It was a 3-day weekend, so, of course, that means time for some decluttering and Facebook Marketplace selling!
Our first empty room
Last week, Middle Kid needed a mattress. As we have a surplus of mattresses here, we drove one over to her apartment. That left us with a bedroom without a mattress, which is not terribly functional, so we took the opportunity to empty out the room. In the end, all of the rooms will need to be empty, so why wait?
The bedframe was sold on Facebook Marketplace. Funnily enough, we bought it on Facebook Marketplace a few years ago and we sold it last week for the same amount we bought it for. So technically, we just borrowed it for a few years.
The side tables and lamps are upstairs in the office, since they may be useful in whatever new place we end up in.
Everything else (wall art and bedding) is currently listed on Facebook Marketplace and priced to sell! Contact us if you’re interested! 🙂
And just like that, we have an empty room. The curtains will stay with the house; the new owners can do with them what they like.
Bathroom vanity chaos
I don’t know about you guys, but the drawers and cabinets of our master bathroom vanity are where toiletries go to be forgotten forever. It has been on my to-do list to clean this out for weeks, but I hadn’t gotten to it.
I was seriously amazed at how much stuff had been shoved into these drawers and the cabinet under the sink. As most women do, I would buy some makeup or a hair product, use it once or twice and decide I didn’t love it. But I paid real money for these things so I couldn’t throw them away, right?
That attitude has only rewarded me with some embarrassing bathroom clutter, so I am now operating on two tenets:
One, if I don’t love it and I can’t return it, I will either toss it or re-home it.
Two, stop buying the next new thing that is advertised on Facebook as the second coming for perfect hair, skin, etc. At this stage of life, I know what works for me, so let’s stick to the tried-and-true products.
It’s easy to think that we should hang on to items because they were expensive. But the money we spent for that item is gone and it won’t come back if we let that product languish in the back of the cabinet.
In fact, hanging onto things that we won’t use just because they were expensive can actually make us feel worse, not better. The money is a sunk cost and hanging on to those items will not eliminate those losses.
Let this be the permission you need to dig into your closets, cabinets, and drawers and recycle/rehome anything that is not serving you. You paid $100 for that jacket and then fell out of love with it when you got home? Let it go. You paid $30 for miracle hair serum that didn’t live up to the hype? Let it go, too. When you can open your cabinets and see everything you own and not be reminded of past mistake purchases, you will feel so much freer!
After some magic eraser, elbow grease, and drawer liner, everything is so much more organized!
The goal is to maintain this lack of clutter for the next 38 weeks and continue emptying more rooms. Once we get past Christmas, we can empty the upstairs bedroom and start being more aggressive about decluttering. Fun times ahead!
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