How's the uncluttering going?

[peaceful_sands]

How's all that decluttering progress? What are you up to?

I'm on a go-slow at the moment due to time and energy, but on the positive side - it's not a stop.

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[yukonsally]

I have sent 4 things to friends (two packages total), with another 2 things ready to send when I can get to the post office. I have two offers up on fb right now, small things to send. A bag of things and a baby item will be picked up by a friend this weekend. I've added two things to the donation box and I've just thrown out a handful of things--a literal handful of small things.

I've decided my current focus is things that would otherwise be kept in the junk drawer. Clean it out! Now, this would be easier if the things were IN the junk drawer. Instead, they are scattered around the house, on a dresser or in a jewelry box or in a desk drawer or in a bowl. These include things like bookmarks I never use, pins I never use. It's the small things that I would have to move to get to what I want, but I'll never use the small things.

[tanaqui]

Great progress on rehoming things! And the junk drawer project sounds like a great idea -- if you can develop a mindset of "why have I kept this?" every time you move something to get to something else, and then get rid of the junk, I'm sure it'll soon make a huge difference, visually and practically! Good luck!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done

[redsixwing]

I'm having a work travel week, so have been reading organization articles.

Sadly, most of them are either obnoxiously basic or obnoxious in other ways. Le sigh.

I got my computer set up on the new desk the night before leaving, and confirmed the router still gets signal to all the places it needs to from that location. That's something.

[fred_mouse]

Sorry to hear that the organisation articles have not been meeting expectations. I hope the travel has been good in other ways.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on accomplishments prior to departure, sorry to hear about the articles and hoping the travel and associated work is going well. Travel safe!

[alexseanchai]

Four more bags of recycles have departed the premises!

[fred_mouse]

Progress!

[yukonsally]

Nice work! I had wondered how you were doing, thinking specifically of your donations for the charity auction. May the departure of the recycling help clear a path for you!

[alexseanchai]

Haven't touched charity-auction stuff in a bit, tbh. But it's definitely visible improvement in this room!

[yukonsally]

Visible improvement is the best. Well done!

[alexseanchai]

I mean the mess has only actually reduced by removing a bunch of recycles and bagging up a bunch of trash and a bunch of plastic grocery bags? The rest is just rearranged?

But it's organized mess now. When I'm done the pass I'm on, getting rid of the trash and recycles and bagging up the plastic grocery bags, I can figure out what to do with the rest of the stuff.

[peaceful_sands]

Wow! You're awesome!

[tanaqui]

Great that you're able to keep making some progress, even when you haven't much time and energy!

I've found two coats to take to the textile recycling bank. One is the coat I was mostly wearing, which has become tatty and not-really-respectable and is being replaced (for the next few months, at least) by a heavier winter coat that was lurking behind it in the coat cupboard. The other is a coat that I used to use when we walked the family dogs, which I think I'd kept because I thought I'd wear it when gardening. But I've been wearing another, lighter one, even in winter. So out they go!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on decision making and acting on said decisions.

[fred_mouse]

I did no uncluttering in the early part of the week, having been unwell. But tonight I/we managed to send several items home with visiting friends!

The large box of accumulated cardboard Bits suitable for primary school construction projects went home with the primary school teacher; the Dalek inna box went home with the friend with the Doctor Who obsessed partner; the out-grown inline skates went home with the parent who conveniently is in the process of making good on the promise to get skates for the kid who has done all the tasks in earning them.

I feel like there may have been more, but whatever they were I've forgotten them.

[peaceful_sands]

Hope you're feeling better and well done on recent accomplishments.

[fred_mouse]

Some better, thank you. And I worked out what the others were -- books that have been donated to teacher friend's school library.

[sauscony]

I continue to de-stash my yarn by making cat beds for my own cats and to donate to cat shelters. I've used up quite a few skeins and odd balls of yarn, plus I reorganized my yarn and made labels for the containers I'm storing the yarn in. (I did bring in one new skein of yarn, but it was free and it's black, which is one of my most used colors. I passed up the blue and white baby yarns in the same box though).

I also deleted a few ebooks from my collection. I know it doesn't free up actual space, but that's 7 less books to try to fit into the TBR queue.

[fred_mouse]

Well done on resisting the temptation to bring all the yarn home! And I'm impressed at your organisation, that your ebooks count as in your TBR queue. So far, I've collected many, but only read them when I'm travelling and don't have internet access.