PSA: Declutter your house

[barkley]

I have not done it in awhile but I think this weekend i'm going to start going through each of the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen. I KNOW there are odds and ends of stuff that we never use and will never use.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Reading through many of these pages has made me vow to do at least 2 major projects in the next few weeks-
1. Go through all my photos and make sure they're marked with the date, as well as I can, who the person is, and on some, where the photo was taken.
2. Go through all our Christmas stuff, and through away about half of it, maybe more. When the kids were younger and at home, we had a 9 foot tall Christmas tree as well as the ornaments for a tree that size. Now that we're in our 70s, we have a very modest celebration and a 3 foot tree. This year, half the ornaments never made it out of the box.
Also, when Mom was alive, our big thing was to go shopping the day after Christmas and then proudly brag about how much money we'd saved. Half of that stuff never got used.
Speaking of Mom, a few months before she passed, she moved into assisted living and impulsively sold her house "as is". I got no pictures, nothing. At the time I was devastated, but now I have mixed feelings about her choice.

 

[Pooh2]

Hubby just went through his closets and dresser and came out with two big bags of clothes to donate. Looking around now for the best options to donate.
Then on the other hand, we just came home from Walmart with a crockpot because it was on sale and what if we need another one for potlucks...
Two steps forward and one step back..

 

[disykat]

My DH has a fit about my 3 crockpots and is always trying to give them away. I do actually use them for entertaining. It's his boxes of junior high math papers etc. we DON'T need! Kitchen stuff (if well organized) is EASY to get rid of with a quick trip to the donation center. Hopefully we'll do that ourselves when we downsize as planned at some point. Boxes and piles of stuff that haven't been looked at in years are what's difficult.