Learning to Let Go of Things....

Here at the Make Do Mansion, I have a tendency to hold onto to everything, in case it ends up being useful in the future. Normally that means boxing up things like unwanted household objects and outgrown clothing for garage sales or trading on Yerdle for items we can use. But when it doesn't sell, and it doesn't trade, it tends to stack up. Sometimes I repurpose things into new uses, like stained outgrown clothing into baby wipes / homemade kleenex.

But there comes a point where you just need to let things GO. And today I hit that point. I scheduled a Goodwill truck to come pick things up next week, and I'm going to spend the next week doing a deep decluttering of the entire house. I created a staging area in part of the living room where all the boxed / bagged items will wait for truck day to arrive. I'm hopeful to gain back my storage room, and my office as well. After all I do have plans to hopefully turn the storage room into a nursery eventually for the baby I have been wanting to TTC for some time now.

Some of the bigger pieces that I want to hold onto {like our cat tower than I plan on repurposing in our soon to be made chicken coop}, are going to make their way out into the shed for storage. Our shed isn't at all air tight, so once things make their way out to the shed they normally aren't allowed back into the house due to issues. But for some things it works, like the big stack of empty totes and the cat tower. That will help a lot to empty out the house and make it much less cluttered.

And Before you think I'm getting rid of everything at once - I'm not. I'm keeping the totes of very gently used plus size clothing {I've lost weight and these are too big}, as I hope to take those to the flea market to sell soon. I'm keeping the several totes of fabric, though I have sorted out 2 totes worth of fabric to try to sell after this declutter binge is over. I'm also keeping the spare twin size bed that used to be my daughters {she replaced it with a loft bed}, as I'm sure at some point she'll want to swap back to that bed when she outgrows the loft bed. And I'm of course keeping anything that might sell on ebay or other venues.