get rid of things I don't need

I really wanted to check this off by the end of the summer, but that kind of snuck up on me and I lost momentum. While I’ve already unloaded several boxes of crap and bags of clothes and excess linens (two whole trips to goodwill), I am still feeling overwhelmed by the amount of crap in my space. I just picked out another four pairs of shoes that are totally unnecessary. Somebody else can get the full use out of my old running shoes with some grocery store insoles. My current ones still have plenty of miles left in them and I already have the next pair I want to try out mentally picked out for when these hit their limits.

Since I am not going to drop these off in the donation bin until tomorrow, I have more time tonight to pick out more clothes to free up even more space in the closet.

Not that this was my stuff, but my storage room was full of things because I let a girl store her things in there for the summer in exchange for some gardening work. She came and claimed her things this weekend, clearing it up, but also claimed the two extra office chairs I had in there taking up space. My friend who graduated in May had given me a bunch of crap that didn’t fit into his truck and I don’t like to make more waste in this overly stuffed and wasteful world. I’m super glad I found two people who needed office chairs! I’m also glad to have the space back so I can free up some room in my living space with things that I need, but not regularly. I can stash my summer clothes in there and unpack my winter clothes soon; I can put my extra bike and bike trainer in there until the weather changes for the worse; and I can keep my guest linens in there with my empty luggage. All that’s left to clean up is this one shelf that is piled with random crap that needs to be installed or fixed or mailed to friends… and little things that need a new home.

and will continue to do this. a lot of it is going to come from not buying any more things that i don’t need, so i won’t need to get rid of as much stuff!!

I don’t use probably more than half of my belongings, and they could be going to better places like for people who don’t have as much as I do.

my closet is full of clothes an i dont use half of it

I just checked the Goodwill website and there is not only one on the way home from work, but it also accepts just about everything I put in my trunk to donate. It will be nice coming home with an empty car tonight so that I can fill it up again with the other crap that’s still in my way!

I also donated two boxes overflowing with old textbooks to some tutors who live nearby. I don’t know why I thought I should hang on to them at the time, but now that there’s no doubt how archaic they are and that I’ll never use them again I think this was a good solution. Those neighbors seemed very grateful and I feel good knowing they will put them to use.

Already my mood has improved greatly! It’s all in there waiting to be delivered to a local tutoring group and Goodwill. I’m lined up for phase two: evaluating the stuff I kept and carefully shopping for better things as I phase out more less-than-ideal stuff. My closet is the prime target, but furniture is a close second.

once I started on this, i realized HOW MUCH stuff I really have. I own things that I forgot I owned. That’s ridiculous. I was thinking just going through all my clothes/shoes/accessories, but i really need to go through ALL my stuff and get rid of every unnecessary thing.

I made a list of the things I’m going to put in my trunk to take to goodwill, throw away or give away to friends, and find a new place for. I’ve known for a good while that I have too much stuff, but nothing was really changing so I had to make things more concrete. This should improve things quite a bit and I may even be able to check this off at week’s end! (Okay, well maybe in two weeks realistically.)

or maybe tonight if i feel like it after work, i’m going to go through ALL of my clothes and donate every single thing I don’t wear. It will feel good to know that my stuff is going to a better place, while at the same time making room for the stuff I have. I live in a dorm, and I have so many clothes and other unnecessary stuff. I want to give it all away.