I was kinda sad today when I added these items to my donation box today. I’m going to bring my stuff to the donation center next week.
I’m not sure I can do it.
I am thinking of a prayer or something I can say before I the boxes it on their way. Something positive and uplifting. Maybe picturing in my head happy people receiving my stuff.
Part of me wants to put all of the stuff back in its place and not let it go. Why disrupt my life? Wasn’t I fine with all of this stuff. What will happen if I let it go?
I’m scared.
There’s a lot of stuff in those boxes.
The other part of me can’t wait to donate it. I am proud of myself for admitting I have to much stuff, figuring out what that is and letting it. Good stuff has already come into my life.
Yesterday before work I looked through a cabinet and found nothing to let go of.
Later on that day at work a light bulb went on in my head. I realized there were a couple of things in the cabinet I could let go of. I know. I have too much time to think at work. Lol.
Heres what I am letting go of today.
I bought the bin to put my husband’s mail in during the week while he’s gone. It’s been in the cabinet with spring decorations in it for the last year. The yellow Easter egg I only have one of. The wedding day photo holder is cute but I have five other ones. This is my least favorite.
I’m bringing the bin and picture holder to the consignment shop.
I love the bin. It’s cute, but I can’t find any use for it so it has to go. I’m not going to hold onto it until I find a use for it.
I bought a new canister set today. When I swap the new for the old this week I’m not counting them. Why? Because even though I’m letting them go I’m replacing them. I didnt create any open space. I probably shouldn’t have counted the book yesterday either since I replaced one with the other.
WordPress 2020 arrived at my house yesterday so the old one has to go. My husband bought me the egg maker five or so years ago. I’m letting it go because I don’t like it. It’s hard to wash. I love that he thought of me when he saw it, but I haven’t used it since we moved to this house. I think the item on the bottom right of the pic is the bottom half of a Turkey baster. Where the older half is I don’t know.
When I looked in cabinets today I noticed how nice they looked. They were organized and not cluttered and it was easy to find what I needed.
That makes this whole letting go of stuff journey worth it. I still have cabinets to go thru but seeing the other cabinets makes me want to clean out the rest and make them all look nice.
This morning I went thru the cabinet next to the sink in the kitchen.
Four sample cough drops I picked up to try at a craft fair a year ago. As you can see I never tried them. Trash. Not sure where the lip stuff came from. I dont remember it and it’s used. Trash. The supplements came from my acupuncturist over a year ago. I dont take them anymore. Not many in the bottle. Trash. And the Bailey’s was a Christmas gift from my boss. We dont drink so it’s going to the thrift store. I’m sure they can use it somewhere.
What I noticed this week is I am happier and more confident. I find myself dancing for no reason and cranking music in my truck that I really enjoy. I feel lighter. Blessed. Grateful.
That’s very cool.
I’ve been going thru my desk area at work, too. On Monday they officially ended my old job. I haven’t done it since January, but I still had stuff that went with my old job and didn’t use at my desk. Yesterday IT took away the computer I used. I was sad. I didn’t get to say goodbye. I had my old job for 10 years.
I plan on going thru some more stuff today, but I’m wondering what changes that might bring. I feel the stuff from my old job was a wall of protection for some reason. Maybe I’m just afraid to let go. Maybe if I let go good things will come into my life.
I feel a shift coming at work and that scares me because really like what I am doing and don’t want to change it but I know that job isn’t my calling in life. I want to help people thru my writing. All my life I have done what other have expected of me work wise and now its time for me to walk my own path.
I’ll keep you updated with what happens at work.
Even though letting go of stuff is hard, I think this is one of the best things I have ever done for myself.
Yesterday and today I took everything out of the closet under the stairs so I could clean it out. It was messy and I was sick of looking at it every time I opened the door.
When I started emptying the closet I was thinking of not doing it because I didn’t think there was anything to let go of and then I would have to find three things to let go of.
I was wrong.
Here’s what I’m letting go of today.
I’m letting go of the George Foreman grill. We haven’t used since we moved so it has to go. I love the bag. It’s so pretty but I haven’t used it in six months so it has to go. I think the swifter sweeper wet clothes came with the swiffer i bought over a year ago. I haven’t even touched the package so it has to go. The table cover has to go. I’m never going to use it. I think my mom gave it to me. I love smiley faces but emojis….not so much. I have too many rags and I can’t close the container I have them in so they have to go. I’m counting the five rags as one.
I’m smiling because I have a clean closet and I let go of five things.
I found two more tea lights in a sandwich baggie in the back of a cabinet. I’m sure I was having them for something, but what I dont know. I rarely use tea lights. The folder with the stretching excercises in it is from when I hurt my shoulder in 2018. I haven’t looked at the excercises since.
The folder was next to the tea lights. Imagine that.
I think I will finish cleaning out that cabinet tomorrow.
Today I’m cleaning out the two drawers of my coffee table.
Here’s what I’m letting go of.
I know. Cute stuff right? But if it’s just going to sit in a drawer unused then what’s the sense?
The dragonfly is cute and it has a little card with a saying but it doesn’t fit who I am anymore. The little notebook I bought in Vegas because I thought it was cool and now I dont remember why I thought I was cool. The bag with the face on is cool, but I have other ones I like better. Plus I can’t remember what I was going to put it in. Lol.
I’ve spent a half hour taking everything out of the drawers and wiping them out, going thru what is in the drawers, shredding old coupons and papers and I still have to put stuff back in the drawers.
I’ll probably rearrange things and put them in other places.
This morning I asked my husband if we could look for a shelf to put what is on the bottom shelf of my steel table in the basement so I could have the whole table as my craft/writing area.
Twenty minutes later I have a shelf that my husband had in the garage in the back hall.
Holy crap! He was going to use it in the shed, but he told me to use it in the basement and we’ll get another one for the shed at another time.
Thanks hun.
What amazes me about this whole letting go process is I think about it all of the time! I think about what I’m going to let go of next. I think about how I want to move this here so I can move that there. I think about different storage containers and how I can organize stuff to gain more space.
Ladies and gentlemen this is NOT me. I never thought about stuff like this ever. I bought a container and put stuff in or if there was room in a cabinet I’d stuff something in there. I never thought about function and where something should be placed to be more efficient space and time wise.
I proud to say that this is the person I am becoming and I am very happy about this.
I spent a half hour yesterday on Amazon looking for new canisters to put my flour, sugar, brown sugar in. Plus I went to Kohls and Bed, Bath and Beyond and Walmart to look.
Letting go of stuff is taking up a lot of my time. I haven’t written anything but my blog posts all month.
I’m not complaining. It’s been exhausting, but very good for me. This has been something I’ve needed to do for myself. I have opens spaces in cabinets which leads to open spaces in my life and head.
I have a feeling this is going to continue past October. Probably until I have gone thru every nook and cranny in my house.
This is what I’m letting go of today.
Don’t worry. I still have fifteen more bottles of essential oil in my cabinet and yes I am looking for a cabinet for them. I know they have them at Walmart.
Wow! I’m becoming more organized than I ever have been.
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