It’s hard to do this decluttering when there’s so many other things going on but this is important. Â I will be working on it whenever I have a minute. I’m participating in a 21 Day Decluttering Challenge posted by Anne @MinimalistSometimes.
(Pictures below the lists)
- Mailbox flag – where in the world did this come from?
- Medal from a horse show
- Hotel bar of soap
- Black Crayola marker
- Notes from the Midnight Driver.. book
- Another one of those goofy pens with the silly hair
- Antenna
- 3 things of RAM?
- 3 RAM brackets?
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City for the PS2 that we don’t have anymore
- Night of the Crash Test Dummies from The Far Side Collection
- Lassie DVD
- Bright yellow rain poncho
- Scrapbooking stickers
- More scrapbooking stickers
- Puzzle Piece
- Doll Shoe
- 2 Lip Glosses
- Glue Stick
- Wristband
- A Series of Unfortunate Events book
- Orange highlighter
- Pen
- Homemade hacky sack – it’s all melted and sticky now
- Pad of paper
- 3 clothes patterns – no one here sews so why do we have these?
- Apple decoration
- 2 spice jars – these are really cool but when am I going to fill them?
- Top to a toy stable
- Door alarm that one of the kids made in tech class in middle school
- How to Do Everything Book by eHow
39 things so far but I’m nowhere near done yet for today! Keep going..
- Model horse
- Stuffed teddy bear
- Moon sand brick wall mold
- I’m Out of My Body…book
- 3 Plastic dinosaur
- Stuffed unicorn
- Batman action figure
- Something that I have no idea what it is
- 2 Remote controls
- Playing card
- Bakugan card
- Moon sand dinosaur mold
- Lip gloss
- 2 army men
- Christmas word search
- Holiday puzzles
- Robotic car
- Ceramic horse with a broken leg
- Frame
- Hacky sack
24 things but I’m still not done yet!
- Leaf from the guilt table – I still feel bad that I got rid of this table
- Flower decoration – I think they’re called swags?
- Olive’s Ocean book
- A flip flop
- Small hair dryer
- Clinique Make up
- Half of a plastic Easter egg
- Lip Gloss – I think there’s hundreds of these around my house
- C battery
- Fresh Disasters book
- Star light
- Luggage handle
- D.I.Y. Liquid Kaleidoscope
13 things. Â That sounds unlucky. Â Maybe it means I should do some more. Â Unfortunately, it’s getting late so I have to wrap it up for today.
My living room is really taking the brunt of this cleaning out of the storage room. Â It looks awful. Â Some of the things that were in the buckets were things that people had been looking for. Â Now they are back in circulation around the house and it’s going to take another decluttering challenge to get rid of all the extras.
The Storage Room
When I get through everything in the storage room, I think there’s still going to be too much in there. Â It will all be in buckets though so it’s not just a giant mound of stuff. This picture is the storage room before I started. Â You literally couldn’t get in the door way. Â The buckets were piled up to the ceiling in the middle of the room. Â There was a cabinet in the doorway. Â I can’t believe it was piled up so high that you could hardly see the windows.
Here it is today. Â It’s still bad but it’s a lot better. Â I was having a hard time seeing the progress but I can see it now with these pictures. Â I don’t have any doubts that it will be done by day 21. Â It’s been a rough road with the roughest part being that it’s only the beginning. Â This house is still way overpacked.
The total for today was 76 things. Â Definitely not enough but it was all I could get to.
Here’s the grand total so far:
Day 3 = 59
Day 4 = 61
Day 5 = 35
Day 6 = 77
Day 7 = 41
Day 8 = 56
Day 9 = 15
Day 10 = 18
Day 11 = 12
Day 12 = 21
Day 13 = 45
Day 14 = 76
GRAND TOTAL = 516 Â Yay!! I’m glad I’m over 500 but I was hoping to get to 1000 by the end of Day 21. Â I’m not sure if I’ll be able to but I’m only busy one or two evenings this week so maybe I’ll actually reach that goal!
You’ll get there Jen!! I flip flop?? Do you have a 1 legged child?
You definitely can see progress in that room!!
You would sure think so with all the single shoes and socks that are around here!!
Lol!! Single socks are the bane of every person in the world who does laundry!
It’s kind of a joke at my house. When all the kids were still at home, we had baskets with hundreds and hundreds of single socks in them. Now that there’s not as many people, we just throw them away if we can’t find the other one after a short period of time. I think my son actually counts his before he washes them and then counts them again when he takes his laundry out so he knows he has them all.
Trust me, when my girls were home, it seemed to take forever to actually match a pr! Single sock hops were all the rage in my laundry basket!
That’s funny that your son counts them!!
I want to figure out one day where they really go! Is it true that all the lint is the dust of socks past? And do people who line dry have this problem??
what a great decluttering you have been doing! every day when I read your posts I get inspired big time. This morning I finally departed my ways with a couple of kitchen items that were gone bad or not used much and I felt tingles at my hands – I wan to declutter again and again and remove things and open space!! ahhhh 🙂
Good job!! I know it feels great to let things go! I love the open space too 🙂