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.

Comments

[kalloway]

Co-worker was thankfully ecstatic and I'm working on putting together another box for her. I'm not sure I'll have enough for a third box, but I'm definitely finding a lot of odd things and better organizing the stuff I'm keeping, too.

(And honestly, I'm looking at some of the stuff I'm keeping and... why? It'll probably go in the box later. There is a craft store two traffic lights away if I desperately need something.)

[fred_mouse]

Oh, that is good to hear. And I recognise the feeling that you are putting something away that you are then just going to rehome later, but aren't completely sure about.

[kalloway]

I'm also finding a lot of things that... are definitely garbage/recycling/don't belong in the utility room which I'd ignored for years because they were boxed up nicely/tucked away and weren't part of what was spilling off lower shelves.

Basically, this has been something I've been actively avoiding for years and now that I'm doing it, it's really good but also argh. I'd apparently saved like a hundred little plastic bubbles/containers from toys/candy/meds/etc. for... sorting? beads? small parts? when really I probably only ever need to have a half-dozen around. So all that went right in recycling.

There's just so much that I'm looking at and 'why, past self? why?'

[fred_mouse]

I resemble this. I find stashes of things that I'd forgotten about, and might have used some of if I'd remembered, but I'm never going to use now. Good job on recognising that they could just be recycled.