Yay for eating the biscuit and not eating the pie filling!

Out - hat and fabric babydoll Moses basket.

Net out 54

Thought I'd try to keep myself motivated and part of the group by submitting my daily tally.
I cleaned off the top of a small bookshelf. That had about 5 items on it. Very cluttered looking and very dusty.
I also started writing down what I was doing throughout the day. Definitely cut me mindful. I think I accomplished more. Did free household chores.
Not too bad. Now I got to work with my children.
Tonight I hope to join the group to Buddy up cuz they have laundry.

Hi KeepingItReal50!

Glad to see you.

Today I put a collection of little people and a casserole carrier into a bag that I am filling for ds to take away in March. I'm calling that two. There is more progress for today that I will come talk about in the "what are you doing today" thread, but that is it for here for now.

Net out - 56

Ok, back to add the hard stuff. Six things sent to the high end donation store with Dd,

4 more things for the regular thrift store.

Net out - 66

I took a pot to the flower class today (they grow them in our yard and in pots and make various arrangements to take home and for school events)

So, net out - 66
And pots out - 1

9 things out today plus one thing in (I bought a troll)

Net out - 74
And one pot.

Hey subclinical,
I was under the weather yesterday and didn't get anything accomplished. ?

?Today I was able to get all my recycling sorted and out to recycling center.
5 bags of plastic & cans, grocery bags, glass, scrap metal and paper.

1 pet gate packed up to good to a new home
Worked on my calendar.

I guess you can't put Emojis they turn into?

Hi KeepingItReal,

Yeah, they used to work, but then one day they stopped.

Good job on the recycling and the gate!

hi SubC, Treasure, and KeepingItReal! How fun we can tally together!

After son moved out with all his things, I gathered up a few more things to give him that he can use. I also gave him some food, but food is not included in my tally unless it is, like, a package of food sitting in my storage room taking up space.

I gave him a mini fridge, 4 plastic containers with lids (4 items), 3 keurig accessories. 8 items total.

56/360

Hey Lila, Treasure, & Subc
I worked a bin of electronics. So far I sorted items and their chords. Put into the electronic whip recycling box what look broken and what I could not find pieces belong. My hub takes him to Best buy.

I have a few good ones that I think I can donate but I need to go through and make sure they work properly.

15 items ordered some ready to go some not.

1 small pile of books and paper. Sorted, recycled or put on shelf. 3 of them were to go back to library.

Small steps ... Still moving forward. Woohoo!! 🙂

Excuse my typos in the last text.. I should have looked before I posted
🙁

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.

71/360

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)

31/365

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.

37/360

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.

14/360

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.

41/360

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 🙂

29/365

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.

48/360