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!

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[peaceful_sands]

Slow and small progress, hindered by the decorating - this has meant more time 1. decorating (obviously), 2. more time cleaning dust/shrapnel from decorating than making progress on decluttering.

But having said that I've got a couple more books and DVDs into the boxes/bags to go - actually had someone go through the main DVD bag and take the ones they want/are interested in. Also took part in a gift card exchange and slipped in with each of the cards a little homemade decoration that had been left over from last year's making of decorations as gifts. So a little added extra for the people expecting just cards - hopefully they'll like the thought, if not the actual decoration.

Bought a new shower curtain yesterday and disposed of the old one today - so that was a straight swop, but apart from that I've largely avoided bringing anything into the house that isn't a gift for someone else - also when my sister asked me what I'd like for Christmas, I gave her a couple of DVDs for me that I had pre-ordered that had just arrived and I hadn't opened yet. When I'd ordered them, I hadn't realised they'd be out so near to Christmas, so it makes life simpler for her and cuts down on things coming into the house for me. Plus it gives me a little more time to get through the ones I've already got waiting.

[fred_mouse]

Steady progress is still progress. Good to hear that some of the DVDs have gone to a new home! And I hope that your decoration recipients appreciate them.