Friday Report

[adair]

No a lot done this week, but I did get 4 boxes of books for prison libraries to the pickup point. The pickup went well - lots of books taken by 4 libraries.

I subscribed to the New York Times Tidy Home challenge, but have not done a lot. Last week was the bedroom, specifically the closet and dressers. I did some closet clearing - actually took out about a dozen white shirts, and sorted and refolded tshirts in 3 drawers. A few left those drawers, either because of microscopic stains or colors I never wore, so that helped. I did not clear any dresser surface, and the nightwear drawer is still crammed, and I have too many socks still.

This week the challenge is the kitchen; subgroups Dishes and Glassware, Pots and Pans, Drawers. I have plans for pots and pans, and the drawers can always use some clearing. Dishes and glassware will be harder; we hang on to stuff - mugs, souvenir glasses from bars Bill played at, the last plates from old sets - those will take some resolve to move on.

Comments

[kalloway]

I've found that nightwear is impressively hard to sort down. I have about twice what I probably wear, but depending on how extreme a season gets, a lot of it lingers in 'that's good if Conditions X or Y' territory. (And then half the time I sleep in a normal t-shirt anyway. Oops.)

[adair]

Oh, yes, flannels about 4 nights a year, light cotton with straps for warm nights before air conditioning, cotton with sleeves for keeping shoulders warm, - all those possibilities that need to be kept.