Weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How is your uncluttering going on this, the last day of 2017?

My sorting out of the sewing/music/storage room was a qualified success -- the floor was cleared and cleaned, multiple glass jars are in the front hall awaiting a friend to collect them, and several of the easier sewing repair tasks were done (and the rest put in a to do list, so I can just look at the list and decide to do something, rather than dithering at the baskets). I think we found some clothes to rehome as well!

And then we got enthusiastic, and decided to deal with the books. A hefty tax return meant that we could invest somewhat in new, sturdy bookshelves, so members of the family took themselves off to IKEA (twice!) and we now have six fancy 2.2m bookshelves in what turns out to be a discontinued colour. Two solid days of building shelves and moving books around, and we now a) have no books on the floor and b) no longer have double stacked books. And I've started the process of digging assorted books out of nooks and crannies all over the house. Primary goal is to have all fiction in there, and catalogued. Secondary is more complicated and handwavy, and has to do with 'being able to find any book that is in the house in under 2 minutes, if I know who published it and what format it is in'. [yes, my shelving system is that complicated, because I patronise a set of small press publishers, and I often need to check what I have].

And the companion question for you all, as we come to the beginning of 2018, what are your decluttering goals for the year?

Comments

[tanaqui]

I haven't done any more decluttering in the past few days, but I have finally been able to think up some more concrete goals beyond "er, keep going...?"

1. Make more inroads into the books -- pulling out and donating ones I'm definitely not going to read again and continuing to work my way through the non-fiction to-be-read pile. The target for the to-be-read pile is 12 books (I managed 14 last year).

2. Finish sorting out the spare room and garage -- recycling, donating or taking to the tip anything I don't want to keep. At some point, I need to get a skip or a man-with-a-van to take away some larger stuff, which may not happen by the end of the year, so the goal in the garage is to at least have all that stuff gathered together in one area.

3. Find a new place to donate to (since the place I was using were incredibly rude last time I went in) -- ideally somewhere that will do a pick-up of some larger items.

4. Get rid of more paperwork -- I've identified what can be shredded in the next few months, and also have a clearer idea of what will be left after that. (I'm self-employed, so have to keep a fair amount of stuff for quite a long time.)

5. Continuing to work on the garden, with a couple of areas I particularly want to focus on.

[peaceful_sands]

Good luck - I think you've got some good goals there - balanced with a what's realistic in the time I've got available. Good luck also on finding somewhere new to donate - I've experienced the same thing in one of the places that I donate to.