Weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How did everyone go with uncluttering over the weekend?

For me, yesterday was a bit on the busy side, so no uncluttering happened. Today though, I went into the music cum sewing cum storage room, which has been slowly accreting many many things on horizontal surfaces. To start with, I emptied two small storage boxes, both of which contained small repair jobs (two bras, one pair of slippers; all fixed). Then I sorted paperwork, mostly putting things in appropriate files, and then binning those that don't need filing. And I went through the stash of plastic containers and thinned them down to the few we use.

Sadly, I'm not sure I can see the difference - will have to make more progress next Sunday.


(also, autocorrect is getting on my nerves - today, it keeps assuming I want 'unflattering' instead of 'uncluttering'. *sigh*)

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Several inches! That's amazing. And good on you throwing out the nearly useful files and other bits that you found.

[tanaqui]

The paper stack is really less impressive than it sounds. :-)

I'm self-employed and didn't throw away anything related to my work for 20+ years. (Oops!) I'm now slowly working my way through getting rid of stuff over a certain age. This year, that involves two boxes of papers relating to client projects that I worked on between, I think, 2002 and 2010. (Because, really, no one is ever going to ask me to check a detail in my original notes for a marketing brochure I wrote 10 years ago....)

Since there may be slightly sensitive information in there -- like contact details that could still be valid -- on maybe every 3rd page, it's far simpler and less time-consuming just to shred everything than look at every page and decide whether it needs to be shredded or not. Hence several inches of shredding each week for the past two or three weeks!

[fred_mouse]

Makes sense. Just before I left last job, all the offices got moved around, and we found far more sensitive information in filing drawers than was expected. But as some of it was info that wasn't necessarily recorded anywhere, I went through and sorted for just those pages (and only put identifying information into the secure shredding).