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I have got to remember that it is winter. I keep trying to get some momentum and then I have a couple of bad days and I feel discouraged. It's winter. Any day I don't backslide is a good day.
so far today I found a "set" of cup, saucer, and dessert plate for 3 that I can get rid of. I also found four books to pass on, and I broke the zipper in an old ratty pair of jeans. So today is a progress day.
I think for the rest of the month I'm just going to take it one day at a time - progress, backslide, or neutral, and my main goal will be not to have any given day be a backslide day, with the secondary goal of compensating enough for those days to make net progress.
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I've had to give myself permission to get rid of things that are broken, perhaps more so than things I know someone will actually want. "What can I do with this dishtowel that's so old it's falling apart, how can I use this pair of smartwool tights that has 50 runs in them (they were expensive, after all). This plate was glued together and it looks ugly, but it's functional and no one else will want it." Lately I think I've overcome this hurdle, I'm actually pleased when I've "worn it out" and can put it in the garbage. I don't produce a lot of garbage, but I'm coming to terms with owning my personal contribution to the landfill. Throwing things away if they're truly not worthy of use has come to feel like a triumph rather than a discomfort.
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Kib, I am totally with you there!
i was overjoyed the day the goodwill attendant told me they recycle fabric items that are too worn/torn/stained to sell. the running store shreds sneakers for playground padding.
just keep telling yourself your house is not a landfill.
my friend came over and took all but one of the windows we removed from the house to use for cold frames (the one was cracked). I also was able to give her a dozen jelly jars, a few ornaments, and the cheese my kids left behind after break that we don't eat.
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Yesterday I took a dozen pencils to my classroom. I brought home food and a few classroom items I need to use here and then return. So yesterday was a progress day.
home all day today so we'll see how it goes.
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Hey guys. This is big. I got rid of one of my blankets.
The house I grew up in never had any extra blankets really. It wasn't that we couldn't afford them or my mom was a minimalist. It was that our rooms were decorated and you had the bedding that went with the room and that was it. It was fine for the other rooms in the house but it was an old house with forced air. The register in my room didn't really work so I was often cold in the winter. Not like ice on the windows cold, but like if the rest of the house was set for 70, my room would be 62.
its not like a huge complex I have or anything. But I have one bed and eight blankets for it, plus a quilt that is in process. Not counting afghans and my baby blanket. The blanket stash has survived many years of purges, growing even. I guess eight or nine blankets does not a hoard make, but it's far more than we need, especially as the heat in our place is nice and even. It stays pretty warm due to neighbors above and below and to the sides, even if we don't run the furnace.
Also, on the purged list- the set of biscuit cutters (I can use a glass if I ever make biscuits), the vegetable steamer I never use (I can use the basket that came with my rice cooker), an extra ice cube tray and a big decorative vase. It was maybe too nice to just give away but no longer my style at all- fancy Chinese flowers highlighted in gold.
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I'm still finding a few things each day to add to the goodwill pile, so so far steady, if slow, progress. Today it was a shower curtain, a sweater, and I recycled some papers.
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Jan 24...
--4 pair of underwear to the garbage (they needed got no more needs said on this one) except to quote my mother "Would you be embarrassed to be taken to the
hospital in those" lol
--1 can of air spray I am not sure how it came in the house or how old it is...hazardous waste
--4 old gold coloured glass plates (1 exploded in the mircowave and of course I probably should not have been using them in the mircowave at all but,
the fright of it going into hundreds of pieces and imagining what would have happen if it had explode as someone opened the mircowave door....very frightening
Total to date 86
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Jan25
--2 silk scarfs to charity box
--1 dusty old Christmas tree skirt (as in cheap white felt) to garbage
Total to date 89
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Danna, you are doing well!
sloeginfizz, I have a lot of blankets also. I do use most of them, but I have a half a dozen antique quilts from my great grandmother that rarely come out.
Yesterday i didn't find anything to get rid of and I bought three microfiber dust cloths (they are very helpful for cleaning up the concrete dust I am fighting from construction) and two medium sized dolls I had bought a few weeks ago arrived. I had been watching these for a really long time, so they weren't an impulse buy, but it was a significant "backslide" day.
i did wash 15 more molds, most of which will go to my classroom.
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Today was neutral. No in, no out, nothing added to the goodwill pile.
