Get rid of stuff

This weekend—woot! :D

These monthly decluttering challenges at MotheringDotCommune have been helpful in doing this “thing.” I’m all signed up for April, http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=873774!

Dining room table is clear!
Coffee table is clear!
More than 50 things are gone!

And, it’s all on the blahg :)

Check it, yo! The computer desk is done :)

And because I’m such a visual girl, I also made a flick’r album to help motivate me throughout the month.

Sweet!

I’m participating in the December De-clutter Challenge over at MotheringDotCommune. Our goals are:

• Keep coffee table clutter-free for the month.
• Keep dining table clutter-free for the month.
• Clean out and organize armoire/computer desk; designate places for the stuff that keeps cluttering the coffee and dining tables ;)
• Finish dressing room organization (hang up vision boards, purge clothing) and trim work (crown molding, quarter-inch round molding, caulking, painting).
• Donate or sell 50 items.

This is our first de-clutter challenge, and it’s hard to know where to draw the line. I don’t want to overestimate our ability, but at the same time, it is a “challenge,” right ;)

Also, the clutter around the house is due in large part to organizational issues. We wanted to take a holistic approach and actually solve the problem, opposed to just the symptom. I’m thinking that it’s unreasonable to say “keep the tables clutter-free” without addressing the issues of why the tables are cluttered. The stuff has to go somewhere!

Okay… here we go :) Stuff be gone!

Cleaned out a closet at work and found some random xmas stuff. They’re all listed at Freecycle:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaelamartin/590532942/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaelamartin/590532908/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaelamartin/590532884/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaelamartin/590532992/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaelamartin/590532974/

:)

Passing along some books :)

While working on another one of my 43 Things (organize my closet, http://www.43things.com/things/view/6826), I got rid of two bags of (mostly) clothes. Jason saw the bags and filed two of his own.

These four bags will go to the thrift this week :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaelamartin/363597866/in/set-72157594467817534/

This is my current To Get Rid Of list. Most of the things I’ve recently Freecycled came from deep within these boxes.

I can’t wait till they’re gone!

I was looking for a way to step up this goal, and I noticed this post, http://www.43things.com/entries/view/1573786 by DeadWriter (http://www.43things.com/person/DeadWriter). Very interesting idea, yes? I’d like to adopt the same goal, in some form… still thinking about how, exactly :)