There is one thing or actually a big group of things in my home that are looking down the barrel of being decluttered before the 365 days are up. The group in question are my old sports trophies. I have mentioned these before and still haven't done anything about them but the day of reckoning is coming. Trophies come under the same banner as souvenirs and little trinkets that serve no other purpose but to remind you of days gone by. They scream "look what I did", "look where I've been" and maybe even the sad cry of "I'm living in the past". Personally unless your future appears dull and you Continue reading
Archives for August 2010
Day 242 Cleaning Out the Closet
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A guest post by - My Husband During a recent overseas business trip I read about an experiment to choose six clothing items and only use those items for a month. You could have multiple copies of each item, even a different colour counted as a separate item but underwear, sleepwear, shoes and jackets etc did not count. I looked at my standard travel wardrobe, and found two pairs of Columbia pants, four sweat-wicking golf shirts (three colours) and two pairs of shorts. Five items to which I could add a more formal shirt for those dressier occasions, and still meet the Six Items or Less Continue reading
Day 241 Admission
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On July 21st Kelly was kind enough to point out to me that I had the same item decluttered on Day 152 and Day 183 and I thought today was a good day to explain how this happened. I chose to explain this now because my husband I are flying out to Italy today for a month long vacation of exploring and soaking up the culture. "So what does my vacation have to do with this duplication" you say, well I will tell you. From day 64 of my 365 less things challenge I have been trying to get ahead of myself by a month so that when this time came I would still have something to blog each day. I knew Continue reading
Day 240 The holding area
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I took a quick look around in the garage today and there is still a lot to go before I am finished with my decluttering mission. The garage has become a bit of a holding area for stuff that I haven't dealt with yet. There are things out there that will go and things out there I would like to go but are not mine to decide on. A box of snoopy toys - these are going but I'm not sure how. They belong to my son and I would love to be able to sell them on ebay and make a few dollars for him but I am not sure that this is a likelihood. A box of wooden coat hangers - we don't have enough Continue reading
Day 237 Getting carried away
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I know I still have a lot of stuff in my home to go through and get rid of. Stuff I have been avoiding to be quite honest because of the degree of difficulty. Now that I am almost into the last third of my year long quest I really am going to have to start to tackle these items but that is not what today's post is about. Does anyone think that along the journey of decluttering they started to get a little too intent on just purging and forget to be objective about it. You know, started getting rid of stuff that was really quite functional to them but they had gotten so obsessed with Continue reading
Day 236 Digging in the archives
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I have noticed an influx of new readers recently and I would like to take this chance to welcome you all to my blog. I would also like to say thank you to all my loyal readers who have been with me for a while now. Since I am now at Day 236 and I started my blog on Day 64 there has been quite a lot of water under the bridge since I first started my blog. That is a lot of days to read if you are knew and want to read some more tips and advice and it is a lot of days that may be forgotten if you have been reading from right back at the start. So today I thought I might bring forward a few Continue reading
Day 239 Favourite Five for Friday 27 Aug
This weeks favourite five comments My daughter on Day 232 - It would be quite difficult for her to declutter our things secretly. Both my brother and I have way too much stuff in our possession but you can bet your bottom dollar that we’d notice... Read More All the responses from Day 234 - Link to these comments here Cindy in response to Donna's comment on Day 237 - Donna, As you allude to, those people aren’t living without wordly goods; they’re just living without... Read More Deb J on Day 237 - I think we can all get carried away at times so that it helps to have someone to Continue reading