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30 Day Minimalist Challenge: Day 8

Day 8 of the 30 Day Minimalist Challenge

I’ve been cleaning out, donating, giving away, or trashing unused, broken, and unneeded items for a week now! It feels great to have rooms and cabinets cleaned out!

I boxed up eight Gauze Rolls plus a bunch of 4 x 4 bandages with other supplies left over from my husband’s surgery last summer. We don’t need them, praise God! These were shipped to a friend heading on a mission trips to Haiti later this month. I’m glad they will go to good use rather sitting in my storage closet.

How are you doing, my friend? Are you sticking with the program?

Here are a couple of pictures to encourage you. Five boxes of items I don’t use or need. I delivered two to a local friend and mailed the other three this week. The second picture is of my care before I headed out to deliver, mail, and donate the items I’d gathered this week. I often just pile stuff in the garage and wait for months to hail it not. Not this time! I’m mailing packages, donating items, and taking things to the consignment shop weekly during this challenge!

30 Day Minimalist Challenge: Day 7

Day 7 of the 30 Day Minimalist Challenge

Old workout clothes. They are still in great shape: no tears or stains. But they don’t fit me and I don’t use them.

Two pairs of shorts, two pairs of yoga pants, and a few shirts. That was the beginning of my pile.

Have you gone through your closet yet? Pick out 7 t-shirts or 7 pairs of sock that you don’t wear. Get rid of them! Simplify!

Has the thought of saving all these items for a garage sale entered your mind? NO! Don’t do it! Don’t save all this stuff until next spring!!

Put that Give Away box in your car now! Take a few minutes to drive to a local charity thrift store and donate that stuff!

Then sit down and add your Sell items to EBay, Craig’s List, or the local Facebook trading group.

Do not wait! Do it today!

30 Day Minimalist Challenge: Day 6

Day 6 of the 30 Day Minimalist Challenge

After today you will have removed 21 unused items from your life! Twenty-one!

You’re doing great!

It hasn’t been too hard, has it?

If you’re taking down the holiday decorations, why not go through the boxes first? Are there items you haven’t used in years? Broken ornaments? Torn gift bags? Get those things out of your house! Today!

If it’s beyond repair, throw it away.

If it’s valuable, put it on eBay or take it to a consignment shop.

If it’s still good but not worth the effort to sell, give it to a thrift store. Our homeless shelter has a thrift store; that’s where I take used items.

Don’t give up! Keep purging!

Here is the box of Christmas items I’m donating to the Faith Mission Thrift Store! I didn’t count, but I know there are at least six items in this box.

When Ron and I were in the attic the other day, I found another big box of scrap fabric. It’s going to the charity thrift store today!

30 Day Minimalist Challenge: Day 5

Day 5 of the 30 Day Minimalist Challenge

If you’ve been doing this Challenge since Monday, you will be giving away, selling, or tossing five things today. Just five. Five old files. Five old hangers. Five empty bottles or plastic lids that don’t match any containers. Just five!

Don’t quit yet!

Today I’m posting the last five pans/lids I’m giving away. The green pots we’ve had close to twenty years. I’m excited about the new stock pot my hubby got me at a New Year’s Day sale! Maybe I won’t be burning the soups so often now.

You’ve now removed at least 15 items from your home, car, or workspace. Good work!

30 Day Minimalist Challenge: Day 4

Day 4 of the 30 Day Minimalist Challenge

My four items: three car seats and a baby backpack out of the attic. I gave these away!

I originally had these for when our daughter flew in with her babies. But with four children, they will drive to come visit us now. We don’t need these.

I posted them in a couple groups on Facebook. I bought two very cheap bd the others were given to me, so I’m glad to give them away. Folks claimed them quickly! I’m glad to see things go to families that need them.

I did keep a car seat for older kids and one booster seat. I sometimes need these when I’m watching children for friends. The idea of the purge is to get rid of things you do not use or love. I use these two; the others I don’t.

What four things did you throw out, sell, or give away today?

30 Day Minimalist Challenge: Day 3

30 Day Challenge

Three more pots/lids out the door.

When we had seven kids at home, I needed more pots. With just two of us here most of the time, I don’t need three of each size so out they go!

What are you cleaning out today?

Remember, you’ll have three types of items: Toss, Sell, Give away.

  1. Throw away. Torn, stained, or broken items should be thrown away. If you haven’t repaired it by now, you never will. And no one else wants your broken junk. Throw it away!
  2. Valuable items you don’t use anymore. You may want to sell these. Clothes, shoes, jewelry, and accessories can be taken to a local consignment store. Be sure the items don’t fit into category one! The stores won’t sell torn or stained clothes or broken jewelry because no one will buy them! You may find a local trade/sell Group on Facebook for selling furniture or appliances.
  3. Give away. Salvation Army, Goodwill, or your local women’s shelter are good options for give away items. If an appliance doesn’t work or a game is missing pieces, be sure to mark them. Put masking tape on them to let the buyer know. Yes, some people buy things for DYI projects.

You may want to grab a big box for Give Away items and set it in the garage. As you find items to give away, put them in the box. Weekly or monthly you can take your box to the local thrift store!

30 Day Challenge: Day Two

30 Day Challenge

Cleaning out the kitchen drawers this week.

A pot and lid went to the Give Away pile. Yes, it’s Pampered Chef. But I have two others this size, so out it goes.

Plus I’m donating two bags of scrap fabric!

Be sure to tell me in the comments what you’ve clean out today.

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