practice discardia

Have a serious excess clothing issue. Will have to be ruthless and cull the collection. I’m sure I have about 10x more clothes than the average person. Also have a shoe cabinet that is completely full. Thinking about having a market stall next month. That will also give me some extra $ for my San Fran trip

This makes moving so much easier! I recycled lots and lots of cardboard boxes, old paper and gave away clothes and furniture. Good times!

I gave around 200 (!!) CDs and DVDs to a friend. Theye were only collecting dust on top of my closet. I probably have at least a hundred of them left, but it’ll be easier to give (or throw) them away now that I’ve started. It feels so liberating.

I now have four stacks out in the hall waiting to be given away!

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Ok, this is an amazing quote. Not what I was planning on writing, but still amazing and very relevant.

My sister, brother in law, niece, and nephew are moving in with my mom and I and there is not much room for all of the crap. I am retaining my bedroom and don’t have to share it, but I still have too much stuff to be contained in that small area and the sad part is I don’t even use most of it! So, what I need to do is sort out what I will use/ would use if there was room and get rid of the rest of it. I can’t live like this anymore! I am losing heart as I stay immersed in this mess, so I need to do this to get my life back (why the quote is so applicable in my life)!

Hey team, a Happy Saturday to you. How has your week been? I had the workers in my apartment on Tuesday to replace my smoke detector. I had tidied up enough for it to be presentable, and it was smelling clean. Thank goodness for ‘Pinesol’, eh? LOL

After dropping off a big load at the Salvation Army, I have another pile started and waiting near the door. It’s amazing how much crap one person can accumulate, what the heck is wrong with me? Some of this stuff I have never used, but at the time of purchase, I couldn’t live without.

I still haven’t figured out how much is enough, how many is reasonable. If you have any ideas on that topic (clothes) please let me know. ;-)

Okay, crunch time is on. Notice posted in the lobby ~ Workers are coming into my apt. on Tuesday to change the smoke detector. Panic. Then .. relief, it gets changed to the following Tuesday. Do not Procrastinate, Must do Discardia, now! Do not wait til the last minute!

I have three bags of towels and washclothes, and I started on a bag of T-shirts. How many tops is reasonable? I don’t know moderation, so of course, I had 11 tops in every shade of red / cranberry / burgundy that I could find. I am keeping three, the rest are folded up and going OTD (out the door). Gotta keep up the momentum.

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I am still (and always have been) weighed down by stuff…. and inertia grabs me and I can´t get rid of it. I need to do something about it desperately. So many things to sell and give away…. so much dragging me down from being my authentic self.

I finally took a few things to Goodwill, and they gave me coupons to go to Elder Beerman and buy more stuff! EB has some good sales and the coupons are good on the sales stuff; I was very tempted, but I remembered that yesterday/today/tomorrow is New Moon (I’m having some trouble interpreting my calendar this month) and therefore No New Stuff. I’m happy that I remembered, because I DON’T need any New Stuff!

Wow, did you see the story on Oprah a few days ago, about the woman with TONS of stuff in her home, and I do mean .. TONS of junk and stuff that took a team of people to throw out, sell off, return and organize.

That was scary, wow .. I don’t ever want to be that bogged down with stuff. I am learning that the less I have, the easier it is to take care of and faster to find the things I am looking for.