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Replies to: The "Bag A Week" Club
When I got the urge to purge, I went a little crazy and a few times purged too much. I also boxed up stuff I needed and am still looking for!
One thing that did work for the "maybe keep" bags - put those aside for a while. Maybe a month. Then go through them again and see what I wanted. It was easier to go through with fresh eyes and not rush to junk if I wasn't sure about keeping.
I do not do a bag a week anymore. Just when I can.
Also, I found great happiness in putting stuff on my curb for scavengers. I usually would out out Friday night and garage salers would come by and pick up.
Do the best you can. Lightening your load is a good feeling.
Tomorrow I'll continue with shirts and sweaters.
ETA: Pairs of socks that are brand new. I've found that I routinely wear the same fifteen pairs or so and let all of these new ones people give me collect dust in my drawer.
I keep one bag of them in a cabinet fir those chores. Then toss them.
you said: -random cords, chargers that I have no clue what they belong to, going to Best Buy for recyling
We keep all random cords in a basket and, last year, I put the unidentified ones in a box and labelled it with the date. It's been a year and I now want to get rid of them, operating under the assumption that if we haven't needed them in a year, we're likely to never need them, but wasn't sure what to do with them. I can give BB a call but you just drop them off and they figure out how to dispose of them?
Haha Mansfield! I get it. My H has become better recently. We take photos of things that are sentimental or meaningful. It makes the tossing easier! Before that, things would just "disappear."
Had DS14 clean out his closet yesterday. Got rid of lots of "Grade A" junk at Goodwill. Last tax deduction of the year!
Today I cleaned out my underwear drawer. There were things in there from when I was going through radiation 6 years ago. Gone, gone, gone.
ETA: your school district may have a clothing bank that would welcome gently used kid/teen clothing. My daughter works in the after care program in the district and took in a bunch of old games. My sister's classroom is getting a stack of children's books.
My biggest trouble is my kitchen desk and drawers. I have a drawer full of chargers, the drop off at Best Buy sounds like a plan.
I can see all the trash bags/Bose lined up already!
He's not wrong.
Also a great feeling when you revisit an area you have cleaned out - it looks so great!!!