Excuse my typos in the last text.. I should have looked before I posted
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Yay for recycling!

I am just puttering about the house today with my cold.

Leaving - one pair of jeans that is too holey for me, but very fashionable based on what is see "out there", 8 antique dolls in need of minor repair (some just need new hair) that I am never going to fix. And one board game with a destroyed box that was a gift from an old boyfriend 40 years ago. Dh suggested burning the whole game, but I put the game in a ziploc to donate and let him burn the box. Some of the game is plastic.

Ten items.

Net out - 84
And one pot.

hi guys! Good work!

I got 15 items donated today! One book and 14 DVDs. I sorted my collection, which has been sorted many times, and was able to part with another good chunk of them.

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Out three kitchen things for the farm sitter and one bullet ing board to Dd.

In three pairs of jeans and a sweater.

It's a wash.

Net out - still 52

hi Treasure! Good job! I love the Tally. I will try to get a few things out today.

SubC, I met Treasure in the chat on this website. I found the chat maybe a week or so ago. It is at the link above that says Hoarding Support Group, if you ever want to try it.

I did take another bag of old food out of the freezer today but I have never counted food or trash in my own tally (others may). I will look around and see what I can part with today.

Thx SubC! Yes, Kohl's is a nightmare with their sales and Kohl's cash. They rope you in like crazy. I still have K cash to spend this month, but I'll see what I end up doing...

A couple more things out- food related:
- did not buy bread and instead rummaged around in my freezer and forced myself to eat a biscuit I found in there (was glad I did bc it was delicious!)
- While baking something else, found an old and suspect, but couldn't be sure if it was slightly puffed up, can of blueberry filling. I thought about opening it to see and give it the sniff test, but I decided to toss it instead (this is very good for me bc usually I will risk it lol)

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Hi Treasure! It's great to meet you!

Lila, I don't think I'll ever try the chat - it's a specific time and I type slowly, but go bring us some more friends!

I don't have any outs today, but no ins either.
Good job to both of you!

one freezer ice pack that is very old and goopy, into the trash.

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Hello Subclinical, nice to meet you, and hi again Lila!

A few more things out so far, one particularly hard.

- Some plastic vitamin bottles I was saving for...something (1)
- Used up all salvaged tinfoil
- Dehoarded Orange Chicken that had been in my freezer for almost a year- it was fine beyond a plethora of ice crystals
- A black jacket- this was the hard one. It was made of some PVC material or something which felt really nice and soft when I got it, but... I brought it on my recent trip and when I finally wore it I realized it was so old that it was actually crumbling and getting black specks all over everything. I had to let it go and threw it out, in the trash, no donating bc I didn't want to do that to anyone else.

So 4 more. I am counting anything that it gives me pain and angst to get rid of, so will sometimes be counting food to give myself credit for difficult things. I will probably only count a batch of food as 1 though so I don't get too bogged down counting individual French fries or something lol. Going to be working more today, hopefully will have some to add later.

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Treasure, you count whatever you want. We are all on different points of our journey. There was a time when I would have counted a worn out, used, broken zip tie. And honestly, it wasn't that long ago.

I am still no out no in since I didn't go anywhere or get mail today.

Good work Treasure, I have an office chair that has the same type material I think. It was so soft like leather and now it is crumbling black specks. Trying to figure out what to do.

Today I got rid of one more ice pack that looked like it could leak, and is very old, and 3 freezer things for injuries that I am giving to someone else. 4 items out total.

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Lila, I vote for throwing out the office chair if you have something else to sit on, but that may be too hard. If it is comfortable, you could slipcover it, but it might still shed onto the floor and need vacuuming.

Yesterday I threw the frog boots in the trash. They were really cute and I loved them, but we bought them used, my kids used them, Bean used them, and now they leak.

Net out - 33

Thanks SubC. It is comfortable, but the flaking is really bad. I looked at covers, but it is complicated because the arms are attached and also have that flaking material on them. Regular arm covers won't work. I threw a blanket over it just until I can find a different chair. I use it for my zoon meetings. I asked my sons and they do not have any spare chairs. Kind of annoying because 2 years ago they gave away a bunch of old but good office chairs at my work!

I will keep looking for a replacement and then throw it out!

Out last night:
-8 + nice boxes broken down and recycled
- a half box of 2021 applesauce
- an entire box of 2023 Indian food packets

I hate throwing out food- huge waste of a lot of money 🙁

24/365 (I'm upping my goal to one thing per day for the year)

Lila, I agree with Subclinical...the chair should go. Once that flaking starts there's no going back and those flakes are nasty and can grind into other things like carpet, fabric, or paper and ruin them too.

If you have it, try Next Door, Craigslist, or Buy Nothing to see if anyone is giving away a chair. I see those given for free quite often. But, I'm sure I don't have to say...beware of those freebie groups and ONLY look for the chair!!

Good job Treasure!

I bet you can do 365!

I added 8 more today (details in chat thread.)

Net out - 41

Processed a bunch of mail, got rid of ~3 inches to recycling and ~3 inches to shredding. Counting as 5 items (by the conservative inch!)

On another note, I didn't go shopping tonight at Kohl's (one of my nemeses)...no points for that, except in my head lol

Haven't gotten started yet tonight (I work), so I'll see where the spirit takes me 🙂

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Treasure, I will give you points for not shopping at kohls! Kohls makes that really hard. They gamify their sales to make you shop!

This is another reason I do "net". So that I have to look at things and think "do I want that enough to subtract from my tally?"

hi Treasure and SubC! I've been sick, so it's slow going. But today, my youngest Son is moving out. I am giving him things to take with him that were mine, so they count.

- I gave him the keurig, spinny kcup holder, and a full box of kcups
- he is taking the cat, which is officially going to be his cat now, so I gave him the cat tree and litter box. He is taking other stuff too but those are the two things I bought before it was his cat.

I am sure there will be more of my stuff going, but for now, that is 5 items (cat not counted as he is a 'person' and not an item, lol).

A whole lot of stuff left that is his stuff, so does not count, but an entire large bedroom full is going. I will only count the dresser and nightstand, as those are mine but I gave them to him to take.

7 items added to the tally.

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I agree that the cat is a person!

You are doing really well Lila!

I spent a little time on the basement. Ten plastic kid cups and one small portable file box with a missing lid. Normally I would not count the file box, but it is able to go because I pared down the files enough to not need it anymore.

So that is 11.

Net out - 52

Didn't sleep last night so did more. Managed to part with:

- ~5 Casino cards (1)
- Dried up, but cute little jar that I wanted to save
- Fancy pen
- ~4 old credit cards (1)
- 6 bookmarks (1) and found a perfect one to use that was a gift that had never even been opened

And some extra things I remembered from before:

- A bunch of food from refrigerator (1)
- A nail polish

So, 7 more out...will update number next time bc can't see it with this window open. I'm counting some multi-efforts as (1) so as not to get too into the counting weeds.

Good luck Lila!

Once again I do not have a number goal, but am going to track net in and out to keep myself accountable so that I know I am clearing the house instead of slowly filling it up.

However, this year I am not going to track every little thing. I am only going to track things that are significant. Significant either means it occupies a defined space - like a book, or an item of clothing, or a dish or game .. or it requires an effort from me to make the decision to let it go. Also I am no longer going to track any materials and supplies.

So if I get rid of yarn or buy yarn, I won't count it. But if I knit myself socks, I'll count the socks. And I might count something like a cardboard box - if it was an *important* cardboard box - lol, but you guys understand.

I am also going to track finished pottery vs. Sold/donated/gifted/thrown out pottery to understand my inventory changes over the year.

So, today
Items out - 8

I totally understand the important box, SubC!!

The Tally has begun:

1 duplicate, quite old jar of coriander, into the trash
1 stupid springform pan into the trash! You failed me, pan! Take a hike!

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4 more items out today (plus some craft supplies)

Net items out - 12

Very good SubC!

It is sloow going on the declutter front here right now, but I managed to donate 1 item.
- 1 nice phone cover, to an old phone I no longer use.

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I added two Christmas things to the donate pile yesterday.

Net out - 14

There has been a bin of nail polish and accessories on my shelf for YEARS. I stopped painting my nails a long time ago. I do get a pedi once in awhile. I threw all of them out as well as a bunch of things from a bathroom drawer. I am still having urges to go pick one or two polishes out of the trash, but they are old, and if I want to paint my nails I can spend a few bucks to get the color I really want. 29 items in all, out forever.

I need to take that trash out!

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One more item out - a coffee cup that was hiding behind stuff on the dresser. Donated.

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Lila, good job tossing the nail polish! Get that bag gone!

I found seven books and four other things to get rid of today. My little bookshelf looks nice - it's clean and dust free and there are no objects in front of the books or books piled sideways on top of the other books - there is even a little space.

Net out - 25.

one small bottle of hand sanitizer, into the trash.

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