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500 Things Decluttering Challenge: Day 14 (and we’re DONE – 658 things gone!!)

January 30, 2016 By Rose

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Okay guys… I failed you yesterday by not finishing the 500 Things Decluttering Challenge on time, but I do have a good reason.  See this:

Richy Tiling Dining Room

THIS is what my dining room has looked like for 2 days and the assignment for Day 14 was to declutter 25 things from … you guessed it, the dining room.  So, normally the only thing in this room other than our table & chairs is homeschooling materials.

Since those things are all moved into our recently finished front room (see here) and I’ve actually already hit my goal of 500 things, I decided to go easy on myself and clean out some homeschooling materials.  I easily threw away 25 things (markers without tops, old papers, etc.).  I’m sure I could’ve gathered more than 25 things but I’m tired (see how my week was here) so I quit at 25.

And to end with a big shebang…. I didn’t even take a picture.  Honestly though – it was a Walmart bag full of trash – nothing interesting to see 🙂

I’ve been so very pleased with this challenge – I’m seriously considering repeating it very, very soon!  I read one blog where they felt like they had a brand new house after all this decluttering.  I’m not quite there… I honestly feel like I sort of got a jump start on cleaning out, but really, I only scratched the surface and I could go so much deeper!

Anywho – I have decided that for February, we’re going to repeat a no-spend challenge (like this one we did back in August).

Without any more rambling… here’s my final tally:

Day 14:  25 Things Decluttered

Total Items Decluttered So Far: 658 ITEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WHOO-HOO!!

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  1. Heather says

    January 31, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    Good job! I know I decluttered over 500 items so far, but didn’t keep a running tally. I have decided to continue, but just make an effort to get rid of some things (maybe 10 as a minimum) per day (and not in a specific area – just whatever area I am in that day).

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