Welcome to the final decluttering session of 2019!  A couple of days before the start of the New Year, I made one final sweep of the towering mountain in the corner of my bedroom and took out everything I could get my hands on.  It felt really good.  Except, we have already started building the mountain of 2020.  I need to get on that right now, so that it doesn’t turn into Mt. Everest like it did last year.  Sigh.

Anyhoo, let’s see what I ushered out in the last few breaths of 2019:

My magazines.  Of course.  I love my magazine pile.  Its a never ending supply of ideas, recipes, articles and just easy reading when I don’t feel like devoting brain power to a story.

I culled through my cookbooks again.  I’m getting better at this.  It’s not nearly as painful as I thought it was a year ago.  Probably because I’ve read all of these multiple times and I know that I have at least 500 more cookbooks to go.  Possibly.  Maybe.  Yes.

As I brought out my Christmas stuff this year, I started setting aside things that I knew I was not going to use again.  I have A LOT of Christmas stuff to go through still….

More Christmas, books, photo frames, one of Oreo’s bones that he didn’t get to have…..

And now we come to the last of Hayden’s contributions.  At least from his last go through. 

T-shirts.  How can looking at t-shirts make a person want to cry? 

My little boy is not a little boy anymore, that’s why.

He is no longer a teenager either….

But he loves his Mama.

And holy cow he had a LOT of t-shirts.

He still does, just not this many…..

And I even found more stuff at the bottom of the mountain that Liv had pulled out to donate.

It felt like a lot.  It looked like a lot when we got it loaded into the Pilot to send away to the Salvation Army.

It feels so good each time I take the stuff that we no longer need in our house, OUT of the house.  I finally like my house.  When I come home and walk into the living room, I like the way my house FEELS now.  There are still many, many things that I know I want to remove, and other things I am on the lookout for that I want to be in this space.

Side note:  Denton begged me not to bring anything else into the house until I complete some of my projects – the state of the garage is terrible at the moment.  A lovely vintage work bench is what prompted this beseechment.  This little beauty caught mine and Olivia’s eyes last week when we went into the city.  It’s the perfect height for her to use as a standing desk and it has heavy duty, tool storage pull out drawers to put all of her crafting supplies in.  For $29.99.  We snatched it right up.  Much to Denton’s dismay.  He’s terrified that our “projects” are going to start creeping into his section of the garage…..

Anyway, my point is this:  we are about to gut Liv’s room and turn it into a space that works for her now.  We haven’t changed her room at all since she was about 10 years old, so it’s time.  And I didn’t have to pay $1,000.00 for something that is perfect for her space, since someone donated this thing that no longer worked for them.  It’s going to work brilliantly for her.

In the meantime, I will enjoy the fact that I sent away to someone else’s home things that will be useful to them, that we no longer needed.

Are you still decluttering?  It’s a process at my house!

You can see all of the other projects I’ve worked on here.