Wednesday's unclutter post

[peaceful_sands]

In fred_mouse's absence (hopefully things are going well on her trip), the rest of us still need to try and keep going with our decluttering. So what have you achieved this week? Anything out? Something small even that you'd almost forgotten about? Share with us your progress.

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[peaceful_sands]

I continue to tackle the DVD pile - progress has slowed slightly for two reasons, firstly that I'm tackling box sets which take longer to get through and secondly for a variety of reasons I'm also tackling more that have reasons to be kept, but that's okay - I hope to finish going through the original collection by the end of January (I'm trying for quicker than that but no guarantees) and at the moment it's looking like I will have kept approximately one third. There have been a fairly large number of acquisitions in the same time (not as many as I've got rid of but still a fairly substantial number). Of these I've watched just under half of what's been acquired so far, and kept none of them - I don't expect that to continue but keeping a few and getting rid of the majority is okay too.

I've been making some progress on the book front as well. I've kept two of the four books that I've finished so far this month, and abandoned three that are already packed in one of the donation boxes. Two of the books that I'm reading at the moment are also likely to go even if I do get to the end of them. I've also identified some others to get to relatively soon as I'm not convinced I'm going to stick with them when I do so tackling them sooner rather than later means they'll be freeing up space.

I've finished decluttering the kitchen, although still have a bit of re-organising left to do. I've been through all the cupboards and got rid of out of date food and separated the majority from its packaging so that the packaging could be recycled where appropriate. Gathering up all the recycling from around the house, I was able to put out a crate of plastic, a crate of cans, a crate and a large bag of cardboard and some glass for collection earlier this week. The great thing about it is how light my actual trash bin is nowadays because so much gets recycled.

[yukonsally]

I separate expired food from packaging too! It seems worth the effort.

[redsixwing]

Books and DVDs are capital-H Hard to sort. Go you!

I love the feeling of "huh, did I take the trash? Oh, no, it just didn't need it." My two-person household produces about a quarter of my relative's two-person household, and it makes life a lot easier.

[peaceful_sands]

I know what you mean. I put out four times the amount of my neighbours' recycling collection, but most of the time a small fraction of the general trash. If the local recycling centre would accept other things I could increase the recycling further still and reduce the trash further - unfortunately they only accept lidless plastic bottles (so if I can't get the lid off the shampoo or conditioner bottle, I can't recycle it *sad face*), no plastic bags or other plastic containers unfortunately. There are other restrictions that also make me sad :( but I'm recycling all that I can in this area (including things that aren't collected and have to be taken to the recycling centre)/.