If you remember, last week I mentioned that I’m on a mission to declutter and unstuff my life. As I was cleaning my dresser last week, I realized how much STUFF I have that I don’t even KNOW I have because it’s hiding under piles of more STUFF! Just so much stuff.
and there’s some stuff I am constantly buying because it makes me feel happy to buy it or I feel like a more legit blogger if I buy it or because I’m straight up too lazy to care for the ones I already have (cough bobby pins cough).
So here’s a list of things I don’t need more of. I’m posting it because then I’ll feel accountable to not buy these things.
- Nail polish
Need I say more? I’m looking at you, Julep.
- Bobby pins
Let’s be real… bobby pins are the pennies of girls hair care. We leave bobby pins all over the place all the time, everywhere. Instead of keeping good track of the 100 or so bobby pins we buy at once, we become careless and constantly need to replenish our supply. I’m calling BS. I’m not buying any more bobby pins until/unless I’m at 0 bobby pins.
- Notebooks
EVEN if they’re cute, I don’t need them. Not for journaling or brainstorming or letter writing or anything. I DON’T NEED MORE!
- Smelly things
Every year. That’s the answer to the question “how often do people give you gift sets of body spray/lotion?” I don’t need any more. I’m drowning in lotion. Not literally, but you know.
- Writing utensils
I’ve got the whole pen situation under control. I tested a bunch of the pens to see if perhaps (and hopefully) some of them weren’t working so I’d be able to invest in a whole bunch of brand new pens but alas.. they all worked.
- Camp Arnold hoodies
I have like 10 of them. But they’re all different colors, sizes and styles. That’s about 9 too many.
- Books
So far this year, I have finished reading ONE book. Just one. My stack of books to read is massive… we’re talking 30-40ish books I’ve never read. I don’t need a single new book until I die at this rate
Are there things in your life that you tend to collect or buy at the store that you really don’t need or use at the speed you replenish it? Now that I’ve posted this list I’m holding myself accountable to NOT PURCHASING ANY OF THEM until or unless I get rid of/run out of them.
Stephanie, I buy bobby pins BY THE POUND. Literally. Sally’s sells them by the pound. And in the last 5 years, I’ve purchased two. This is ridiculous. If you took a magnet to my room, you’d find them EVERYWHERE. I recently bought a shot glass in Mexico in an effort to keep track…I still leave them next to my bed lol
Also, I’m in the same boat with almost each of these things. Especially books. I’ve read one, as well. Lord help us! I wanna read as fast as I can just so I can buy more books…it’s bad.
bahahah BY THE POUND! you’re so much worse than me. i use two every single day and i’ve been trying to not be so careless with them. you should go on a hunt for them and make like 5 places to keep them!! haha. then at least they’ll eventually have a home.
My Mexican shot glass is the first step in my 12 step process. One day at a time lol
hahaha baby steps!
Oh man I don’t need any more nail polish. Actually, I probably need to throw away about half of the ones I have that I never use/probably never will use. I paint my nails like six times a year, toenails maybe ten. Why do I have like 20 nail polishes? WHY?!
i’m ultra impressed that you only have 20 nail polishes. today i painted one hand and was like “um…. i should do this more often.” but then i was literally too lazy to paint the other hand… bahahaha. so i am wondering what it feels like to come to the end of a bottle of nail polish. i’ve literally never experienced that. why do we do this? #girlproblems
Pretty much just YES to almost everything in this post. Obvs I don’t have camp arnold hoodies but I have plenty of my own. In my defense I used to wear hoodies like, every day.
SAME HERE!!! with the camp arnold hoodies. now i wear them when i’m lazy or cold, but not really out in public. so then i should PROBABLY not have a quadzillion of them, haha.
YES to all of these! Especially nail polish for me. I was just thinking of the same thing this weekend when I looked around and was overwhelmed with all my crap. Excited to get rid of stuff (virtually) with you!
YAY!!!! say no to stuff!!!
i cried. like i stood there and cried because i needed to organize all of my stuff and there was SO MUCH OF IT and i had no idea how to start getting rid of it. how do you decide which pale pink nail polish to keep and which one to get rid of? ugh #thestruggle
These are the types of things I have to purge when I do a large giveaway/hrow out session. I totally agree it’s so easy to accumulate too many of the same things we love, we must have LIMITS! 🙂