15th to 21st

The last 7 days have had a lot of organising tasks: now that I finally notice a lot more empty space I decided to start to tide up the things around the house. We finally managed to get the medicines box in the bathroom (as a result of me eliminating my jewellery box).

In the kitchen, all my clothes, towels and tea towels are now presentable, having thrown away the all the ones with stains. Today I need to throw away the extra kitchen utensils I packed in the back of the drawer - we only uses one of them: the bottle opener and that will stay.

My wardrobe is now almost done. I believe in the next couple of days I will be able to get rid of the final items I really don't appreciate that much (related to color/style). In the end of this winter I will also throw away my beloved CAT boots that really don't look good anymore.

I have been getting rid of some accessories, and I must say that the hats (my passion) have been the hardest thing to let go off... But the truth is that I was not wearing the ones I put away. I'm still keeping around 30 hats anyway... But I love them, and I'm also using them as decoration in the room :)

I have been getting rid of electronics boxes as well. I took photos of the imei's and/or other important info and simply got rid of the boxes. Filipe still has some in the house, but hopefully this week he will be able to get them back to his workplace, where the belong.

As I mentioned in the last post, this whole process has been resulting in more free time somehow, which allowed us to have a very organised household. We have now for two consecutive weeks managed to effortlessly take our packed lunches to work and try new recipes weekly due to our meal planning.

I think that in the next few days I will try to focus more on our living room again, going through our drawers once more and making the second purge there. Another plan for the weekend is probably covering the "extra" things in our kitchen. We are renting our house and when we moved in we kept all the kitchen stuff that was there from before since we had none of our own. At the moment, I believe only the plates and glasses have not been replaced, so I will try to pack the house's mugs and cups and see if we can leave without them.

I might also try to digitalise some of the documents we have so I don't need to keep a hard copy - this will surely save a lot of space, but will imply organising our cloud storage.