Uh, hi?

[kate]

Hi all.

I subscribed to this community because I love beachlass and I've always been a huge supporter of uncluttering. Generally I do it in spurts, like I go through my clothes every 6 months and get rid of whatever I haven't worn, and I do a huge purge every time I move. Most of my books are still in storage, but I'm likely to get rid of most when I finally get them to my house-with-a-library because in general, I don't read much anymore, much less re-read, so I'll just keep the reference books (though there are a fair number of those).

I didn't join, though, because I have lots of communities to keep up with, and I didn't want to put more pressure on myself to post. That said, I've been keeping a mental tally of my items for a month and a half, and it's going to drive me crazy if I don't write it down. I figure I'll likely post once a month, I should be able to keep that amount of stuff in my head pretty easily (we're on a really tight budget right now, and luxury items are going out to the movies, so not a lot comes into the house that isn't consumables).

So anyway, HI! And here's my tally for January:

IN:
1/16
5 books
1/23
3 mixing bowls
1/28
1 dvd
1 playstation 2 console
1 game
3 books
1/29
1 chocolate mold

OUT:
1/10
1 book
1/3
4 pr socks (trash) new fluffy socks too - they all developed holes. :(
1/15
35 pieces of clothing (goodwill)

Tally
+31 days in January
+15 items
-40 items
+6 total for January

Some totals from the week

[angelbabe_cj]

Old total: 64 items down

In: 3 x pieces of jewellery (2 for an event plus some extra earrings)

Out: 1 x clock (unable to change battery)
1 x group of things I was going to ‘scrapbook’ (More like random receipts and things to ‘collage’)
1 x group of random bits of paper?! (all folded and unusable)
4 x dead/broken pens (I really liked one of them as well, sucks it was a broken one)
1 x stupid freebie bag
1 x foot pumice thing (we have several, I’m taking the dust to me it doesn’t work or isn’t used)
1 x nail brush
3 x tops (these were actually from the other day when I mis-counted, they will also come in when I take a huge pile of stuff to the charity bin much of which hasn’t already been counted)
1 x empty powder tub ( I’ve been emptying out the excessive amount of various talcum powder
1 x broken overnight bag (moved from pending, doesn’t count)

New total: 75 items down, huzzah!

Totals & actions

[rmc28]

Last week my son was ill, and one long evening he was very fretful if I left him alone in his room. So I unexpectedly achieved my goal of sorting out his room by doing a bit at a time in between soothing him back to sleep. I've now spotted a couple of extra tasks to do before I consider the room "finished", but I've done everything I originally specified. So 1 down, 2 to go!

As a result of the reorganisation, I've ended up ordering a load of extra storage boxes which are on their way; I've also been able to see where we have gaps in the children's books, so I've been ordering and mooching (thanks for the reminder last week!) to fill those gaps. And we were kindly given a lift to the DIY store by a friend and got in a load of things we needed. This is all pushing up my INs, but for good reasons.

Totals:
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