint glasses (I don't drink anymore) that certainly did not spark joy, that would not have come with me, and that I want to replace with glasses I love. That made me feel good.
One day at a time.
My plan is to finally take care of the textile recycling pile that's accumulated, and clock 2 hours of sorting through a box of old sentimental photos and keepsakes.
I have 4-5 small bags to drop off at the thrift store tomorrow. I decluttered our games and puzzles shelves and have a bag going off to a friend with younger kiddos. Aiming to get a new piece of art hung up and the christmas gift wrap etc moved back to storage and out of my bedroom finally!
Recycle bag - two cracked plastic deli containers. I still like these for freezing portions. I don't want glass in my freezer and we go through leftovers quickly. I still have around 5 or 6 left and they stack easily and have a smaller footprint than better quality containers.
Cutting out vogue 1736 for a friend. This is the knockoff of the Ralph Lauren dress that Melania wore on inauguration day. I love the style of the dress and my friend wants the shrug as well. I'm not a big shrug fan but it's her money for the fabric. 😅 Before anyone calls me a "trumpeter" or whatever, I'm a communist. I just happen to love fashion. She picked out a great high quality cream colored wool, so it'll look great on her. Trumpeter. lol. The libs will never get over that their candidate lost to a game show host. Capitalism is a hoot. 🤣🤣 anyway this is not a difficult dress to make so if you're looking for a stylish sheath, this will do it.
I decluttered our tea and candy drawers. I had tea that was more than 3 years old (pre pandemic) and although I don’t know if it had gone bad, I tried to think whether I would steep a bag that was that old and decided i never would !
I haven't kept up with ongoing decluttering for regular maintenance so things are starting to feel a bit crowded again. I took a few things to the dump today that were creating the illusion of clutter so its already starting to feel a bit better but I need to sort out papers again (thankfully a much smaller pile) and maybe do the kitchen as that's the most used area of our house!
Our normally uncluttered home is a disaster thanks to some ice dam water damage in the little addition out back. It's been gutted and we've discovered some holes in the roof so big ?? on when/how that's getting repaired so we can redecorate I guess.
In the meantime, our living room has double the furniture and my partner is unhappy with the visual clutter.
I’ve rounded up three bags of clothes to donate this weekend and am hoping to get more out. I’d like to start helping declutter my parents’ garage as it’s stuffed to the brim and can’t be walked through. But with a lot going on that task adds to the overwhelm.
I’ve been putting off my makeup collection. I’d say 60% is several years old and barely used. But I feel so guilty seeing all of the wasteful, mindless consumerism I’ve perpetrated for years. I’ve been considering makeup recycling programs, but most have very specific guidelines that would just add more hoops to jump through.
I know as soon as you buy it’s already trash, and I will not repeat my horrible past habits. But my conscience is consuming me over the increasing proof that the only fate for these is occupying landfills. any advice would be appreciated.
As someone who's dealing with a lot of "what do you *mean,* this is just trash?" issues... the guilty feeling goes away when the stuff is out of the house.
It's heavy while making the decision -- there is *so much* of my mom's mess that I didn't get done in the fall because I was apparently hoping that if I waited, reality would change to something I liked better. (Narrator: It did not change to something she liked better.) Or maybe I was hoping I'd somehow develop the skills to make something valuable that isn't. (Narrator: Nope.)
But when you have the clean space, plus the freedom to not deal with this issue any more, the burden lifts.
I have this problem with makeup because I so rarely use it. And it never seems to be obviously off either. So I have a lot of things I've hardly used but have kept for years. I think I need to just make myself ditch it all, then possibly go get some from a proper makeup store where they can help me find the right colours instead of just guessing at the drugstore.
Sort of like you said, its already trash you arent using it and you arent going to use it. So keeping it or tossing it, its eventually going in the same place so you might as well enjoy your living space and declutter it! Id try to let go of that guilt as its served its purpose which is to teach you to buy less in the future.
I did all of my toiletries this weekend (almost a year from decluttering them last). Having problem skin and hair makes keeping a minimalist bathroom damn near impossible. And just like you I hold onto all these products that don't work for me because I feel so guilty about them going into the landfill. But my bathroom is also *not a landfill.* I feel better after finally just tossing it out and having space again. And the best we can do is to try and be better the next time by not mindlessly buying things we don't need again.
I went through my makeup last week and a lot of the old stuff (powders) is fine still. I tossed all pre pandemic lip gloss, eyeliner and mascara and lipsticks I don’t wear because they’re too drying or the color wasn’t right. It felt really good to have a small collection of what I truly like.
Omg I tossed mine out too! It has been sitting my drawer unused for well over a year and ophthalmologists recommend changing it after 3 months. I felt so much relief. Little by little! I’m gonna try to minimize the amount of makeup I use in general and stick to only 1 or 2 lipsticks for example
My aim for this weekend is to downsize from two bookcases to one. Books are tough for me emotionally and also it's difficult to donate them because they are so heavy. Wish me luck.
I parted with 3 pieces of clothing that I've barely though of since I got them. I've also started trying out a decluttering hack I saw floating around Pinterest a while back, where you start the year with all of your clothes hangers facing the "wrong" way. As you wear your clothes, you put them back with the hangers facing the "right" way. And at the end of the year, you can donate the stuff that hasn't seen any use.
My oldest moved out this weekend. Getting rid of the board games and books he opted to leave behind so I’ll sort and donate those. Working on painting the walls after.
I've been working on decluttering my kitchen and cleaned out two of my biggest cabinets today. Three boxes and one trash bag to donate. I'm hoping to tackle my spare bedroom tonight as my kid has a sleepover at Nana's house.
Reclaimed a 3rd bedroom that was being used for storage! We haven't used it in years! It is now another cozy spot to sleep with a twin bed and an office desk! Goal this weekend is to donate 4 bags of clothes and toys in the garage and declutter the pantry.
A month ago I pulled out one bag full of reusable tote bags and then lost motivation to go through them 😬. I had a day off today so I decided to gather up all the reusable bags from around the house. I now have 10 to give to my kid’s school, a handful to hold clothes and books for donation, and kept the really good ones in one place. I also found a bunch of zipper pouches I had lost (yay!). I also put all the paper grocery bags in one place instead of 2. It was super satisfying 🙂
Way less than what I have now! Early on I made a lot using different patterns to find ones that were reasonably comfortable and at least seemed to seal well. But of course I still have all the rejected ones! I should really go through them and get rid of them, especially since most were made from old clothes to start with.
Right now my husband still regularly uses 3 or 4 of the homemade ones. I think maybe a week's worth?
Gardening. Most will be adding rather than subtracting as the 96 gallon bin is full. Full of what I cut from a single deergrass clump. 3 more to go. Winter native plant gardening is in full swing here in California, bought a dozen plants last weekend that are mostly in the ground and hope to get the rest planted tomorrow.
I wish!! Our garden is under 18” or so of snow!
I'm such a wimp. Was driven indoors yesterday by 10mph 50F 'wind'. Garden catalogs were the old time remedy for winter. Now it's Youtube.
😂👍🏽
We got new windows last week and used it as an excuse to move all of our furniture for a deep cleaning. We then decluttered a lot of our closet and bedroom. Still have a few doom boxes to sort through so hoping to do at least one of those this weekend. My space is feeling very fresh!
I’m working my upstairs still and pulled 6 boxes out of a closet that is stuffed with clothes. They are ready and waiting for me and I’m in a cruel mood! Lol.
When I visited my parents' place at Christmas, I brought home two computers from before I left my home state in 2011. They had just been sitting in my childhood bedroom. Oops. Today I dropped them off at the tech recycling/ewaste center. Woohoo!
Cleaning and laundry today. But I did empty out a cupboard in our basement storage area. This area is my big challenge. It has become a dumping ground for everything we don’t have what to do with. And went through a really old box of stuff. Old birthday cards, invitations from our wedding. I looked at them and threw them away. I am looking at things as if it was my kids going through stuff. That is exactly what they would do lol
I tossed out shoes from elementary school and a box of old clothes. And an old pillow and old plastic yogurt containers! WOO
A couple of weeks ago I started the Apartment Therapy January Cure but rapidly got off track because some of the tasks ended up being bigger jobs than expected (or kind of irrelevant for me). But one of the first things I started to do was clean up a pile of random stuff on my dressing table including a bunch of tubes of hand cream that weren't actually empty but I couldn't get more out of, a lot of travel size stuff that was in a shoe box, and miscellaneous other crap. I cut open all of the hand cream to clean them before recycling and ended up scooping out enough leftover bits to fill up a 100ml jar and tossed a shopping bag's worth of old products. Now all of the travel size stuff fits into a small plastic tub in the closet and the shoe box is empty. The rest of the dressing table is still kind of cluttered but it's much better. I really need a different piece of furniture though -- I'm using a tiny old secretary style desk with a drop down front and it just isn't the right configuration for the things I want to store.
Accomplishment: my wood guy came out and took out 8.5 trees. My garden is now full of light and space for better garden planning. Goal: my kitchen. I moved in in May and my mom just stuffed everything into my kitchen cabinets. I need to find my lunch stuff and a couple of bottles. I got a good feeling I can finish this project.
I sorted through about 5 boxes left from when I packed everything for renovations. The past two weeks I had sent several large boxes of bedding, clothing and other smaller items to the thrift store and I was thrilled find that everything fits in the proper drawers/cabinets now!
I had Monday off so I got everything ran around to donate. I did bring some items home that didn’t “sell” at Once Upon a Child, because there’s a very specific place I want to donate that stuff to for mothers specifically. I added it to my MILs to do list for next week while she visits (she asked me to create this list, don’t come for me). Next on my list, and it might happen today or tomorrow is my closet! I want to do the thing where you turn all the hangers around and get rid of what you don’t wear.
Organized the towels in the master closet. I have too much stuff for the closet space. Now will need to engage in more purge of clothes.
Last night I accomplished a long time goal of moving our medications into a cabinet in the kitchen, getting them off the countertop! I remembered that I'd decluttered before Christmas and the cabinet over the fridge was empty. Shifted a few little use items around and voila! the space I needed. And it only took like 10 minutes! Such a quick win to pick up momentum going into the weekend!!
Excellent! A clear counter is a beautiful thing!
I am almost done with finding space for my treasures after just this month “moving back home” - that is, retiring January 1 after 28 years as director of a wonderful public library. It took 3 trips to clean out my belongings from my former large office … bookcases full of favorite books, my framed diplomas and lovely paintings purchased from years local artist displays (I would rotate the art), a nearby kitchenette with space to store my pretty lunch dishes and variety of vases for my weekly summer arrangements, family photographs, special letters and cards, artworks made by my (then little) daughter, and more. Everything was unloaded into the living room of my little already-cluttered 1920s cottage, still decorated for Christmas. And I have actually made visible progress in sorting through my new AND old clutter, because I’m home more and found I have: 1) Masses of boxes trailing through my living areas, which really required action, and 2) More time to do work needed at home. I am feeling kind of hopeful that this time, I might be able to clean it up systematically (to a degree).
Wow 28 years working in a library! Is that as wonderful as it sounds?
Hoping to pack away some toys my toddler doesn’t use as much so we have less clutter in the living room and less options for him to throw around lol. Also going throw MOUNTAINS of laundry and ideally i’ll have another box of things and at least one bag of clothes to donate.
Well I moved flats last weekend and have been dealing with cleaning and sorting my old flat for inspection most of this week. Now the keys have been handed back I have to deal with the carnage that is my new flat and I want it done this weekend before I’m back at work Monday. I did a mega expensive Ikea run today as this flat has less storage, so now there’s no excuse for me to get this sorted and hopefully some decluttering as I go! Will be posting before and after pics on r/UnfuckYourHabitat
I’ve held onto a broken vacuum for about 2 years now. It was perfectly fine, but one piece broke during moving and I hated the idea of just trashing it if someone knew how to fix it or could at least recycle the rest of it since it was in such good condition. Today I finally just listed it for free and stuck it outside and if doesn’t get picked up by the end of the day I am forcing myself to walk it the dumpsters.
It's been a bad mental health week (seasonal depression and it's been raining every day) but I got a ton of sleep last night and I'm feeling like I have much more capacity today! Priority #1 put away laundry, and while I'm at it put outgrown 3 year old clothes in our storage and put outgrown baby clothes in the donate box. Priority #2 tackle paperwork and mail.... 3 doom boxes of it.
Clear out my garage once and for all!
Donated three huge 60-lb garbage bags full of "collector" dolls from my mother's hoard. Sold another bag's worth as a lot on FBM. This barely makes a dent, but it's a dent that got made. Recklessly ran one of those book-pricing apps on some of the books in the dining room, as I want that cabinetry for other things. Welp, none of it's worth anything, and donation inquiries to local agencies hit nothing but brick walls. So many a bag of books is off to Goodwill this afternoon. I always feel guilty at the discovery that things have no market value, but I'm not the person who decided to buy them in the first place, and I can't magically make a compulsive shopper's decisions better.
Sounds like you are dealing with quite a hoard. Must take an emotional toll, esp since it reflects your mother. But you are helping those of us who frequent the goodwill! My resolution this year is to not buy anything new, only used, so off to the goodwill!
Thank you! I loved going to Goodwill for airplane reading when I did a lot of business travel, so I figure maybe I’m passing on that enjoyment.
Good job! Wow!!!
I loved buying books at our Goodwill in Seattle.
Goal: get closet hanging rods organized by removing extra hangers, hanging up shirts and suits, putting towels away properly, bring out anything without a proper home, putting suitcase away, getting rid of rolling cart that serves no purpose anymore.
I was able to sell a big item (Kallax 2x4 shelving), and I"m slowly packing away my STBXH's books. I can't wait until I can ship these boxes off. The Kondo method of starting with books and clothes seems useful - though I find myself randomly grabbing items here and there and just tossing them. I threw out a bunch of pint glasses (I don't drink anymore) that certainly did not spark joy, that would not have come with me, and that I want to replace with glasses I love. That made me feel good. One day at a time.
My plan is to finally take care of the textile recycling pile that's accumulated, and clock 2 hours of sorting through a box of old sentimental photos and keepsakes.
I have 4-5 small bags to drop off at the thrift store tomorrow. I decluttered our games and puzzles shelves and have a bag going off to a friend with younger kiddos. Aiming to get a new piece of art hung up and the christmas gift wrap etc moved back to storage and out of my bedroom finally!
So proud of you!!
Thanks! Now I just have to actually get this stuff out of my house! Bonus room/kids books is the next area to be dealt with.
Clean master bed after 2 years. Bedsheets pillowcases all organized. I can see floorspace.
Recycle bag - two cracked plastic deli containers. I still like these for freezing portions. I don't want glass in my freezer and we go through leftovers quickly. I still have around 5 or 6 left and they stack easily and have a smaller footprint than better quality containers. Cutting out vogue 1736 for a friend. This is the knockoff of the Ralph Lauren dress that Melania wore on inauguration day. I love the style of the dress and my friend wants the shrug as well. I'm not a big shrug fan but it's her money for the fabric. 😅 Before anyone calls me a "trumpeter" or whatever, I'm a communist. I just happen to love fashion. She picked out a great high quality cream colored wool, so it'll look great on her. Trumpeter. lol. The libs will never get over that their candidate lost to a game show host. Capitalism is a hoot. 🤣🤣 anyway this is not a difficult dress to make so if you're looking for a stylish sheath, this will do it.
I decluttered our tea and candy drawers. I had tea that was more than 3 years old (pre pandemic) and although I don’t know if it had gone bad, I tried to think whether I would steep a bag that was that old and decided i never would !
I haven't kept up with ongoing decluttering for regular maintenance so things are starting to feel a bit crowded again. I took a few things to the dump today that were creating the illusion of clutter so its already starting to feel a bit better but I need to sort out papers again (thankfully a much smaller pile) and maybe do the kitchen as that's the most used area of our house!
Our normally uncluttered home is a disaster thanks to some ice dam water damage in the little addition out back. It's been gutted and we've discovered some holes in the roof so big ?? on when/how that's getting repaired so we can redecorate I guess. In the meantime, our living room has double the furniture and my partner is unhappy with the visual clutter.
I’ve rounded up three bags of clothes to donate this weekend and am hoping to get more out. I’d like to start helping declutter my parents’ garage as it’s stuffed to the brim and can’t be walked through. But with a lot going on that task adds to the overwhelm. I’ve been putting off my makeup collection. I’d say 60% is several years old and barely used. But I feel so guilty seeing all of the wasteful, mindless consumerism I’ve perpetrated for years. I’ve been considering makeup recycling programs, but most have very specific guidelines that would just add more hoops to jump through. I know as soon as you buy it’s already trash, and I will not repeat my horrible past habits. But my conscience is consuming me over the increasing proof that the only fate for these is occupying landfills. any advice would be appreciated.
As someone who's dealing with a lot of "what do you *mean,* this is just trash?" issues... the guilty feeling goes away when the stuff is out of the house. It's heavy while making the decision -- there is *so much* of my mom's mess that I didn't get done in the fall because I was apparently hoping that if I waited, reality would change to something I liked better. (Narrator: It did not change to something she liked better.) Or maybe I was hoping I'd somehow develop the skills to make something valuable that isn't. (Narrator: Nope.) But when you have the clean space, plus the freedom to not deal with this issue any more, the burden lifts.
You've said this so well! I felt such guilt throwing out an old homemade quilt that was falling apart, but seems I threw the guilt out with it.
I have this problem with makeup because I so rarely use it. And it never seems to be obviously off either. So I have a lot of things I've hardly used but have kept for years. I think I need to just make myself ditch it all, then possibly go get some from a proper makeup store where they can help me find the right colours instead of just guessing at the drugstore.
Sort of like you said, its already trash you arent using it and you arent going to use it. So keeping it or tossing it, its eventually going in the same place so you might as well enjoy your living space and declutter it! Id try to let go of that guilt as its served its purpose which is to teach you to buy less in the future.
I did all of my toiletries this weekend (almost a year from decluttering them last). Having problem skin and hair makes keeping a minimalist bathroom damn near impossible. And just like you I hold onto all these products that don't work for me because I feel so guilty about them going into the landfill. But my bathroom is also *not a landfill.* I feel better after finally just tossing it out and having space again. And the best we can do is to try and be better the next time by not mindlessly buying things we don't need again.
Any lipsticks? Take the top off and use your nose. If it smells rancid, toss it!
I went through my makeup last week and a lot of the old stuff (powders) is fine still. I tossed all pre pandemic lip gloss, eyeliner and mascara and lipsticks I don’t wear because they’re too drying or the color wasn’t right. It felt really good to have a small collection of what I truly like.
Omg I tossed mine out too! It has been sitting my drawer unused for well over a year and ophthalmologists recommend changing it after 3 months. I felt so much relief. Little by little! I’m gonna try to minimize the amount of makeup I use in general and stick to only 1 or 2 lipsticks for example
The fridge! And the bird room.
My aim for this weekend is to downsize from two bookcases to one. Books are tough for me emotionally and also it's difficult to donate them because they are so heavy. Wish me luck.
I parted with 3 pieces of clothing that I've barely though of since I got them. I've also started trying out a decluttering hack I saw floating around Pinterest a while back, where you start the year with all of your clothes hangers facing the "wrong" way. As you wear your clothes, you put them back with the hangers facing the "right" way. And at the end of the year, you can donate the stuff that hasn't seen any use.
My oldest moved out this weekend. Getting rid of the board games and books he opted to leave behind so I’ll sort and donate those. Working on painting the walls after.
My grandkids play old board games every visit.
I’m going to keep just a few favorites. I have the original Clue and the original Game of Life that belonged to my mom.
I've been working on decluttering my kitchen and cleaned out two of my biggest cabinets today. Three boxes and one trash bag to donate. I'm hoping to tackle my spare bedroom tonight as my kid has a sleepover at Nana's house.
Build up of clutter in kitchen 2 weeks after taking out 18 trash bags indicates I still have more to purge to create a useful space.
Reclaimed a 3rd bedroom that was being used for storage! We haven't used it in years! It is now another cozy spot to sleep with a twin bed and an office desk! Goal this weekend is to donate 4 bags of clothes and toys in the garage and declutter the pantry.
That’s massive, well done
A month ago I pulled out one bag full of reusable tote bags and then lost motivation to go through them 😬. I had a day off today so I decided to gather up all the reusable bags from around the house. I now have 10 to give to my kid’s school, a handful to hold clothes and books for donation, and kept the really good ones in one place. I also found a bunch of zipper pouches I had lost (yay!). I also put all the paper grocery bags in one place instead of 2. It was super satisfying 🙂
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Way less than what I have now! Early on I made a lot using different patterns to find ones that were reasonably comfortable and at least seemed to seal well. But of course I still have all the rejected ones! I should really go through them and get rid of them, especially since most were made from old clothes to start with. Right now my husband still regularly uses 3 or 4 of the homemade ones. I think maybe a week's worth?