Mid-week uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How goes the uncluttering?

Despite rather a lot of chaos in my general life, I've managed a bit of uncluttering. I have found a home (the ballet school my kids go to) for the rubber mats that used to be under the games room rug (the rug is long gone, but the kids kept practicing on the mats), and they will head off as soon as I remember when I'm heading to the dance school. I've also discovered that one of the local university libraries is missing various SF magazines that they would like to have which I have collecting dust, so a friend is asking questions of the appropriate librarian(s). It is possible that I'll be able to rehome rather a number of rare publications that I'd rather not just throw out, where interested researchers will be able to access them. I'm quite excited about this possibility!

Plus, the kids have managed to find more things to add to the ever growing pile in the front hall. There is still no opportunity in sight to offload any of these items, but I have hopes that there might be a short window on Saturday in which someone might be able to run the necessary errands to at least get rid of some of it.

Comments

[yukonsally]

I recharged the batteries as possible and recycled the dead ones, and added a thing to the donation pile.

[tanaqui]

Donating the magazines to the library sounds very exciting -- I hope that works out! It also sounds like you've made some good progress in other areas and now have the kids very well trained in ongoing uncluttering. (And building great habits for the rest of their lives.)

Good luck with actually getting some of the pile in the front hall out of the house!

Because of other commitments, I haven't done very much physical uncluttering this week apart from routine recycling, but I have been plugging away at reading books/watching the TV backlog and have made some nice progress there.

[kalloway]

Yay for possibly being able to re-home those magazines~

I sent of Box 2 of craft supplies home with coworker today. I had meant to do it Monday, but we've had impressive amounts of snow daily and I'm only willing to make one trip to the car per day and some other stuff took priority. But that's out of the hall and I have one more bag with some tools and whatnot to lug tonight.

I realize I need to split time between the utility room and the kitchen, which has been a losing battle for quite awhile and I need to win it. I think if I do a little bit a day on both, I'll be okay and make some progress. Right now I need to get rid of the Central Gathering Area of Things in the kitchen, which is half recycling and half... stuff, and also get the counters vaguely clear. (I really need to see about getting rid of the dishwasher. I never use it and could use more pantry space badly.)

[redsixwing]

Woo! Rehoming rare publications is a public service. :D

Star went through a cache of older video games. On trading them in to the game store, it resulted in a nice pile of store credit. \o/