Hi guys! In my ongoing efforts to declutter the house and reduce my possessions, I have embarked on (and completed!) an epic nail polish declutter. Do you like numbers? I do not like numbers, but nevertheless, here are some fun digits for you:
Number of nail polishes I owned pre-declutter: 340
Number of nail polishes I binned outright: 21
Number of nail polishes I'm getting rid of: 128
Number of nail polishes I'm keeping: 191 (lol, send help). Half of them are photographed below.....
Do I need 191 different bottles of nail polish? I mean, probably not. Maybe I'll go through my collection again and be a bit more strict at some point, but for now, I am done with this.
Here are the ones I binned outright....
The 21 I threw out were completely stuffed, like either super old, smelled off or really thick and just unusable. The 128 I'm getting rid of are still OK, they are just not my cup of tea. LOL imagine having 128 nail polishes that are not your jam. That's a lot. I don't know whether to bundle these in groups of 10 and sell them or just throw them out too. It's hard to know what to do because some are new, some are used, they're all variously aged, etc.
Anyway, I'm glad I decluttered my collection. I've come to realise that reds, dark shades and pretty hot pinks are my favourite shades, going by what I've kept. And that I have a lot of weird arse shit to get rid of, lol. Although I am keeping a few nudes, neutrals and light pinks because they don't require as much time and precision when applying. I need something for when I'm short on time!
Tell me in the comments, how do you store your nail polish collection? Just in a box? Is there a nice way to display the bottles? I'm open to suggestions!
You did good decluttering so many! My sister had a huge declutter of nail polish a while back as she really just uses gels now. She kept some fave polishes and gave the rest to me so my storage method of a little box under the sink in the bathroom had to change to two boxes, haha! I don't have hundreds though but I easily doubled my collection with ones she didn't want. It was fun to go through them all and pick out ones to try next as she has different tastes to me so there are a lot of new shades I didn't have!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could bundle up your ones you no longer want and give them to friends or family, who like me don't mind if any are a little older?
Hope that your week is going well! So hot here with the heatwave!
Away From The Blue
That would have been a fun package to receive and go through! Thanks for the suggestion :) I hope that you're having a nice week :)
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