Wednesday post

[fred_mouse]

I hope everyone is managing more on the decluttering front than I, these last three days - I don't think I've managed to get a single thing out of the house, other than food related rubbish. And I've managed to fall into the trap of going into a DVD store to stock up before the school holidays (which start on Saturday), and come home with Far Too Many DVDs.

But on the plus side, I spent about three hours this morning helping a friend with packing to move house. They identified a number of items to go, some of which they weren't sure about until I was able to say 'have you considered giving them to x'. What I *should* have done was go prepared with a container to cart away things, but as it was, didn't have any way to get things out of their house, and all the boxes they had on hand ended up full. Plan is to offer to come past Friday afternoon (as I have to go past their place to collect youngest from school) with bags, so that I can cart things away.

Comments

[nou]

This post prompted me to get rid of two out-of-date food items that have been hanging around in my cupboard for ages. Thank you! (I’d advertised them on Olio, but clearly nobody wanted them.)

[peaceful_sands]

Well done!

[fred_mouse]

Good job! Pantries are such a prime generator of clutter!

[peaceful_sands]

I've packed another couple of boxes and bags and stacked them in the hall (still haven't got rid of the first lot). I've also identified and begun collecting up a bunch of books to go - I'm trying to reduce the TBR pile and so have identified some books that can be given to someone else to read first, enabling me to concentrate on others. I've also identified a number of books with print that is too small to comfortably read and so I've been downloading copies of some of them for free to the tablet so that I can adjust the font size, this means I'll be able to get rid of the hard copy versions (there's no point in hanging on to them if reading is too much of a strain on the eyes).

[fred_mouse]

That is a lot of different proactive things! The getting free electronic copies of the books with ridiculous print is an elegant solution.

[yabamena]

I did manage to get some cleaning/decluttering done this week. It was unfortunately prompted by a bold little mouse who decided to make his presence known. But it got me to wash six loads of laundry, get rid of an old printer, and send off three GivebackBoxes full of clothes. So thanks, mouse?

[fred_mouse]

Sympathies on the mouse - we are at the point of the year where they move indoors, and have done much Dealing With Stuff as a result. Six loads of washing sounds *huge*!

[yabamena]

It wouldn't be a big deal if he hadn't brought his entire family with him. Between the humane traps and the cats, we've caught five within the last week alone. Still, better to catch it relatively early.

As for the laundry, well...depression's kind of gotten the best of me over the last several months and that was the result. At least I've made a dent in the mess.

[fred_mouse]

Yeah, at the peak I think we were getting multiples a day in the humane trap, and the last pair we caught were little ones -- we think that they were only heavy enough to trip it with both of them in there.

And sorry to hear about the depression -- a dent in the mess is progress!

[yabamena]

Ugh, we haven't gotten that bad yet. (Knock on wood.) We did just find the hole they were using to get in, though, and plugged that up so we'll see if that helps.

Yeah, I'm getting treated now which is why I'm able to "function" and get things done more. :)

[fred_mouse]

Glad you found the hole where they are getting in. We still haven't worked it out where ours are getting in (and we've been here 13 years).

And good luck with the treatment.