June Decluttering

[didinicole]

Go for the Karma. And congrats on the bigger home.

[danna]

June 29
I was trying for 5 items a day...but lost count awhile back
---with serveral more large items from the garage...many small things and a
bunch of food items to the food bank, serveral items (new curtain rods, and shower head)
that were just hanging aroung bought and never used got
installed and old ones tossed or donated.
I think I have more then reached 150 items this month.
Very, very pleased with myself.
rosgura...I love your quote from Joe and Vicki...a really good way to think about all the stuff that gets tucked away...
it is still there, weighing on us even if we think we are ignoring it.
I am going to start this again in July.

[fidgiegirl]

I just did a big deal to me. I burned up all my old journals and letters from painful old relationships. They were nothing I wanted to review, too angst-y, too full of loneliness, not items that brought me joy and nothing I'd want my DH to have had to sort through if I were splatted on my bike tomorrow. They are gone, and I feel good about it. It took me a long time because I knew I had to do it by myself, but when DH has been out of town the last few times I was obstructed from making a fire, if I remember correctly, by weather. I thought about throwing them in the garbage, but didn't want them to exist in any form so that I had to worry about someone running across my innermost thoughts as they blew out of the recycling truck or something. I knew they had to burn. So I seized the moment tonight and did it. DH is coming back to town tomorrow.

To have done this is sacrilege to some, I know. But it's done and it's a weight off.

[DarkStar]

"I just did a big deal to me. I burned up all my old journals and letters from painful old relationships. They were nothing I wanted to review, too angst-y, too full of loneliness, not items that brought me joy..."

Good for you, fidgiegirl. That's something I need to contemplate doing for myself.

[rosarugosa]

Kelli: I did the same thing a few years ago while cleaning up after a basement flood. Mine were from my teen years, and I truly believe the world is a better place without that little cache of angst - so I say good for you!
I did my weekly housecleaning yesterday, and I think I need to edit some of my ornamental objects. Some parts of my house look like a gift shop with all these pretty things on shelves, a tasteful gift shop, but still . . .