Decuttering March

I got started a little early with Project Simplify, the first week is the Kid's room and I got after it!!  It is particularly obvious that we have way too much stuff since Trevor's birthday is one month after Christmas.

Of course, I did do this while he was not at home.  He was actually super excited at his clean and newly organized room.  I made sure to display some things that he had forgotten about and he loved seeing those when he walked in.  He is accustomed to me cleaning and organizing, so that wasn't a shock.  He asked me "Mommy, why did you put all my trains on the shelf?", I responded "well, when your trains are all over the place and a mess it makes Mommy crazy".  He said "when you put my trains on the shelf it makes ME crazy"!  Such a funny moment for both of us.

I started with toys. Duplicates of toys (we had 3 sets of tools, 2 wooden trains etc). Then, I moved to the bookshelf and took out all the baby books (save his first few favorite books). The easiest were the bins of Happy Meal and birthday party favors. Worthless!

I have kept a box of infant, non choking hazard toys in the guest room closet since I still have friends with infants. One of the benefits of being totally on board with having one child is that you can purge without thinking you might need it later!

I took all of our declutter project items to the Genesis Women's Shelter Thrift Store in Dallas.