Weekend Uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How has your weekend uncluttering gone? Did you go all out, and achieve many things, or did you keep it slow and steady and just deal with the basics/one small thing?

Me, I spent yesterday taking kids to assorted training and giving two of them driving lessons, and if I had spare energy I don't remember doing anything with it, but today I have sorted small areas, such that there are several areas clean! I didn't find anything new to get rid of, but I did move several previously identified items to the box in the front hall that will be leaving Real Soon Now. These include coat hangers that don't match (How do these keep turning up? I've been throwing these out at least 5 years!), an IKEA zip up box that used to hold yarn (how good is it that I've used enough yarn to be able to reconcile the boxes to n-1), and umm, Stuff (I'm not going to look. That way leads to changing my mind). I also downloaded two digital cameras, discovering photos from 2-3 years ago. I've done about half the first pass through, deleting the really hopeless ones, and kind of grouping the others together. Still need to work out how to classify them so that I can find them (this is the first pass setting up of iPhoto on that account).

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[tanaqui]

I'm glad you found some nice things like the photos in amongst the clutter, and it sounds like you made some impressive progress. (It's just there's so much....) I hope this morning's sort-through went equally well and that you're not too tired when you get home for your evening plans.

[hooloovoo_42]

Training was cancelled, so I stayed. Bro came over in the afternoon and we spent some time looking at the photo albums, before we carted 2 halves of a wardrobe downstairs whilst laughing hysterically (not the wisest combination). Bro knows so much about military uniforms that he was able to date many of the pics of Grandpa in WW2 from the style of what he was wearing.

We also found a book both of us had been searching for. Pa's cousin was a famous professor of History and wrote a book about the 21st Army Group. Bro grudgingly let me bring it home to look at on the promise of taking it back next time I go.

Having moved the wardrobe, we moved the bed and found MORE boxes. These turned out to be a treasure trove. A photo album with pictures of my grandparents' wedding, a box of stuff from Pa's time in the OTC/ Territorial Army and an envelope full of his school reports from age 5 to 18. Now that I'm home, I've just read through them all.

For the first time, I'm beginning to see actual progress. Bro reckons we've taken at least 30 car loads to the tip/charity shop/storage space, but are probably only about 30% through. For all the junk, maybe 1 or 2% of stuff is of any meaning, but it is so amazing to find it.

I got home at 11pm and really need to get some sleep before work tomorrow!

[fred_mouse]

That is an amazing amount to have got done in that time, and it is good to hear that you are finding some absolute treasures to validate the effort of sorting.

And yay for seeing some progress!

[tanaqui]

I'm really glad that you found some lovely meaningful treasures amongst the junk. Also hooray for seeing actual progress! I think you're doing amazingly well, even if it doesn't always seem like it when you're in the middle of it. Good luck with the next session.