Mid-week uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How is it Wednesday already? Are you, like me, bemused at the speed the week has disappeared, or have you been efficiently decluttering away?

I've now tried on each of the three shirts I thought I was going to keep. The first one fitted fine, but isn't suitable for work because I spent all day trying to fidget it in to sitting right, and is going through at one of the seams (fortunately below my waistband); the second one is too tight across the bust. Thus, two more items in the throw out box. The third is no longer suitable for work, having lost the elasticity at the rather scooped neckline that stopped it from being a little two cleavage exposing. However, it is a lovely soft fabric, and a long enough tunic top, that it can become a round the house 'this is not a nightie'. And I've put one of my pretty but foolish sun dresses on display. Still trying to decide whether to keep it for the sheer pleasure of looking at it, or trying to find a second hand consignment store to take it.

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[alexseanchai]

what week? it's been flu all week. :(

I'm seriously going to cull the wardrobe but I sincerely doubt that's today. Maybe this weekend?

It's getting way too close to March—I need to get back on the UU auction lots project.

[fred_mouse]

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I hope by now the 'flu has gone on its miserable way. Good luck with getting the wardrobe and the UU auction lots progressed.

[athousandsmiles]

I told my MIL the date of the donation pick up (nearly a month from now) and within two days she'd sent up a box of stuff to add to my already teetering pile. *heavy sigh* I politely asked her to keep any further stuff in her own space until the day before pick up.

I've also managed to weed out a few more things from my closet, but it's been a busy week.

[alexseanchai]

yay MIL. :(

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[fred_mouse]

Oh dear.

Good job on both the polite response and the finding more things to weed out of the closet.

[yukonsally]

I have an opportunity to add some things I've made to a charity fundraiser this weekend. Hope to get those 6 things out of my house and into the hands of people who appreciate the time and skill to make them.

[fred_mouse]

Yay for opportunities for handmade items to find homes where they will be loved!

[redsixwing]

The weeks, they fly.

I did a drawer, and that was good. The craft room pile'o'horror remains.

Dang it, I need to /use/ that space.

[fred_mouse]

The weeks, they fly so fast.

Good job on getting a drawer done! I sympathise on the craft room pile'o'horror. I made mine worse by moving a box of stuff in to it, only to realise that a few months back, I'd moved it the other way to make more space so that I could actually get to the sewing machine.

But I have a deadline (approximately October) to have the spare room empty enough to actually use the sofa bed, so the craft room will have to suffer.

[redsixwing]

D'oh!

I ended up saying Heck With It and using the craft room anyway, because I wanted to get some cosplay done for a small convention this weekend. This didn't make my organizational goals any better, but /I/ feel better having worked on a project and stretched my skills in other ways. And in not having added to the stash while I was at it.

Good luck on your deadline! I'll be cheering you on.

... also, unrelated, that icon gives me the giggles every time I see it.

[fred_mouse]

I hope you enjoy the convention! I totally understand that feeling of actually having achieved a thing that comes with finishing a craft thing.

...it's such a great pic isn't it! I was so impressed when the artist put it up -- so applicable to my life.

[peaceful_sands]

Tried to repair two vest tops and a cardigan - realized the repair I was going to do on the vest tops wasn't going to work (or at least not in the way I wanted it too) and so the vest tops have gone. The cardigan is repaired and back into circulation.

Whilst doing the ironing I decided to put out a work top because I don't like the way it's fitting right now - however, rather than into the 'going immediately' pile, it's in the 'going if I don't have good reason to change my mind in the next couple of months' box (good reason in this case would involve weight loss/body reshaping - a possibility but not a given and if I do achieve it perhaps I might like a new top to celebrate).

I also finished two books today - both are earmarked to leave to different destinations. So nothing major, but something.

[fred_mouse]

Sorry to hear that the vest top repairs didn't work. But at least you realised and rehomed them, rather than putting in the work and then being disappointed.