June 100 Items or General Decluttering Thread

[iris lilies]

I weeded 3 flower beds and in the process, pulled out about 20 iris plants, to the compost they go.

[fidgiegirl]

Fun happenings on this thread this month in the world of decluttering!

I have now lost count, but continue to try to do more . . . have sold a few items on our neighborhood garage sale group on FB, did some shredding yesterday, organizing and evaluating baby items. I also need to put a focus on decluttering some small projects by letting them go and/or completing them. I have a lot of mental energy seeping out about projects I haven't been able to do . . . trying to hold them all in my head. Maybe time for another master list of all the projects I want to do, a la Getting Things Done.

[meri]

Cellar clearance:
3 packs of narcissus bulbs, 3 packs of chives seeds, 1 pack of garden parsley seeds (in-laws took them all to plant in their garden)
rusty adjustable spanner, extremely rusty small saw (recycling bin)


Almost done with wardrobe clearance (donated):
2 skirts, jeans, 2 t-shirts


Handed over the historical fencing related stuff:
2 linen dresses, woolen cloak, wooden bowl and 2 spoons, 2 knives, sabre, belt, 2 buckles, hat, 3 pairs of foot cloths or whatever the correct word for them is, leather boots, sandals



Cannot count 4 old bath towels that husband and brother in law immediately re-purposed as wrappers to transport dirty bicycles inside the car ... somehow those rags have appeared in laundry basket yesterday even though I did throw them into a garbage bag to be taken out. Oh well.



total 32 + 63 makes for 95 in June. Not a hundred but it still feels good. I need to tackle the kitchen but it needs to wait till August when my husbands first wife will be visiting for couple of days as she wants to take some things that her brother will use in his new apartment. I hope he needs a lot of things ... it just feels a bit wasteful to throw usable things away even though nobody has used them for years and we have no need to keep them.

I am also determined to go through the DVDs, CDs, cassettes and LPs. There is plenty of them I know I do want to keep and that I will keep but some are damaged beyond repair and some we don't and won't listen to. What I am hesitant about is music that I love but which we in digital format. It's so easy to lose digital data and so much better to play the music "real" and hear the white noise and that little skip of a note where there is a scratch on your favorite LP but ... most of the data is replaceable and it's probably not necessary to keep more than the most treasured records.