Angelique, that's awesome that you threw out your sweatpants! Last week I made two cat beds with two of the cashmere sweaters I need to toss... and will have a much easier time getting rid of the rest without worrying about reusing them
musicjunkie, I find the thread has the same effect - I started to go through to see when we had the basement flooding issue - I STILL have not picked up everything in the living room that got moved as a result of that.
I just did all the dishes and went through my plastic containers, throwing out the ones I never use.
I used to work for a very large thrift store operation and acquired a lot of stuff that way, a lot of it right when I bought my house. It was usable stuff and very cheap, but not necessarily to my taste now. It feels good to toss some of that stuff.
I am not sure what else I will get done today. It's a rare warm day out (in the 40s, lol), so I feel like I should enjoy the sun for a bit.