+5

Net out - 127
Pots - 3
Bins - 3

In - two books and two 4" toy chairs.
The chairs came with a replacement table and will fit in the play set box, but I feel like I need to count them because I've been pretty "addy" lately.

Net out - 123
Pots - 3
Bins - 3

Found 4 things to let go of. Also forgot to note four items brought home from firing at city studio for inventory.

Net out - 127
Pots +1
Bins - 3

I am glad you are still here and staying accountable.

One box of dog meds, that belonged to my pup who died last year. Expired long ago but I could not bring myself to throw them out. But I finally did.

228/360

One thing out that I found the missing pieces to.

Net out - 128
Pots +1
Bins - 3

Lila, you are doing really well! I am cheering for you!

Thanks, SubC!

Slowly working on the tally. Two more items out so far. It's not much, but it's a start.

216/360

Three more items ready to donate from the small storage bedroom: 2 like new decorate pillows and one really nice curtain rod.

219/360

one more item out today - a small kid's costume.

220/360

Nice job Lila!

I added 8 things to the donate bin today. Also I just remembered that Ds broke a plate when he was here. So that's 9.

(The dolls I gave away yesterday don't count because I had already counted them out)

Net out - 126
And one pot.

Four more items out to the trash:

2 sets of keys/key fobs to cars I no longer own
2 old sculptures, one had parts broken off I have been thinking about fixing for 10+ years. Time to let them go.

224/360

I had a long stall on getting anything but trash out of my house, with the flu and then working super long hours. But I have today and tomorrow off and have started working on the Daily Tally again.

So far:
5 framed pictures given away
2 items I was saving in my master bathroom, into the trash

7 items total.

157/360

Today I tackled a hard thing. The hardest room (small bedroom/storage room). I sorted about 1/3 of what's in there. I was able to get rid of 37 items. I think maybe 4 of them I thought were not worth donating so threw out, but the rest are in the donate box.

I also made a small box of things I am not sure about, too many memories, and put them in a little tote to go into the garage until I am ready to make a decision (I did not count those, as they are still in my house).

194/360

12 more items donated.

206/360

Worked in that little storage bedroom again today. Eight more items donated, and I also started filling a large box with things to move to the garage, for now. At least I won't have to look at them anymore until I am ready. So the room is getting more empty and I will be able to use it soon.

The closet is not sorted yet. It is a hard space.

214/360

In, three reindeer and a lego set

Net out 119
And one pot

I cleaned out the tupperware/storage container drawer. Eventually I want to switch to all glass storage, but for now with little kids here I am keeping some plastic.

I count a container with a matching lid as 1 item, and I count a container with no lid as 1 item and a non matching randon lid as 1 item.

5 items out.

123/360

second tally post today-

I cleaned out the kitchen medicine cabinet (mostly supplements and first aid stuff). I even got out a step stool, got up to the top, and wiped out each shelf.

I was able to throw away 12 items.

135/360

third tally post today -

I sorted the children's 2 shelves on the bookshelves, threw away some paper trash, and donated 5 books.

140/360

Tally today 2 dog beds, 13 pieces of clothing. A small bag of dog toys and other stuff 6 items. Gone to donation.

16 total items today

Oops.. made that too big a post. Lol

hi KIR! Good job on the dog stuff!

Today I got out a large tote full of printed photos from 2004-2006. Inside the tote were 5 boxes full of photo envelopes, each full of prints.

I got out all the enveloped and sorted, throwing out all the blurry one, pics that make me sad, random pics of zoo animals and forest pics, some duplicates, some bad angles. It was emotionally hard to look at hundreds of photos but I got faster and faster as I went along. It took me two hours, with a break in the middle.

I wondered how to count this but after I cleaned the bin and lid, I re-packed the boxes with photos to keep, and had 2 of the larger empty boxes left, which I filled with the discard photos and took out to the trash. I am counting 2 items (2 boxes full are gone, when there were 5 boxes to start with).

142/360

Seven items out today.

3 to trash - things that were my daughter's
4 to donation - baby clothes and a pair of toddler flip flops that my granddaughter says were "too hard."

149/360

I had an extra box of coffee in the back of my car, and decided to give it to my son. One more item out.

I am making good progress on my goal for the year. Sometimes I just want to take a shovel and forget about the counting and sorting and just be done with it.

150/360

Plus 5 the last couple of weeks, one sponge painting set and two sets of salad servers out, net in two.

Net out - 117
And one pot.

Well, the freezer just got taken. I am going to write a little about this...

My ex (Teen's dad) and I bought this freezer, a huge, probably 7 foot tall freezer, the biggest one I have ever seen, maybe 12 or 15 years ago. We had a lot of kids here and I was cooking all the time so we would buy things like meat and veg and bread on sale and keep the freezer stocked.

Then I started processing things from the garden (ex liked to plant tomatoes, peppers, things like that). So when all the kids moved out and ex also moved out I stopped cooking much. When I became vegetarian I stopped cooking even more. So the freezer became a hoard zone.

I still have a freezer on top of my fridge in the kitchen. And TotsDad has one like that AND a stand up freezer. So it was time to let it go. It feels like a step in the direction of empty nest acknowledgement.

The freezer was 75% full of stuff. I had to sort a lot of food, freezer packs, random items in there. I threw out a LOT. Some of the food was from 2012.

I would guess a dozen grocery bags of food went into the trash from there. I feel bad about the waste, but what's done is done.

Anyway, I sold it and now it is gone. All of that counts as one item gone from my house. Just like a pencil counts as one item. But this has a lot of emotional weight and is leaving a lot of free space and healing behind.

118/360

Lila, well done!

That was a big thing in every way!

I took bean to the book fair at school on Friday. I bought a book for me and a book for him. His went home with him (he was very excited!) but I am keeping mine here (it's a children's book) so that is another in.

Net out 123
And one pot.

Plus 4

Net out - 129
And one pot

hi SubC and any other Talliers!

I worked in the small storage bedroom and the play room today. I threw out a lot of trash... papers, old playdough containers, stuff my grandkids left in there... I don't count trash.

I also gathered a large box of things that belong to them, and moved them downstairs so they can put them away... also does not count as it is not my stuff.

I sorted a 3 drawer bin of small toys, a couple boxes of stuff, some drawers.

I got rid of:
- lots of small toys, in great condition but I have too many
- wooden pen
- cracked ice cube trat
- broken cradle. This was one of my stomach ache items. It was Teen's when she was little and I saved it all this time. My grandkids played with it. But one of the grandkids somehow got it up high on a shelf, or maybe their mother did, and then they knocked it down, which could have hurt someone (it is heavy) and the rocker part broke. Saved it for months, but finally decided it just makes me sad, and not worth fixing (press board) and I took it out to the trash today and now it is gone.

35 items gone in all.

106/360

second Tally post today -

old vacuum hose and a bottle of expired supplements, gone.

108/360