SHEs Organized

hello d harriet! I am dejunking but need to put it here! wishing you a great day!

Harriet ~ Would you like to rename this thread to combine July & August? I would be ok with that, since we need to Escape to Indoors during the August as well as July, whether in our summer or our southern hemisphere friends' winter.

I am continuing to dejunk various rooms. Any cleared space is good.

Yesterday I spent about an hour going through 5 boxes of sewing fabrics & supplies -- 4 medium size and 1 large, although thankfully the large box was not totally full. Of all of those, I kept 1 bankers box 3/4 full of cotton batik prints and 1 small box of costuming memorabilia. The rest is either in the trash or a donation box to take to my sewing group.

Those boxes were all from when I did costumes for community theater and in those days I had to keep every little scrap to use for decorations and repair patches. For awhile I thought I was going to return to costuming, but now I think probably not, and therefore all of those types of sewing supplies are leaving the house as quickly as I can sort through them.

I also found 3 empty plastic bins which only needed to be washed out to be useful, so I washed them. I can use them now for sorting, and because they are translucent they won't become black holes that make me forget what's in them.

The trash and recycle bins are full to go out the curb tonight, always a good feeling.

I have a box I decluttered and it is ready to go to the donation center. Get a couple small trash cans full of papers from decluttering today as well.

d harriet - I was thinking the same thing the other day! oh my gosh, how is it possible?

I love d books suggestion to put it as jury-august declutter!

yay d nancy!

I have been working in the basement - I am so so tired of clutter building over and over. On the patreon channel of Kat's she put the clutter collection in terms of a Rolling tide - it's like every tide drops more and more stuff on the house (all the mindless clutter). I feel like that with everyone. (including me).

dh has been so happy dropping off all of the stuff I am getting rid of.

We get the prize for the BIGGEST item decluttered!

Saturday, DH and I both waved down the guy going by with a truck and trailer with multiples of odds and ends in it. He recognized this fellow must be scrapping for metal etc. When the guy came back around to see what we wanted, DH gave him the last riding lawn mower which hasn't worked in years!

Took some doing to get it on his trailer with all his other junk, but finally DH just hooked a chain and pulled it alongside with his truck and they got it on. The scrapper guy was determined not to leave without it.

While he was here DH also gave him some really big steel fasteners, the kind they use to fasten big light poles to the ground with.

I am beyond ecstatic that thing is gone! We really didn't know what to do with it as our recycle place won't take them any more and the landfill is at the other end of the county and it was hard to load up...so yippee now it's gone!

I put 2 baby spoons in the declutter bucket today, and got out a couple of lawn chairs we can let go of. I will work on loading up the donations in the morning on Sat.

I spent an hour Tuesday and a little over an hour Wednesday going through more boxes of supplies from my costuming days. I even found 1 box that we moved here in 1993 that was nicely labeled "mending and in progress" -- -- mistakenly put into storage and forgotten in all the stress of moving. I saved 1 project from that box, saved the pretty buttons from 2 white blouses no longer worth mending, and tossed all the rest. Filled 3 tall kitchen trash bags of fabric scraps, old patterns, etc. and those went to the curb Wednesday night.

I am getting rid of all large boxes and consolidating keepers into smaller boxes that will fit on shelves.

2 shopping bags have stuff that I might donate to a friend who is building a haunted house. For example, there are several pieces of tulle & netting that he could use for making ghost props. However, if I don't find any more for him, I'll throw the 2 bags away as it will cost too much gas to deliver.

I'm finding a few treasures along the way to keep the process interesting. Otherwise, it feels good to be able to make easy decisions about a lot of things I don't need any more.

I'm hoping the next set of boxes I open will hold fabrics that are nice enough to donate to my sewing group.

quick hi! cheering everyone on!