I've considered building a fire pit. Lol.
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I've considered building a fire pit. Lol.
If I can just get started, this will be a good way for me to approach things........rather than thinking "Okay.......I need to completely clean out this whole room." This is real do-able for me!
If someone with too much junk in their house gives me something I always take it and then directly take it to the thrift store. I figure I am doing them a favor.
I need to come here regularly for motivation. I tend to declutter in bursts but in between I might start collecting stuff again. I thought I had broken that habit but apparently not so!
I have unloaded a bunch of things though. I put an ad on Kijiji for free large houseplants and handed off three enormous plants, two smaller ones and, because it was there, the lady also took a bag of candy that someone gave me (otherwise would be trash). That felt good, and I noticed again this morning that the space where the plants had been is much more appealing to me. Plus the remaining large Christmas cactus looks gorgeous with space around it.
DSD went back to uni with the last of the holiday fudge from the freezer. That was good. I also dumped a million overage leftovers. I don't think that actually counts but it was necessary and very gratifying. And helps me to be resolved to cook only what is going to be eaten. That's a challenge for me.
I've tried in the past to keep track of the number of items decluttered and I just can't seem to do it. So I'll just try to check in here at least weekly and have something to list. That will probably work for me, and keep my thinking on track.
So....I CANNOT understand why I felt it necessary to buy at a flea market several of those old community cookbooks that were all the thing in the 80s and 90s....I found several for my current little neighborhood and thought they would interest me. Mostly recipes that use canned soup and jello, neither of which is appealing, and also there is practically nothing that speaks to the community itself. Oh well....what comes from the flea market can always be returned to the thrift store!
Thanks for the reminder leslieann, I have 6 plants that I brought in for the winter but some of them look pretty bad even after repotting. I need to clean up their sunny spot and probably toss a couple of them.
I am doing really badly at this.
today a parent brought me ten huge boxes and bins of plaster molds for my class. Almost all of them are dirty, many were damaged, I'm not sure how many will work at all. I left the worst of them in some of the cardboard boxes to be tossed by the janitor, but the back of my car is full - this is not the direction I wanted to be moving with the molds. It's hard though, at least half a dozen of them are really cute. I just need to get more ruthless about tossing and more picky about what I bother trying to wash.
My classroom is starting to look better, but I still really only have 5 areas done for the month and it's already the 13th.
Jan 13-
---3 plastic handled teaspoons (I really liked them) the 4th one broke at Xmas and I saw a crack in one so I bent it
ever so slightly and it broke....so the garbage for all 3
---1 bag of paper from year end files....recycled.
---10 books packed up and it car to take to seniors home tomorrow.
Total to date 66
Jan 14
---5 magazines added to books that I took to seniors home today
Total to date 71
I'm getting rid of miscellaneous computer hardware, floppies, and software circa 1999. It's hard for me to actually throw things away instead of recycling, but I'm getting the hang of it. :D
Ten items to Goodwill this morning. I guess I'm starting the year with baby steps!