Keeping Things- My Daughter is Wearing my HS/College Pants

 I have always lived a frugal life.  It was just the way I was raised.  It is a theme that keeps coming up.  How to balance excess and waste not, want not.

Having recently moved, and now emptying out bins, has opened up a lot of items that have been in storage for quite some time.  My youngest daughter recently went through a growth spurt, and pretty much ran out of pants that fit.  We came across three bins of my clothes that were boxed up after the pregnancy of my first child-yup 20 years ago!!!!  I had some really sweet pants that I wore through the end of high school and college!!!  She was in heaven!!!!  My pants are not only being worn again they are LOVED.  Yes, I would totally wear them again myself if I could lose the weight- and am seriously working towards that now- though I do not think that she will give them back.  In all honestly, I was keeping them because I 100% wanted to wear them again, I would not have kept them in case a child wanted them.  Also, it is proof positive about the decline of quality items with longevity in our consumer stream.

About a week ago that same daughter told me that she wanted a dress for her winter formal.  I put out the word in the community that we were looking for a dress and was gifted a blue velvet dress from the 90's.  We spent many quality hours re-working that dress into almost the exact dress that she had drawn for me that first day!!!! I did have to spend $5 on rhinestones ;)  

Those rhinestones bring me back to the topic of frugally keeping things for longer then 90 days - as

suggested by The Minimalists.  When the kids were younger there were other dresses, projects, and costumes that required the use of the rhinestone setter.  I have not used that in 4 years, but I was so happy to bust it out and watch her joy of creation with it.    Will I use it again, I think I will.  It may even be within 90 days!!!  She has already drawn her prom gown!!! These days are fleeting and bring great joy!!  And the question remains, is it worth keeping the rhinestone setter...maybe I could just use a soldering iron?  

If this were the one thing that were causing clutter, i think i would test the soldering iron.   And perhaps the fact that everything is causing clutter, is all the more reason i should do that...LOL!!  because I have too many things.  If they were things that I did not think had use in my life, it would be so much easier for me to pass them on!!!

Just 2 things

 Some days i just cannot get a lot done in the decluttering front. it is easy on those days to just do nothing. And then those days are doing nothing add up to a whole Lotta nothing

so today I will get rid of just two things, but if I get rid of two things every day that would really add up. perhaps it would make up for all of these that I did not get rid of one thing. So here are my two things today.