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January Decluttering Challenge! - Page 4

post #61 of 88
1/10/08 at 3:20pm
I'm on the 2008 for 2008 but a monthly goal is a good idea too!

I am having a hard time finding enough time with the baby to do decluttering, so I am going for another 100 in January. We will see if I can get that!

I have 505/2008 now but I am slowing way down because of time and things to declutter. A lot of the things I am decluttering are for sale, so they don't go away very quickly, you know?

So 0/100 for the remainder of January.

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post #62 of 88
1/10/08 at 4:46pm
Hubby went through his closet and we are up to 90/2008. A slow and steady train for us. We try to do a little bit of decluttering everyday. Even if it is just five minutes or a drawer.

Oh I forgot, I did part of a drawer yesterday and we are up to 96/2008.

I am going with the motto - Slow and Steady wins the race!
post #63 of 88
1/11/08 at 1:30am
I did one of these challenges a couple years ago, but have decided it is time again. However, I have been better since then about not holding on to stuff so that I don't need to declutter so much . . . or so I thought. I don't know if I want to keep track all year long to go for the 2008, but we'll see.

I started today with our little mud/storage room. We don't use that door and so it just gets piled up with all the crap we want to hide. I managed to knock out 127 things just from that tiny room! 104 of that went into the trash or recycling. 7 into my "to sell" bin and 16 into "donate". And one bag of rocks just got emptied back into the outdoors. (However, I'm sure they'll find their way back in.) I didn't even count each and every thing . . . such as the bag of rocks that I counted as "1".
post #64 of 88
1/11/08 at 4:18am
Total so far: 518/2008

Goal for the rest of January 13/100

(1) shirt
(4) saved newspapers
(1) unused bag of sposies
(1) pair shoes
(2) spiderman jackets
(3) chair boxes
(1) VCR
post #65 of 88
1/12/08 at 12:15am
Total so far today: 602/2008

Goal for the rest of January 40/100

I feel bad counting the clothes for my January goal so I am not going to. I am only counting 5 of the clothing items I took from closets and the rest were in a bag and a box given to me recently, so I will count them only in my big total.

57 - clothing
3 - bake pans
1 - pkg coffee filters
14 - dog toy bin stuff
1 - tupperware
3 - saved newspapers
post #66 of 88
1/12/08 at 1:59pm
- lamp and camera, bag & components
- 2 returns today
- another bag (counting as 3) of stuff returned yesterday

I'm calling it 9. I have to get moving, I feel like I'm just skimming the surface and not getting enough accomplished lately.

132/200
post #67 of 88
1/13/08 at 7:32am
I started on the 2008 for 2008 but since I'm not so hot on counting items as I get rid of them I'm going to go monthly.

So far

freecycle
8 T shirts
5 baking trays and 1 pan
1 bouncy castle listed on freecycle (gone)

charity
13 items of clothing
1 marble run
1 photo frame

bin/recycling
30 old pairs of socks
1 broken coathanger
1 very old pillow
1 old cracked mug

and 1 bag clothing (20+ items) sorted for rags. (not sure if that counts as I'm still keeping them but we do use the rags so...)
post #68 of 88
1/13/08 at 3:48pm
Whoo hoo, more stuff gone

another bouncy castle and pump (I'm a sucker for bringing free stuff home to be fixed!)
34 items of baby clothing to a friend
2 broken bath toys

1 PDA listed on freecycle

76 gone

15 listed on freecycle
post #69 of 88
1/13/08 at 5:13pm
I listed a twin bed frame on freecycle that we had no use for: 1
Plus 20-ish items into a bag for Goodwill.
Plus 10 items of outgrown clothing that went to someone on Freecycle.
So- 31/?? for me so far.
post #70 of 88
1/13/08 at 6:58pm
Plodding along:

- magazine and pictures to sister
- phone to freecycler today
- cleaned off the front of fridge and recycled a bunch

Calling it 3.

135/200
post #71 of 88
1/14/08 at 12:23pm
We did DH's upper desk cabinets last night.

- 8 books
- 5 items for donation
- 23 trash items (including pamphlets for recycle)
- 12 dead pens!

Also for donation:
- 3 new photo pens
- Tupperware ice cream container

I have some stuff listed on Freecycle, hopefully that will go this week too...

We're planning another desk cabinet clean out for later today, then the cabinet goes out too!!

187/200
post #72 of 88
1/14/08 at 3:55pm
Me again

-- ratty pair of slippers in trash
-- box of misc phone cables, connectors, wires (~15 items)
-- stack of old papers shredded

I've officially met my goal, but I'm still going for this month!

ETA: forgot 2 rubbermaid containers I recycled

206/200
post #73 of 88
1/15/08 at 3:43pm
Am I the only one left here?

-- 35 piece weight bench & weights to a Freecycler
-- sold a collector's toy

242/200
post #74 of 88
1/15/08 at 4:46pm
Total so far today: 621/2008
Goal for the rest of January 59/100

(1) t-shirt
(2) old catalogs
post #75 of 88
1/15/08 at 10:11pm
Today I went through the monster stack of artwork on the top of my fridge. Of course both girls were at school. I'd say I cut it down by 2/3 keeping only special or especially interesting pieces. I didn't count each piece of paper, but it was probably around 100. Do I count that as 100 or consider it just 1 for the paper grocery sack it filled?

Aside from the artwork, my count stands at 143/300 for January.
post #76 of 88
1/16/08 at 6:49pm
Back again!

-- outdated gamepad for pc (and CD)
-- 3 bins of shredded paper

247/200
post #77 of 88
1/17/08 at 6:04pm
Thread Starter 
I'm at 274/500. DD's birthday was this week so that set us back a bit. Both my parents were in town and I swear the kid got 25 presents. Ugh. I did get rid of one thing of hers for each new item that came in, but it still seems like too much stuff!

I have a big laundry basket of tiny plastic balls outside that are getting nasty from the weather. I'm going to try and pitch those tonight.
post #78 of 88
1/18/08 at 12:32pm
I feel like I'm monopolizing the thread

-- 3 cables for printers we don't even own anymore
-- random, outdated software & books
-- some outdated computer hardware and cards
-- 3 more kitchen items for donation basket

I'm calling it 13. I think someone is buying our extra fridge this weekend too

260/200
post #79 of 88
1/18/08 at 3:24pm
Thread Starter 
LOL anathasam, I think it's great you're still going after you met you goal. That's why I have to set mine high, because otherwise I quit as soon as I reach it!
post #80 of 88
1/18/08 at 5:09pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by kissum View Post
LOL anathasam, I think it's great you're still going after you met you goal. That's why I have to set mine high, because otherwise I quit as soon as I reach it!

Thanks. I'm nesting

And I have 2 more bags of shredded paper to add to my total now!

262/200

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