rambly accounting
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unclutterIt's hard to track what comes in. We do get a lot of strange food from a local food bank and a friend who delights in decluttering her cabinets by giving us old food. To be honest, the sell-by dates aren't often hard and fast, so we take things with the idea we'll open them and determine if they're still food or not. But it's a lot. Right now, I think we have something like 6 cans of applesauce and more than 300 tubes of instant tea for water bottles. Anyway, it's hard to count food in and out, although I'm determined to figure out a way to get what we have to fit properly in our cabinets without overflowing onto the table and such.
We've had very few non-food objects come in after the new year. One late Christmas present and a book I bought myself the day before yesterday are all i can think of from the top of my head. So that's two in.
Now out. I wasn't doing very well earlier. I'd picked out several things I wanted to donate or sell, but didn't move to do anything about. But the last few days, I got busy.
I have a box (not quite full enough to leave) to donate with a lot of small things in it, including a collection of pouches I'd inherited from a friend who moved away. I threw away a broken china teapot, a broken straw purse, a hat hanger that didn't work, and shredded two boxes of papers that needed shredding. I sorted the socks and threw away about a dozen pairs (mostly mine). The donation box has a lot of things in it, but it's still less than 2 cubic feet of volume.
One thing I'm having a hard time letting go of is the larger rice cooker that seems to have lost its lid while it was in storage. I can't use it without the lid, but I'd prefer it to the smaller one I am currently using. I keep hoping to find a replacement lid somewhere so I can get rid of the smaller one instead. Meanwhile, it sits on a lower shelf in our crowded pantry taking up space. I'm also trying to figure out what to do with a mattress/box springs we have in storage. I am suddenly not comfortable selling it, but I hate the idea of throwing it away.
We've had very few non-food objects come in after the new year. One late Christmas present and a book I bought myself the day before yesterday are all i can think of from the top of my head. So that's two in.
Now out. I wasn't doing very well earlier. I'd picked out several things I wanted to donate or sell, but didn't move to do anything about. But the last few days, I got busy.
I have a box (not quite full enough to leave) to donate with a lot of small things in it, including a collection of pouches I'd inherited from a friend who moved away. I threw away a broken china teapot, a broken straw purse, a hat hanger that didn't work, and shredded two boxes of papers that needed shredding. I sorted the socks and threw away about a dozen pairs (mostly mine). The donation box has a lot of things in it, but it's still less than 2 cubic feet of volume.
One thing I'm having a hard time letting go of is the larger rice cooker that seems to have lost its lid while it was in storage. I can't use it without the lid, but I'd prefer it to the smaller one I am currently using. I keep hoping to find a replacement lid somewhere so I can get rid of the smaller one instead. Meanwhile, it sits on a lower shelf in our crowded pantry taking up space. I'm also trying to figure out what to do with a mattress/box springs we have in storage. I am suddenly not comfortable selling it, but I hate the idea of throwing it away.
