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Friday Report
Today I dropped of six bags of Stuff at the Humane Society Garage sale. This is big; held once a year over Memorial Day. It takes all kinds of Stuff, but this year my donations were limited. Four bags were clothing; a lot of white shirts pulled from my closet, some colored sleeveless t-shirts I never wore, and about a dozen scarves, some from the mid-sixties, that I had not used in a long time. I probably could have included more if I took more time about the sorting. I also had a bag of plastic and padded hangers that I no longer use, and a big skillet and a wok that I did not use. Removing these did wonders for my pan cupboard. I had no idea that getting these out would make such a difference.
We also made effort to deal with the miscellaneous plastic containers in the kitchen. We pulled them from various drawers and cupboards, sorted them by size and function, found most of the lids, and declared locations for most of them. Some have been designated for the garage, in the workshop area, a couple have been put in the recycling box.
In the plastic sorting process we cleared a 4-drawer (wire drawers) cart that has plants on the top. The wire drawers are used to sort the plastic containers, hold a lot of sponges, and various kitchen cleaning items, - a lot of those scrubber pads. The big drawer also had a lot of bottles of water that I had bought, put there, and mostly forgot. We needed the space, and needed to use the water, so as many as I could fit went into the refrigerator. I keep a special bottle for water that measures the amount drunk on my kitchen table. I usually fill it from the tap (we have good water) but I will try to use the various bottles of water to fill it until I use them up.
We also made effort to deal with the miscellaneous plastic containers in the kitchen. We pulled them from various drawers and cupboards, sorted them by size and function, found most of the lids, and declared locations for most of them. Some have been designated for the garage, in the workshop area, a couple have been put in the recycling box.
In the plastic sorting process we cleared a 4-drawer (wire drawers) cart that has plants on the top. The wire drawers are used to sort the plastic containers, hold a lot of sponges, and various kitchen cleaning items, - a lot of those scrubber pads. The big drawer also had a lot of bottles of water that I had bought, put there, and mostly forgot. We needed the space, and needed to use the water, so as many as I could fit went into the refrigerator. I keep a special bottle for water that measures the amount drunk on my kitchen table. I usually fill it from the tap (we have good water) but I will try to use the various bottles of water to fill it until I use them up.
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I moved a bookshelf that mostly holds DVDs a few feet along the wall, and found 5 DVDs to donate when I took everything off (and dusted it!) and then re-shelved the DVDs.
The books that were on there are now in a box waiting to be sorted, along with quite a lot of others: I need to divide them into definitely keeping (and to be re-shelved), read-before-keeping-or-donating, or donate now. (I think I've found most of the donate now category, but you never know.)
Also many weeds and bits of overgrown shrubs removed from the garden this week.
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Clothes are a little easier; I tend to keep a range of 3 sizes, because my weight does move up and down. I have finally conceded that I don't need some of my work clothes, even though I dressed fairly informally. Some of the white shirts I gave away were bought during one of the periods when clothing styles did not fit my body. (I loved the late 80s, with tops cut loose, with off-shoulder sleeves seams) Some of this is sort of back, so I have been buying things I actually can wear in comfort.
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FWIW, I've been steadily decluttering for about 5 years now and am only just getting close to having a quantity of stuff that will allow me to switch to one-thing-in-one-thing-out mode. Which is not to discourage you with how long it will take, but to say that even the "overwhelming" stuff will get dealt with eventually if you keep at it little and often.
(My garden is actually my most "cluttered" area now, that still needs most work, which is why it's getting a lot of focus at the moment, while the weather is making that possible.)
And I'm glad you're able to replace things you rarely wear with things you're more comfortable in -- the overall amount of clothes you have may not change, but a lot less of it is (never-worn) "clutter". (I also find it immensely annoying when the fashion industry goes on a run of only producing styles that don't work for me.)
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