More Decluttering

I thought I'd done a good job when I last decluttered, but it seems you can always find more things to get rid of.  I started with that one item always seems to grow out of control - paper.

I sorted and put most of it into the recycle bin and was left with a small stack of items that should be shredded.  Since we don't own a shredder I burn these in our fire pot in our backyard.  It was a cool, wet and rainy day on Sunday so I went ahead and put them in the firepot and lit a match along with a nice handful of leaves and some sticks.  That made quick work of that chore.

The best way to declutter in the sewing area is to finish up a stack of unfinished projects.  I did exactly that over the weekend putting together gifts for upcoming birthdays and Christmas.  I managed to get rid of good sized stack of fabric I'd purchased earlier in the year as well as another good sized stack of works in progress.  It feels really good to have all of those gifts completed.  I still have more supplies and more projects in mind, but for now I am quite satisfied with where I am at.

After I finished sewing I went through all of my patterns and purged nearly half of them.  I also sorted through all of my sewing pins to get rid of the dull ones as well as a few with melted heads on them from being touched by the iron.

I took apart my magnetic pin keeper and washed it to remove all the fuzz, lint, bits of thread and accumulated debris that had collected inside of it.  By the time I was done it looked practically brand new.

I sorted through one of my button jars and tossed out a handful of tarnished ones that didn't look very nice.  I then used up several others to embellish some plain knit gloves.

I'm decluttering the freezer on the side of our kitchen refrigerator by using up the items inside.  Over the past few months we've squirreled away quite a lot of food in plastic freezer containers.  I've got soups, a quiche and lots of odds and ends that could be used to make other things.  It will likely take a bit more than a couple weeks to use up all of those things that are in there and I'll be sharing what we end up doing with all of that food as we work our way through it.

When I put our Halloween decorations away I purged some of the fall and Halloween decor we no longer need or want.  That along with the patterns and a pair of my youngest daughter's shoes will be dropped off at the thrift store for donation in the next couple of weeks.

Are any of you doing any purging or decluttering in your homes right now?  Doesn't it seem like a never ending process?