I am glad you found a process that works for you. There is no absolutely one right way to get things done!
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Iâm glad youâve found a system that works for you. Thatâs freaking awesome.
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This is such critical self-knowledge 
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Bookshelf done! I have had six boxes of books in the basement since we moved to CO in fall 2020. Apparently buying a bookshelf was the motivation I needed to go through them.
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Today I went through a 2 foot pile of paper and recycled about a foot of it, filed a 1/2 foot, and have about 1/2 foot left that needs further perusal.
This was both current paperwork and shove it into a box weâll deal with it after the move paperwork. It was a disaster
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But now itâs a much smaller disaster
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I went through my dresser drawers and now I have a whole box of clothes to donate and much neater, organized, easy-to-close drawers with only things I actually wear in them.
And then I helped Son with his room and we got rid of a lot of garbage and now his room is not gross.
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SO and my mom decluttered her linen closet and closet top shelf. He now has 3 black giant garbage bags to donate for animals. And there is still towels and extra sheets left! But so nice to see all the space.
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I have a doc appointment this morning. I had a batch of âsweetâ romances that are currently in the potato bag for the dumpâs swap table.
I asked last time if the hospital was still taking book donations? (I used to donate paperbacks to 2 different hospitals, one near the flea market where I was permanentlly set up and the other being this one, which is local to the house.) They are. It occurred to me that I could get rid of those sweet romances a day early by putting them in a bag and taking them with meâŚ
YAY!
If I still had a lot of romances, Iâd donate them to the local âold folksâ home, but most of what I have left ISNâT romance but SF and general fiction.
Another win⌠DH got us to paperless receipts with the electric company. 
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I did a wardrobe cleanout yesterday and my drawers are so much more roomy. Now I have to resist the urge to replace with more clothes. I am really trying to own fewer, nicer clothes. So I will buy new things but only if Iâm convinced I will wear them regularly and ideally if they are made of natural fibers.
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When I dealt with this in the past, I changed how I folded and stored the clothes in my drawer, so it felt very museum curated with white space, and I felt way less tempted to fill it.
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Sorted baby clothes and now have a bag to take to one of Wizardâs former coworkers who had a baby last month.
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When I went to go pick up our auction loot this morning I thought of it and grabbed the 2 empty boxes I had set aside for the antique store. I was going to bring them home and unpack them (Done) and using these meant that I didnât bring in uncessarily MORE items. I did need 2 more boxes to pack everything sanely, but that means i added 2 boxes and packing materials instead of 4! So yea me⌠because I thought of this!
Also, today is a dump day, so the extra boxes could just go away this afternoon. I probably will take them to the antique store too, but maybe not?
1/17, didnât see any reason to make yet another entry⌠I found a book in my âgo throughâ pile I actually want to read. The copy I have is badly mildewed, makes my nose go nutty. I remembered to look thru the state interlibrary loan data base before I started to order myself a book! The copy I have will go straight in the dump bin, nothing to be gained in trying to read a book that makes me sick.
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I am going to tackle some sentimental items, including a box full of old journals. Does anything good come from holding on to old stuff that is mostly venting and processing my day? I definitely wouldnât want anyone else (future generations) to find this so it needs to go. Now the challenge will be getting rid of it without getting sucked into going down memory lane.
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Chuck them straight into the fire
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I actually am considering this
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Oh, a fire! Pretty AND cathartic.
It could be interesting to look at your journals as a benchmark of how you have changed and what you have overcome. But I also see great value in not getting sucked back into past angst.
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I have been considering the same thing. I have a box full of old journals from teenage me, and I am a bit scared to go look through them again. Should I just burn the whole box? Or scan them all in and save them digitally for later? Does anyone really need to know what I was doing in the 90s?
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I didnât have journals, but I did toss my high school yearbooks a couple of years ago. It felt good.
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I tossed my old high school yearbooks eons ago - great decision for me!
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