Everyone is welcome to join this thread as a way to count anything as progress!

You can count items gone, square feet cleared, minutes or days spent decluttering, net items out, whatever you like! Come join in so we can celebrate all our progress.

Lila, I am laughing because you are cheering for me for adding less that two items a week.

The goal is supposed to be net out!

I don't really have any energy to work on clearing out at the moment. But I am being mindful about what comes in.

1 king sheet set
3 towels
donated.
1 sock
1 shirt
trash.

54/360

Very hard things. From the closet in the little bedroom/storage, things that belonged to Teen.

Sent to Teen, she will probably get rid of:
costume parts
hat
small new bulletin board
pins
hair things
black suede boots she just HAD to have, like new
concert sweatshirt
blankets

Donated:
many sheets and blankets
handmade quilts
costume parts
pillowcases

33 things in all, so far.

266/360

Good morning.

I have a couple of ideas about how I want to use this thread this year, but I think I'll let them sort of float around for January and start one in February or at the end of the month.

I do know I want to keep a running tally of net out for the year, so with that in mind - I finished a book yesterday and tossed it in my out box. - the out box is a new invention where I put things on their way out, and then I can take them various places later - I'm a little worried that I might remove something from the out box, but if I do, I will just count it back as an "in" this way I can take things to the places or people I choose when I go there or at the appropriate time (for example, Christmas items should go to the thrift store at the end of October.)

Book.

Net out: 1

5 books from the library warehouse shop

+14

4 more books donated

58/360

four more things from the little bedroom, donated
sheet, rug, washcloth
crib bedding set I saved for almost 20 years. I had to let it go.

270/360

Nice start, SubC.

I have nothing out yet, but a small victory. I had the donation boxes in my room and on top were two brand new items and I kept looking at them thinking, omg, why did I put those in there?? I could really use them for xyz. But I already counted them in the tally for 2024. So, I searched around and found 2 other items to donate and swapped them out of the box. That is a lot better than how I used to just take things out and keep them. Same amount gone for 2024.

0/360

Broken lid recycled

+13

Christmas ornament (new, given to me)
Necklace (new, given to me)
bouncy ball
all donated.
Box of batteries - tested them all, put away the good ones, got rid of the box of bad ones, counting as one item

62/360

The sorting is getting harder and it is slower going, but that's good in a way. It means I have gone through most of my things again.

Today's win: I took all the donate stuff to the charity and donated it. And as I was leaving, I grabbed a pole light that has been gathering dust in my bedroom, always getting in the way, but I thought it might be useful or something, someday... donated it, too.

271/360

Lol! That is one of the ways the tally helps me!

Also why it is good to get the boxes out asap!

I've been cleaning out trash, recycling, and extra food - so nothing to count out, but today Bean gave me a picture dsil took at Christmas and dd1 framed of all three of my grandsons on my couch with my son and Dh.

So I'm net zero. Which is ok right now.

Two books arrived.
2025 = +15

Lila, you are doing really well.

I went to a market with ddil and Birdy.

One little pot and one hanging plaque

+22 for 2025.

From the downstairs "office" that is a sorting room:

Mix of 11 cds, video games, and movies
ponytail holder
tv remote
turtleneck sweater

285/360

Another book - just a kids book this time.

One.

Even keeping a tally is a win, SubC! It means you don't have your head in the sand.

Donated: fruit mill that someone gave me that I don't like (they only paid $2 for it so no big deal)

3/360

from my bedroom:

donated -
2 sunglasses
2 water bottles
1 insulated coffee cup
1 ceramic coffee cup
1 Christmas box
1 tea infuser ball
1 sweater

thrown out -
1 roll of old masking tape that just sticks to itself and is annoying

72/360

Adding:
2 more CDs and a timer donated
old instructional DVD in the trash

289/360

Puzzle

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one jeweled hairpin I was saving to fix, into the garbage
one box with two snowman mugs in it, brand new. someone gave them to me but I really don't need them - donated.

6/360

from my bedroom today

donations:
mirror
thermal cup lid
brand new package of braces gum

trash:
square nail file
bag of raisins I don't like
bottle of old cough syrup I was saving

given away:
bag of almonds

79/360

Good job SubC!

I tossed my first item for the year today... a letter I have been keeping on my nightstand for MONTHS, that I intended to keep keeping, but it was so irritating I finally ripped it up and threw it out!

1/360

That's what I think Lila. Sometimes I ask myself "do I really want this? I will have to tell my tribe."

You are doing well!

still working on my bedroom. More things gone.

donated:
new square nail file
another sunglasses
new pack of photo paper

trash:
6 partially used, but still good, nail polish, because I have so many and almost never paint my nails. So I tossed my least favorite colors until all my polish could fit in one small plastic bin.

88/360

Returned the Christmas gift from my mil - article of men's clothing in a size too big for me and a color I don't like. When I opened it she said "I know that's not your color, but they were out of the maroon ones. Maybe you can exchange it." Had to take a gift card even with the gift receipt because it was on clearance when she bought it.

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3 more books arrived +18

I worked on my bedroom, and the little bedroom/storage room. I gathered some donations and also put some boxes together to be taken to Teen. I did not count anything that was already packed for her (many boxes of her things, from months ago) but I am counting things that I find while I am sorting my room and little bedroom, which I was saving, but have decided to just send them with ex to her.

Today

Donation box:
new 3-ring binder
antenna
plastic food

Boxed and sent to Teen:
clothing
a coat I was going to save and wear
2 laptops
a lot of books
skirts
box of shoes
porcelain doll
her towels, quilts, etc from childhood
hats, gloves, a camera
stuff we got at concerts
backpacks
lamp
milk crate
arm and ankle weights
record cleaner
I don't even know what else

Total of 78 items gone.

166/360

I found another book to get rid of

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