Weekend Uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How goes your weekend? Are the unloved items sneaking out of the wood-work, or are they perfecting their camouflage?

I'm back in the salt minesspare room, sorting paper again, although I've done a few other bits and pieces of sorting as well. I found yet more kid sized coat hangers (I swear, they are spawning under the kids' beds); made the kids look through a basket of bits and pieces that were pulled off the shelves for being inconveniently located (they kept one pack of cards and the twister game, which means about a dozen items of assorted sizes will go, including a kids microscope and a game of Buckaroo); moved the contents of shelving around in the games room/library, resulting in about 20 books that I want to get rid of (one vetoed so far) and four damaged items thrown out.

I've also moved several items out to the car to be dropped at the op-shop in the morning. I'm hoping that they open at 9am, because the current plan says groceries (which are on that street), op-shop, shopping for bulk staples, and if the middle part doesn't work, the car will be too full for the last part (plan: one carton each breakfast cereal, soy milk; at least two 2L tubs of peanut butter, and multiple 2-3kg jars of assorted pickles).

And I've made a promise to myself that when one particular artistically minded family member passes on (possibly within the next decade), the kids and I will do a thorough inventory of all the things that that person has given us, and work out which ones we actually love, and rehome the rest (so many items on the display shelf - I really had forgotten how many dust collecting knickknacks are attributable to this one person). Rehoming them now would be an unkindness, but oh, I hate dusting them.

Comments

[glinda]

I've had a decent weekend for the decluttering. My blender has been on its last legs for a while now, and I got a new one the other month for my birthday. Which finally motivated me to find where the recycling centre is so that I could take it there. (Electronics can't go in the recycling bin.) And since I was going there I had a clear out of the wardrobe and found a bag of clothes that needed taking for recycling (jeans that were burst at the seams, shoes that had been worn to death and other stuff that wasn't suitable for donation) and cleared out some other items that ought to go too (socks with holes, a scarf that got caught in a zip and tore in an unrepairable manner).

So now I have space to store my new blender and the bag of old jeans and shoes no longer taunts me (or occassionally attacks me) every time I open that part of the wardrobe. Also I got a good walk - four mile round-trip in a lovely Autumn morning - taking my two bags of junk to the centre.

[peaceful_sands]

Wow! Well Done!

[fred_mouse]

Many wins! I hope the new blender is a source of much joy and simplified cooking.