August 25-31 declutter

Okay, I may have fallen off the wagon a bit in terms of the decluttering. Since it was the first week of school, it's been a little busy around here! But today I did declutter the fridge, which led me into decluttering my recipes (there were several recipes attached to the fridge). We have several cookbooks in which we rate the recipes we try on a highly scientific scale, ranging from "yuck" to "very good." I also tear out recipes from a magazine I get and save them to try. But the folder I save them in was absolutely bulging, so I went through and discarded recipes that were a little too ambitious, exotic, or expensive for us. We do try to expand our eating possibilities, but I'm trying to be realistic. Also on the chopping block were some recipes in a binder we had saved--ones that were not rated "very good" were out. Since I have so many to choose from anyway, why keep a recipe that was merely good?

I'm pretty happy with my month of decluttering, though, especially in my office. The desks and bookshelves are so beautiful and I actually want to spend time in here now!