de-cluttering

The act of de-cluttering (for me) is usually spurred on by the offer of more clutter stuff gifts from one place/friend or another. This morning and this afternoon (while J & the kids played in the backyard) I managed to go through all the kids clothes including the heavy bags I'd vacuum-packed some months (& years) ago.

I was ruthless BUT the children still have a lot of clothes. I like the kids to be well-dressed (except when we're on the farm). Perhaps I should say I like the kids to be appropriately dressed so that means good clothes for parties, events, outings; clothes for pre school, for play dates, for making mud pies in the summer & the winter; and clothes for on the farm. That's A LOT of clothes and they grow so quickly.

Mind you I can proudly say that the majority of the kids clothes are secondhand from an op shop hand-me-downs or were sale.

So, all that being said I still managed to come up with the equivalent of 2.5 Ikea bags (those huge blue ones) full that we don't 'need.' I guess I also had to consider that at some stage we may have another baby.

In the space of an hour or so I took a few pics with my iphone and whacked them on a local classifieds page of Facebook and within ten minutes I had 2 buyers.

This decluttering could get addictive.... as long as those offers of more stuff come in.