Decluttering - Week 3 Day 3 - Books Day 2

Today we're working on the other bookshelf in my room:

 

 

And I found only a couple of things, so my total for the challenge is 271. 

 

 

Keep pressing on.

Steph

Decluttering - Week 3 Day 2 - Books Day 1

Here's the area I'm working on today;

 

 

Well, the bookshelf doesn't look much different, but I found 29 things that needed to go or be given away. 

 

 

So my total for the challenge is 269 items so far.

 

Keep pressing on,

Steph

Decluttering - Week 3 Day 1 - My desk/work area

We are on Week 3 now in this 8-week challenge.  At 10 things a day, we should be at 150 things so far.

Here's what our week looks like:

1. My desk/work area
2. Adult books - Day 1
3. Adult books - Day 2
4. Medicine/vitamin cupboard
5. Children's art work

So today, I brought down everything from my desk in my room, plus a couple of other areas that needed some cleaning up.

Now the desk in my room looks like this:

Oh, yeah, I can work with that.

But my work area during the day when I'm watching kids is the dining room table.  This is what that looks like:

Now, I have to work on sorting and filing.  I put the manuals and things into a 3-ring binder with page protectors.  Each manual goes in a page protector.  I need a bigger three-ring binder.  I found nine manuals for things we don't have. 

But my total for today is 15, because I threw away a coat, a shirt and 4 socks with holes. 

My total for the challenge is 230. 

Keep pressing on,
Steph

Decluttering - Week 2 Day 5 - Children's Books Day 2

So on Friday, I pulled all the books out of my younger four's rooms. 

I brought them down in laundry baskets, so that I could go through them while the little ones were sleeping. 

My total for the day was 30. 

Total for the challenge is 215.

Keep pressing on,
Steph

Decluttering - Week 2 Day 4 - Children's Books Day 1

I'm switching things around and doing my desk on Monday.  The next two days will be Children's books.

If you read the sign on the box in the first picture, you'll know we no longer use the box for mind games and puzzles.   But it's the box/tote on the bookshelf in the living room for the little ones to look at.

Before

After

My kids books on the bookshelf in a hallway:

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After

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After

And what's on it's way out?

These are going to a good home - to someone who hasn't had a chance to read these books. 

Total for today - 45

Total for the challenge - 185

Keep pressing on
Steph

Decluttering - Week 2 Day 3 - Videos, DVDs and CDs

It's really sad to have to throw away DVDs when we loved the movie.  But the kids tend to lose the cases and then they get all scratched up and there is no reason to keep a movie that is wrecked.  I would love to put my movies into sleeves in a case, but Carpenter doesn't want to do that.  So for now, we're keeping our system as is.  

Right now, I'm on a mission to go through all of our movies.  Instead of watching TV, we put on a movie that we own.  If it glitches, after a proper cleaning, I am pitching it.  So far we are up to about 10 movies that don't work.  Sad.  But we've found some movies that we thought were bad, but they just needed to be cleaned.

A well-used movie

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After

Our system for the checked videos - a little label - doesn't matter what color, no markings on it shows it's been viewed and is free of glitches.
 

Our videos - personally, I'm ready to be done with videos, but we have some that we love, so maybe I'll work on weeding out some that aren't our favorites.

Before

Two boxes of weeded out movies

After
 

 I also found another thing that needed to be thrown away.  My total for the day was 70 items, so now I am up to 140 items for the challenge.

Keep pressing on,
Steph

Decluttering - Week 2 Day 2 - Cookbooks etc.

Today's project was the cookbook cupboard - I was a bit harsh with myself about what cookbooks to get rid of.  If I haven't used it in a long time and it doesn't have any recipes I use, it's going out. 

 

Also I try to throw out a phone book everytime I get a new one (and yes, we're still using them in this house), but apparently I'm not so good at it.  I had three to throw away. 

 

 



Before

After

To give away or throw away or maybe sell

Total for today was 15 items.

Total for the challenge is up to 70 items.  How many items have you found so far?

Keep pressing on!

Steph