Let it GO! Decluttering (simplifying) your life of (people, places or things) success stories?

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  • mssue18
    mssue18 Posts: 117 Member
    Yesterday I started working on my bathroom. I had old cleaning supplies I didn’t know I had. How long can you keep laundry detergent and Lysol bathroom cleaner? I figure it doesn’t go bad does it? Any way I opened up a little more space in my bathroom. I have much more to sort thru and get rid of but it felt good to get started doing something yesterday.
  • RubyRed427
    RubyRed427 Posts: 4,347 Member
    mssue18 wrote: »
    Yesterday I started working on my bathroom. I had old cleaning supplies I didn’t know I had. How long can you keep laundry detergent and Lysol bathroom cleaner? I figure it doesn’t go bad does it? Any way I opened up a little more space in my bathroom. I have much more to sort thru and get rid of but it felt good to get started doing something yesterday.

    Maybe put the overflow items in the basement. I find it so much easier to clean when my supplies are streamlined. I don't believe they expire.
  • Midnigh
    Midnigh Posts: 56 Member
    RubyRed427 wrote: »
    What do you do with cards from special people? I can't save all of them and they mean something only to me, so not sure what to do?

    @emmclean Thanks for the tip. I will check her work out.

    I went to my sister's house. Her house is overwhelmed with clutter but her husband just can't part with anything. I feel badly for her- she said well if I keep hounding him about the clutter, it's like a cancer on our relationship. That's a battle- when one person is neat and the other messy. I live alone- so I have total control. Just ramblin'

    I have a lot of cards and memorabilia that I've saved over the years too. I've kept them thinking when I'm much older, it'll be fun to go thru them all while sitting in my rocking chair! lol

    My hubby doesn't like to part with things either. He turns 70 this year and he still won't part with his college textbooks or "nik naks" from his days in Japan while he was in the Air Force. I packed up a couple boxes of his treasures and put them in the garage a few years back. He never noticed they were gone! I won't toss his stuff but as least they aren't cluttering the inside of the house any longer!
  • Whatsthemotive
    Whatsthemotive Posts: 145 Member
    I have a real desire to de clutter but I don’t have that much control over my household. My husband has a lot of trouble letting things go. He’s been known to actually take things out of the trash. And they were my things, not his. But we have been able to improve. He really tries.
  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,451 Member
    I will be applying "keep only what brings you joy" to my sewing patterns. Keeping only those that are sized to my current measurements, and FROM that pile, keep only those that will make up into something I would wear at this point in my life (some patterns have been in my possession for a very long time - and I am just not the person who would wear "that" in my current life any more.)

    Any suggestions for re-homing for sewing patterns? Particularly never-used ones? I have heard of modge podging onto a wall as a decorating choice. (I am not enough into sewing myself for that, and haven't landed on a designated "forever sewing place" yet either) .
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,184 Member
    @BMcC9
    If you belong to a church or any other organization, you can donate what you don't need or want anymore. You can also reach to your local schools, including tech schools, to find out if they can use the patterns for sewing classes.

    Some communities have a "neighborhood e-mail center" where people advertise the sale or give-away of items that they not longer need. Check if you have it in your community, and also check the link below. Good luck!

    Where to Donate or Sell Your Old Sewing Patterns

    https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/where-to-sell-old-sewing-patterns-2978104#:~:text=Donating Used Patterns 1 Goodwill or Salvation Army:,love the opportunity to sort through your treasures.
  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,451 Member
    Thank you @RubyRed427 , @Gisel2015 , and @RetiredAndLovingIt for the pattern rehoming ideas. I will be checking out the www.sprucecrafts.com site in more detail, as it seems to have content of interest in more than one of my "craft and/or aspire-to craft " categories.
  • lauriekallis
    lauriekallis Posts: 4,763 Member
    RubyRed427 wrote: »
    What do you do with cards from special people?

    I've been kinda stuck on this one myself. I was thinking to photograph them, and then part with the physical objects? Haven't done that yet - but that is my plan this summer. Thank goodness for digital photographs now. They take up so little space that having an "archive" folder of memorabilia doesn't seem so bad.
  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,451 Member
    My plan by the end of the weekend is to finish sewing the waistband on a skirt (diminishing the clutter of uncompleted projects) and getting all sewing paraphernalia neatly contained in one place. Allowing me me relocate off-season clothes into two newly-emptied tall-boy drawers in my bedroom. And do a "Route out ROT" pass on my work-at-home papers. (that's information-management speak for "Redundant / Obsolete / Trivial" ... like ToDo task - lists that are already weeks old; meeting notes once the Record of Decision has been posted; that kind of convenient-in-the-moment but past its' time and not of ongoing business OR reference value)
  • snoo61
    snoo61 Posts: 549 Member
    I started cleaning out our desk today. Sorted piles of paperwork, and filed or threw it out. Looks better, only have hours to go on it. Lol
  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,451 Member
    no ..... you aren't contemplating pattern / material match-ups YET . .... FIRST finish sewing paraphenalia round-up. THEN cut out next project!

    (aren't you the least bit curious about "how all the clothes in the same room" is gonna go together ..... ONCE YOU FINISH EMPTYING THOSE TWO DRAWERS IN THE TALL BOY?
  • lacylucy1935
    lacylucy1935 Posts: 73 Member
    I too have been doing this, when I tackle a closet or drawer. Anything that I do not use or will not fit back into that space neatly has to go! Closet is my biggest challenge, hard to find pants that are comfortable & fit right so I have many! I love cloths but still working on cleaning that part out, and it does feel a lot better and easier to clean and keep that way!
  • snoo61
    snoo61 Posts: 549 Member
    We finished clearing out the desk. The new one arrived yesterday. This one has drawers so I'm hoping to keep this one dustable! Hubby might make it a struggle. We'll see.
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 395 Member
    edited April 2021
    Thank you mssue18 and Gisel2015 for taking the time to share thoughts and sources with me, I really appreciate it. Hoping this challenge will be beneficial to both of us down the road, especially for my friend.
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