Unclutter 2014: final report

[nou]

So this year I've been doing the Unclutter 2014 challenge, which involved getting rid of 1 thing per day in 2014, plus an extra thing for every thing that came into the house. I thought I'd also keep track of where the things went (landfill, charity shop, recycling, etc).

Here are details of the past 25 days:

Day 344: 1 out: bag of tinsel collected by a Freegler.

Day 346: 16 out: 15 balls of wool and 1 large bag of stuffing collected by a Freegler.

Day 355: 1 out: jar of chilli-garlic mayonnaise, best before December 2012, finally used up.

Day 361: 1 in: new tablecloth (actually entered the house as a length of cloth, gift from bob, but immediately hemmed for use as tablecloth).

And here are my final grand totals:

• 607 out:
  • 204 recycled
  • 154 charity shop
  • 136 landfill
  • 39 Freegle
  • 29 gifts
  • 19 used up
  • 16 food waste
  • 8 archived
  • 1 returned to owner
  • 1 bartered
• 139 in
• 468 net out

I'm very pleased! I said at the start that I'd like to manage the full 365 net out but would be happy if I could beat my previous total of 198. I appear to have done rather better than that.

Many thanks to everyone who's provided support/encouragement by posting in this community!