adair: frogs at a river (Kells)
adair ([personal profile] adair) wrote in [community profile] unclutter2018-02-23 03:36 pm

Friday report

It's been a fairly unproductive period for a couple of weeks, but I do have a few things to report.

In a rummage through the dental drawer, trying to find my new toothbrush, I found 5 little tubes of toothpaste, purchased at some time for travel but never used. They are now laid out on the counter, and I am using the first one. No toothpaste will be bought until we are on the last of the 5 tubes. Sometimes putting stuff away results in accumulation. I also have a number of containers of dental floss; my dentist gives both of us one whenever we have our teeth cleaned, twice a year. I use some, but not at the rate they accumulate. I put them all in a clear plastic bag in the dental drawer, so when I finish one it is easy to find the next.

My efforts to move 500 books on continues. I keep count, but not a list of titles. February has 34 gone so far, and there are a few days left to decide about more.

Today I am engaged in another effort to clear surfaces where things - mostly paper - accumulate. This started because I am looking for a list of people who wanted to be notified of the next Books to Prisoners book sale. I saw the list about 10 days ago when I was sorting the usual paper accumulations, but I can't find in now. So I can look through the accumulations in about 6 places that have papers piled up. I am also tossing a number of them, or doing what needs doing and then tossing them. Procrastination also results in accumulation.
kalloway: A close-up of Rocbouquet from Romacing SaGa 2 (Default)

[personal profile] kalloway 2018-02-24 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I have the same floss pile and while I do use up containers-- it seems like the pile still only gets bigger. (But I never think to tell them not to give me any.)

Good job on the books. I've been sorting through my fairy-lore books and have pulled out a couple that are too twee/woo and a couple that don't have anything that isn't in other volumes I have.
tanaqui: Illumiinated letter T (Default)

[personal profile] tanaqui 2018-02-24 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Good work on culling the fairy-lore books. (Room for new ones?! Or just able to fit them on the shelves better?)
kalloway: A close-up of Rocbouquet from Romacing SaGa 2 (Default)

[personal profile] kalloway 2018-02-25 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Mostly fitting everything on the shelves better~ I had no idea just how many books I'd collected on the subject, because they weren't all in one place...