Declutter Update

I’ve been following each day of the declutter challenge, but it’s been a bunch of little, boring not-so-exciting stuff, so here’s a multi-day update.

Bought some, inherited some.. can you ever have too many scissors??

Day 6 was paper archives (here) which I don’t keep. One less thing to sort through! Day 7 was either a Hot Spot or a day off. I cleared off a chair that was piled with paper files and washed a load of curtains. 

Storage box for rotary blades and other sharps. Safe from the Littles and I can find them when I need them. 

For Day 8 we were to go through our scissors, rotary cutters and snips, decide which to keep and where to keep them. Snips by the sewing machine, ironing board and sewing chair? Check! Useful to have in each place.

Three pair of old paper scissors went into Jac’s art supplies, but everything else went into the “sharps” box, the scissors rack by my ironing board (so handy!), or the yarn bowl repurposed to hold rotary cutters. 

Today - Day 9 - was decluttering threads. 

A couple of years ago, I joined a year-long thread club that shipped me 3 spools of very pretty Aurefil quilting thread each month. Do I have more thread than I could use in 3 lifetimes? Yup! Am I going to give some of it up? Nope! 

I got rid of all my old, off-brand threads last year and organized the rest into clear, slotted containers that live on one storage shelf.

A drawer next to my sewing machine holds the neutral colors - black, white, snow - I use most often for piecing, along with a pretty bowl for spools I need to sort back into the big containers … eventually.

Embroidery threads/supplies and Sashiko projects each have their own separate bins. Makes it so much easier to find them when I get an urge to stitch. I didn’t declutter much these last few days, but I straightened and sorted and confirmed I still like the system I’m using.