365 Days of Decluttering

In cleaning the clutter from my bedroom, I had to take some grooming items into the bathroom. There I found many small items that needed to find the trash can.  Included in the pile were 1 can of green, aerosol, hair color Baby fingernail trimmers 2 broken thermometers  Dried out lip balm  2 brushes for cleaning out an orthodontic Herbst appliance Pack of closers for flossing braces I added this to a packing box and a pair of ladies unmentionables. I haven’t worn since I had kids and made up 10 for the day. I’m not sure why I had the hair color.  My oldest wanted his hair dyed green for Halloween, but there wasn’t enough in there for a second treatment.  I suppose I thought I could use it again.  The baby fingernail trimmers haven’t been used in 13 years, but managed to hide out in a bin in the medicine cabinet along with the two thermometers that were unreliable at best.  A replacement thermometer was purchased about a year ago, but t...

About 8 years ago we got a new mattress, one that needed deeper pocket sheets than the ones we had at that time.  The deeper sheets were acquired, but the old ones remained!  Why not, who knows when we make go need them, right?  They’ll fit on the futon, right?  Wrong.  The futon is a double, and we’ll never go back to a thinner mattress.  These threadbare sheets needed to go. Had anyone ever noticed that, while the  sheets wear out, the pillowcases last forever.  Some of these cases go back to the dawn of my marriage.  Others belonged to my sons from the time that having Thomas the Tank Engine was considered the height of preschool fashion. My sons will never go back to this stage, much to my sorrow, so they needed to go to. Total 20/3650

Our house is tiny, and that is just fine. We have approximately 1100 square feet for 4 people, two adults, two teenagers which includes  2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and a converted garage.  Still, people can still get lost in the house, and no one lacks for privacy.  The boys have bunk beds for their own space, and when Daniel wakes up at 6 and doesn’t want to risk the wrath of an early morning Alex, he heads into the sunroom.  It may be cold, but the quilt on the futon counters the early morning chill. With 4 people, we still have a lot of stuff.  I may say that I want to be able to fit all my possessions in the back of my RAV4 and travel the world, but I’m a long way from that happening.  Stuff gets lost in corners, or forgotten about in the many storage areas we have.  This is my quest to weed out all the bits of clutter from our house, 10 pieces a day. Day 1 of cluttering started in our bedroom.  We have a platform bed with a book case head...