Day 55: Medicine Cabinet

Last night I scurried at the end of the day to find 10 things to throw away.  I was actually behind by a day or two so, I wanted to find something quick to record.  The medicine cabinet (which I actually keep NO medicine in) had several items that went into the trash.

Ta-Da!!

Today's Toss:
11 random cosmetic items, thrown away!

Next to clean the medicine cabinet...

Day 54: Desk Drawers

My desk drawers are actually not as disorganized as the junk all over the top of my desk!
I started in on my top desk drawer and cleared out a few things:

2 old passport photos
2 packages of invitation
1 old membership card
7 encouragement cards
1 map of timeshare resort
1 instructions for digital camera

=14 things, into trash or recycling

Day 52 & 53: Baby Clothes

Today as I was sorting through baby girl clothes (since my baby is about to "size up") and as I was looking through all of the next size & next season clothes that I have saved from my first daughter, I realized that there were a lot I could get rid of.  Again, realizing that just because they are in good shape, or given by someone with good intentions, doesn't mean that I have to keep them.  Mostly I figure, if I didn't put in on my first daughter, for whatever reason, I probably won't use it with my second one.

Today's (& Yesterday's) Toss:
approximately 25 items of baby girl clothing

=being donated to the MMCenter

Day 51: Kid's Clothes

It amazes me that after 50 days of tossing at least ten things, that there is still so much more to purge from our house.  If I can keep it in my mind that I need to get rid of ten things as I go about my daily cleaning and putting things away, I easily find my items.

Today it was while I was sorting through the kids' closet, putting something away and realized that my son has a lot of clothes in his drawer that are old, and that honestly, never get worn.  I am confronted at how many hand-me-downs I've saved, just because they were free, without any consideration if they are actually clothes my son will wear.  It's like I feel that I need more clothes to give him a greater variety of things to pick from, yet he wears the same 5-7 shirts every week.  This definitely is changing the way I think about buying & acquiring clothes for my family.

Here it is....

Today's Toss:
14 items of clothing from my son's closet

All of them were in decent shape, so they went straight into the Goodwill bag.

Day 50: Hubby's Bathroom Drawer

I stumbled into my husband's bathroom drawer the other day when I was looking for something, and yikes!  Talk about clutter and junk that will never be used!  So today, I asked him to help me with my daily purge by going through his bathroom drawer.  5 minutes later, he told me he was done.

Today's Toss:

Donated-
1 toothbrush holder
3 travel bags
1 nose hair trimmer

Into trash-
13 items
(To be honest, I don't know what they all were,
& I don't really want to!  I am going to take his word for it!)

Day 49: Towels

So today I hit up the kids' bathroom again to look for old washcloths & towels that might be nice enough to donate.

& I found some!

Today's Toss:4 hooded baby towels
4 baby washcloths
(these I'll donate)
2 ratty washcloths-into our rags for cleaning the car, etc.

Also, to note, that as I was cleaning out the baby washcloths, thinking that some were too worn out to donate.  Instead of throwing them in the trash, I was thinking about what else they could be used for.  My a-ha moment came when I realized I could use them as baby wipes!  I've been intending to make my own baby wipe solution and use cloths to wipe baby at diaper changes.  Now I have some more cloths that cost me nothing to buy and no time to make!  Genius!

Day 48: Linens to Donate

Today's Toss:
14 twin bed sheets & pillow cases

All being donated to MMCenter (someday soon!)