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.

[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!

[trudy]

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

[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...

[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.