10 Things to Get Rid of TODAY – Week One Declutter Bootcamp
10 Things to Get Rid of TODAY – Week One Declutter Bootcamp
Here are 10 things you can get rid of today. These are easy and painless to declutter because they are actual TRASH! It’s important to start with easy decluttering challenges so we can build up momentum and our declutter muscles before we get to the hard stuff.
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Wow, did I really need this video! Gonna take your advise & get a trash bag & hit pause. I have most of these to get rid of asap! Thxs Cassie. Love your videos!
Literally today, my dad nearly had a fit because I didn’t save the unused plastic spoon from my dinner. It’s like I stomped on his heart a little. He was raised by poor coal miners who lived through the Great Depression. My mom, on the other hand just thinks her trash is all treasure because it’s hers. Threw a royal fit because I told her the “tragically needy poor people” shopping at GoodWill don’t want her tiny rusted out Christmas tin that cost her 50 cents way back in 1985.
road kill? Sorry but that could be toxic
My husband keeps all of his used daily planners (in case he MIGHT need info from them one day).
After your story about your husband’s family, I don’t know how two of you got compatible. Two absolutely different backgrounds, habits, but you’ve made it together. How? I mean, you’re a minimalist, he is a genetically predisposed hoarder. How?
I don’t throw away my annual calendars as they can come in handy if there are notes written on them. Everything else you mentioned I have done.
My Dad was one if the people that insisted that we finish everything on our plates. My coping method involved throwing what I didn’t want under the table to the cats.
Luckily I don’t have anything listed in the video to throw away. I was already on it!
I’m with you, however I do keep my planners and cards. The planners double as journals and I only keep some cards.
You can also buy a bag from a recycle clothing company like Retold and send them all your old socks or rags
I keep the ones that my Son has given me they are important to me. This will not change. The rest go
My new mantra is “Sorry Joe” as I chuck it in the bin.
My roommate had a box of approximately 300 pens, some of which were old enough to buy beer, that she wanted to lug with us when we moved. I told she could have the space in the van if she could prove they all wrote. Apparently, that was too much work because she chucked the whole box rather than test them.
Yep. My grandmother used to fish black bananas out of the trash after my mom tossed them, and she would stand right there, over the trash can, and EAT them, to "save them." Seriously.
This was kind of interesting, because I already do about half these things periodically. I worked on the other half and took a biggish donation to a local charity, plus filled up the trash bin (only do that every other week or so). Since I work, it’s going to take me a couple weeks to get through one week of the bootcamp. Thanks!
I keep sauces too, but i use them. But i decided to maybe have a small box of them, and trash the rest.
I did not realize I watched this video before and I did everything you said! Thank you Cas! I still have a lot more to do… pictures, papers, and cords, ugh.
I don’t throw away any books. Like to use it in art/collage/scrapbooking…..the possibilities are endless….. and so I see possibilities in everything that was used once only (like your stack of icecream like containers) wash it out and collect in a green bag. If I really cannot find a purpose for it, I’ll give the full bag to someone collecting plastic or someone who would like to use it.
PLEASE say that you shred any receipts that have credit card information! I especially love the episodes that you’ve made since discovering ADD (ADHD)
I feel this video today. I’m a retired teacher. Teachers always save things because we tend to spend our own money to provide better experiences for our students. So my extra socks went to music teacher to use as student white board erasers. Works better than tissue or paper towels. When too dirty, trash and get another. Egg cartons I saved into large stacks also family circle magazines. I called our local elementary school. The secretary took the message. There were art teachers and classroom teachers who said yes!!! My donations helped others. Plus my house is getting clearer.
Is it just me, I never have unpaired socks?! LOL
I am a saver by heart but I do throw things away like perfectly good but empty Cool Whip containers and always feel guilty about it. Have had many clothes in the past, many, many sheet sets, etc., that I have donated and feel guilty about.
I disagree about greeting cards. I put the photos in an album. The cards from deceased loved ones give me comfort. I take ketchup packs and hot sauce to work and toss at the end of each term. I threw out lots of receipts and dead pens. I live in the city, but I come from a long line of farmers.
I would put the odd socks into textile recycling and the yogurt tubs and lids into plastic recycling.. not landfill..
I’m looking for the ebook Cas was talking about. Anyone know where the link is?
I’m a nurse. Drugs do not expire because there is a date on the bottle. I have an 11 year old bottle of sleeping pills that still work.
about the socks: also throw socks with holes away!
Heads up about the coloring books, note books, sketch books, etc… If they belong to children, Definitely don’t throw them out immediately. They could mean a lot more to your children than you think, talk to them first about it. They are like journals and there’s a lot of kids that want to keep them for a very long time, even possibly their whole life.
Yes it’s clutter, but it’s possible to keep them in a good storage bin.
-an artist
I love tossing old pens into the trash! Call me weird. I’m okay with that.
The containers that we get from to go places ( the durable ones not the sandwiches wrapped in paper),I do keep in reasonably amount only for the big dinners we have throughout the year. I use them to send home extra food with those that come or to make a plate for those who were sick and couldn’t make it. This way I don’t have to spend time trying to get my container back. Once it’s sent out it’s gone. We also start keeping condiments in March for our family vacations which can have upto 50 people in them. After vacation they’re gone.
Most of that containers are recycling
something i would add to this list is plastic grocery bags. i get far more coming into my house than i will use for trash can liners and they are really just clutter.
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Do not have any of those items in my house thankfully! But I must sort out my freezer!
When we go out for take out we don’t bring home the condiments, plastic ware,straws or napkins.
At our country we don’t waste anything. That’s why it hard for me to let go anything
Wish you wouldn’t drop a dime on grandparents and parents. Many have lived through the Great Depression and value items they perceive might be useful later.
I did my socks backwards since I had-not kidding- 3 hefty bags full of them! So i bought a cool nice sizes basket then i only allowed myself to keep my favorites and fill the basket. ANY socks that did not FIT IN THE BASKET went out. So far a few months later I have only worn maybe eight pairs of them honestly within a week I dont need a basketful really- I still have them, but I dont need them and will someday het rid of them