Downsizing: Week Two

[no_hypocrisy]

Week One: Donated the 10-speed bicycle.

Week Two: Donated ca. 20 VHS tapes, mostly classic movies.

The momentum is there.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Do you do cleanouts?

Any experience with Pickers, or alternatively, Downsizing companies? Then there's junk removers. I prob need all three and it's a complex dance to sort, sell, maximize, junk, donate. We are prisoners to our junk.

[kimbutgar]

4. I do that in my senior move manager job.

It’s something to go into a place, identify the things they need to move with them. . Pack up that stuff, move them into their new residences and then go back and clear out their homes afterwards. We wait a few days until we start that because they always forget something they realize they need!

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Incrementally, yes.

Week Three will be culling the 100+ cookbooks I own. Reality hit me that I really don't use some of them.

[kimbutgar]

2. Today my husband and I cleared out our kitchen freezer and garage freezer

Put expired food in the green bin, cardboard paper and plastic ( separated) in our recycling bin. I can’t believe how much room I have now in my freezers. I do downsizing for my senior move manager job and since I did that yesterday for my senior client my husband “ suggested” I should do it at home. It feels good!

Lately if I have free time I’ve been going though drawers while I’m watching tv and throw out stuff. One doesn’t realize how many” treasures” one collects in their lifetime!

[leftieNanner]

3. Well done 👍

We gave away a really nice wood table, four cane seated chairs, a microwave, and a small fridge to be given to folks living in low income housing. Downsizing is good for us, but not always easy.

[lamp_shade]

6. Should I keep this? Ask yourself this question:

What would be the cost to replace this? $50?... $5?... then make your decision.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. My question to myself is do I need it now and will I need it in 10 years.

Right now I'm debating whether to keep curtains. I love them, but they aren't hanging on my windows.

[enid602]

8. year

Ask yourself if you've used the item in the last year.

[mahina]

9. Books. So so so many books.

I need all of them! Or so my brain says.

[XanaDUer2]

10. I want less in my life

[no_hypocrisy]

11. I'm sticking to themes for de-cluttering:

DVDs
Sheets
Cookbooks
Nonfiction
Fiction
Summer clothes
Winter clothes
Coats

[XanaDUer2]

12. Sounds like you have a plan

[no_hypocrisy]

13. And one room at a time. Can't be overwhelmed.