Minimizing

So, this past weekend, I brought 5 large boxes from my sister Karen's house. These boxes were from my childhood home and now I have the job of going through them and getting rid of a ton of sentimental stuff that  I have held onto for my entire life. I am a very sentimental person, but I want to be a minimalist, so I have to get rid of most of this stuff. I am thinking that I will probably take a lot of pictures of these things and post them here, so that I can come back and look at them. Other than that, Haven't done much work towards my tiny house lately.

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Most of this stuff is now at Goodwill!

All I want for Christmas is...

All i want for Christmas is you....and NOTHING else. Seriously, don't get me anything. Today, Erin helped me get rid of:

1.) My radio alarm clock
2) Flower dress I made
3.) Checked dress
4.) A butt load of bracelets
5.) A butt load of necklaces
6.) A butt load of random jewelry items
7.) A drawer full of buttons, pins, ribbons, etc
8.) My last hankerchief! Haha
9.) Orange box full of papers and assorted craft items.
10.) Blue jewel flip flops
11.) Black dress shoes
12.) Black flip flops
13.) Silver flip flops
14.) Blue embroidered name bag
15.) Green shirt
16.) Green and white striped shirt
17.) Grey sparkle shirt
18.) Black slip
19.) Dance, Magic dance pants
20.) Yellow gift bags
21.) Maroon Dress
22.) Brown striped shirt
21.) Blue Dress shirt
22.) 77 jeans
23.) other jeans
24.) Grey striped shirt
25.) Invisible children shirt
26.) Leopard print shirt
27.) Orange shirt
28.) Green star shirt
29.) Green dot shirt
30.) Black dress
31.) Striped Bathing suit
32.) Floral white tank
33.) Black running pants
34.) Brown flower shoes
35.) Brown soft shoes
36.) Grey Sweater
37.) Gold mommy shirt
38.) Black heals
39.) Millennium dust
40.) Miscellaneous more small crap.
41.) Flamingo Wall hanging
42.) Brown Wallet
43.) Decorative rocks
44.) Wallet size high school diploma
45.) Panera member card

46.) Old Medicines

47.) Ear plugs

48.) Retainer

49.) Chapstick

50.) AAA card

And she helped me take all of my stuff to Goodwill!!!!! I feel so fantastic!!!

Day #57-66

57. Black and flowery shirt
58. Halloween vest
59. Old unused journal
60. Series of unfortunate events book
61. Box of sheet music- to roommates boyfriend!
62. Coffee mug
63. Sewing basket
64. Small picture frame
65. Handful of books
66. Green pants

Day #56

June 30th- Day #56, over half way there and it is still easy to find things I don't need. I wonder if I'll ever get rid of everything I don't use! August 13th should be my last day for this, though I hope to have a yard sale much before then: if I don't I will have it on that date! Seriously, so far this has been a totally positive experience (except now I have so much crap in my yard sale pile, that kind of stresses me out since I need a new roommate & don't want to creep her out with the mountain o' crap). I don't really see a noticeable difference in my surroundings, except, I have noticed I don't feel the need to clean as much. My house just doesn't get as cluttered.

Today I pulled 5 DVD's that belong to my sister off my shelf and put with the pile I have of her things.

Days #39-#55

39.) Combined 2 bottles of sunscreen so I could throw one out. Now I have 35/45 spf, ha
40.) rusty nail scissors
41.) crappy tweezers
42.) Dinner plate
43.) Dinner plate
44.) Dinner plate
45.) Dinner plate
46.) Dinner plate (Ok, it was an extra set, but I am getting low on stuff to get rid of, so I didn't
lump them)
47.) Bowl of my sister's (put aside for her)
48.) Another of my sister's bowls that I set aside for her.
49.) Baby doll
50.) Why did I have 2 swiss army knives? Now I just have 1!
51.) Some kind of crazy cleaning powder my sister left when she moved out.
52.) Nasty Blistex
53.) Glass vase
54.) Another glass vase
55.) Metal "mail in/out" tray

Day #26-#38

Camp week I didn't throw anything away, so I'm trying to catch up!

1.) old swimsuit

2.) night shirt with all the holes in it

3.) nail polish

4.) another nail polish

5.) a little gift jewelry box

6.) a lone sock

7.) length of Christmas ribbon

8.) old shirt I had in the sewing box, moved to the goodwill box

9.) cool belt I never wear

10.) fabric

11.) more fabric

12.) more fabric

13.) another cool belt I never wear, but it is so cool! It is sad, but worth it.