Weekend Uncluttering
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unclutterHow goes the war on Stuff! in your domicile this fine weekend?(we've had sun! And warmth! And leaving the house without jumpers, and the like!)
I made a big effort to reduce plastic containers. We have a drawer for Tupperware/freezer/leftover containers, two shelves in a cupboard which are higgledy-piggledy with take-away containers and lunch boxes and water bottles and whatever else fits, and then the overflow on top of the microwave. Everthing came off the microwave so something else could be stored there, so something needed doing. I threw out many many containers/lids, rehomed some, and generally made things better. There are still some on the floor, because I want to work out whether we need them.
Youngest also used the top of a pair of jeans (previously worn through) to make a carry bag - actually looks better than expected. They were working to a pattern for a peg bag that a friend needs replacing, but that had been made out of the legs of jeans, and the side pocket was a bit larger than our friend wants, but the back pockets are just the right size. makes quite a cute messenger style bag!
(Edited to fix autocorrect weirdness)
I made a big effort to reduce plastic containers. We have a drawer for Tupperware/freezer/leftover containers, two shelves in a cupboard which are higgledy-piggledy with take-away containers and lunch boxes and water bottles and whatever else fits, and then the overflow on top of the microwave. Everthing came off the microwave so something else could be stored there, so something needed doing. I threw out many many containers/lids, rehomed some, and generally made things better. There are still some on the floor, because I want to work out whether we need them.
Youngest also used the top of a pair of jeans (previously worn through) to make a carry bag - actually looks better than expected. They were working to a pattern for a peg bag that a friend needs replacing, but that had been made out of the legs of jeans, and the side pocket was a bit larger than our friend wants, but the back pockets are just the right size. makes quite a cute messenger style bag!
(Edited to fix autocorrect weirdness)
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Date: 2017-09-10 02:22 pm (UTC)I gave away a book and some other bits yesterday - although when the person who had said they wanted them changed their mind about the other bits, I put them straight in the bin rather than bringing them home again.
Today I've identified another book to go (finished it yesterday) and have added it and another 3 DVDs to the going box. There may be more before the end of the day as I'm throwing DVDs on to watch while I iron and clean etc.
I've also been emptying (by using up) containers in the bathroom, now if I can figure out a way to get the lids off I'll be able to recycle them, but if not they'll have to go in the bin. (For some reason we are only allowed to recycle plastic bottles - not their lids or any other kind of plastic container - this is despite the fact that the bottles can be of any type of plastic).
Off to do more of my Sunday cleaning/clearing etc and to see if as I go I can get rid of anything else along the way.
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Date: 2017-09-11 11:59 am (UTC)And thank you! Youngest is doing a recycling topic at school, and had to find something that the family weren't already doing, and apparently struggled, because everything the teacher thought to suggest was something we already do. I find it simultaneously disheartening and encouraging, that there are people getting on the recycling bandwagon, but doing things that my family did when I was a kid, 30-40 years ago.