What do three 12 years olds need a kiddie pool for??? GREAT QUESTION… which is why on Friday when I drove up to my house after work… and I saw this blue eye sore in front of my house I was not exactly ecstatic. Upon further questioning it seems that this lovely pool was FREE!!! [...]
Archive for the ‘The Joy of Decluttering’ Category
19 Sep
Friday Declutter Challenge – September 19th, 2008
This week I SHREDDED a file filled with papers I have been procrastinating on called “To Shred.” For some reason I do not particularly enjoy shredding… maybe because my shredder is small and fills up to quickly… maybe because the shredder was downstairs and my file was upstairs in my room! I moved the shredder back [...]
5 Sep
Friday Declutter Challenge – September 5, 2008
Marcia at Organising Queen is going to continue hosting a weekly declutter challenge! This week I decided to declutter some items out of my closet. I find that I keep things thinking I will wear them sometime in the future, but then end up not really wearing it… OR I’ll keep an item that I [...]
29 Aug
Friday August Declutter Challenge
For the August Declutter Challenge that I participated in this week, I decluttered 8 items! A plastic bowl, 2 plastic insulated mugs, 1 popcorn BOX, 3 old lunch boxes, and I’m counting my elliptical exercise machine that was taking up mucho space in my bedroom. It is now happily in someone else’s home!
To see what [...]
28 Aug
Thursday… August Declutter challenge
My items of declutter for today are 3 old lunch bags! I just bought a new one and these 3 are really old. They may even be the ones that have lead in the PVC! (see below)
In 2005 the Center for Environmental Health, a nonprofit environmental organization, found lead in the polyvinylchloride (PVC, or “vinyl”) [...]
27 Aug
More August Declutter items…
Today my declutter items are… a popcorn popper BOX… the popper is not in there. I actually use that. After I buy items, I often keep the box for awhile in case I need to return the item… sometimes I forget to recycle the box after awhile… and it sits in a cabinet somewhere taking [...]
25 Aug
August Declutter challenge
I just made it for the tail end of the August Declutter Challenge. I just found the Organising Queen blog this weekend and am bummed I missed the other 3 weeks because I love to declutter things! I have until Friday to declutter 7 things, then post about it and link up on the Organising Queen [...]
