The trash and recycle bins were full when I took them to the curb tonight.
The trash included a big black bag full of old costume dresses. I salvaged several zippers and cut the skirts off of 3 gowns to use the satin & lace fabrics in an art project, but let the rest go. They would have taken too much work to be wearable again.
I flipped through a pile of health and cooking magazines but didn't find any pages to keep so into the recycle bin they went. From a stack of paperwork and mail I kept half a dozen pieces of paper to file; the rest went either in the recycle bin or the burn bag.
Sooner or later we'll have the right combination of enough rain and enough time to build and watch a fire in the back yard chiminea to burn the paper sack full of papers with personal info. I could shred them, but we have some fallen branches to burn, so might as well use the papers as kindling.
I had planned to do more decluttering today, but DH needed a chauffeur twice. This morning I followed him into TheBigCity to drop his car at a mechanic and take him to work. This afternoon I had to drive in again to pick him up at work and go check the progress on his car.
(Rebuilding the front brakes.) The car wasn't done yet so I'll have to take him to work in the morning again very early, and probably another trip at lunch time to pick up the car.
Each trip turns into at least 1 1/2 hours, sometimes more, so it all adds up to a huge chunk of time out of the day that can only come from the decluttering projects.