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 175-179: 1100 e-mails

Digital decluttering was my project for this week,

I deleted about 1100 e-mails from my three accounts

 and organized the rest in my folders.

 Even my inbox praises me for it:

 

 Thank you modern communication.

Day 174: Digital Decluttering

This trovigo-virus has been bothering me on my laptop for a while:

Not anymore.

Deleted.

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 168: Salt Shaker

It was a gift two years ago, 

when we moved into our house, 

this ancient-style Greek salt shaker:

I don't know who dropped it recently

and even though it looks even more ancient now,

it has to go for safety reasons.

Thank you and Goodbye!

Day 167: Ball Halves

Who needs half a bouncing ball made by Carolina?

Nobody, I guess.

Thank you and Goodbye!

Day 165+166: Clay Clutter

The girls' clay experiments:

... or what is left of them:

Thank you 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!

Day 158: Modelling Clay

From the forgotten depths of the basement:

Modelling clay

Clara used to play with

(years ago?).

Hardened and too cluttered.

Thanks for the fun

and Goodbye!

Day 157: Give some Heart

From Clara's craft clutter,

kept sticking to my shoes.

Thanks and Goodbye!

Day 156: Batteries II

After 147 days it's time again for batteries (Day 9):

Will take them to the recycling box now

while grocery shopping.

Thanks for your power

and Goodbye!

(what was that idea with rechargeables again?)

Day 155: Phone Book

... last year's phoneback is replaced by the recent one.

Goes to paper recycling.

Thanks for helping sometimes and Goodbye!

Day 154: A Garden Blanket

This oil-cloth blanket used to cover our garden table 

for the last two years. 

It has seen too much rain and suffered 

and was substituted this season by a new cheerful blanket. 

Thanks for those meals outside

and Goodbye!

Day 153: Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?

A heap of the girls' drawings and paintings, 

found around the living room.

For them it's more about the process,

I am telling myself.

Thank you and Goodbye!

Day 152: Big Pink Bag

This is a little sad.

Today is the day 

I ultimatively say goodbye 

to my true everyday purse:

Big enough to hold my things 

and some of Carolina's, yoga's and shopping.

The purse got its first kiss of death 

in the Parisian metro

when it got caught and one strap tore.

I fixed it with a makeshift knot.

But this week another strap tore off

that couldn't be fixed.

A gift from my mother's

and I declutter it today.

Thaaaaaaank you

and Goodbye!

PS: As in life with things, most are replaceable,

I have heard of a new purse on its way to me.