20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 10th Day

10th Day

My lack of capacity to throw away presents that people gave to me is over the top. 

So I had this liquid wax for shaving that was offered to me from a friend. I never use wax for my legs since I started, many years ago, to use the machine for that purpose. But even so, I never got rid of it!

Yesterday I had to make the decision of finally saying goodbye to this... I couldn't do it, because it seemed like a waste. The solution was to use it. And I did it, after 3 years having this in my bathroom...

Plus to this I throw away: 4 plastic covers that I don't know where they belong to and 5 old dirty kitchen towels.

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 9th Day

9th Day the cook books

I was at work thinking about what to put away and I remembered how much it leaves me anxious to have this cooking books at home that I don't use and are not going to use in the future... So I sent my other half an e-mail.

My boyfriend has 4 different korean cooking books that people offered him in birthday parties and 3 other books quite big that is very hard to use because all the ingredients you need to do this recipies are never to be saw in Germany...

Plus two cooking magazines that he also got from his mom.

Everything to seel or give away in the fleamarket!

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 8th Day

8th Day 

• 1 Plastic box that wasn't a random plastic box but a long disappeared tapperware...

• Very old drops. That I hated

• 2 small towels that I never used

• 4 plastic covers

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 7th Day

7th Day

The stuff for the 6th, 7th and 8th come from the action of decluttering the bathroom.

• 2 Birth Control pills. I stopped taking the birthcontrol because I was tired of putting this hormons in me but I kept for memorabilia the packages.

• 4 dried lotions in not nice looking litle plastic bottles

• 1 Raiser

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 6th Day

6th Day was a sad day

Today is a sad day for a declutter fan.

The first scarf I ever knitted didn't fit the style that I have now and I couldn't take it to work because was very childish. My solution was to make again the wire from it and knit an infinit scarf with it. But because the scarf was very old, this was a huge failure, and it was ruined complitely!

It was very sad because I could have thought in giving it away to someone that could make use of it but now it is in the garbage for noone to use.

We also gave away a cellphone, 1 empty box of pills, Multivitamins from 2014 and 2 secret liquids in a plastic botle.

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 5th Day

5th Day

5th day and I'm not yet panicking!

Today I decided to check my knitting box. And I found the courage to get rid of some of my wool. 

I will try to sell it in the flea market with a very low price and if I don't sell or give it away I will throw it away.

I got the two yellowiosh wools in a kit to learn how to knitt socks. They looked nice but when you knit something out of them it looks very ugly (for me). I thought I could still do the socks but then I will feeel like I don't want to wear them!

The blue wool is an acrylic wool that I bought more than 8 years ago! I did a scarf that I already don't have and a pair of mittens that look like new still now with this wool. That is the blessing when you knit with acrylic. 

I also said goodbye to a tissue that I kept to do some sewing project but it was stained.

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 4th Day

4th Day!

• I notice today the shoes I was wearing had the fake skin breaking. The sad thing it is that I started to wear this shoes because I thought I need to start to wear them finally!

• I'm removing the soap plates. I don't know the official name for this. But this porcelain plates that you use to put soap on? This has zero practicality. In the end of the day it is just another thing that I have to clean everytime I clean the bathroom.

• Don't judge but I had two almost over toothpastes waiting to be putted in the garbage...

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 3rd Day

For the 3rd Day I have:

• The cat bed. If you adopt a blind cat always remember they don't like igloo beds!
• The liquid soap porcelaine. I got to the conclusion that I don't need that.
• Pen that I shared with you earlier.

Currente situation in the challenge is: Easy until now. 7 items selected!

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 2nd Day

The 2nd day was also an easy day. 

First, I got home and the zipper in one of my boots was broken. They were old boots and they already looked old so was time for them to go! Now I will use my black boots and I'm not going to buy anymore a second pair.

Second, I found a Venice map that we are not going to need in the next couple of years.




Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

• 20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

20 Days Minimalism Challenge - 1st Day

First day of everything seems very easy! This was super easy!

I bought this BentoBox to take lunch to work and was something I always wanted to have! But I hated it!

Was so complicated to use that I gave up!

1st day official done!




Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

• 20 Days Minimalim Challenge

20 Days Minimalism Challenge

I'm trying to minimise my life!

And after learning about the KonMari method and reading her book I convinced some friends to join me in what will be the DECLUTTER EVENT!!!!

In the Marie Kondo book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organising, she says that when you decide to declutter you need to make it an event!

You need to treat that day like a special day and even dress appropriately! To say the truth I didn't do that but...

I got the idea to sell all our stuff we don't need anymore in a flea market on the April 30th!

So we have a date, a goal to achieve and something to look forward to with our friends!!

I even have everything packed and ready to go there and sell! Everything fits in a tidy red suitcase!

This leaves 20 days for the event to come, and I'm already finished!

It can't be! I look around and I see stuff, stuff that I don't know whether I need it or care about it but I didn't select them!

Because this is going to be very important and a great opportunity for me to improve my life I don't want to miss it because I have tunnel vision and can't see what is in front of me!

To stop this feeling that I'm missing something, I decided to do a 20 Day Minimalist Challenge!

What is a 20 Day Minimalist Challenge? 

As far as I understand every day you need to pick an amount of stuff equal to that days ordinal number.

For example:

•  1st Day -> 1 Thing

•  2nd Day -> 2 Things

          ....

•  20th Day -> 20 Things

So in the end of this 20 Day Challenge you must have 210 things to give away!

At first 210 things appear to be a lot! But if I find more things in a day that I don't need, it counts for the goal of the next day.

Here I go in this Decluttering Journey!

Wish me luck!

Posts about Minimalism:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing