Friday Report

[adair]

I've been sluggish this week, and had too much other activities to get much done. I did a little more work on my attempt to move 500 personal books (not counting stuff I got for Books to Prisoners) out of my house. So far I have taken 22 books to B2P for sending out or for our spring booksale. According to me calculations I need to get over 40 books out per month to meet my goal. I am about halfway there for January, but I don't think I will make the total amount. However, keeping at it is the key to getting things done, removing books included.

We had some sort of wetness issue in our over-stuffed coat closet, so I pulled everything out and piled it on the futon in the living room. I put back coats and jackets I had worn recently, one had had not worn but can see the need to keep, and my mother-in-law's mink that I can't and don't wear, but B hates to just get rid of it since Helen waited a long time to get it and it meant a lot to her.

I did throw away one coat, from the 70s, with an open seam that would be difficult to repair. There is still a big stack of jackets that I need to make decisions about. The coat closet is now fairly full, but it is much easier to take things out and hang them up. I was forced into this closet clearing, but at least I am slowly making decisions to move things on.

Comments

[yukonsally]

I had to do a similar coat closet cleaning with our hats and things, to find a child's certain hat, a few weeks ago. Such a pain.

Good luck! Is there a nearby outreach group that would give the coats to those in need?

[kalloway]

Oh, coats are difficult. I'm in the Midwest and get a full range of Weather and need a coat/jacket for pretty much any possible temperature, which looks like overkill when I open the closet but I really do wear all of them. (I do have one from my grandmother - faux fur - that I wore a few years ago during a horrible cold snap and I have a nice parka now, but I keep thinking I may need 'dressy cold snap' instead of 'shoveling sidewalk in middle of night at work during cold snap', which is 100% my parka.

[tanaqui]

It sounds like you still made some progress, despite the sluggishness, so well done!

I have now dealt with all of the things I pulled out of the spare room (even if that just means putting them in the right places to go out of the house in various directions at some point.)

I tried to get rid of a bag of stuff in one of those kerbside collection charity bags -- except they didn't come and collect it (or the one my neighbour put out). Grrr. However, I got another bag for a different charity through the door, so I will pop the first bag inside the second one and try again next week.

[fred_mouse]

Good job on finding some books to rehome, even if you don't think you will make the target. Sorry to hear about the forced cleaning, hope that everything is sorted in the cupboard now.