What's the silliest thing you've decluttered? Or the funniest thing you own that you realize you should get rid of? What have you held on to that everyone (including you!) makes fun of you for keeping?
Sometimes we have to stop and think about how silly something is before it can dawn on you that it's okay to get rid of the item. So let's play a little show-and-tell. Send me a picture of the object or a link to a picture on a website that's selling the product. Next week I'll post mine and all of the pictures I've gotten.
I'll give you a hint about mine: I've had braces twice in my life, and I begged this little souvenir off my orthodontist. Any guesses?
I too had braces, and am pretty sure I have a retainer lurking somewhere... The silliest item (for me - as I'm not good with cosmetics) I've decluttered recently is a can of spray on tan for my legs. Used once, then I proceeded to leave a biege trail on my night out - not nice... it's gone!
ReplyDeletesilly, yes, but it does make for a good story at least!
DeleteI just purged a box of stuff from when I was a kid. Included? Baby teeth. Like, my own. Totally gross.
ReplyDeleteoh, I had a few of those! My dentist even gave me a tiny little "treasure chest" to put them in. Awful.
DeleteThe silliest thing I've decluttered? Probably toys. As in my toys. Cause, um, I'm 33. 33!
ReplyDeleteThe most embarrassing thing I've kept that even I make fun of? Same answer. There are still quite a few I haven't managed to make myself declutter yet.
lol and I'm sitting here reading your comment with a plush polar bear in my arms :o) Some toys are just worth keeping. Just not all of them!
DeleteNo picture available, but I held onto the saucer from a porcelain espresso cup that a childhood-home neighbour gave me. The cup had broken soon after I got the gift and I held onto the tiny guilded saucer for literally decades afterwards! It was pretty and good quality, but a saucer on it's own from a neighbour that passed away when I was 9 is a bit silly to hang onto.
ReplyDeleteAlso I have held on to shed whiskers from my childhood cat, a plaster cast of my 13 year-old mouth (whoah over-bite!)and the grossest thing ever.... the peeled skin from a sun burn of my dad's OMG! I let it go finally about 6 years after he died. I forgot I had it, and was sorting through a box of boxes and found the dusty thin membrane carefully placed between the fluff of a jewelry box. Ewwww. I think I kept it when I was a kid because it was the biggest piece I had ever gotten off in one go (My dad was a framing carpenter and would burn frequently giving us kids the job of carefully peeling him). It was a bonding moment a few times per summer, but it has a tragic angle because it was skin cancer that killed him.
Wow, that sounds Just like the kind of thing a little kid would find fascinating. I'm really sorry to hear about your dad. Did he know about the sunburn of his that you kept?
DeleteI had tubes (for draining your ear) when I was around 7. One fell out on its own and the other one was removed. The one that was removed was put in a plastic case and I think I may still have that. I'll have to check
ReplyDeleteyes I still have it
ReplyDeleteI hung on to my ekg pads from my first eye surgery for a while. And the bracelet from the surgery. Funny how we hang on to things like that, even though we had surgery to get rid of the problem!
DeleteOMG - I'm sort of thinking that there needs to be a rule about biological keepsakes! Although I am guilty on the cat whisker thing - they just seem too precious to throw them away!
ReplyDeleteMy most recent "what was I thinking" de-clutter was a souffle dish that I bought 20 years ago at a thrift store because it was so pretty. Here's the thing, I don't even know what souffle is! I've never eaten it, let alone tried to make one. It went out yesterday!
odd how biological clutter is so revolting to others and yet it just makes us want to hang on to it. Humans are weird!
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