Showing posts with label donated. Show all posts
Showing posts with label donated. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The beginning

Stimey over at The Junk Pyramid inspired me to start this blog. Basically it's a way for me to visualize just how much unused stuff is lying around. Why would I want to blog about it? It's more so I can see just how much stuff I can live without.

Since I started reading The Junk Pyramid, I've been inspired to de-clutter. I don't know if she intended to inspire others, but just reading about her quest to dispose of six items a day has inspired me. I've already cleaned out under a sink, three closets, part of the mud room, a cup cabinet, a nightstand and a kitchen drawer. I'm not going to share those since they were prior to starting this blog.

So where did I start today? I went through my clothes, shoes and towels. All in all, I got rid of 3 pairs of shoes, 1 pair of jeans, 3 other pants, 4 shorts, 19 shirts! and 9 towels (four of them were baby towels with hoods that haven't been used in years. That filled up 2 large bags. And to keep myself motivated, they are already gone. On my way out this morning, I grabbed the bags (and threw in an extra pair of kids rain boots that were laying by the door and I knew were too small) and dropped them all of at a clothing and shoes box in town. Quick and easy and not out of my way. And now they are not sitting in my basement where many items I decided to de-clutter end up.

Total for day one: 30! Not bad for my first day.