Days 10 to 23

1 pair shoes – given to a friend who has slightly smaller feet than me.
4 bras – charity shop will take them so I am not ashamed to give
5 tops – charity again
dress - ditto
handbag – as above
trousers – and again
belt – yep charity
hair scrunchie (gold) – How long, how long have I hoarded to still be in possession of a gold scrunchie
washbag – charity
3 pairs socks – no longer in love with these , charity
sunglasses case (sans glasses) – the glasses are lost what am I doing with the case?
board game – no fun no point
file holders – bye
dead laptop battery – some how we came home from the shop with the repaired laptop and the old battery. This one goes to the recycling centre
calculator - charity
egg trays from fridge – probably the ReStore (recycling shop at the dump)
phone socket - ReStore
saucepan with wobbly handle – ReStore
jigsaw – charity
stack of old magazines – accumulated during the ‘lying on the couch’ phase of broken ankle. Instead of keeping them around for months, or longer, I’m donating to the physiotherapist waiting room.
backrest – charity shop

A total of 30 things in 13 days, whilst it may have begun to appear that we had given up after the first round of this project we have been busy.



It was a pleasure to find a new home for these Cinderella shoes. I've been keeping them for years in the hope my feet would shrink, after inheriting them from another who had loved them but whose feet disagreed. At last they are now with someone who not only loves them but can fit into them.

After such progress on the reduction of things over the last 13 days we did gain 5 new things. All vital to our survival. In addition we changed our minds about the ipod put up for adoption last week. It was dead, I replaced it with an ipod shuffle more than 12 months ago. Somehow Pete brought it back to life so I am keeping it.


30 out, 13 days, 5 new, 1 backtrack = 11 items credit!