September 12

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Moving On To Day 8 of the Decluttering Challenge



Again, I thought about only doing 8 items since we’re on day 8 of the 21 day decluttering challenge but that’s not enough. I have to make myself get rid of at least close to 50 things every day or I’m never going to finish. This batch wasn’t easy but here it is:

  • Picture Frame
  • All You magazine
  • Shoe lace
  • Pack of 12 pencils
  • Computer game
  • Huge stack of game pieces from a grocery store Monopoly game – we didn’t win
  • Pair of kids riding gloves
  • Baggie full of nails
  • Granola Bar from who knows when
  • 2 Binder clips
  • Fancy Strawberry Lip Gloss
  • Fishing Lure – I think it might be the one that went through my son’s hand and sent us to the ER at 11:30 at night.
  • Rubber wrist band
  • Pack of 12 pencils not in the pack
  • Pen cover
  • 3 plastic tomato slices Yum!
  • Little monkey with his mouth wide open
  • Little rabbit ornament
  • Weiner dog
  • Post it notepad with crumpled corners
  • Despicable Me Minion toy
  • Pack of 3 purple pens that I think I got somewhere around the year 2001
  • Another pack of hot chocolate that expired in 2015
  • Pill box
  • Necklace from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
  • End of a spoon
  • Whisk
  • Sharpie marker
  • Silly pen with goofy hair
  • Small doll – this is the thing that’s probably worth a million bucks
  • Piece of material
  • Headphones
  • Some empty tool thing
  • Duct tape wallet
  • Dr Phil’s Ultimate Weight Loss Solution book
  • Binder
  • Bobby Jack sweatshirt
  • Hard drive/CD drive
  • Googly glasses
  • Stretched out headband
  • 2 Stampers
  • Ribbon
  • Scrub brush
  • Part of a toy that I gave away this weekend
  • Oreo Container
  • 4 Doll Stands
  • Boxers
  • Duffle bag
  • Giant bouncy ball

Yay! I got over 50!

decluttering challenge

decluttering challenge

I actually reached my goal of getting rid of at least 50 things and got to 56!  They were small again but I know that even these tiny things are things that I will no longer have to pick up off the floor if they aren’t in my house.  I suppose the big bouncy ball made up for some of the littleness of the other things.

Before I babble on, here’s my total so far in the challenge:

Day 3 = 59
Day 4 = 61
Day 5 = 35
Day 6 = 77
Day 7 = 41

Day 8 = 56

Grand Total = 329

Why isn’t this getting easier?

I thought this would start getting easier every day but it’s getting harder and harder.  I’ve really been struggling the last couple days.  Some of it is because I want to work on it all day but I can’t.  I have to go to work and then when I get home I’m tired.  The other thing is that this stuff is stuff that I knew would be hard.  It’s stuff that I’ve gone through before and kept.  Now I have to get rid of some of it and that’s a lot harder.  I also know that 50 things a day is an accomplishment but the more I do, the quicker it will get done.  Believe me, I want to be done with it.  Badly.

The weather was absolutely beautiful today.  It would have been so nice to go to a  park and work on my laptop for awhile.  However,  I decided that I needed to stay home to work on this stuff.  It was driving me crazy to be in the house.  Fifty things a day is a goal that I need to stick to. I wonder how many months it will take.. lol

Oh no! Not another bag!

Apparently I was getting pretty good at storing things in smaller spaces.  I have been finding things in luggage, in grocery bags, shoved in duffle bags.  I dread it when I see one of those because I know it’s a bunch of little tiny things that I didn’t know what else to do with.  So I shoved it all in bags.  Now it’s going out the door and I won’t have to deal with it again.

Can you tell I’m frustrated and losing focus?  Every day.  50 things.  Next summer is going to be the second best summer ever because the stuff won’t be hiding in a storage shed.  It will really be gone this time.

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  • First of all, I bow to you, Oh Great De-clutter-er!! You are doing a bang up job!!
    Second- I NEED those purple pens!! And the 2 binder clips. But mostly the purple pens!!
    Third, this is a great Where’s Waldo pic. I can’t find the million dollar doll!!

    • Haha!! Find the Dr Phil book, then to the right of that is a piece of material, then to the right of that is the little doll 🙂 She’s holding a yo yo but you probably can’t see that lol. I would give you the pens but I think the ink is dried up!!

  • I’m with you…it’s harder and harder, every time you go through the stuff.

    The stuff I’m going through now are the stuff that have survived SEVERAL culling’s before, and I’m still not satisfied 🙁

    I’m hoping I can really get down to the basics soon… yeah right… probably more in about a year or two 😉

    I wish I could manage as many items a day like you, I think you are doing great!!!!! 🙂 absolutely Awesome!

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