Declutter continues

In my sewing room I have 2 of these bins - fairly large - and they tend to collect random stuff that I'm too lazy to put away.  Do you have one of those too?  It was time to empty it out and use the bin for something more organized.

 

There is a gallon zip lock bag with a whole collection of notions and tools that I plan to give away.  And then there was all of this . . .  In the very bottom were parts and pieces for a Christmas project.  I put all of those pieces back into the project box with the blocks already sewn.  It's less likely to get lost now.  A couple of small kits, and several bundles of precuts (charm packs, fat quarter bundles, and more) were all dumped in there.  Everything has now been put away properly so I could repurpose that bin.

It now holds most of the various bag patterns, bag kits, zippers, and other bag supplies that have been strewn around in several different spots.  Now they're all gathered together where I can find them when needed.  No more hunting for which drawer I put the bag of zippers, or a specific bag pattern.  

On the household decluttering front, I made a little progress in the past week.  Eight more binders of old work paperwork have been emptied, and most of the paper shredded.  A box holding 3 kid sized baseball gloves and 2 baseballs was discovered on a shelf in the basement, and the contents have gone into the rummage sale box.  And I've identified a couple of large items that can go out on the curb to be picked up during the community-wide clean up day in a couple of weeks.