august 31

Day thirty-one, I made it. A total of 498 items I have posted over the course of the month, and I didn't think that I would get anywhere close to it by mid month. I have to admit that a bulk of today's items are actually my wife's stuff. I will take partial credit for it since we sat down the other weekend and together we went through a bunch of boxes of stuff to get rid of. I probably could have gathered some more items of my own and as I sit here now typing this, I'm thinking of another five things I could have added. 

But for now, it is the end of the month and I have achieved my goal. I have decluttered an unimaginable amount of things and learned a lot along the way. I will be putting together a final thoughts post in the next day or two, but in the meantime I think I will enjoy the new space that I have created.

august 30

A quick trip back into my garage and getting thirty items together was easy. I'm not sure how I missed all this the first time around, but it was a combination of, I probably think I'll need this and stuff hiding in boxes. The wall plates made up the latter, and they made up for a good portion of the items today. These are all wall plates that have been replaced and serve no purpose in my home anymore, but for what ever reason I placed them in a box on my work bench. 

The vacuum is an old back up and the radio we have replaced with a Bluetooth speaker. The other items were laying around my work bench area and I see no use for any of them.

bonus items

I didn't want to use these items as part of my daily decluttering so I figured I would add them in as a bonus item post. It's not that they shouldn't count (I am adding them into my counter at the top) rather it was a spontaneous decision to sell them and it resulted in only two items not being replaced.

After a rather quick conversation my wife and I decided that our dining room set was much to nice to allow our children to destroy so we decided to sell it while it still had value and buy something used that we won't worry too much about. Essentially we did declutter in a sense since the new dining set did not come with a buffet table, and the dining room, which felt too cramped before, feels a lot more open now without it.

I also parted ways with my first flat panel television that I've had for nearly ten years. Barely used over the past year, it sat in the downstairs living room relatively untouched. Currently, we are cleaning up that room to make space for a guest that will be staying with us for a while, so it was as good a time as any to let it go.

august 29

This is about as random as it gets, I was really searching to get my number today. The biggest item today is my snowboard and boots. I've had this board since I first started and it is too small for me now. I haven't really gone snowboarding all that much in recent years and it seems worth the price to rent newer and safer equipment anyway. 

I've also thrown in some old curtain rods, TV wall mounts, a tree stand and some Eagles game day towels. The rest is just some random items I set aside daily as I look for things. There is still two more days left and I really don't know if I can come up with another sixty-one items now that my backlog is completely used up.

august 28

We're getting into the random odds and ends now. I basically walk around my house looking at areas that I might have overlooked. There's nothing really special here just some household decorations, a random cassette tape that has who know what on it and of course some more string bags.

august 27

The second run through my closet and drawers came up with a lot more than I thought it would. It actually yielded more items than the first time through. There's also a few coats as well as some items from the hats and gloves drawer in the main closet.

august 26

Apparently my closet is very comparable to a junk drawer; there is just about anything you can think of in there. There are old football jerseys, hats, bags and towels. What surprised me the most were the snowboard equipment stashed away in there. Two pairs of goggles that don't fit, a multi tool and a wax stick all for something that I have done once in the last five years. I also found a twenty year old electric razor, a couple bags, some miscellaneous audio converter cables and two little drum statues. All of this stuff is pretty much just junk taking up space in an already small closet.