I was pretty excited about decluttering something today! I wasn't sure what I was going to tackle, but I just wanted to get my hands 'dirty' and throw useless junk away! So, I did what I always do first thing in the a.m. and made a cup of tea, and as I was doing this I looked at the tea shelf and made up my mind:
The tea shelf it would be. I don't drink even 1/3 of the teas up there; I'm not even sure I know what teas are up there, actually. At first it was easy:
These ones were teas I knew I didn't drink. Some of them I
wanted to drink, but if you've owned it for a year and haven't finished it yet, well, I think you need to let it go. That purge brought me to this:
Believe it or not, those few teas still indicate my unwillingness to 'let go' of stuff. The Earth Mama, Angel Baby sampler, for example, is tea for expectant mamas. I'm not expecting. I won't be again for some time and when I am, this tea will undoubtedly be stale and need to be replaced. But it was expensive, and I had trouble letting it go.
Suck it up, Elliot, the point is to declutter, not hold on to leaves. So I packed it up as an offering for a pregnant friend. And then some of the teas were almost done, and so I put them on the counter to remind myself to finish them off...and we end up with:
There we go. One shelf done.
1 comment:
Thanks. This is the sound of me going into the kitchen to throw out some of my teas.
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