― Geralin Thomas, Decluttering Your Home: Tips, Techniques and Trade Secrets
Have you ever looked at your things and wondered why you had so much of a certain item? I just did.
When I first started the Friday 15 it was easy. Getting rid of 15 things every Friday? No problem. We had a significant downsizing happening a couple years back but I knew there were still things needing to head out the door. As the weeks have progressed I've had to get creative in where I looked.
- Ebay has been very helpful in getting things gone. 38 items sold in the last two months. Yay.
- Even though we don't pay for magazine subscriptions we still have things coming in the mail. AAA sends VIA, AARP sends their magazine, Princess Cruises sends theirs, and thanks to TMobile Tuesday Women's Day is now heading in the door. Read them quickly and then away they go.
- Tutorial project samples. I've been filming tutorials but usually have no need for the things I've created. Usually it's because I had already made the item long ago but needed a new one to show the step-by-step process.
- Sewing room and office junk. We technically no longer have an office but we do have a corner where we keep some things. Too many things. Like page protectors.
Thanks to all of those places where I usually find extra stuff, today's Friday 15 is actually a Friday 95.
- Two items on eBay. (It was a slow week.)
- Five magazines.
- A cord holder. (I kept the new one made in the tutorial so the old one is going away.)
- A clipboard. Didn't need it for the other tutorial.
- And a grand total of 86 never used page protectors. (Seriously, I counted. What the heck???)
