Decluttering Thread

[Farmfresh]

I threw away about five stage 4 T-shirts last week alone! I believe in using it UP! Now ready to make another shift in the clothing paradigm.

T-shirt categories at my house:

Stage 1 = NEW and nice enough to wear out to work or shopping.

Stage 2 = Still in pretty good shape but I have drooled food or drink on the front and left a stain or backed into a nail squeezing between my truck and the garage door and made a little hole. Good enough to wear to family gatherings or bed.

Stage 3 = Work shirt - Messed up and not comin' clean or holes in several places. Perfect for painting or cleaning the house or chicken pen.

Stage 4 = Work shirt (?) - Bad shape at this point I have chopped off the sleeves and sometimes notched the collar. This is a shirt for hot hard dirty work. Great for the garden. At this point I sometimes don't bother to wash them they go directly into the trash.

 

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I threw away about five stage 4 T-shirts last week alone! I believe in using it UP! Now ready to make another shift in the clothing paradigm.

T-shirt categories at my house:

Stage 1 = NEW and nice enough to wear out to work or shopping.

Stage 2 = Still in pretty good shape but I have drooled food or drink on the front and left a stain or backed into a nail squeezing between my truck and the garage door and made a little hole. Good enough to wear to family gatherings or bed.

Stage 3 = Work shirt - Messed up and not comin' clean or holes in several places. Perfect for painting or cleaning the house or chicken pen.

Stage 4 = Work shirt (?) - Bad shape at this point I have chopped off the sleeves and sometimes notched the collar. This is a shirt for hot hard dirty work. Great for the garden. At this point I sometimes don't bother to wash them they go directly into the trash.

JUNK T shirts make nice cleaning rags and only go in the trash when gunked up.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I've been decluttering since we brought in the new trailer last fall.

We've got rid of broken toys, knick knacks, fabric that I had stockpiled and never got around to using (sent to SIL who's already sewed it all into something!), gave away yarn to a local Amish gal who's been crocheting like crazy.

Went through the cabinets in the kitchen and downsized the number of kids plats to just 5 - since we only have 5 kids!

Right now we have another pile of "stuff" we've cleaned out of closets and the tote tubs that we hadn't got around to unpacking. All of it will be going to Roger's flea market if we get to set up next Friday.

I gave some homeschooling materials to my cousin since she's homeschooling her 6 kids.

Gave a bunch of Christain Romance novels away - most of which were duplicates of what I already had.

Then my step dad brought in some stuff that we didn't want, so I'll be hauling it out to either auction or the flea market.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

For my spring cleaning this year I went through all my clothes. I got rid of 3 big trash bags of clothes and one of shoes!

TanksHill- I can sympathize with your DH- I do the same thing! I have a really cool long skirt from my college hippy days- lace and velvet- that I will never wear again that I just can't get rid of. I also have college T-shirts that I just can't get rid of- from our band uniform, one with a chemical diagram of glycolysis and one with Schroedinger's equation on it. I have keepsake t-shirts from my old Aikido dojo, and several horse trials I rode in. I just can't bring myself to get rid of them!

Time to make a quilt from those keepsake shirts

 

[Denim Deb]

Well, my son moved out this year. Does that count?

 

[valmom]

I might have to think about the keepsake quilt idea. Why didn't I think of that solution, since I rarely actually wear them since I don't want to wreck them!

 

[TanksHill]

I told dh I would make a rag rug out of all his old t shirts. he didn't like that idea.

I have recently been passing down all my keep sake t's and sweatshirts from vacations and such to my 10 yo son. They are still a bit big but he is wearing them well.

I have two t- shirts left from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the college I attended in Munich. Those are on a shelf somewhere.

Farm Fresh I see where I make my mistakes. I usually get dressed and go to the grocery or whatever then come home to work in the garden.

All down hill from there.

g

 

[Farmfresh]

Farm Fresh I see where I make my mistakes. I usually get dressed and go to the grocery or whatever then come home to work in the garden.

All down hill from there.

g

I do the same thing! Combine that with the bad tendency of wearing half of what I try to put in my mouth on the front of my shirt and I seem to make my Stage 1 shirts skip stages fast. The wearing of my food and drink is so bad that one year my class at school gave me a set of sippie cups for Christmas!

As for making those old shirts finally into rags - they usually are when they hit the trash. I know it is the last time I wash them when I am trying desperately to discern which hole is the neck hole when I am putting them away. Their final trip into the trash usually involves dog puke or some other final disgusting chore before tossing.

 

[sunsaver]

Well, my son moved out this year. Does that count?

Yeah that counts twice. Two whole rooms decluttered instantly: guest bedroom, guest bath!

 

[discoversimplicity]

Well, my son moved out this year. Does that count?

Yes, but did he take all his stuff with him? Mine packed up most of his stuff when he moved out and put it in my garage because "it was too valuable to part with".... yeah right!