DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! - Page 3

joyful mama · 01-07-2009, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by joyful mama

1 + 11 craft and bday stuff = 12 + 16 clothes to give to my sister

=28

+ 37 clothing to donate, sell, give away

=65

+ 21 toys, misc. some trashed, the rest in a donation pile

=86 nice start i'd say!

Codi · 01-07-2009, 06:04 PM

Im in!!!!

How exciting!!!

Is there a list of "what counts" somewhere?

Quiteria · 01-07-2009, 07:05 PM

signing in...

01-07-2009, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by APMamaCodi

Im in!!!!

How exciting!!!

Is there a list of "what counts" somewhere?

Anything counts!

Any item that leaves your house counts as "decluttered" whether that means it was trashed, donated, freecycled or sold. Loaning an item does NOT count b/c it's going to come back to you

We're talking permanent removal here.

I'm also taking the executive power inherent in any challenge czar & I say that virtual clutter - unvisited bookmarks & emails you're avoiding - also count as decluttered items once they are dealt with and/or deleted

Codi · 01-07-2009, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by KatieMae

Quote:

Originally Posted by APMamaCodi

Im in!!!!

How exciting!!!

Is there a list of "what counts" somewhere?

Anything counts!

Any item that leaves your house counts as "decluttered" whether that means it was trashed, donated, freecycled or sold. Loaning an item does NOT count b/c it's going to come back to you

We're talking permanent removal here.

I'm also taking the executive power inherent in any challenge czar & I say that virtual clutter - unvisited bookmarks & emails you're avoiding - also count as decluttered items once they are dealt with and/or deleted

Awesome! This is going to be great!!!

But I have like 100 emails I have been avoiding and can probably delete half of them. That doesn't really count, does it?

01-07-2009, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by APMamaCodi

Awesome! This is going to be great!!!

But I have like 100 emails I have been avoiding and can probably delete half of them. That doesn't really count, does it?

I was mostly thinking of the kind of emails that you have to reply to, or that are forcing you to do another task - like, someone asked you a question & you have to look up the answer online, or you got a late notice from your library so now you have to find that lost book & go pay your fine. IOW, emails that are serving more as reminders than messages - make sense? Something like that. If you're just being lazy about deleting newsletters, I dunno

Codi · 01-07-2009, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by KatieMae

Quote:

Originally Posted by APMamaCodi

Awesome! This is going to be great!!!

But I have like 100 emails I have been avoiding and can probably delete half of them. That doesn't really count, does it?

I was mostly thinking of the kind of emails that you have to reply to, or that are forcing you to do another task - like, someone asked you a question & you have to look up the answer online, or you got a late notice from your library so now you have to find that lost book & go pay your fine. IOW, emails that are serving more as reminders than messages - make sense? Something like that. If you're just being lazy about deleting newsletters, I dunno

I am so being lazy about news letters!!! LOL

01-07-2009, 07:33 PM

See? We all have the same problems!

I'm totally inside y'all's brains

Codi · 01-07-2009, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KatieMae

See? We all have the same problems!

I'm totally inside y'all's brains

Grover · 01-08-2009, 06:44 AM

Great idea
I have a bag full of clothes about to be recycled-I will count them and post back later-Okay it was 25 items of clothing off to be recycled Yay
One bag of craft items de cluttered
Total for 8th Jan =26- so thats 1981 to go right

klpmommy · 01-08-2009, 09:20 AM

today I started shreding 2007 important papers. And found the dog rabies vax paperwork in the process.

It will take a few more days to get it all done, but

, it feels good to get it started!!!!! (I will keep 2008 papers through the year 2009, this is a compromise b/w dh & I who would still keep his important papers from 1992 if I let him.)

Firebird Rising · 01-08-2009, 10:35 AM

i'm in, but I need to leave the house right now so I can't record my goods so far

Jen D.

TrinMama · 01-08-2009, 02:02 PM

10 + 10 more to recycling= 20 + 4 boxes out to trash/recycling= 24

charla · 01-08-2009, 02:30 PM

[quote=charla ]
+1 threw away breastpump that is about 10 years old and doesn't work

22 total

joyful mama · 01-08-2009, 04:00 PM

kimberly

86

+17 papers, magazines
3 stuff from medicine cabinet
2 toys

=108

01-07-2009, 06:04 PM	#32
Codi Rose Garden Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 25,840	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! Im in!!!! How exciting!!! Is there a list of "what counts" somewhere? __________________ MOMMY TO A - 14 A - 11 N - 8

01-07-2009, 07:05 PM	#33
Quiteria Rose Garden Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 23,483	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! signing in... __________________ Homeschooling mama to five: a young adult (graduated!), two high schoolers, a big kid, and a kindergartner And yes, they've all aged overnight since the last time you read my out-of-date sigg.

01-07-2009, 07:33 PM	#38
KatieMae Guest Posts: n/a	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! See? We all have the same problems! I'm totally inside y'all's brains

01-08-2009, 06:44 AM	#40
Grover Rose Garden Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 9,032	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! Great idea I have a bag full of clothes about to be recycled-I will count them and post back later-Okay it was 25 items of clothing off to be recycled Yay One bag of craft items de cluttered Total for 8th Jan =26- so thats 1981 to go right __________________ Sam 6 kids spread over a quarter of a century. Home educating 3. One is getting married later this year Two have flown the nest. Grandma to four .

01-08-2009, 09:20 AM	#41
klpmommy Deactivated Beware the gorgon, she's having a bad hair day Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: DFW area Posts: 54,024	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! today I started shreding 2007 important papers. And found the dog rabies vax paperwork in the process. It will take a few more days to get it all done, but , it feels good to get it started!!!!! (I will keep 2008 papers through the year 2009, this is a compromise b/w dh & I who would still keep his important papers from 1992 if I let him.)

01-08-2009, 10:35 AM	#42
Firebird Rising Rose Garden Encircling Mountains Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: High above a great and beautiful canyon in a Golden State city... Posts: 19,063	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! i'm in, but I need to leave the house right now so I can't record my goods so far Jen D. __________________ *Привет! Меня зовут Джен!* Hi! My name is Jen! May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks - Gandalf

01-08-2009, 02:02 PM	#43
TrinMama Deactivated Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: California Posts: 8,150	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! 10 + 10 more to recycling= 20 + 4 boxes out to trash/recycling= 24

01-08-2009, 02:30 PM	#44
charla Administrator Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 16,658	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! [quote=charla ] +1 threw away breastpump that is about 10 years old and doesn't work 22 total __________________ CHARLA Married to Nick, 31 yrs Mom to Nathan and his wife Abby, and Hope Elizabeth, dancing for eternity with babies: Micah Noel, Grace Anna, Andrew David www.dancingforeternity.org www.irresistiblehope.org Save Save Save Save Save

01-08-2009, 04:00 PM	#45
joyful mama Rose Garden Word of God speak... Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 18,661	Re: DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 2009 items in 2009! kimberly 86 +17 papers, magazines 3 stuff from medicine cabinet 2 toys =108 __________________ Jen Married to my knight in shining armor Work-in-progress mother to my three awesome kids: S (8), T (6) and the Little Guy (3) ...and always remembering our little angel

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