Declutter challenge day 2
Yesterday I set out my goal for this week, which was decluttering my bedroom. To date, I’ve already decluttered my clothes. Today, I wanted to clear out my underwear drawer, skin-care products and make-up.
Support
Fortunately, my husband was able to keep my little one amused whilst I was cleaning up, upstairs. Playing Star Wars on the PS was a real hardship for the pair of them!
Declutter day 2 – Preparation
I had a roll of black bin bags, some cleaning materials and a vacuum cleaner.
Action
I wanted to take images to display on the Facebook group, however my phone needed charging, so I decided to clear out my bathroom first. Here’s what I did:
- cleared everything out of the room that wasn’t a fixture
- cleaned all the surfaces
- cleaned the glass in the pharmacy cabinet
- checked all medicines and binned any that were out of date
- moved the laundry basket to the bedroom
- cleared out the shelf unit
- any half used bottles of shampoo and conditioner from hotel were placed in the shower area for immediate use
- any unopened packets of miniature soaps were discarded
The cabinet is now full of things that will be used in due time, and are all in date.
I also cleared out my underwear drawer:
Pretty messy huh?
- I separated out the different types of underwear, and they then went into different drawers
- I can now close the draw easily and everything now has it’s own place. No more hunting for socks or tights!
Next came the skin care and make-up drawers
These two drawers now hold socks and tights. All six drawers were emptied from the dressing table, and 5 now hold different types of underwear, whilst the sixth holds odds and ends not discarded from the other drawers.
My skin care and make-up stuff went from this:
to this:
As I was on a roll, I started clearing out some of my books too.
Before I finished I wiped down the relevant surfaces and then vacuumed the half of the bedroom cleaned and decluttered.
Declutter day 2 – Outcome
- one and a half bags of rubbish to the bin
- one bag of unused skin-care products to go to relatives
- two bags of clothes and accessories to go to some relatives and then the charity shop
- one box of books
I’m about half-way through decluttering my bedroom, so I’m happy with the progress made today. I even found this:
I’d totally forgotten that I had it, and had to sit down for a few minutes whilst the memories of that day came back. We had this done when my little one was three.