Weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How does the uncluttering go? For many of us, as we head further into December, I suspect it is quite the challenge to find the time to declutter, and if you are heading toward a gift giving occasion, it may feel like you are never going to get control of the Stuff. If, like me, you are looking at a sudden influx of new things than need homes, give yourself credit, and remember how much you have managed to deal with over the course of the year.

Having said that, our decluttering has been modest this weekend. Youngest tidied the kitchen plastics drawer, and found two items to rehome; friends took home a DVD duplicate; Middlest is in the middle of moving much stuff to replace a too small bookshelf with one we brought home from IKEA (and assembled!) today, and found a couple of items. Middlest has promised to start working on the project that has caused them to stash cardboard under their bed (and elsewhere in the house) for the last year, so I have hopes that we will start to see a decrease in general cardboard clutter. And I did a bit of work on the piles on the kitchen table, and managed to sort some of the paperwork, making progress there!

Comments

[adair]

You are absolutely right; holidays are getting in the way, and w are still 15 days from the first. But there are celebratory events that must be attended, and food made for, cards to be written (and mailed) bits of shopping, and the Jacque Lawsen Alpine Village advent calendar to open each morning, and the sweet smashing game to play - all this takes time that could be spent dealing with Stuff. When I finish this I will shred about 75 letters frrom B2P, brought home because the orders were mailed 3 months ago and no problems have arisen. That's something. I also bought several expanded file pockets to use in the filing cabinet. I have folders with various programs from the 70s and on, kept to remember things I saw, and a number of letters from back in the day when people wrote rather than going on line. This are in standard files, and are falling out and getting crushed when the drawer is opened. Soon I will transfer them to expanded file pockets, and maybe sort them a little. Those are my plans for the day - a rare one just now where I get to stay home.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done!

[fred_mouse]

I hope that your rare day at home was a pleasant one. And well done on getting shredding done -- paperwork always look like such small progress for effort expended.