The Emotions on Day 4 of my Bedroom Declutter

I’m on Day 4 of decluttering my bedroom today.  Can’t say it’s been easy so far.  The first day was overwhelming. So much stuff and no place to go with it.  The second day was about the same.  Finally on the third day there was a glimmer of hope.

Now here on day 4, I have all those emotions clambering around in my head all at the same time.  It looks so nice in the few spots that have been cleared.  It makes me feel happy but that overwhelmed feeling is still there because there’s still so much to go through!

Then there’s the basketful of stuff from today.  It’s a decent size basket.  Yay!  I feel like I got rid of a lot but then again, it’s only a basketful.  One basketful.  It’s a lot of things but ten basketfuls would be much better.   It’s still possible.  I have four more days to work on it, barring the allergy situation.

Well, here’s my not so short list from the bedroom.

• Shoe (I know the other one is in there so it will be on a future list!)
• 2nd Place Ribbon from a horse show
• 4 pens
• Jar of Bath Salt (I haven’t taken a bath in like 20 years.  I take showers so why have I kept this bath salt for years?)
• Keychain flashlight
• 2 pairs of ear buds
• Belt
• Shoulder pad
• Pair of gloves
• Lonely glove
• Giant nail (I drove over a railroad track on my way to work.  They use really big nails and by the time I got to work, I had a flat tire)
• Votive holder
• 8 little bottles of beauty products (they didn’t work)
• Box of candy canes from last Christmas
• Bag of vanilla filled Hershey’s Kisses also from last Christmas
• Long jacket
• Make up brush holder
• 6 Advils
• List of gluten free foods
• 4 magazines
• La Casa De Esperanza book
• 14 articles of clothing (with lots more to come!)
• 17 lonely socks (Ya know what happens in my house if you don’t claim your socks.. out they go!!)
• 64 hair ties – again, I feel guilty counting each little one but it needs to be done… they are all individual items!
• A phone number – I have no idea whose it is!
• 2 old bottles of meds

WOW.. That’s a total of 138 out of the bedroom!! Yay!!!! (Even if I take out the 64 hair ties, that’s still 74 things! But I’m still leaving them in the count…lol)

Total After Day 4 = 216!!

All of that, even after taking my son to have all 4 of his wisdom teeth pulled today.  I didn’t think I was going to accomplish this much but I’m so happy I did.  I had to stop because my allergies got really bad but every day I’ve been able to stay in there a little longer.

Grand Decluttering Total since I started on this path = 1,693 things that I never have to pick up again.