practice discardia

I have less stuff now, the house is a lot easier to live in, all in all, my life is better than it was this time last year.
I may be returning to this some time in the future, but for now I feel that I’ve done what I can.

Thanks for the team spirit!

Even after doing this for what seems like forever, there is still more to do! After having had carpet laid, we have moved all our upstairs stuff to the dining room (aka storage – agh!). I’m reluctant to move all that stuff back up here, so I think another pass at getting rid of some of this is worth it. I am also coming to the realisation that we REALLY need a shed for all the gardening and DIY detritus. It never ends!

I have a player with far too many songs on. I love my music, but there is stuff on there I never listen to. Last Tuesday I started going through the huge playlist alphabetically, taking a letter a day and throwing out anything either me or my husband were not crazy about. It was all going well until last night and I dropped the player in the (clean, thank goodness) toilet. ARGH and haha! So off it went to the water heater cupboard, the battery taken out (when I remembered about a hour later) with a towel. Today I went by a shoe shop and asked them for some silica gel sachets and put the player and the sachets in a ziploc bag. Fingers crossed, because there is some awesome music on there!
Discardia will continue after this interrupion!

Edit – it totally worked, and even better – the pause button works again. Unexpected bonus!

FINALLY arrived! I think this will help with getting some stuff out of the house without feeling guilty about throwing it away.

I’ve done this a few times now, and it feels so good to get rid of extra crap. I could just do it any time, and that’s what I used to do, but there’s something about doing it during the actual days of discardia, knowing that other people are commemorating those days by getting rid of some of their crap too, that makes me really happy.

I was able to successfully move to New Orleans with only the contents of my Nissan Sentra. That was almost 2 months ago. Since then I’ve received a couple of care packages and bought groceries and books but not much else. I don’t need much else, except maybe more books and some local art to hang on my walls and a teaching job by Christmas.

I did buy a bike, but I bought it for $25 and fixed it up and it’s dead useful for riding around town. I can head down to the Quarter whenever I have a spare hour or two and browse books, take pictures, go out to lunch, dodge tourists, eat pralines, whatever. It’s far more convenient than driving everywhere.

I think I can count this one as done. I don’t have much to discard anymore.

but all the stuff that didn’t sell at the car boot sale went to the cat shelter charity shop. Good stuff, too, but not for me any more. The house is looking a bit more welcoming bit by bit as I reclaim space from STUFF!

yestreday I threw four bags!!! I have forgotten how thrilling it actually is to discard!!! I know invite abundance to flow into my life…it’s like a special ritual…
my soul is pleased and satisfied now

I’m gearing up for the next season, which begins tomorrow. I cleaned out my desk and art space pretty thoroughly, and now I have a bag of stuff waiting to go to the thrift store or be freecycled.

Threw out a bunch of stuff from the “junk drawer” in the bathroom. Not sure why, but that draw has been the place all kinds of miscellanously crap goes for years. It’s always irritated me because it’s not usable any more.

Need to dump the whole thing and start over as far as I’m concerned but not sure how that’d go over with the other folks in the house.

Slow movement is better than standing still I guess.