365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 166

Drawer number 4.  This one is full of kitchen towels, place mats and trivets. Two towels will go to the barn. Too stained to use in the house. I also decided to donate one set of trivets.

365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 165

Drawer number 3. This one is full of dish cloths. I took about 10 out to take to the barn. They are kind of stained and will make good rags to use to clean horse stuff. I'm pretty sure this counts as decluttering. It does get them out of my kitchen and does repurpose them. They are too stained to donate but are still good enough to use. Just not for their original purpose.

365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 164

Moved to the next drawer. This is also a catch all drawer. Not very rewarding because it is mostly a case of throwing away junk and moving stuff to where it belongs. However, the drawer is now much cleaner and neater.

365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 163

Today I moved to the drawer underneath the counter I did yesterday. This is a junk drawer. I mostly found stuff to throw away, specifically an old pair of glasses and some  expired heartworm medicine. A lot of stuff I just moved to a more appropriate place. Now the drawer contains mostly the dog leashes and brushes and a couple of pairs of shoe laces. The dog stuff is appropriate because this drawer is next to the door leading to the garage. If I take the dogs for a walk, this is the door we leave out of.

365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 162

I'm moving counter clockwise around the room. The first counter top had a lot of junk on it. Through most of it away including some old flea and tick treatments for the dogs. They had expired years ago. Threw away old pens that don't work along with the containers they were in that were old and dirty. So now on that very short stretch of counter, there is only a container with pens that work and a box of kleenex.

365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 161

My plan is to start in one corner and work my way around the room, possibly twice. The first time around doing the lower cabinets followed by the upper cabinets.

The first corner contains a bench where we keep our shoes when we come in. Lately, especially now that the kids don't live here any more, it isn't as cluttered with old shoes as it used to be but I did find an old pair of flip flops that were hiding underneath the bench. They are too worn to give away so they will go in the trash. I also found a old pair of half-chaps. They must have been my daughters. Unfortunately, one of the seams had split so I had to trash them as well. There was also an old pair of flats that also belonged to Ky. I don't know if she was still using them but she left them when she went off to school and they looked to worn to use so I tossed them too. The pair of flip flops and tennis shoes of hers I put in her room. I think she still uses them.

365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 160

Today  I'm going to start working on the kitchen. If I can't find at least a week or two worth of stuff to get rid of, then I'm not trying very hard. For Thursday, I'm choosing a small coffee maker and blender that my son brought back from his apartment that he no longer wants. We've owned these for years and years. I'll be donating them.