Last week I gathered up more of the things that I have accumulated in the go away pile – which has grown larger and larger until it has taken over an entire section of my bedroom. It has become amazing and very distressing at the same time.
Everyone at my house has been adding to the dangerously tilting mountain and it needed to be dealt with.
Let’s see what is going to live with someone else this time.
More magazines. As I was leaving the bedroom, I spotted a stack of magazines that I had deliberately put aside as soon as they came in the mail and then I just stepped around them until I forgot they were there. Do you do these things too?
I still do not understand how Cosmo is being printed. There is literally nothing of value that I can find in this magazine. Well, people are strange and will spend their money on lots of things that I would find useless so…..
I culled through my cookbooks again.
In the giant teetering pile of clothes that are overflowing from the go away wicker basket I found all of this.
I also decided that this little beauty had to go. I told my brother and my Mama that my teeth are worth a LOT more than the way this things looks in my kitchen. Neither Denton nor I can use it as a step stool because it attempts to collapse. Even Liv and Hayden put a strain on its tiny joints, so I don’t know who they designed this thing for. So out it goes and my sturdy wooden step stool has gone back in.
More “extras” that are making my life infinitely harder. I have discovered that the more things I have the more often I have to clean them…….
Even more “extras”.
And now we come to part of the towering mountain of clothes that needed to leave our house. Hayden has jumped on the bandwagon of If I Don’t LOVE It….
Which is making this Mama sad, because I miss when he wore the Oscar the Grouch and Kermit the Frog t-shirts – you know – when he was 14. Sigh….
More…..
and more t-shirts…..
And then some more t-shirts….
All of this stuff went away on Thursday, so if anyone is reading this now, please don’t be disappointed that you can’t request it now.
I am actually going through the towering mountain of stuff that we have accumulated; it has shrunk immensely, with the hope that I can completely empty it out before the start of the new year.
Because we all know that I still have many, many things that are taking up room in my house and causing me to clean more than is necessary.
How is the decluttering going at your house? Or have you found the perfect amount of things that you love and need and want to surround yourself with? I’m getting there. I can spot things instantly in my closet now that I know have no place there, but I didn’t want to add to the teetering pile any more yet, so they will be next on my agenda in the new year.
Until next time……
