This is the success of a decluttering success. I had painstaking sorted and organised all my paperwork - finally (posted about). Last night I had to get a number off one of those thousands (well it seems that many) of pieces of paper. It took me three seconds to put my hands on it. Previously it would have taken me a month, had I been bothered to keep looking for it.
And the crowd went wild!
niiiiiiiiiiiice!
bandicoot, are you in a similar time zone as me? I'm at GMT+8.
Congrats, AJ! It feels good when that happens!
New poster here. :-)
I've been on an unclutter frenzy the last few days. My closet now has room for me to find things, and Goodwill is getting three huge boxes. It's a breath of fresh air to open the door and see SPACE. Gone are the unused purses, totes, an old suitcase, and clothes I've not worn since I moved 1200 miles 15 months ago.
I dumped everything out of my dresser as well, you know it's time when the drawers are so stuffed they won't close. Now I have an EMPTY one. Gone are all the single socks, ratty undies, and holey (holy?) stained t-shirts. The best part was clearing off the top where I tend to toss my jewelry (not that I wear a lot, or often, but). I found a little ceramic box hidden under the junk, and inside was a necklace and pendant I thought I had lost. Happiness.
Today the bathroom and linen closet were attacked, and I realized I don't need to buy shampoo or razors for about a year. Or floss, or nail files, or or or...
The front closet and bookcase in my living room were tonight's projects, and they are both tidier, with yet another box for Goodwill stacked at the door.
Office, kitchen, and spare room are still to come.
aj, i can almost tell your time zone form the way you spell "organised". LOL.
i'm in the tablelands behind cairns. GMT + 10.
i attacked my chest of drawers yesterday and removed about half of the clothes in there: wrong-sized, stained, torn, worn, never-cared-for-the-colour....all that stuff.
then it got further sorted into:
toss
rags
donate
i'm thrilled!
then i sorted out my travel toiletries and got rid of a lot of tiny bottles i have been clinging to.
i filled the three that i really need and i put the bag in a freshly-emptied drawer and now i am in heaven.
tomorrow: the bedside table drawer.
Wow, bandicoot! You are a financing whee-over! (When my brother was little, he did a somersault and said, "I'm a financing whee-over!" LOL! We've used that phrase ever since.)
bandicoot, your tale of your chest of drawers reminds of my lovely old chest of drawers. It came up to shoulder level and had four large drawers with two smaller ones at the top. It had been full to the point where it was difficult to cram anything else into it.
A couple of rounds of decluttering and moving had left it with contents in the two small drawers and one large drawer. At this last move I realised it wouldn't fit in our new bedroom. Heart-broken, I said farewell to it and lamented the loss of storage space. However, having decluttered before our last move, I found I didn't need the storage after unpacking. Now I'm trying to wonder what I had in it that made it so full. It's amazing what we put away and just leave.
And a pat on the back for your progress. I kind of miss the decluttering so am a little envious. ;)
AJ, your paper uncluttering has just given you 150 hours of vacation this year! That's the updated statistic I read a few days ago as to how many hours executives annually spend looking for paper in their offices! Congrats!
Someone mentioned earlier in the postings about the 365 day challenge. I have been tracking most of my donations since December 16th. I can document 251 items that have gone out my door since then! Yippee!
I did not include all the old make up I tossed and there were a few bags I donated and did not bother to photograph, I just wanted to get the stuff out.
Tonight I wondered, what is left for me to unclutter? It should come as no surprise that I was able to eliminate 33 more items!
I know I mentioned my personal blog (http://drawerbydrawer.wordpress.com/) in an earlier post as I am documenting my New Year's resolution to cut down my belongings by half. Each time something is donated, I am excited to know that someone else will treasure or need what I no longer use. One item tonight had me laughing, it was a seashell night light that still works, although I haven't used it in a while. I got it over 25 years ago!
3 pairs of shoes went today.
why have i been hanging onto the old, the worn, the tired and the wrong?
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2168703
Here's a link to a british money saving website - there are many forums there but this a regular decluttering thread if anyone is interested
Thanks, Badkitti! Is a reception room the same as a living room or den, or does that include the kitchen, too?
A reception room is a dining room or a living room/lounge - basically all ground floor rooms except the kitchen, and downstairs bathrooms and utility room. They are rooms you'd seat guests in
Thanks, badkitti! That certainly makes sense.
I want to share an uncluttering success relating to one of my clients. We had worked in her garage over a year ago and yesterday returned to it. (It had gotten cluttered again!) It was wonderful, I pulled away with a car full of recycle and donate items. What we found interesting was how after a year, and the second time around, she was now ready to dispose of items she thought she had to keep. They had not been used during the last year!
The garage still needs work but we'll take more away on the third round, whenever that occurs!
In the 15 minutes I had left, she tackled her knife drawer. The knives were difficult to find since there was a huge, untidy pile of them. I took away a container full of knives, she still has plenty and now you can find things in that drawer.
Yet another organizing success!
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