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

[kalloway]

On Friday, I dropped off two bags of toys for a toy drive at the general store (and brought home only food)-- a few things (like some craft kits) were things I had around and didn't even know I had. Also a few stuffed animals that still had tags that had only ever sat on my dresser. So it was some things out and not just the stuff I'd bought to donate.

Also dropped off a box of books to the library for their book sale. Brought home two lovely photo books of China, and two cookbooks, one of which is definitely simple enough for me to try some things out of. (I... never really learned to cook so this is progress!)

I still have a couple boxes of outgoing, but I'm getting there. I've also done a lot of cleaning in the living room and kitchen, though it isn't terribly obvious. ^^;;

[peaceful_sands]

Excellent work! Definite progress, even if in some places you can't spot it - you know you've done, just keep reminding yourself that it is improving!

[kalloway]

Thank you, and you're right~ I am definitely getting there.

[fred_mouse]

Well done on getting things out of the house!

[kalloway]

Thank you!