Fifty-five Bags - Week 2

Last week labelled my de-cluttering post "Fifty-Five Bags - Week 1" and I wondered if I was being optimistic?  Would I have enough backbone to manage a second week (and keep going even further than that).  Was I setting myself up for a fall?  Or making myself accountable?

Well, thanks in part to all the lovely, encouraging  comments I received last week, I have made it to Week 2.  Some of you were already de-cluttering and others were inspired to play along - do let me know how you that's going - but one comment in particular had me laughing out loud:

You go girl!! I'll watch from here and shout encouragement. I thought a lot about decluttering and decided that if I do that what will my children have to do when I am gone? They won't need to get together and divide up the spoils so, no de cluttering for me! I want them to open a drawer and say "Good grief! what the h*ll did she need fifteen printer cables for?"

Thank you Ladykis for giving me the best reason for NOT tackling the clutter (and I certainly regretted throwing away those 16 airline headsets last week - perhaps I should have put them into a "special" box in the attic for a laugh).

I was working for part of the week and my daily de-cluttering fell by the wayside but I made up for it over the weekend.  On top of that a couple of my 55 locations didn't produce any bags of rubbish/recycling/redistributing (they still benefited from a deep clean and a tidy up though)..

The saddest thing that I addressed was a set of drawers housing the children's old art & craft supplies: felt-pens, "magic" pens, psychedelic papers, crayons, pattern pads, hand-writing books, Christmas card stamps, pipe-cleaners ... As Child No.3 is now of an age to start learning to drive a car, the contents of these drawers haven't been used for a while.  I regularly used to test the felt-pens and throw out the dried up ones, but this time they all went into the rubbish bag.  Child No.3 now has her Pro-markers for colouring!  Her scrapbooking stickers went into my bag of stash to donate and the local charity shop will benefit from several unused craft kits.  The tin of wax crayons has been saved (for now) as I'm sure I saw a tutorial somewhere about melted wax backgrounds :o)

The bottom of the mountainous ironing basket was also tackled this weekend: Child No.3 will be taking her still-wearable old school uniform items back to lost property now that she no longer has to wear a uniform ... {don't tell, but I'm pretty sure she "rescued" a P.E. shirt from there during her final term rather than ask me to buy a new one!}

Running total 12/55 which is still ahead of schedule (just!)