Weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

What have you found to unclutter this weekend?

I have rearranged my clothing in the tallboy, and taken the opportunity to throw out a number of items. Most are going to the op-shop, but I have started cutting one pair of black leggings where the elastic is all failing into useful fabric strips (possibly for crochet, possibly for tying stakes in the garden). Several pairs of dilapidated underwear have been thrown out and replaced with nice new underwear with no holes!

The stack of throw out items in the hall is getting rather feral. I need to work out where/when I can take things *somewhere*. And I need to advertise dance items, given it is the beginning of the year. I did manage to sell one skirt though, so I'm pleased with that (accidentally. It had been there so long I had forgotten about it, and the advertised price had rubbed off the plastic bag!)

Comments

[fred_mouse]

New underwear is definitely one of the good things in life.

And I think that repairing things is uncluttering -- it moves things back in to circulation, so you can see whether you need them (or something that replaced them) in your life.

Congratulations on getting some of the fabric remnants out of the house. I have to do the same, and I'm just not happy about the idea. But I want to get my craft down to one specific set of shelves, so it has to be done.

[redsixwing]

Thanks. ^^

I think you're right about repairs - I've been trying to do a bunch of little projects as part of the uncluttering, five- and ten-minute tasks that somehow got away for maybe months or even years. It's been an interesting twist.

Good luck with your craft shelves, too. It's not easy to end a project, but sometimes it has to happen.

[fred_mouse]

The getting those little tasks done is surprisingly effective. I went through and itemised my repairs, and for the following bit of time, would go in to the sewing space and pick the next thing on the list. And then I had to buy a thing, and it fell in a heap. But for that period of time, I could see the change happening really obviously.

The craft shelves isn't so much about ending projects as never having started some. There are fabrics I've inherited from family members, and they are lovely, but I don't know what to do with them. And a collection of tulle that I've been picking up from remnants baskets for so long, but haven't used them (there were ideas, but few of them have ended up happening). And so much yarn (family members and older friends clearing out many years worth of stash). And if I had time, energy, and opportunity to craft, I'd be getting through it all, and it is so frustrating.