September Purge

[Klunick]

I was holding some seasonal decor items off to the side to see if I wouldn't need them when it came to decorate but decided if I can put them aside, they obviously aren't that important to me so why not declutter them?? So when I get home, these items will get decluttered for good.

Santa gnome that my Mom got from a 1-800-Flowers gift that she received last year. It had candy in it.
A small stuffed snowman. I have two and this one isn't quite as cute as the other one and I feel ok getting rid of it.
A wooden tri-fold snowman trio. It always falls down and it was an impulse buy a couple years ago that wasn't needed anyway.
An odd looking gnome that I got from a craft show in Savannah while visiting. The whole body is the beard and I had it in a wooden wagon but every time I look at it, I think "this thing is so weird looking". :laff:
Four rabbits that I display for Spring/Easter. Always felt they all had either sad faces or Resting B**** faces and never was excited to see them each year.

[rosarugosa]

DH culled 4 t-shirts and 8 prs of pants that he didn't like or wear.
I culled a pair of Chaco walking shoes that still look good on the outside but are all worn on the inside. I had bought them in early 2019 and I know I wore them on our Niagara trip that year, so there were a lot of steps on those shoes!

[happystuff]

Two xerox boxes and a bag of things out on the porch waiting to be picked up. Have new box all set up for donations again.

[iris lilies]

8 mismatch bowls chucked into the garbage. Too stained and not nice enough for Goodwill.

[happystuff]

5 handmade ceramic bowls. They were part of annual fund-raiser from a local food pantry that included soup, sandwich and a bowl. With three of us participating now, I'm donating the bowls back in anticipation of receiving three more this year. LOL.

[Klunick]

A keychain that I've probably had for 30 years or close to it
Also three travel sized opened toothpastes that my husband had in a dopp kit that hasn't been used in maybe 20 years.

[Tybee]

A ring setting that the stone fell out of last week when I was gardening. A religious medal that arrived in a charity mailer.

[SiouzQ.]

To the free box (my walking excursion for the day):

an old pair of shorts I used to use for gardening. The bugs are so bad I have to wear long pants now.
an old tank top that the strap was always falling down on one side - very annoying
2 squat glass jars from a pudding K. likes to eat that would be good for votive candle-making but I'm not going to make them
empty local honey jar with lid
an old wallet that threatens to spill my credit cards out of

[happystuff]

Just put two older wooden kitchen type chairs out on the "Magic Sidewalk"... fingers crossed that someone takes them! lol

[happystuff]

Chairs were taken shortly after putting them out.

Just sold the rain barrel yesterday. Was going to put it out in the upcoming town wide yard sale, so this helps.

[Tybee]

A ring setting that the stone fell out of last week when I was gardening. A religious medal that arrived in a charity mailer.

Okay, here is the downside of purging. It turns out that I only noticed the stone gone when I was gardening. My husband came back from 10 days away and said he found the stone in the floor of the car. So now I have the stone but no setting. I love the stone, so I guess I'll reset it. But this is the sort of reason you hold onto things--but what were the odds of that happening??

[rosarugosa]

Okay, here is the downside of purging. It turns out that I only noticed the stone gone when I was gardening. My husband came back from 10 days away and said he found the stone in the floor of the car. So now I have the stone but no setting. I love the stone, so I guess I'll reset it. But this is the sort of reason you hold onto things--but what were the odds of that happening??

Oh no, and you could have held onto the setting for the rest of your life and never found the stone!

[Tybee]

Oh no, and you could have held onto the setting for the rest of your life and never found the stone!
Yeah, that is the old me.

[happystuff]

Congrats on finding the stone. Maybe a birthday/holiday gift could be a new setting of your own design!

[Tybee]

Congrats on finding the stone. Maybe a birthday/holiday gift could be a new setting of your own design!

I like your positive spin!

[happystuff]

My old car! It's being donated and picked up today. Bought a sibling's Rav4 hybrid. That's also one check mark off the retirement to-do!

[iris lilies]

My old car! It's being donated and picked up today. Bought a sibling's Rav4 hybrid. That's also one check mark off the retirement to-do!
A new to you car! That is nice.

[rosarugosa]

Congratulations, Happy. I hope it serves you well!

[nswef]

3 mulch bags full of unnecessary stuff and dirt, and a bushel basket in the garbage from cleaning 1/2 the shed today!!!!

[rosarugosa]

I'm starting to slowly peruse my bookshelves again for books to cull. I came up with several yesterday.

[Tybee]

I'm starting to slowly peruse my bookshelves again for books to cull. I came up with several yesterday.
I am wondering how many books you have overall? Catherine talked about purging her books before her move, and said something like a hundred, and I was thinking I should count mine, and see if it is a reasonable number. It is very hard for me to get rid of books. And I hate reading them on Kindle, unfortunately.

[iris lilies]

I'm starting to slowly peruse my bookshelves again for books to cull. I came up with several yesterday.
I have a small pile from my condo that stores the majority of what’s left of my book collection, but I haven’t been able to swing by the bookshop to drop them off. I could take them to Goodwill I suppose but they are a little bit too nice for a Goodwill.

[Tybee]

I think I might need to count mine and see what the number is and see how many I want it to be.

[rosarugosa]

Tybee: I did a massive book purge a few years ago, and I think the count afterwards was something like 500 perhaps, but I could be wrong. I'll have to do an updated count. I don't have a target number, rather I have a certain amount of real estate allocated for books and they cannot proliferate beyond that point.

[Tybee]

Tybee: I did a massive book purge a few years ago, and I think the count afterwards was something like 500 perhaps, but I could be wrong. I'll have to do an updated count. I don't have a target number, rather I have a certain amount of real estate allocated for books and they cannot proliferate beyond that point.
Thanks. I just went and counted and I think I am at about 750 or so and would like to be more like 400, I think, plus not have any stashed places like attic and barn.

Which means seeing if I can get rid of one or every two or so. That's about all this house can take.

[rosarugosa]

I counted, and I have 567 books, including 10 that have been culled which I just need to get out of the house and on their way. I'm pretty confident that I could get rid of another 20 or so without much trouble. I like to have a little bit of available shelf space for new books I fall in love with and feel compelled to hold onto.

[Tybee]

I counted, and I have 567 books, including 10 that have been culled which I just need to get out of the house and on their way. I'm pretty confident that I could get rid of another 20 or so without much trouble. I like to have a little bit of available shelf space for new books I fall in love with and feel compelled to hold onto.

Maybe I will shoot for never any more than 500, and then if we have to downsize to assisted living or something we can cut it again.

[Tybee]

Maybe I will shoot for never any more than 500, and then if we have to downsize to assisted living or something we can cut it again.

Here's my plan--cut two books a day between now and Christmas-- that is almost two hundred books and gets me down to a better total number.

[iris lilies]

Here's my plan--cut two books a day between now and Christmas-- that is almost two hundred books and gets me down to a better total number.
When I was weeding books I found that I ran into a few that irritated me, and I thought to myself I never really liked you book, so now I’m getting rid of you bye-bye

and then there were the books I thought I “should “have because they fit into my collecting parameters, but yet I did not really like them.

edited to make this make sense, “weeding”. Not “reading.”

[Rogar]

I took a box of big books to the local recycling center today. They actually send books to a brick and mortar non-profit used book store that sorts them for either resale or recycle. And also the accumulation of Amazon carboard boxes from several months of shipments. I have a lot of favorite books I will probably never re-read, but they look good on the book shelf and maybe a reminder of having read them.

[happystuff]

I am in the process of preparing for a yard sale and I know that I should go through the bookshelves. I'm holding on to some books that I keep thinking "The kids will want these.", but that is usually not the case. Time to get firm with myself. LOL

[Tybee]

I am in the process of preparing for a yard sale and I know that I should go through the bookshelves. I'm holding on to some books that I keep thinking "The kids will want these.", but that is usually not the case. Time to get firm with myself. LOL

I have such a hard time letting go of books. It is going to be a huge challenge to find 2 a day.

[littlebittybobby]

books-----I have many, many, many books. Don't have an actual stat to give you here, as I really don't have time to count them up. I also don't plan on disposing of ANY of them in the name of DVS(decluttering virtual signaling), as I've found that I will regret it and have a bad case of sellers' remorse. See? But yeah---I've got about a dozen unread books here, due to being occupied with YARD WORK!! and Cat Care & of course--my wreckin' yard finds. But, I'm working on those unread books, and will prolly have more time for them when the weather is cold, here in Zurra. But yeah---alla them books are the reason I'm so brilliant(like Eisenfeldstein); or, maybe it's the other way around. Do you kids figure Eisenfeldstein read very many books? I doubt it; he was too busy being a media influencer. Yup. Thankk mee.