Wednesday, 14/6

[fred_mouse]

Before I start on What I Managed Today (spoiler: little), I'm wondering whether a regular post for people to comment on would go somewhat towards getting a little activity in this comm? Daily might be a little challenging as a starting point, but maybe twice weekly (say, Wednesday and Saturday?) to see whether there is much response?

So - what did I declutter today. Mostly, I've been finding rubbish. I've had several deliveries in recent days, and thus there is much packaging. About half of this has gone in the bin, the rest is going to be stashed for possible further use (assuming that there is still space in the 'postal packaging' box; if not it is going in the bin).

I also dealt with one item out of the sewing pile, which doesn't get it out of the house, but at least gets it back into general usage, and out of the general class of items cluttering up my sewing room.

Comments

[peaceful_sands]

A regular post would not be a bad idea at all - I don't mind helping out if you're looking for volunteers. Although I regularly find stuff to declutter, I tend to collect it up so a bulk load goes at once and as much as possible gets either recycled or donated in one form or another.

Speaking of which, I only came upstairs to look for a pen so that I could label some things that I was getting rid of by donation, then I turned on the computer to check on a hoped for email. I'd actually been in the middle of some major decluttering. There are currently four full boxes in the hallway waiting to go and some bags - this may be more than I can fit in the car and at least one of the boxes is heavier than I can lift - unfortunately good size sturdy boxes don't seem to be easy to come by at the moment (I don't want to spend anything on them - which is why I'm not using the plastic crates that I currently have around the house as I'm not going to be bringing them back from the donation point with me). I sometimes acquire boxes from the local supermarket but of late the only ones they've had have been the ones that hold about 6 bottles of wine - that's great when I'm getting rid of paperback books and the like - unfortunately the stuff I'm getting rid of is too big for that to really work well this time round.

[fred_mouse]

How do you feel about being the back up poster on Wednesdays? I *should* be able to do it, but there will be weeks when it can't happen (mostly due to kid having training)

And I hear you on collecting things for donation. My front hall is a disaster zone of random Things needing to leave the house. There was a time when I was going past an op-shop weekly, and things moved much faster then!

[peaceful_sands]

Apologies for not replying sooner, I've not been at home. I don't mind posting on Wednesdays as a backup. Will you be letting me know or am I to post if you haven't by a certain time?

[fred_mouse]

No worries on the delay in reply - I'm very much in the fails to be timely camp myself, no matter how hard I try. In general, it will be that I need you to post if I've completely failed to realise it is Wednesday. My expected posting time is between 8pm and 9pm (+8 UTC). I don't have a sense of where you are located, so as to know how obvious it will be to you that I've fluffed it?

[peaceful_sands]

I'm in the UK timezone (I think that's currently UTC+1 because we have summer daylight savings, but October-March would be UTC), so I think that means that if you haven't posted by the time I get home from work between 6 and 7pm here, I should try to post something then as you'll probably be sleeping!

[fred_mouse]

That sounds like a pretty good timing. Much appreciated if you will do that check each week.