Anybody up for March Madness - Decluttering Style?

[vysila]

It's been a while since I did any major decluttering and thought it might be fun and motivating to make a game of it instead of a chore.

So, let's play a decluttering game for March Madness. On March 1st (yes, sorry I'm a day late) declutter one item. It could be anything - a piece of paper or a sofa! On March 2nd, declutter two items. And so on each day, until by March 31st, you are decluttering 31 items that day. If you follow that simple rule every day, by the end of March you will have decluttered 496 items! Isn't that an amazing number?

Nothing says you have to do the entire month, of course. I'm not sure I will manage that myself. But every item gone is a win, in my book.

Yesterday I decluttered an old worn out swim suit. Who knows what it will be today, once I take a look around.

What do you say? Wanna go mad with me this month?

Comments

[liminaltime]

Maybe I will! I'll try to declutter 3 items today to make up for yesterday.

[vysila]

That sounds like an awesome plan. Good luck!

[spiffikins]

I have been thinking it is time to do another round of "gather up the stuff and get rid of it" - March Madness is as good an excuse as anything else :D

I have 3 bags of clothing bundled up and ready to go to Goodwill and a basket of more stuff upstairs that needs to come down and get put into a bag.

I tend to gather up things in the garage until I have a carload - but I will attempt to keep track of what I get rid of this month!

I also need to take my old tv to the electronics recycling.

Next weekend is supposed to NOT rain (so far, anyway) - so I think I shall target that as my day to pack up the car and get it out - which means this weekend I need to go around and collect up the stuff!

[vysila]

Oh gosh, I can imagine how many clothes you've been able to declutter over the past months. And the old TV, wow, that's a big item to declutter. How wonderful you've been quietly working away on the decluttering all this time. Hope you continue to make good progress.

[spiffikins]

I have to admit that I am *not* brave enough to get rid of most of the clothing. For now, I am putting things away - at some point I will be brave enough to actually get rid of stuff that is too big. But I just don't trust that I won't need it again in the future.

One day!

[vysila]

I do hope you get to the point that you can trust you won't need it again, but in the meantime just getting it out of the house and boxed up in the garage is a huge bonus!

[trudy]

I'll have to catch up today, but I'm in!

[vysila]

Yay, good luck! I'm keeping a list of what I declutter each day on the refrigerator. I like having reminders right in front of me.

[kaberett]

Oh goodness, does this mean I have to actually move the bits of dead blind to the actual bin? (I finally decided I was willing to let go of them earlier today, and there's two bits...)

It might mean I actually get around to auditing the towels and tea towels. Hmm.

Okay, so what did I do yesterday. Um. (Today also involved taking a large quantity of cardboard to the allotment and distributing it usefully...) Oh, I suppose Doing Some Shredding of paperwork as needed shredding will do retroactively; some of it's out of the house and the rest is prepped for storage and getting through (as compost) over the next little bit...

[vysila]

LOL! Well, no rules on that one but the general idea is definitely to get them out of the house! Sorting through the linens could potentially result in a lot of decluttered items!

Hey, shredding and taking the cardboard out are definite wins. (I did shredding today myself, but I don't have a garden so it just goes to trash not compost).

[fred_mouse]

Coming in late, but I've decluttered 5 dead pillow slips into the rubbish (the cotton ones into the compostables bin, the polycotton into landfill). Which leaves me 5 behind for the 4th. I might sort something else after this.

[vysila]

Yay, look at you go! And being able to recycle some of the items, that has to count bonus! Bet you don't have any trouble finding those 5 more items for today's sweep.