My Decluttering Support Group Helps to Keep Me Going

Bath Salts, nice but I have a small tub now.Besides
I always feel like I have to clean it really
good after multiple showers have been taken in there.

Procrastination and Depression tried to get me this weekend, but I am so thankful for my support group that encourages me to keep on going.  If you don't belong to a decluttering support group, I highly recommend it.s

I have been sick and resting since Wednesday and Thursday.  Do you begin to lose track of the time when that happens?  I do.

I'm a little slow getting started after I have sitting way too much.  I sat so much, I got tired of sitting.  Today, I have just enough to get me moving.  Company is coming sooner than I thought, and I already decided, I am not going to scurry.  I am just doing what I was going to do anyway.

And during the activities, I was doing anyway, I found my favorite things:  Declutter Items!

Music books for my little darlings, grandchildren,
and a book their mom can use in
homeschool, or just let them read to each other.

Two boxes that have been sitting in my breakfast room way to long and a toy that broke. Now the pictures that were in those boxes are awaiting my scrapbook making genuius -- haha!    Gone!    

I am counting these as six items, so that gets the count up to 86 -91.  Woohoo!  Soon, we ill be to 100.  Very cool!

Ten More Items Disappear to Places Unknown, Items 76 - 85

Items 76 -85,  Making headway!
I have a major cache going here.  I have not counted up how many days
from January 1 have gone by in 2013, but I want to be caught up, so I
can be sure to have decluttered 365 things by the end of next December.
I supposed if I counted every little piece of paper, it would be a lot more, but that would be nitpicking.


Really how many bowls should one keep?  That chip holder that went with this bowl is broken.  It is just taking up room, and I keep moving it around.  And, I don't like it anymore.

1. Books galore are going.  And you don't know how challenging it is for me to get rid of my books.  The criteria I am using is did I ever finish it.  
2. Have I read it more than once?
3. Will my DH read it?
4. How long has it been sitting where it does not belong?
5. Will I read it again?
6. Is it a book that visitor's might pick up to read?  

This is a honey bowl, I bought to be a sugar bowl.  The spoon
does not fit where the little hole is on the edge of the lid.

This counts.  I have been throwing
miscellaneous clutter in it,
that I haven't photographed.

I am even throwing away wrinkled Christmas bags now.

I usually save them all, but this was 

handy to stuff other things in.  I am counting it as one.

Letting Loose of Items #74 and #75

Once you start letting loose of your clutter, 

you begin to see that it gets easier making those decisions 

about what you need to throw away, give away, or even sell.  I find 

that giving away items is a lot less trouble than having a garage sale or a yard sale.

I have gotten to the point in my life I am leaving garage sales to people who have more energy.

Two very old metal clips that always catch and pull my hair 

are going in the trash. I think I have probably

 had those things for thirty years.  

Why did I think I could keep shaping them, 

and they would not stay slightly sprung?

We don't use our waffle iron anymore, but it is a very 

good one; and it already has a new home.