January...the clean-sweep month...time to organize and reorganize...decorate and redecorate. The Christmas stuff is put away...the house looks sleeker...cleaner....and now it needs the (mini drum roll here, please....) --- 25-thing-a-day-purge.
I did this sometime last year for a month---and it really felt good. Got rid of some clutter. Since then, I found a book entitled Throw out 50 Things: clear the clutter, find your life. (Of course, I had to buy it to add to my clutter) In it--each 'category' is counted as one thing (ie, if you throw out 50 books, it only counts as one thing)...I'm afraid I'd most likely cheat and not get rid of as many things as I really could. I think I like my system better. By January 31st, I'll be 725 'things' lighter.
I sort of got a jump start. A woman I know slightly through some regional church functions was the victim of a fire -- yesterday. She and her brother and dog got out--with the clothes on their backs--, they have a place to stay, they have insurance--they will be OK, but everything smells smokey. We're about the same size.....three giant bags of clothes, hats, mittens, a bunch of handknits!!!! are headed her way. (PapaGeek is on a church committee with her and they meet today.) I think she'll be pleased, and I got a start on my January letting-go. I'm counting that as January 1 and 2--she's getting a lot of stuff.
Now....off to the freezer.... that should be good for 10+ tosses....
scary stuff down there!!!!
GOOD GRIEF...NOT AGAIN! My house is looking almost normal cuz of your 25 things a day. And OH YES, I most certainly cheat...25 candles are most certainly not ONE thing. Of course, there is that upstairs closet. Guessing I will be up there tomorrow. Sometimes, you are a (teeny tiny) pain! : ) Here we go again, round 8 or is that 10 or perhaps 15? Will be giving you an update!
Posted by: Jody | 01/03/2013 at 09:44 PM
ARGHHHHH.... I need to get on board with this, Steph!! I do want to hear how that book is. ;) I think I have about 50 books sitting in a bag ready to go to a little private library and a whole box of clothes that haven't made their way to Goodwill since my LAST little purging. LOL! (I plead it was the visit of the Little Men & Co. that stopped me in my tracks). THANK YOU for this nugde!! blessings ~ tanna
Posted by: tanna | 01/04/2013 at 06:34 AM
if you lose your electricity for three+ days it really thins out the freezer ;) I am so happy that you are helping someone on a personal level and I know that lady will have tears in her eyes when she receives her clothes!! I really need to get rid of some stuff as well.
Posted by: karen | 01/04/2013 at 07:55 AM
You are a better woman than I am. I see clutter, take a stab at. Get rid of a little and then I see something I'd rather be doing and do it. No will power.
Posted by: Melissa | 01/04/2013 at 08:36 AM
I am going to join you in this quest to declutter!! However, fair warning, one of my 25+ things to go thru is my pile of sock yarn minis!! So expect a bag of minis at tech dinner this weekend!!
Posted by: valleyp | 01/04/2013 at 01:49 PM
Funnily enough all the clearing out that is accompanying turning the storeroom into my studio must mean we're easily throwing out 25 things a day ... so I'm in ... and decluttering feels so good!
Happy New Year Steph :D
Posted by: Annie @ knitsofacto | 01/04/2013 at 07:53 PM