weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How has your weekend gone, uncluttering wise?

I've been camped out at someone else's ice-rink for most of the weekend, watching the Australian synchronised skating nationals, and so have done no uncluttering. On the plus side, we appear to have acquired a minimal amount -- one small soft toy, two programs, and a fabric rose, which seems not bad for a short trip away. Now to see whether we can keep our shopping light over the next two days, so we don't take much home with us (I owe two kids t-shirts, because I only bought one on my last inter-state trip).

Comments

[yukonsally]

That's pretty hardcore! At least as the children move out, they can take decorations with them for their own homes. Less work for you that way.

[fred_mouse]

We had an amazing range of very dilapidated decorations that never ever got used. Many are ones that I inherited from my mother, and some of them were older than me. Plush balls with bald spots, silk wrapped balls that were more loose threads than decoration, paper plates with red and green splotches that were made by one of the three kids at age 2 (or thereabouts) but no-one knows who, and no-one wanted to claim sentimental attachment to -- that kind of thing. Oh, and a bucket full of pine cones that used to be in good condition, but have been slowly shedding bits on the carpet every year (everyone's toddlers love pine cones, and they had been loved to death).

The ones we kept are much more loved, and will be split between households as people move out (and I plan on gifting Oxfam ones to the kids each year, once they move out!)