The Decluttering Challenge

Lee

Lee

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Location
Chatham, Ontario
Read about this and tried it. The challenge is for 30 days you remove 5 items from your home each day. That will be a whopping 1500 items at the end of the month.

This can be as small an item as a used grocery list or clothing, kitchen item or whatever. You can give it away, put it for recycle or worst case, trash it.

Yesterday I tossed two old magazines into the recycle, and for donation I have a plastic knife which was supposed to be for slicing lettuce :rolleyes: and a bottle opener. A plant from my jungle went to a neighbor.
 

I'm pretty good at getting rid of things. And I move often, and have to get rid of things because most of it isn't worth hauling around.

But thank you for the reminder. I do have a few books and clothing items I could donate.

I can live with clutter if I have to. But I prefer not to, as you can see by my living room.
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I’ve disposed of a lot of furniture and unnecessary household items when I moved into this apt a few years ago. My current project is getting rid of unnecessary paper,, since most receipts etc are now available on line. Drawers full of it to start with. About one drawerful to go. Have gotten rid of almost a big shopping bag full after sorting out the relatively small amount that needs to be shredded. Works best for me to do just a manageable bit at a time or I get frustrated and want to either toss or keep it all.
Just making sure my DD knows where all the “just in case….” stuff is.
And then there is that paradox that once something rarely used is tossed, within a month it will be desperately needed.
 
I like this. Doubt if I'll do it though. I'm not regimented.
Looked in my closet and saw clothes I haven't worn for ten years!
Sure don't need them anymore. Possessions are pretty meaningless to me.
The more itsy-bitsy stuff you hang on to, the more you have to clean!
Things kind of bind you to the world. Best to get rid of stuff and
go clean and contemporary. Makes you free.
Well, except for books. Gotta have books.
 
Some things are hard to throw out. I have my mother's high school science book vintage 1919.

I have and use tools that were my father's from the early 1920s.
 
I don't keep things for very long. Just don't do clutter, or hang onto things for the sake of storing them.
I recently moved from an apartment I was in for 14 years, and I only had three big bags of items to be tossed.
I did donate two coffee pots, a George Foreman grill, and several wine glasses from places friends had visited and brought back for me. Also, a few knick knacks that were on a wall cabinet that I'd had for twenty years. The cabinet went, too.

What I like for my place in home decor, I tend to keep and not store and replace. My thinking is: if you are tired of it, you aren't going to get it out again in two years. You've replaced it for a reason.
 
Lee said:
Pepper, Math was never my strong suite.....Good thing it is yours.....putting on my dunce cap now :D
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I didn't notice the math error, either, so I will join you in our matching caps:rolleyes::sneaky::LOL:

;):geek::giggle::love:

Let's see now. That 150 X 12, would equal 1500 + 300, items per year?
o_Oo_Oo_O:D:giggle:
 
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