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

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on your progress and fingers crossed for delivery details.

I have continued to add dvds and books to bags and managed to sit with someone and go through two of the bags of which they then took one with them. I then repacked a number of books etc more efficiently resulting in two boxes and two bags stacked in the hallway to be taken to a charity shop, a printer that no longer works to go to the recycling centre and I've started a new bag to collect items to go in in the area where I am finding stuff (once it's full I'll take it down to join the rest, so far it had two dvds in it). I also have another bag and box for donation in the bedroom to which I am continuing to slowly add things but it's a slow process.

I have also come to a decision that the exercise bike which I acquired about 12 years ago from someone else is going to go. I tried moving it to a more prominent place to encourage myself to use it but it isn't working (each time I do try and exercise I drag it out of the way and use a video or the stability ball instead) and so I've made an initial approach to someone else to help me move it at some point (I can't manage it down two flights of narrow stairs on my own as it's too heavy and awkward, but the decision has been made and it will be going). Appropriate action to follow!

[fred_mouse]

The op-shop was indeed open, so I have passed on the many items, at the cost of one book (italian novel, to practice my reading on) and one audiobook.

Glad to hear that some of the DVDs that you have identified to go have gone to a good home, and well done on the decision about the exercise bike. I hope you find a new home for it easily.