I totally count returns as well, especially when I let them linger for a while . . . :)
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I totally count returns as well, especially when I let them linger for a while . . . :)
Ooh! Ooh! I forgot some!
5 paints and a stack of card fronts to one of the programs at school
= 42
I cleaned up some storage space with expired food I had intended for a web project I ended up never finishing.
9 containers of spices
12 bags of assorted beans, rice, sesame seeds, etc.
2 cans seafood
1 bottle salad dressing
1 box salt
25 items
04 Previous
29 Total
I even had a bottle of vinegar past its due date. How lame is that? I am not counting that in my discard list because I will still use it for cleaning toilets.
I soaked red beans last night that weren't expired for cooking in the crock pot today. I am going to try to use up all the odds and ends in the other storage spots before they expire as well. So today's menu will be seaweed, red bean, canned octopus, barley and mung bean casserole. I am sure the family will be thrilled. :)
Nov 01--pins, earrings, photo books, candles........ 14 items...to charity
Nov.01-Nov.07
--one purse I shouldn't have been carry anymore..lol.....in the garbage
--a scarf and pin to a friend who had admired them and not my colour at all
--3 magazines to recycling and 3 books to friends
--6 kitchen items in good will book
--1 pattern sold
--3 items sold on consignment
Total to date 33
--1 blouse to charity
--1 book gifted---3 books to charity
Total to date 38
Nov.10
--2 planter in trash..falling apart
--1 outdoors ornament in trash..falling apart
Total to date 41
Nov 11
7--magazines to recycle/charity
1--Hat too tight to charity
2--sewing projects finished for friend (counting these they have been sitting here for months)lol
3--brooches to charity
Total 54
Nov12
--6 magazines to charity (high expensive types)
Total 60
Nov13
--6 more magazines to recycling
--1 broach and 1 brand new still tags on silk scarf that I didn't like the colour for a door prize at a group day on Sat.--donated
--2+ years of paper disposal (this was DH job) I am going to say 1) for recycling1) for stuff that should have been garbaged
1) for shredding (spread over weeds in garden)
Total 71
Starting total: 54 items
This one took a while because it was kind of a biggie. I ripped my cassettes onto my computer for future listening. Most of what remained was recordings of live radio shows which were one-time events and which won't likely be repeated. Time capsules, and they were fun to listen to again as I digitized them. I hadn't heard some of them in, probably, decades.
Doing this, however, lets me pass on to some thrift-store buyer 28 cassettes and the cassette decks (two of them, from thrift stores, in case one died in the process) and the cables which they use. I gain some shelf space by the stereo. And I get to check off something that's been on my to-do list for years.
Current total: 86 items (yeah, I'm counting each cassette 'cuz it took time to set up the ripping process)
Nov14
--1 water bottle---2 broaches--to charity
Total to date 74
19 - entire bag of plastic containers w/lids, recycled!
20 - bag of useful items to work
21 - large tin can used to prop up door of old dishwasher - recycled
22 - kitchen witch - off to the sale box
We cleaned out our downstairs closet and mostly just recycled paper, but we did find a small bike someone had passed on to our toddler daughter that she never really liked, so we passed it on. Up to 56!
We put a dresser and a mattress out on the curb. Somebody took the dresser (yay recycling!), and the city's bulky item pickup took the mattress. We replaced both things, but I'm counting these anyway. A big part of my decluttering philosophy is to only have things in our house we love, and we like the new dresser and new mattress a whole lot more than the old ones.
Up to 58!
One more item sold on eBay . . .
43