Weekend Uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

How goes the uncluttering this weekend?

I've done very little active decluttering -- I've realised that if I have to rinse out the laundry detergent bottles before putting them in the recycling (a task I have put off, because of issues with the laundry), I can just pour the suds into a wash load about to go on! Today, across three loads of washing, I have cleaned out one of the bottles. Thus, another few weeks, and all the empty bottles should be gone.

Passive decluttering -- youngest has identified more clothes they have grown out of (they were going through their seasonal stash, I think). And a friend came and picked up their share of books from a mutual friend. I had done a half arsed sort of 'I don't have these ones (most of them)', with the expectation that the friend would take those I didn't have, and a significant proportion of the others. Instead, they just took the ones I didn't have, given that they are actually a sequence I'm kind of collecting, and they can always borrow them from me later. This means I have a box for 'things to go to the op-shop', which I haven't had for a while.

Comments

[yukonsally]

I donated a book.


Edit: Okay, more things to the garage sale bin for a friend. Spouse cleaned off a shelf in the office. I listed a thing for sale.

[fred_mouse]

Many good things!

[sauscony]

I bought some containers and moved my daughter's Play-Doh collection from the boxes they kept falling out of into the containers.

And I went through the bag of winter stuff and found a few pairs of gloves to donate or use in craft projects.

I'm also gathering books to weed out so when I have time, I will skim through them and see if they are worth reading.

[fred_mouse]

Well done!

[finch]

I've been entering my books into Librarything and a) discovered some books we own two of and b) have begun the process of weeding my ebooks.

[fred_mouse]

Good job!

(oh, duplicate books, how do they keep happening. I managed to order a second copy of something only last week, which means I have something else for the gifts pile...)

[redsixwing]

I bought a mail organizer and put labels on it for inbox/outbox. I then went through the mail and got all the spam out of it, and into the recycling.

[fred_mouse]

Well done! Did you find that there was a high proportion of spam?

[redsixwing]

There really was. I need to get off of some mailing lists.

[fred_mouse]

I hope that helps! I find that several organisations who have good reason to be sending me things (eg. bills) have taken to adding spam ('newsletters') as 'add ins'. I wish I could work out how to get the two separated.