Comments on: Declutter Your Home Checklist: Den & Linen Closet

By: lynn

lynn — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:38:19 +0000

In reply to Tove. Hi Tove, let me know if you were able download and print the kitchen list I sent you. If you need more, let me know. Hugs, Lynn

By: Tove

Tove — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:50:25 +0000

Good morning Lynn
I had no trouble printing your bedroom and garage decluttering lists but now I can’t get the rest of the lists printed. What can I do to get them all on paper? My “office” desperately needs to be decluttered before any other rooms as it is a catch all for everything office, computer, and electronic related..

By: lynn

lynn — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:30:10 +0000

In reply to BetteAnn Slivka.

Oh girlfriend, I have many weaknesses…Kitchen Gadgets are just a big one! But it doesn’t help that my family ‘enables’ me with new gadgets every Christmas in my stocking!

And I love that you and yours sister exchange stockings! I don’t think I could convince my brother to do that with me!

I have done a similar thing with my duplicates…saving them for my daughter. Of course, now my attic is getting filled with ‘stuff for Kate’!! Oh well, one day we’ll whittle it down.

Keep on keeping on in your decluttering…it is a process!

Have a great weekend my friend.

Hugs,

Lynn

By: BetteAnn Slivka

BetteAnn Slivka — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:03:34 +0000

In reply to Penny Amy. Is nice to know that even you, Lynn, have a weakness for kitchen gadgets. I laughed when I read Penny Amy's comment. My sister and I still exchange Christmas "stockings" (We now use gift bags) and until recently have always included either a kitchen gadget or cookie cutter. It is a major problem for me, especially since I moved to a house with a smaller kitchen and very little space in drawers. Some of the duplicate items went to a niece who moved into her first apartment. (When you have duplicates, they usually look brand new). I am still working on the rest.

By: lynn

lynn — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:24:39 +0000

In reply to Karyn.

Oh Karyn, I am so very glad! Those dreaded boxes are a bane to me as well…I hate to throw out a good box. When we get to the attic I will surely be challenged to pare down my box collection.

Happy Decluttering my friend.

Hugs, Lynn

By: lynn

lynn — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:25:15 +0000

In reply to Stacia Coughlin.

Good Morning Stacia!

First off, I envy your talent (and patience) as a furniture refinisher! What a skill to be able to take a neglected piece of lovely furniture and bring it back to its glory!

Second, well done with the ‘management’ of your rags and drop cloths. It is so easy to fall into the trap of thinking “I can’t trash this because what if I need it 7 months from now?’ And I get that you need rags! But the truth is that rags are produced just about every week in our homes, as we use our towels and sheets. I love how you tackled this challenge and came up with a very practical solution!

Thanks for chiming in and sharing your success!

You are entered into the gift card drawing.

Hugs, Lynn

By: Stacia Coughlin

Stacia Coughlin — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:20:22 +0000

I am a refinisher and have a strong desire for all different types of rags and drop clothes. I found while decluttering the first rooms, I had stash piles everywhere. I have now collected them and put them all in one basket in the laundry room. I am limiting myself to a pile of drop clothes and a basket of rags. Culling the linens from the linen closet and kitchen was so easy this time. If they were good they went to charity, if they were stained, old, etc, they went to the rag basket. When it was full, the older rags went in the garbage. What a help this has been!

By: Karyn

Karyn — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:32:35 +0000

Hi Lynn, I am so enjoying your lists. So simple, yet so very helpful. I am adding that stack of boxes from online ordering (of things I probably should not have purchased in the first place) to the list. We have been saving them to use for decluttering, but there is more than enough.

By: lynn

lynn — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:03:55 +0000

In reply to Penny Amy.

So true my friend!

Kitchen gadgets have long been my weakness! It pokes my heart a wee bit to rehome them, but I do appreciate the more organized drawers! Good luck with your decluttering my friend and how exciting that you’ve got a new home on the horizon!

Hugs, Lynn

By: Penny Amy

Penny Amy — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 21:19:20 +0000

Lynn, for years it was a family challenge to find new kitchen gadgets for my mother-in-law. Then I started the same thing with my husband for his stocking (spoiler alert: I do put things in his stocking, not just Santa). Needless to say, we have gadgets, all small but numerous, that I don’t even know the function of. They are all going to a better life when we move to our new house under construction. I don’t care if it is bigger, they’re going to someone new.
Organizing in the kitchen might include a hunt for gadgety items of questionable use.