Day 3 of the 21 Day Decluttering Challenge

I was reading one of declutteringthestuff’s post about a 21 day decluttering challenge that Anne @MinimalistSometimes had posted and thought it sounded interesting!

There’s a plan for the decluttering challenge that goes like this – day 1, get rid of 1 thing, day 2, 2 things, and so on for 3 weeks.  After 3 weeks, you’ll have gotten rid of 231 things.  As you might know, I need to make more progress than that at this point in my decluttering so I’m just getting rid of as much as I can.  I’ve never counted the number of items that I’m getting rid of before so this will be lots of fun!!

I’m skipping ahead to day 3 which would be a total of 6 things by now.  I’ve already surpassed that in 10 minutes.

Here’s the first decluttering batch:

• 4 shirts, 1 really cute dress and 1 Falcons sweatshirt
• Toy milk truck
• Christmas cassette tape
• Kids safey scissors
• A Playstation 2 Neopets game
• Lilo & Stitch dvd
• First pillow that my daughter quilted (ouch, hard to give it up but she said to let it go so I am)

That’s 13 so far!  But that’s not enough…

On to the next batch:

• Lite-Brite
• 4 Santa Hats
• Hair brush
• 1 nice pair of socks
• 2 grubby socks
• Rainbow horse tail bag
• 1 CD with 1 million recipes on it
• Merry Christmas sign
• Santa Beard
• Curtain
• 8 bows and ribbons that we put in our pony’s mane at Christmas
• Crumpled roll of wrapping paper
• 1 shirt in the picture
• 22 shirts that aren’t in the picture

That makes 46 for this batch and I’m done for today.

Here’s the stats so far:

Day 3:  59 things!!

Taking the time to stop, count, and take pics is slowing things down a bit but that’s okay.  Once the challenge is done, I’ll go back to just getting rid of things as fast as possible.

I had brought three buckets down from the storage room today and have already gotten rid of a little more than one.  I’m thinking that the next two are going to be a little harder but I’m hoping that I can get all three buckets down to one by tomorrow night.