Day 362-364: Declutter Countdown

I have been going through the house to find stuff that will be no longer needed in 2015. Even though this 365-day-decluttering-project ends online tomorrow, it will be an ongoing topic in our house from then on. It just never ends. We have parted from thousands of small and big things during the year, mostly thrown away and recycled, some sold, donated or given. And when one corner of the house seems to be clutter-free, the clutter amasses again at the other end. You always have to have an eye of the things that come into the house again (the plastic bags cupboard will probably always be a mess). I am very thankful for the decluttering techniques I have practiced this year and even the girls found some of them fun. Here are some last things to declutter this year:

yarn that I will never be able to unravel

a broken reading lamp, already fixed before

brushes become useless, when acrylic paint isn't washed out in time

Thank you and Goodbye!

Day 361: Baby Seat

We sold Carolina's baby seat to parents who will have use for it soon.

Thank you and safe travels!

Day 360: Another Reindeer

... also the second reindeer didn't survive this Christmas season undamaged.

Thank you and Goodbye!

Day 358-359: Merry Christmas!

... electric tealights with dead batteries,

will go their seperate recycling and waste ways now.

Thanks for your light

during these December days

and Goodbye!

Day 355-357: Decluttering before Christmas

Christmas decoration that broke:

 a reindeer that lifted its upper legs

a one-armed snowman

and historic lametta from the German Democratic Republic

Thank you

and Goodbye!

Day 349-353: Lozenges

Sore throats and running noses are a by-product of this season, 

but these lozenges look really expired.

Thank you and Goodbye!

Day 328-341: Decluttering in Bulks

Recently Clara's desk had risen to new heights.

And also the rest of her room was so uninviting,
that she prefered spending time outside of her room.

Yesterday was a cold and rainy Sunday and we decided to go for it. Favourite technique -
emptying all the surfaces and cupboards and putting it all on the floor.

Clara was convinced she was the kid in her class with the most things
and she doesn't need anything more.
Every item on the floor has to be picked up and then decided upon -
keep and then find a place for it or throw away.

Some decluttered items:

she knows that now

no more needed

she has a massive shell collection besides

a monster from the kid entertainment 

on the flight to Sri Lanka

dried out

The rest filled a paper recyling bag and a waste bag.

Inviting now.

She started making invitations 

to her birthday party right away.

Day 298: A Bag

A gift from Clara and Hubby from a Lanzarote vacation a couple of years ago:

Now quite worn off.

Thanks and Goodbye

(and hello Canaries soon)!

Day 288-296

Something that needs to be decluttered every now and then:

My purse and all the receipts that are no longer needed.

Thanks for shopping with me

and Goodbye!

Day 268: Flashlight

Broken.
Not repairable, Hubby says.
Thanks for shining a light
and Goodbye!

Day 267: Camera Clutter

With the broken camera goes the manual:

Never really used.

Thanks anyway and

Hello paper recycling!

Day 266: Camera

My much-loved and much-used digital camera broke this week.

It will be recycled at the photo store.

Thanks for all those thousands of pink moments and photos

documenting my life.

Goodbye.

You will be replaced.

Day 210-216: Ahoi!

Before we leave:

Those bath toys are just collecting murky water.

Thank you for the splish-splash fun

and Ahoi!

Day 203-207: A Week of Little Decluttering Here and There

Monday:

Bike kid's seat cushioning, 6 years old, only used at the beginning

(had to go, because of soaking up rain and being hard to dry)

Tuesday:

kids' bracelet, what for?

Wednesday:

 the second pair of broken shades for me this summer,

got decluttered right where they fell down,

at the store:

Thursday:

card torn apart at Mama & Baby Yoga class:

Friday:

and then the whole stack had to go

to paper recycling:

Thank you and Goodbye!

Day 192-195: Finale, oh-oh!

The last round of German vintage soccer autographs,

Hubby put up for sale on ebay:

And tonight,

world cup or Goodbye?

Day 188-190: Semi-Final

Hubby sold some more vintage soccer autographs:

Let's see what happens tonight in Brazil.

Goodbye?

Day 180-182: Soccer

... good timing for those autographs of 60s German football players:

Bought by Hubby for a handful of Marks at the fleamarket some 25 years ago,

and now sold online

during the World Cup.

Goal!

Day 169-173: Old Shoes, Old Life

Shoes that I wore to my sister's wedding 6 years ago,

and shoes that hurt while wearing ...

... encircled by photos from my first year of uni.

Time passes and sometimes you don't really want to look back.

Erase and Goodbye!

Day 160 - 164: Clutter Collage

Summer makes me a really lazy declutterer.

I just want to be outside in the garden

and not dig through clutter inside the house.

As I am taking a collage e-course at the moment

and we did messy collages this week,

I put some days worth of decluttering in this picture:

a chewed off bouncy ball, braided plastic cords, a key tag

 and stuff I don't even know what it is for.

Thanks and Bye!

Day 159: Sun Glasses

I have a thing with sunglasses,

summer, sunglasses and me are inseparable. 

Usually I have a new pair each summer,

I really liked those sunglasses

(fakes from Turkey):

I don't know what happened to them,

(maybe some little feet stepped on them)

but one side of them broke.

Thanks for giving me shade,

a place to hide,

letting me wear no eye make-up

and still look cool

and Goodbye!