Unclutter challenge

[fred_mouse]

I interrupt our regular programming to suggest a small challenge. Inspired by reading the section of the 'A Slob Comes Clean' blog that talks about focusing on the visible, I challenge you to go to where visitors enter your house and identify three items of clutter that you would like to do something about. If you see more than three, make a note of the extras, and pick three. You can come back to those others later. If you see fewer than three, come back tomorrow, and the next day, and look again. If, after three looks, you can't see anything new, then I commend you! Deal with the one or two items as below, and be pleased.

For each of your three identified items (or piles of items, in my case), tell us what you need to do with them, and a deadline that you want to have done that by.

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[fred_mouse]

Sadly, my front hall is relatively capacious, and thus it is where uncluttered items come to lurk. So I'm going to ignore the teetering mound of items waiting to be taken to the op-shop (because it can't be dealt with in the next two weeks), and focus on other things. Instead, I'm looking at the top of the shoe shelf (ignoring that the shoes themselves probably need decluttering) and the shelf of items going to specific people

1. Box of shiny plastic bead necklaces - take it to the gathering on Monday night, and attempt to pass it on. I don't remember which set of kids picked through and left some for which set of kids, but there should be some there on Monday.
2. Skate costume -- take a photo of it in the sun tomorrow, list it on a local sales site. If it hasn't sold by end of February, gift it to one of the other skating parent with an appropriate sized kid.
3. Make up a parcel for friend J, and send them the book that I put aside for them some time back. I'm not sure of timing on this, because it requires going to the post office, which is more complicated now that I'm working approximately full time. But at the very least, I can find an envelope, put that and the other items in the envelope, and put in the errands basket.

Sadly, these items won't make an appreciable difference, but if I can do this every week, I might get this room under control.