I use my laundry room scissors primarily for tags on new clothes before washing, but also our litter and cat food are stored there so for opening new bags. Command hook is genius, but I store mine in a mug on a shelf which also works. I do have a hook for garage scissors though!
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I use scissors in my laundry room to trim my rags. Although, lately, Iāve been trimming the rattiest of them with a pair of pinking shears, so they shouldnāt unravel as muchā¦
I use a HM dish rag (3 pieces of flannel stitched together) at the kitchen sink. Most of the dishes go in the dishwasher and I hated repeatedly buying plastic sponges. We still have one, for car washing, but thatās it. Otherwise, I use rags, mostly flannel, old shirts, PJs, or sheets.
And no, Iām not all eco this or that, I use a TON of paper towels in the kitchen. We have our own septic system. Pieces of food kill dishwashers. Fats kill septic systems. I also donāt have a garbage disposal, we use paper milk cartons and staple them shut. The milk cartons are often filled with goopy paper towels, used to clean plates/pots,ā¦
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Not 100% sure if this will be a useful way to access them, but I turned my tangle of ribbon scraps into something tidier using flaps that I cut off a cardboard box. I also took a knot of old mask elastic (the soft kind), did the same thing and donated it to the textile lab at the library.
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Yesterday was super exciting for me- I was able to empty the last of the big jugs into small bottles! Windex, pinesol, oxyclean, salt. I find these small things incredibly gratifying.
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Cleared out the medicine shelf in the pantry today. Ended up with a bag of rubbish for the bin and a bag of old meds for the pharmacist.
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Yesterday I channeled some āstop arguing god DAMMIT childrenā plus cycle day 1 rage into some power decluttering. Husband had the kids out playing in the yard. For better or worse, I decided the items I canāt donate but could have been gifted through buy nothing (but I hadnāt, for months) were just going in the trash. Ideal? No. But the black trash bag energy was strong, and now I have more āmarginā in a lot of cupboards. Hand soap refill bags my mom gave us, powdered coffee creamer stuff my SIL uses but I never see her, lotions my eczema kids skin doesnāt tolerate anymore, etc.
3 boxes to goodwill, one large full trash bag to the trash. Boxes are already at goodwill; and in spite of it being a sunny Sunday, there was zero line.
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How satisfying!
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Items ready for donation- vases, 2 pairs of shoes, tea light holders, glass pebbles for candle vase, 2 small signs, little fake flower pot.
Things in recycling or trash: compostable utensils from take out, dried lavender, dead plants, 5 instruction manuals, 2 full vases worth of sea shells.
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the pretty yellow ceramic plant container that was just a titch too small for my plant pots and had a hair trigger water overflow construction has been donated. hopefully someone who likes cacti will take it home.
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The tables that we put in this weekās auction are part of last weekās attic clean up. 
The other 2 lots are excess/didnāt quite work or have been replaced tools from DH.
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I threw out the extra ball chains that were left over after I trimmed my new fan pulls. Very small thing, but historically I would have kept them in the hopes of using them some day in a craft project.
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Thatās great, the ābut maybe a craft one dayā gravity is very strong!
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Phone declutter- I went through my contact list and deleted a lot of people, including almost all former work contacts. I have also started unsubscribing from daily emails as the number was creeping up and I kept deleting them. 2 minutes of my life back.
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This is something I struggle with all the time. Thanks for the inspiration and reminder!
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Iāve been holding on to baby stuff ājust in caseā we have another kid or my sister does. We have a friend having a baby this August and we gave her basically everything with the caveat ābefore you get rid of anything can you let us know we might want it backā but if it gets ruined itās NBD.
Now the stuff gets to be āstoredā at a friendās house while getting more life from it and helping our friends avoid buying the millions of baby things you need for 3 months. And now itās out of my house!
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Good for you!
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We are on a purging roll here. Having stuff sell at auction has made this much more of a joint effort between us, instead of mostly just my job.
Pending delivery: the next auction lots (a band saw/blades, 2 industrial wooden crates with skids & metal reinforced corners, and a snow blower motor from DH.
Also, I returned a curtain/curtain rod we decided we wouldnāt use to a neighbor who gave them to us when they upgraded their cabin. Our bedroom window is blocked with a tablecloth and has been for > a year now. We have the blinds for it, but DH has to 1) be able to get to the window, 2) has to figure out how to trim the bigger windows and 3) have the time to do this.
The auction house didnāt want the snowblower motor, so that came home with me.
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Thatās so great that you have some help and also a way to make a little $$. Iām amazed at the work you do every single day. You ARE on a roll!
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Grabbed 4 thick folders (about 4 inches worth) out of my momās paperwork to sort for recycling and shredding piles. Thatās all I can do before I get stressed out. Anyways it done and ready. Maybe tomorrow I will do a couple more. Or not.
A couple more items ready for donation - a vase and a sleeping eye mask I will never use.
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I finished the preliminary sort/eliminated a 1ā cube box of papers.
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