Mid-week uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How goes the uncluttering, this fine Wednesday?

I've managed to find yet another source of paper that should already have been thrown out - the filing cabinet. Today, I discovered a folder of primary school newsletters, dating back who knows how many years (I didn't look, I just checked that the whole folder was newsletters and chucked the lot). I've pulled three other files out to go through, and I suspect that several others could be thinned as well. Possibly, by the end of this I'll be able to fit all the extra bits of paper in the cabinet!

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[yukonsally]

Sending 3 things to a friend today--I admitted to myself that I won't use two notebooks, they just aren't the size and/or style I like. By sending things to friends, the padded envelope stash is more manageable but we still have a ton. I'm always on the look out for small things to give away. It's the most fun part of decluttering to me!

The other part of decluttering I'm focused on is knitting the yarn I have so I don't buy more than I need (like I did two weeks ago... ahem...). I'm currently searching for patterns to use specific yarn and weighing the possibility of just giving the yarn away. I'm trying to knit useful things to give away, like hats for the homeless outreach or prayer shawls for my alma mater to give to students.

[tanaqui]

I swear paper replicates when we're not looking....

I took four books to the book donation bin yesterday. One was a book I'd read recently and decided not to keep. The other three were books I'd read a long time ago and enjoyed, but realized -- on scanning my bookshelves -- I wasn't ever going to re-read.

I'm planning on going through my bookshelves to see if I can find any more of those, and also to put together a pile for next year's read-10-minutes-a-day project. (So far this year, I've managed to read at least 10 non-fiction books like that and donated about half of them.)

[peaceful_sands]

Still working on the kitchen a cupboard at a time and I've got a box in there that I'm putting things to go in. I put a bunch in on Saturday but not much happened on Sunday and Monday. Yesterday, I added a couple of baking trays, a loaf tin. Tonight I need to make a decision on just how many cake tins I really need ... I also need to tackle another cupboard - this is only likely to result in out of date food if anything.

I'm also gathering a bag of papers to be shredded or burnt - given how often the shredder jams, I may well ask my Dad to burn the lot - quicker and easier in the long run!