365 Days | 365 Items Challenge
Do you have a room in your house that is the catch-all?
That place where random kid’s artwork hangs out with home decor and eats dinner with the second set of sheets and extra towels, while side-stepping the vacuum, ironing board, luggage and drying rack.
Imagine a junk drawer, only bigger. With a double closet. And carpeting. And a bed.
On the outside, this room looks very well organized. But open a closet door, and you will be completely transported to a Sesame Street Song “What One Thing Doesn’t Belong Here?” as you are trying to grasp why ALL of these things are together in a closet.
That’s the spare bedroom closet in my house.
So my goal this month is to remove at least 28 items from this closet.
(Preferably, more like 48 if I can do it, so people could actually put their hanging clothes and other items in the closet, instead of opening the doors and shutting them again out of fear of something falling on them.)
So I pulled everything out of the organizer, and started with items that I no longer use, want, or want to give as gifts.
Like Candles.
Seriously. I had four or five USED candles in the closet. I have no reason. I don’t even like smelly candles. I’m assuming I got these as hostess gifts one time or another. Maybe I thought I would regift them to some other poor soul who would put them in her closet on the hope of regifting again. But I would feel better because I brought a gift. {shame}
In the end. I got rid of any candle that had been used like this one…
(By the way, WTH? Why would I keep that around??? It doesn’t even look like a candle anymore!)
And any jar candle that had not been used went to my mom, who loves smelly candles (I think), where she can use them in her house.
Seven items out the door. Hopefully, I will do better next week.
So how did you do? What things did you let go this week? What are you doing with all of your unwanted items?
The 365 Day Challenge is getting rid of one item per day over the next year to declutter your house and your life. You can see all past posts on the 365 Days | 365 Items Challenge.
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