Unclutter 2014: days 11–20

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As previously noted, I'm doing Unclutter 2014, which involves getting rid of 1 thing per day in 2014, plus an extra thing for every thing that comes into the house. I thought I'd also keep track of where the things go (landfill, charity shop, recycling, etc). I'm planning to post once every ten days, giving a summary of how I'm doing.

Days 1-10: 32 out (6 landfill, 3 recycled, 19 charity shop, 2 gifts, 1 Freegle, 1 used up), 8 in, net total out: 24.

Day 11: 5 in, 12 out: A box of candles and 4 boxes of matches in. Outs were: 1 half-empty bottle of "friendly bacteria" tablets (old, not been kept in fridge as advised on label, no longer needed anyway - tablets in landfill, bottle in recycling, counting as 1 in recycling), 1 collection ticket (2 pieces of A4 paper, recycled) for a duvet I already collected months ago, 8 non-working disposable pens (landfill), 2 obsolete connectors (landfill).

Day 12: 3 out: bag of scrap material collected by a Freegler, old Clas Ohlson catalogue found in a drawer and recycled, old edition of What's Brewing ditto.

Day 13: 10 in, 2 out: Bought 10 wallet folders (needed for filing historical research), took a pair of baby slippers (wrong size) and a baby bib (wrong type) to the charity shop.

Days 14-17: Nothing in, nothing out.

Day 18: 5 out: a few stickers that have been hanging around for a while (stuck them to stuff), handful of dead hairbands (landfill), plastic bottle surplus to requirements (recycling), handful of no-longer-needed instruction leaflets found in kitchen drawer (recycling), plastic packaging with nothing inside, also found in kitchen drawer (landfill).

Day 19: 6 out: 5 items of jewellery and a 2014 calendar taken to the charity shop.

Day 20: Nothing in, nothing out.

• Total out so far: 60 (18 landfill, 9 recycled, 27 charity shop, 2 gifts, 2 Freegle, 2 used up)
• Total in so far: 23
• Net total out at day 20: 37

(Update, 31 Jan: corrected figures — I'd miscounted my "out"s and actually had one more than I thought, though my net total out was correct.)