Another one of those “But Grandma made it for us.” discussions. We haven’t had it up on the walls for about 30 years. The nursery picture! So sad to see it leave but “Really? We still have this?”įreezer Grandma made the wedding wreath needlepoint for us. It has been about 2 years since we “moved” back in after the flood and the pictures were still bubble wrapped on the garage shelf. We worked on another shelf that had all the large framed pictures from the walls and under the bed before the Great Flood of 2015. We definitely need to remove some items tomorrow! 7 Comments Total for the challenge = 240 items + a bunch of digital files!ĭaily Average = 18.46 items per day. Today was spent finding and fixing the other 2. We must have had a pressure surge because 3 pipes had cracked/burst at the same time. John thought he fixed is a couple of weeks ago, but when he turned on the water, it obviously wasn’t. When she walked around the house to investigate, there was water all over the patio. About a month ago, kiddo #2 was home alone and heard a weird clunking noise in the bathroom. John spent the day fixing the sprinkler system. By the end of the day, there were 25.1 GB and 14,356 files. No idea how many actual files, probably over 30,000. Today she started with about 46 GB worth of files (this is when she decided to look about noon).
#January declutter challenge 2021 portable#
So now off to think about the goals for 2018! 11 CommentsĪctual items out of the house/premise today = 0īarb spent the day organizing and purging her work portable hard drive. Guess we need to start writing about those things too! We are less stressed about STUFF and other things in general, eating healthy meals at home more often than before, and enjoying doing other things that we wouldn’t have before. While we both had some successes and some “failures”, we are quite happy with how our year turned out. √+ 0 X John is tracking his blood sugar every day (like he was supposed to do all along!) and has found that alcohol affects it (he needed to see the results himself!) He didn’t gain any weight (also only lost about 5 pounds for the year) and we can’t park in the garage (see above). √ √ 0 X Barb is drinking more water! She is “officially” a descendant of the Mayflower she didn’t gain any weight (and only lost about 5 pounds for the year) and the picture boxes are untouched. Not sure how we will deal with this – maybe we need to start having our air hockey championships again! Granted, it was a lot fun when the kids and their friends were involved – just us, not sure. The facebook for sale and craigslist for our area has a lot of these and they aren’t moving even if the price is $0. We just need to suck it up and figure out a way to sell/give it away.
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The big item that seems to be holding this up is the full-size Air Hockey Table. Well, the car still parks every night in the driveway. X The last big goal was to clear out enough of the garage to put a car in it and purchase a new garage door and opener.
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Not quite as much as we would like but it looks better than before Jan 2017. Most of our big decluttering in January and July were due to decluttering the garage. √- Next, we wanted to thoroughly go through the garage. We will have travel expenses to see her (I suppose we could eliminate this from the “rules” but then there will be meals out, etc to contend with.) We are contemplating another one this month but with our first granddaughter due any day, I’m not willing to do no spending just yet. Well we did it last February! Surprisingly (or maybe not) we have been more aware of purchases than we were even before this experiment.
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I still have some areas in the house I want to declutter and just need the time to do so. A majority of that stuff was donated or trashed but I still had to go through them and decide to not keep most of it. I also did not count the dozen or so boxes my brother brought to me from my parents’ home.
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Is it possible we decluttered more than this? Of course! But these are the number of items we intentionally made a decision to remove from our home. Now that may not seem like much but this now brings our “official” decluttering numbers to 20717 items removed since I began this journey in 2014.