DeCluttering

For some reason, I’ve got a bug in me that my house was too cluttered. I’m sure everyone feels the same at some point in their life. So I told the husband that we need to get rid of our junk. Stuff we don’t ever use, haven’t used in a long time or ever, stuff that we won’t use ever again.

We started last week. I made the emotional decision that there really isn’t a need to keep all of my daughter’s old baby clothes. If they don’t fit, get them out of the house. The whole point is to only keep the necessary, and most loved items. So all of her clothes are going to be sparced out to friends who have younger children that may want the slightly used clothes in the near future. The same thing with extra blankets, towels, burp rags, baby monitor, and toys. I’ve come to terms with the reality that we don’t know when/if we’ll have another child and when/if that ever happens, we’ll get that child new/used items as needed.

We cleaned out probably around 50 DVD movies that we will most likely never watch again. I’m going to sift through the books on the bookshelf that have never been read and if I know I won’t read them, I’m going to get rid of them.

Getting rid of stuff doesn’t necessarily mean throwing it away. Many items will be surely donated to Goodwill, sold to friends and family for a cheap price, given to friends and family and taken somewhere to be traded in for credit towards other items. Who knows, I may even convince my husband to have a yard sale. Gasp!

So back to the decluttering. Last weekend, I managed to clear out the baby’s room of 2 garbage bags full of clothes, toys, and “baby stuff” that was lingering around. I cleaned out her top dresser drawer which had become a junk drawer. We cleaned off the movie shelf and eliminated 1/2 of the toys that were taking over the living room.

I can think of many things in my house that need to go, like the countless cookbooks I don’t use, the casette tapes from another era, the CD collection that is kept in a box in the closet. I also have many other things that I know of that are just wasting space in our house.

Just thinking about purging all that junk is a good feeling. I can’t wait to get rid of it all.