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[yukonsally]

Huh. I have run out of things to give away on facebook.

Time to dig deeper. I am now pondering my greeting card stash--this does get used at least twice a week, but some cards have languished. Time go gut it more. And deal with the kids' coloring books, stickers, etc. Those bins are out of control.

Be gone, all useless junk!

Halloween did not result in all of the tiny toys disappearing from the house. I can save the rest for next year and store it in the box with the decorations, rather than in a bag at my desk. Bonus: less chance of the kids discovering this stash when it's packed away in storage. They are constantly in the office and poke around everywhere. And next year, I can probably get away with buying one bag of candy.

I have about 10 padded envelopes left--part of the goal of giving things away on fb was shipping to friends using our giant stash of envelopes. I have bubble wrap ready to head out the door tonight. The shipping materials are officially under control!

This week, I will send a thing to a friend (hoping to send things to a second friend while I am there!), recycle 2 electronics cords, donate ONE thing to goodwill, hope to give a small package to a friend in person.

Now... does anyone need "happy retirement" greeting cards? No?

Comments

[tanaqui]

Wow, sounds like you've made lots of progress on lots of small things - well done!

Your post inspired me to finally tackle some stuff I've been procrastinating on for a couple of weeks. Several things in a to-do pile have been Done (not physical uncluttering but definitely mental uncluttering) and a number of other things I've been looking at for a while have gone into the donate area.

[yukonsally]

I just went through the greeting card stash.. and recycled one card and passed another one along blank so a friend can use it. The others will be useful. And I added 2 more packages to ship!

All small and all important.

Is your preferred donation recipient en route anywhere? So you can add it to your errands without much fuss? That's the only reason I am donating one thing this week, the place is on my way to just about anywhere.

[tanaqui]

I'm looking for a new preferred donation recipient, as the one I was using (a short walk away) was so very unpleasant last time I took stuff in that I don't ever want to donate to them again.

I'm hoping to use one that's close to where I park when I go to the cinema (which averages out to at least every other week, I think). That car park does conveniently have a book donation bin, so getting rid of books is easy!

[fred_mouse]

Well done on getting the identified to go things out of the house, and thus not having anything to advertise!