Weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

What have you uncluttered this weekend?

I've been throwing out empty containers from the laundry, but not much else. Electronically, I've been filing emails. I'm joining some friends doing a 100 day project, nominally starting 1st September. My goal is to sort through all the unfiled/flagged emails I've had lying around for far too long. So, I created the File of Shame, moved everything older than two days in there, got rid of some 'temporary' folders that I haven't looked in in months, and came up with nearly 3,000 emails. I've dealt with nearly 300! Sure, these are easy ones (school notices from last year, junk mail, Facebook notifications), but every little bit helps!

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[peaceful_sands]

I took a car load of boxes containing things which I am donating to a local school via a friend! Success! That two carloads in two weekends (two different schools benefitted). I've also spent twenty minutes one night this week organising paperwork and throwing out envelopes that paperwork came in and getting rid of no longer needed receipts.

I've acquired two new pairs of shoes but with the aim of getting rid of two or more that I'm going to give up on ever being able to break in and wear comfortably. I've also sorted some books and DVDs that I've finished with into boxes with the aim of perhaps doing a car boot sale. I've also put two bags of no longer required clothing into bags in the car to go into a charity bin, however, I need to take them back out so that I can put them in smaller bags that fit inside the donation bins!

[fred_mouse]

Two carloads of stuff out is massive. Well done!

And all the rest as well -- sounds like you are really moving along.

[msilverstar]

well done! Inspiring!

I'm going to ask the middle school & high school if they want some nice things now my girl is going off to college

[fred_mouse]

I suspect there will be some happy teachers!

[yukonsally]

It's been a good week!

I've listed two things for sale, knowing it will take a while to sell them. That's fine, they are small.

I'll meet with a friend this week to give her two things.

I've gone through handmedowns we have received and weeded out things we won't use--some of it was a possibility but the child declined them. Also cleaned out a child's closet a bit, so the handmedown box is nearly full.

I put a few more things in the donation bin, and donated it all.

Spouse cleaned up a large pile of things, resulting in a few more things to give away--man, I wish this stuff was worth selling! we give away so much!--and an empty bin and an empty box. The box has been recycled and the bin added to our stash of empty bins. We're set on those for quite sometime.

[fred_mouse]

Many wins in that lot!

[msilverstar]

Not quite decluttering, but I bought a new laundry basked and replaced my 30 year old musty moldy one!

[fred_mouse]

Mm, I think that counts -- getting rid of something that really had become rubbish.

[syntheid]

Finally went through a box of papers I had labeled "shred" and shredded them. I put some shoes and clothes and other items that don't really fit/I don't like to wear in boxes and need to take those out to the car to join the other boxes I already put in it so I can donate them later today. Put together two cube storage things so I can use them to organize and get rid of the cardboard they're in (all the cardboard requires further breaking down and packing so I can recycle it at the center, but they're all in one spot now). And I finally mustered the courage to dig through the pile of junk in the loft to figure out what was trash, what was recycleable, and what needed to actually get stored somewhere, which also means I dug out the ceiling fan I took down from my bedroom that I need to clean and paint and put back up, which I couldn't do any of because it was buried in junk.

It still sort of doesn't feel like as much as I'd like, because there's still a lot of paperwork to sort and file and other things that need cleaning and projects that need doing, but it does at least feel better.

[fred_mouse]

Wow that is a lot! And well done on the extra effort for dealing with the junk in the loft.