Project: Declutter 365

While reading a blog entry over on The Finer Things in Life I stumbled on her 2010 series Declutter 730 in 365. She made 2010 her year for decluttering 730 things from her home (an average of 2 things a day). Then she did a monthly update on her progress.
Now this kind of project could be good for me. It could be a way to focus my new-found desire to change our house into a home. But if I wait until the start of a new year to make a change or set a goal it will never happen. So I am going to start it now.

I can declutter things 4 different ways,

• Sell them on Craigslist or at a garage sale.
• Donate them to Goodwill.
• Give as gift, yes I still have lots of things with tags.
• Throw away, things that are missing pieces or are just broken.

I also agree with Amy that it would be too easy if I didn't set up some rules to follow.

• Regular trash doesn't count.
• Andrew's scrap metal doesn't count .
• I am going to average 2 items a day, some days I will do more and some days I will not do any decluttering.
• I don't have to be the one to declutter, the kids or Andrew can too. The point is for the house to loose things.
• I will blog about it once a month.

This shouldn't be too much a stretch since there are whole areas of the house that I barely touch. The hardest part is going to be continuing after school starts again. Here I go....