Decluttering by Ten: Day Two

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I know that it’s only Day 2, but I just love this project so much. Here is what I decluttered this morning:

  • One bag of unwrapped (and presumably stale) chocolate kisses, leftover from Christmas baking – trash!
  • Reusable stickers from a lost sticker book – trash!
  • Three wooden mallets. I purchased a pack of these mallets off Amazon so that my kids could pound golf tees into pumpkins. But do we need a set of five for two kids? I think not.
  • A wooden box that says “Dan the Sausageman.” It arrived over the holidays, packed with meats and cheeses. Nathan thought I might want to keep it for storage. But damnit, the wood needs to be sanded and I’m just not getting to that anytime soon.
  • Four oversize tweezers for the kids. Again, these came in a large pack but how many pairs do I need for two children? I’m not running a day care! Ever!
  • Some cheap little puzzles I got from the Target dollar bins. I thought they would be good entertainment at restaurants. I learned that puzzles are not good entertainment at restaurants, unless you want your children throwing and retrieving pieces under the booth for the entire meal.
  • A small handful of random broken toys and beads.
  • One broken musical handbell. I love having lots of musical instruments for the kids, but I have discovered that three year olds are not ready for handbells. At least my three year old is not.
  • A set of salt and pepper shakers from our wedding registry. Which I filled with salt and pepper and then proceeded to use approximately never. We have been married nearly eight years. I think its time to end the salt and pepper shaker experiment.
  • One canister of fancy loose tea because every now and then, I think I should be the sort of person who brews a pot of fancy tea. But I’m not. I’m the sort of person who microwaves a mug of water and then plops in a grocery store bag of tea. Goodbye, fancy tea! (And there’s another canister up on a high high shelf in the kitchen that is also destined for the trash. But since this canister got me to ten, I stopped and ate breakfast instead.