A Whole Tin and a Bag 'O Junk Gone...

Gee, but I used to really think that wreath was pretty. I made it myself years ago and it hung in the bathroom in our previous house. There's just no place for it here, and it's gotten rather dusty and bedraggled to boot.

Somewhere along the way I stopped being fond of dried floral wreaths. Aren't they bad feng shui anyway? :)

I also found a decorative tin that was just chock full of little gew-gaws: buttons, pendants, perfume samples, and an assortment of junk jewellery.

And this lot above, well, I just have to face it---I'm not about to sew anything with these cloth scraps now, am I ?

3156 less things to dust.

Starting to Run Out of Flea Market Things...

I culled these old gardening/decorating magazines from one of the big bookshelves in The Library. You know what that means?

Yes...I'm starting to run out of flea market things and I'm starting to consider the process of Decluttering the rest of my house. My stuff.

And I keep coming across things I'm just not sure what to do with. Which fortunately for this project usually means they need to go.

For instance, this papier-mache woman that somebody (maybe Amber) once made. It was yellowed and crackling, but I toyed for quite some time with making some sort of Goddess figure from it.... No, I told myself, if you're going to make potentially Sacred Art, you don't really want to construct it from something that's been slowly decaying in a corner of the garage!

And, pictured on the right beside it, is a cardboard box covered with wallpaper--a somewhat dilapidated Touchy-Feely Box that could be used at the daycare.

Why has it not been used then? Because the RAT that lived in my garage at one point made it unuseable with the residue of droppings. Awful!

Then why, you may ask, why did I simply not toss it long ago? Well, it's because my friend Carol made it and now she has passed away. Four years ago this month actually. And I have to pause before I throw out something my dead friend made.

But really! I have better things to remember our friendship by. So out it went finally this week.

And lastly, here are a few of the dregs that were cluttering up the dark corners of the garage still. No more.

3056 less things to trip over.

Out of My House and Into the Daycare

A lot of the stuff boxed in my basement is great stuff to pass on to the dressup box/toy collection at the daycare.

And there's always the fifty or so art projects per year that I'm responsible for coming up with to consider when I peruse my clutter.

Alas, half of the art supplies pictured above however were too dried-up/empty to be of any use to anyone, so they went straight to the trash.

But these baskets, for instance, were perfectly useable--perfect for the children to paint!

These items gone brought my total Declutter Count to just over the Three Thousand mark: 3019!

Getting Going Again

It's easy to lose momentum....

But here's another hundred little things at least that are gone.

2888 things decluttered.