Daily Check-in

[fred_mouse]

Hi Everyone!

Have you found something to declutter? Made a plan that you can implement later? What is today's decluttering win?

Open to regulars, drive by commenters, and lurkers alike!

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[fred_mouse]

My decluttering was small -- took two superceded pairs of glasses and put them in the box at the optometrist. Also binned one of the cases for being quite revolting; the other one is going to be used for protecting sunglasses in the car.

It is, however, a step on the goal of clearing things out of the front hall that have already been identified as clutter!

[zenigotchas]

👏👏👏

[kalloway]

I'm going to work on the bathroom a bit. Somewhere in the last couple of weeks, I discovered a bottle had leaked in a drawer (plastic, thankfully) and had to do some clean-out. Most of that was still sitting by the sink and I really need to go through my toiletries and cosmetics and pitch stuff I'll never use again (makeup from the last job, ancient body sprays, etc.) and replace the stuff I use sometimes but is so ancient it's gotten weird. (This was lotion, right?)

I put a bunch of stuff in the garbage/recycling and wiped down what was cleared off.

((I had been after chapstick, because the hospital was so dry, I think. I ended up pitching a ton of old chapstick and buying a new three-pack which should last a couple of years? One here, one at work, one in my bag?))

[zenigotchas]

👏👏👏

[fred_mouse]

Well done on doing all those 'bin it' decisions!

[kalloway]

Thank you!

[zenigotchas]

Decluttered some of my drawer :')

It's the tiny wins that mean the most

[kalloway]

Absolutely! \o/

[fred_mouse]

Yay for tiny wins!

[vysila]

I'm thinking of doing another decluttering pass for November, although there may not be quite so much left to retire this round. But the kitchen could use another declutter - not because things have piled up, but because I just have that 'itch' to get rid of something.

November is always my month to swap over my summer/warm weather clothes for cold weather outfits, so I suspect a few items will be retired. Possibly replaced, possibly not. And the bathroom - recently took a trip and bought too many mini-toiletries. There must be a shelter locally that would love to get them.

I wish everyone luck with their decluttering plans.

[fred_mouse]

Ooh, I have hopes of getting to where you are at some point in the next, say, five years. Good luck with the finding things that are better elsewhere!

[vysila]

Took me about 10 years to get to this point, so I hear you on the timeline! Slow, small and steady gets you to the desired goal. Be a tortoise!

[fred_mouse]

I am being the tortoise! We dealt with how bad things had got by getting a storage unit, and now we are slowly emptying the storage unit. I have hopes that it will be empty in the next six months, but that might be too optimistic.

[rmc28]

Younger Child has been growing again, so I have been culling the clothing in their room and hunting through the saved clothes from their older sibling for next-size up. I unearthed an entire box of tshirts and trousers that are already too small (oops). However, I've agreed with my SIL to send the lot to her for use by my niblings who are a couple years younger and who have also been growing.

So the next step is to find a suitably sized box and fill it up, and then sort out postage/collection.

Elder Child reached their apparent adult height a few years ago and so we are no longer filling up boxes with hand-me-downs from them, and in fact are beginning to quietly stash empty boxes in the back room.

[fred_mouse]

Oh, tis frustrating how they keep doing the growing thing! Well done on culling clothing!

Fair warning, assuming your Elder Child is anything like my eldest -- height may have been achieved, but the shoulders continued to widen for years (the Really Nice Coat bought when they were 21 no longer fits, for example).