When I read a friend’s tweet about decluttering her living room, two things ran through my mind: I just decluttered the house last month and even if there is still clutter lurking, I don’t have time right now. Then I decided to take a box and see how much clutter I could get rid of in 5 minutes. My thinking being the less time I gave myself, the less time I would have to justify why I needed to keep each item rather than get rid of it. And if truth be told, the items are going to be stored in the garage until I hold my garage sale in May, so if I have declutter’s remorse, I can bring the item back in the house.
I could not get a picture of my china cabinet because of the poor lighting, but here is a picture of my buffet, after I cleaned out the clutter:
Look how much came out of there! I will clean the silver one last time before the garage sale, but I am excited about how much work I am saving myself in the future.
I did keep the family silver, as well as any piece that had our name engraved on it, but I was ruthless about everything else.
jessica says
i recently went through my room and sold all of my old college text books i made about 130 in real world monies so if you have kids in college and they have books they will never touch again sell them and use the money towards the next semester
Just Me says
If that's real silver, you should think about selling it at a precious metals store! I sold a bunch of silver serving pieces about 2 years ago and made $700! Precious metals are very lucrative right now and you could be missing out on a LOT of money if you just sell it at a garage sale. Make a few calls before you put it out this weekend! Good luck.
Sheila says
I should be so energetic!! I love the feeling of decluttering and getting things all nice and neat–problem is it doesn't stay that way long. I have a very lazy family—and 3 dachshunds and they all(6) of them–make messes for me to clean up!!