Friday Report

[adair]

Well, I've moved some books on, but I have mostly put a batch in boxes in the garage. We have a friend visiting who will need to sleep on our fold-out couch. In order to fold it out the area where I stashed books for Books to Prisoners and books I hope to read some day had to be emptied. I moved a few books on, but as time got short I had to just box them up, label the boxes, and stack them in the garage. The room looks nicer now, but when Mike leaves the books will have to come back so I will keep on dealing with them rather than forgetting them.

I did manage to shred the letters from B2P that I brought home for that purpose, so something was accomplished, but the shredder froze up with three letters left. I hauled some small cardboard boxes to B2P to use for shipping. I put a batch of newspapers in a bag to take to B2P for packing. I found places to put some of the things piled on the desk so Mike will have a place to put his computer. Trying to clear surfaces is the project for tomorrow.

Comments

[tanaqui]

It sounds like you still managed to get a lot done, despite the emergency space clearing!

And taking everything out a space and deciding what goes back in (and how) and what doesn't is a perfectly valid decluttering technique. :-) I hope that when you come to unpacking those boxes, you find you can deal with them quickly and find lots of things to move on.

Good luck with the "clear surfaces" project.

[adair]

Thanks for the encouragement. I always feel a little guilt at just moving things around, because that was my default activity for a long time. I am now letting more things go, even books and other printed items, but it is still slow. Surface clearing is under way; some still involves putting stuff in boxes for later, but at least the stuff is somewhat sorted.

[fred_mouse]

When I'm moving things around, I try and find just one thing to go -- and I usually find more than that. I hope it works like that for you this time. And well done on all the small bits of decluttering you achieved in the process.