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post #121 of 172
4/16/07 at 10:44pm
3 more bags of trash - woot!

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post #122 of 172
4/16/07 at 11:11pm
Tomorrow is trash day- there is a mountain outside of our home!!! I set aside as much as possible to give away and/or sell, but there is still so much trash! Oh well, I know I should feel bad about the trash, but I am so glad to not have it in my home anymore, I just don't :

412/500!

~Valarie~
post #123 of 172
4/17/07 at 11:51am
You know - I'm just sort of going through the house like a mini tornado. I feel like I should have some plan, but at least I'm getting rid of crap, yk? Last night I got a hankering and cleaned out the cupboard where I keep my Tupperware-ish stuff. I had a bunch of glass jars in there that I recycled, some lids that I tossed, some things that I don't use anymore that got tossed. It felt good. All in all I had:
1 bag of trash
1 bag of giveaway
1 bag of recycling
post #124 of 172
4/17/07 at 12:07pm
19 items are sitting in a trash bag in my car waiting to go to the consignment store today.

The best part is that most of them are toys that make noise...so I'm decluttering AND making it a little quieter!

I am at almost 300 items for my garage sale-my goal was 100! I'll count them as soon as they're out of the house...hopefully by this weekend. I haven't even started on the big stuff yet like furniture.

Add to that a box of baby stuff for my best friend. I'll count that before I give it to her.
post #125 of 172
4/17/07 at 1:28pm
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Originally Posted by my2girlz View Post
30 polly pockets and acc. gone
25 odds and ends gone

239/500
another 30 items gone

269/500
post #126 of 172
4/17/07 at 3:09pm
not counting items yet, but making progress on all the piles of papers and junk currently gunking up my bookshelves and feeling gooooooood
post #127 of 172
4/17/07 at 8:15pm
I finally got around to finishing up my linen closet and is sure is pretty. Now I need new linens to go in it : I also managed to start to clear off all of the paperwork my spare bed in the office. But that is a neverending project that DH always complains about... umm.. maybe if he knew how to file he could do it himself as it is mostly his little ziplack baggies full of recipts!
Anyways I can bump my total up by 54 more items and one of my project goals is completed (the linen closet) and have the kitchen left (half way though) as well as the bathroom cupboards. Oh and I went through DS winter clothes and am donating whatever didn't get used at all so that's another 12 items.

173/500

ETA: I cleaned out the junk drawer and got rid of 47 items... all junk, imagine that.

220/500
post #128 of 172
4/17/07 at 11:57pm
If i got rid of 20 magazines do i count each individual one or do i count them as one item just wanted to know the rules trying to go through stuff thanks for any info
post #129 of 172
4/18/07 at 5:07pm
When I told DH my goal of 10 bags to Goodwill he, without any prompting, went through his closet and pulled out a bag's worth of clothes to get rid of!!!

I think I need to up my goal to 15 bags. That makes me at 5/15, but I have 4 more bags packed and ready to go in the garage and I haven't even tackled the crafts closet yet.

I went through my old recipie magazines and cut out all the ones I wanted to keep and recyled the magazines, but I still have to file the recipies into my recipie binder.
post #130 of 172
4/19/07 at 10:49am
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Originally Posted by my2girlz View Post
another 30 items gone

269/500
I gave my brother 15 hangers and sold 11 items.

295/500
post #131 of 172
4/19/07 at 1:46pm
ds closet has been reclaimed! i donated 95% of his clothes...and i still have 20 of everything! geez way too many baby clothes...:
post #132 of 172
4/19/07 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by clothdipemomof2boy View Post
If i got rid of 20 magazines do i count each individual one or do i count them as one item just wanted to know the rules trying to go through stuff thanks for any info

You can count it either way. We all pretty much make up our own rules to fit our own situations. My advice-count each one. It'll make your count go up fast and motivate you to keep going!

Yesterday I got rid of 198 items that are going in my garage sale. I brought them over to the house where the sale will be, never to return to my house! I have 42 baby outfits plus some other things that I haven't brought over yet. Then I filled another bag with sale items plus a coat and a sleeper. My original goal was 100 items in the sale, so I am VERY happy!

Then, I started assembling a box of baby stuff for my best friend and I have 10 items in that so far, but can't count them until I give them to her. All in all, it was a pretty productive day.

DH is even getting into the swing of it. I challenged him to find 25 items from the garage and 25 from his closet for the sale. He so far has about 12 from the garage...plus he's thrown out over 40 things! I'm just not going to tell him that I get to keep ALL of the money from the garage sale!

So far I'm at about 700/2007 for the year.
post #133 of 172
4/19/07 at 9:24pm
Thread Starter 
I agree with the pp- I would count all 20 magazines
post #134 of 172
4/19/07 at 9:26pm
Thread Starter 
DH and I have been SO productive over these last few days! I lost track, but I know that I far surpassed my goal of 300 items gone.
I had so many old billing statements, broken toys, ripped books, etc. that just had to be tossed.
I filled up a HUGE box of things for our yard sale that we should be having in May sometime and freecycled a few things just to get them out of here even faster. It feels awesome
post #135 of 172
4/19/07 at 9:42pm
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Originally Posted by my2girlz View Post
I gave my brother 15 hangers and sold 11 items.

295/500
65 items being donated to Lupus Foundation. They pick up in the morning.

360/500
post #136 of 172
4/20/07 at 1:40am
I took all of the expired vitamins and supplements DH has collected over the years to the pharmacy to have them properly disposed of and containers recycled. 16! of them! Most looked like they were still 3/4 full and very very expensive! Good thing I wasn't around him when they were purchased, at those prices I would have rammed them down his throat daily! Most expired before I was in the picture too!

236/500
post #137 of 172
4/20/07 at 11:11am
thanks well then now that i know how to do it i will get started i am a procrastinator can you tell . I am going to try to reach my goal if i have to double up what i do a day. thanks all
post #138 of 172
4/20/07 at 2:19pm
I'm so excited! I got another half to 3/4 car load full of stuff off to St. Vincent de Paul today. And I also have two medium containers and a large trash bag full of stuff for the Vietnam Vets to pick up on Tuesday. WooHOO!

If this keeps up, our house is going to be rather empty. I can't wait!
post #139 of 172
4/20/07 at 7:04pm
I have one huge bag (one of those bed in a bag bag's) and 4 boxes full of garbage headed to the garbage.

I'd like to change my goal though, I just want to make sure that my room is as decluttered as I can get it by the end of the month! i've got a good start and all my clothes are now hung so I'm on my way.
post #140 of 172
4/20/07 at 10:32pm
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Originally Posted by my2girlz View Post
65 items being donated to Lupus Foundation. They pick up in the morning.

360/500
19 items thrown after I decluttered 2 kitchen drawers.

379/500

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