Dec 3rd and 4th declutter

 I forgot to post yesterday so here are 16 things out of my cabinet they are plate holders and 3 dishes =16 items.

Then for today I cleaned out the first aid box that was left under the upstairs bathroom sink with moms medicines she died Oct 2016 most of these items expired in 2017 and 2018. I will be bringing the meds to a police department to get rid of them. There is well over 16 things here. This basket being cleaned out has been on my todo list for a while.

Dec 2 decuttered 2 sewing drawers.

 Today I decluttered not one but 2 sewing draws. Now they have much less in them some of the stuff needed to be put with like items. Elastic, Hook and Loop tape. The last pile here is everything that had to go. Some is going to thrift store or Bit well over 16 items gone. I only thought to take a photo while in process so one draw mostly empty and the second un touched. It has been a long time since all these cabinet have been in the same space when a organization operation has happened. Just FYI, The top is still a mess.so is underneath it. That is for another day. I need to get the fabric all sorted before I visit Bit Finney to drop off the xmas gifts for the grandbabies.

This is an in progress shot I forgot to get one before I did the first drawer. quite a lot of the stuff just need to go live with like items I have a hook and loop drawer else where and a spot for elastic and for trim and bias tape. 

What stayed in this drawer is the squeekers, the rotary blades till I can find the rotary cutter and change a blade or if I dont find it these go away also. and basic sewing stuff magnates and pins and measuring tapes.

This I didnt know where to store at first. I left the blades in the drawer now that I can find all of them and will add more if I fine more, the embroidery went to live with Jim's embroidery stuff in the Garb closet. 

Things to go away some are garbage some thrift store some rehomed but all of this is leaving.

The second drawer has less in it. these are a bias tape maker, lace threaders and elastic threaders.

Also in that drawer is needles (just not the beading needles that live with the beads) and a metal buckle 

That is it for today!

De clutter with me Dec 2020

Declutter along with me if you care to my goal is to declutter 16 items a day for Dec. I picked this amount because it is the divided amount of the culminated amount of 1 item then 2 items then 3 items etc for 31 days.  Everything over 16 I don't count unless I am making up for a missed day. This is my night stand. This drawer had become a junk draw. I put away my jewelery, and hair ties and hair pins & sticks to where they belong. Through out a bunch of receipts, business cards and recycled empty plastic bottles. Disposed of a bunch of broken charger cords too. I decluttered 16 items not counting the more then double of that trash. And I am counting this towards my 10 minute tackle of a thing that needs delt with and shouldn't take long. Again I am a simplaist not a minimalist. I am just looking to remove the clutter of things that are bot serving my life. I have a laundry basket at the bottom of the stairs that i put things to go upstairs and all the thrift into it. By sending my stuff to the thrift store i have room to welcome the things that will better serve me into my life. I ask myself. Do I use it. Do i have duplicates and is the redundancy of the item really necessary. If i get rid of it and later feel i could have used it what will I do. And how easy is the item to replace. Remember I had a house fire I know what I can live with out. I am also "blessing it forward". As I go though my fabric I say can someone make childrens clothes out of this. Why am I keeping it. What can I do with this right now. Why am I not doing it. What would change in the next 3 to 6 months that would make me use this.