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unclutter2018-01-26 02:30 pm
yukonsally) wrote in unclutter2018-01-26 02:30 pm
a new lease on life
I'm curious.
In your decluttering, what have you found to repurpose?
I tend to save buttons and small scraps of cloth for minor repairs. One scrap was nearly the exact size Spouse needed for something in a vehicle--the exact size. And the button attached to it fit the hole in a pair of my pants I fixed. (I have also given away many buttons, as my collection was beyond my needs.)
I tried to give away a little gauzy bag, those little ones that hold a single piece of jewelry. No takers. Then I realized--it'll hold my ear buds in my pack so I can get rid of the plastic tie that tends to get sticky as it ages.
No shoe laces for (secondhand) dance shoes? Here's some fancy ribbon I saved because... it's pretty? I don't even know where it came from.
That's to speak nothing of all the knitting with scraps I do (blankets, fingerless gloves, flowers, spare tire cozies, you know, useful stuff). I needed a string for my coffee scoop--well, here's some nice pink sock yarn to make a loop!
It's a fine line between keeping things that could be useful and keeping everything. But some things have ceased to be clutter and have become useful. The way things in my house should be.
In your decluttering, what have you found to repurpose?
I tend to save buttons and small scraps of cloth for minor repairs. One scrap was nearly the exact size Spouse needed for something in a vehicle--the exact size. And the button attached to it fit the hole in a pair of my pants I fixed. (I have also given away many buttons, as my collection was beyond my needs.)
I tried to give away a little gauzy bag, those little ones that hold a single piece of jewelry. No takers. Then I realized--it'll hold my ear buds in my pack so I can get rid of the plastic tie that tends to get sticky as it ages.
No shoe laces for (secondhand) dance shoes? Here's some fancy ribbon I saved because... it's pretty? I don't even know where it came from.
That's to speak nothing of all the knitting with scraps I do (blankets, fingerless gloves, flowers, spare tire cozies, you know, useful stuff). I needed a string for my coffee scoop--well, here's some nice pink sock yarn to make a loop!
It's a fine line between keeping things that could be useful and keeping everything. But some things have ceased to be clutter and have become useful. The way things in my house should be.
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