It may be that the one-a-day approach doesn’t work for me personally. Seeing one t-shirt that doesn’t fit leads me down the garden path of cushion projects and cleaning cloths and losing weight and using the sleeves to put on sleeveless dresses (!) Seeing 6 t-shirts that don’t fit makes me a bit nauseated and overcome with the need to banish them all from my sight. I am a fan of the Peter Walsh approach, which generally means getting all the “like” items together and then eliminating most of them. Even so, most items require too much attention before going in the giveaway bag. If I died tomorrow, my family would have a horrible job getting rid of everything, even though you can get directly across most rooms – no newspaper mazes. The question is: why was this exercise so difficult? I have a house full of stuff that needs to be gotten rid of and I don’t want to end up renting a dumpster when the time comes. If it had been February I could have called it. I don’t know why I didn’t write it down but then I’m not much of a finisher. I’m sure I gave something away those days but I’d be making it up if I wrote them down. You are only 30 days away from a more clutter free and peaceful home. I hope he actually used it.ĭay 29 and 30 my calendar is blank. Would you be willing to try You have nothing to lose except clutter Because this 30 Day Decluttering Calendar is totally FREE Sign up now to get your downloadable PDF plus my daily tips to help you work through this challenge. He still seemed reluctant but took it, inspecting it for cracks as he went down the walk. I told him it came from the $2 dollar store in another city and if he had a use for it he should take it as it would help me meet my quota for the day. The whole thing TBH was tough slogging and not the literary romp I thought it would be.ĭay 28 – my daughter’s father was picking her up and saw a small ceramic turtle in one of my plant pots. Poor woman – all that biting social commentary was compensation for being a love-worn romantic. It alternated between heavy and/or acerbic short stories which were alternately enjoyable and – sorry Dorothy – mostly school-girlish poetry about men who break women’s hearts. It was from a series of classic and sassy paperbacks from the 50’s – worth keeping for its vintage-ness, but… I read all of it. The metal had already been repurposed once when I paid two millennials to strip it off a large shed that was being bulldozed down at a former residence so I could side and re-roof my own garage – waste not want not can be a good thing.ĭay 27 – a Portables Dorothy Parker book purchased at the Thrift Store for 50 cents. He very successfully repurposed it to side part of his own garage, painting it white. My big brother came by and picked up some leftover blue metal siding which was harboring several lifetime supplies of pine cones for the squirrels.
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