Decluttering....89 on the 11th (Including 3 pieces of furniture)

On Monday I took a side-step from working through the living room and did some major shifting in the master bedroom. This was a complicated dance, but with a purpose. You see, I want to move one of the now-empty book cases from the living room to a spot down the end of the hall where it will fit nicely, and where I can then store some of the books as I sort another two bookcases. BUT, that spot as been occupied by a set of drawers that I moved there temporarily about a year ago when our son left home and my husband took over his bedroom as an office. I wanted those drawers in my room, BUT that means moving out my big dresser, and moving a book case, BUT to do that, I needed to get rid of a free-standing wardrobe being used to store sewing supplies and extra blankets AND move a bookcase full of things.

Meanwhile, one of my daughters is in need of both a bigger dresser and a bigger wardrobe (her bedroom doesn't have a built-in one). SO, the day was a complicated dance and lots of sorting for both of us.....

This dresser needed to leave my room, along with this wardrobe....(forgot to take a before pic of the wardrobe - it was in a hole between the two built-ins in our room.... more on that below).
AND the bookcase shown needed to be moved to where the wardrobe used to be.....

So I piled everything from all in and on all three of them on and around my bed. And found myself asking....
"WHY do we have so much stuff??

The dresser and the wardrobe got moved to my daughter's room (which of course necessitated her doing a similar process in her room, a step or two ahead of me). The old dresser and mirror from her room got moved to the deck, and tonight loaded into the van for her to drop off to a family who wanted it.

And the wardrobe and a desk from her room have been moved out to the spare room pending disposal. (No pic yet)

I then sorted through all my clothes and put away what needs to remain in the new drawers I moved in, and sorted through the contents of the bookcase and wardrobe, and either tossed it or put it away where it needs to go. All in all, I discarded 89 items - including the 3 pieces of furniture. I won't itemise them all today, but I will tell you about something that made me laugh at myself....But first, the after pics in my bedroom....

Space, glorious space! :-)

Some of the things on the bookcase will get further whittled down on my next pass, but I wanted to keep moving.

When I was checking the drawers before moving them into my room, I found the things I had put in them temporarily - some tablecloths that don't have a place to belong in the dining room, some tax summary records I needed handy (they will be going in the filing cabinet), and some sheets....the thing about these sheets is, a few months ago I cleaned out my linen closet, sorting all the items and changing to a new, upright storage system for towels and sheets etc (works really well - more on this in another post). At the time, I put back in the linen closet a box each of fitted and flat single sheets, both very full. I discarded a lot of spare sheets, but a few I put in these drawers *just in case* I needed them.........WHY would I need more sheets when I already have more than enough in the linen cupboard?? <Shakes head> Guess what got added to the discard pile? Along with a hat I never wear, a box of overlocker threads I will never use, some unneeded stationary, a pile of papers, a bag of trash, and a bunch of other random things.