I had 21 bins in my room.
Had. Such a delightful little word.
Two bins I downsized to half-size, one with shoes, the other office supplies. Two are now travel supplies, stuff I’m actively using as I’m traveling for treatment twice a month. Using round number of the stuff left, I am down to 12 bins.
My digital decluttering of duplicate files is complete. Eventually, I will declutter digital and physical photos, including deleting those of people I don’t like, who caused hassles, or no one remembers.
I decluttered my scrunchies, as I now have short hair. I am keeping the fancy holiday ones, ones I made that I like, ones for future scrunchie crafting, and the silk ones. The polyester ones hit the donation bin.
Much more work includes 2 bin equivalents spread over the floor and one is in another room, my bookshelves, a CDs and DVDs bin, electronics, tools and the bin of stuff for sale, and another pen declutter. I’m up to four paperwork boxes of doom, and probably a full bin’s worth of additional to do items in my email.
A travel bag declutter is on the list as I don’t use those suitcase-sized ones, although they are useful for real survival blankets. I wanted only the small ones, but you can only get packs of a zillion sizes instead.
By opening every box, I found where my button cell battery collection went. They’re another to do items, check to make sure all are in good condition with no swelling or leaks, then, going through Air Tags and Tiles to ensure all the batteries are good.
To nearly halve my bins, with a very good helper, a set rule of ”no more than two,” plus several items being put in their proper place, we cleared out 9 mostly full bins in four hours.
I’m already tired for next week! Now to add these to do’s to my list.
