Friday Report

[adair]

Well, I have not really gotten rid of much; took a few books to B2P but I can't see the difference. I did continue surface clearing - one side of the kitchen table where my laptop sits, and the table inside the door where I dump mail and things I brought in the house. Those are in decent order, and I finished some household business which had been hanging fire. I am still working on my desk - that will take time. There is a file basket full of stuff that need decisions made and a fancy folder my bank gave me that I am trying to use for various kinds of financial information, but have not really kept it up. Then there are all the ereaders and tablets that I use from time to time, but most need some data clean-up. I will continue to work, but at least all the requests for political donations have gone to shred, and I can stack the ereaders in one place.

One achievement; I started sorting all the electronic chargers and cords. Some were in the desk file drawer, some in the side table by the desktop computer and all were tangled. Most are now each in its own ziplock bag with a bit of paper telling me what it is for. They are currently in a big plastic magazine file box. I am not done with all this organization, but it is already paying off in less annoyance.

sauscony gave me a wonderful idea for dealing with one of my book problems. I bring home books from B2P that I intend to see if I want to read them and return them. Of course they get lost in the mass of other books stacked about, so they just add to the stack. sauscony wrote that she kept a few bags of books she wanted to skim so she can take a couple with her, or pull one out when she has the time to read a little. This is a Great Idea for me, one I had never thought of, and will help me manage my book mass and get a few more on their way out the door. I have a good cloth bag designated and am starting to put books in it as I come across those I brought home to check out but not to keep.

Comments

[sauscony]

:) I'm glad to help. It was actually due to my spouse's decluttering that I came up with the bag solution for the books. His dad had given him a bunch of cloth bags and my spouse gathered them all up and put them in the closet. I already had one bag with books I had set aside to put in the Little Free Library (I couldn't always add books to the library because it was full, so I set them aside at home). Then this wave of I must get rid of some books hit and yay, I have bags to put them in. Maybe because I've been reading for 40 years, I can now tell within the first few pages whether I'm going to like or dislike most books, so the job is going much faster than it used to.

BTW, I've gotten rid of nearly 100 books so far this year, and it hasn't really made much of a dent either.