practice discardia

From today until 17th October. I had already made a start last weekend without realising the time was upon us again – be gone, clutter!

gave away about 4 canvas shopping bags of clothes, baskets, books and other general “stuff” to a friend who is having a garage sale.
Drop in the bucket really…but what the hey…

Deleted nearly 6,000 unread emails and unsubscribed to anything I don’t read.

Deleted nearly 6,000 unread emails and unsubscribed to anything I don’t read.

Spring has sprung and the whole house has been cleaned! Bags have been dropped at the charity shop, rubbish has been recycled and flung and pictures that had no frames are now on the walls. I’ve been leaving all the internal doors in the house open so I can admire my hard work as I pass. Ahh…that feels better!

It took all day yesterday, but I finally got cracking on the small moutain of stuff to leave the house (to charity/ebay/amazon) and have sorted out a big pile o’ things to donate. Apparently charity shops desperately need new stock as people are making do and keeping hold in our current climate.
I have a much smaller pile of things to sell online – which shall be listed within a week.

This goal is made so much easier by having a new WORKING shredder! I got a beast of a shredder with some loyalty card points gained through my gas and electric supplier. It came out of the wrapping and 10 minutes later a huge pile of papers had been decimated! It’s given me a push to clear the dining room and ebay a nice coat I’ve had forever that’s far too big for me. hurray!

My friend is moving to Australia and her discarding has really inspired me. There are many things I need to sell and I’m starting to list 5 cds a day on Amazon, or give them to the charity shop. I took 3 boxes to stuff to the charity shop on Saturday morning (which they were happy to have, makes a nice change since some make it seem like a huge imposition). There are things to ebay as well, but it’s more than I can face at the moment, that place is such hard work.

This goal has kinda become the focus for my life this last week. I’m on an “imposed” vacation while my boss looks for a gig for me. Had 2 lined up but the company wouldn’t negoiate the cost for me so now I’m just hanging around.

Not sure why, but it feels like it’s the right time to discard a bunch of stuff.

Including some old “baggage” from the past, some additional weight I’ve picked up over the last year, and mind clutter. Want to come out of this time with a cleaned out car and a cleaned out office space.

That would be time well spent…

Thinking that for me right now, this is a spiritual exercise.

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!