Weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

What have you put your attention to today?

I've put more energy into cleaning than into decluttering, but managed a bit of the latter on the side -- multiple empty cardboard boxes are now in the recycling waiting for bin day. And I have another pile of papers to sort through and throw out. I did consider just throwing them out, which is very tempting. Sadly, there is a risk that there are important to keep papers, so I have to go through them. But that is tomorrow's job.

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[peaceful_sands]

I've been 'collecting' from around the house. The result was that on Friday, I took five bags of clothes/bedding/shoes to a Salvation Army collection point, a bunch of cardboard packaging that has turned up since last week's home collection, a few bits of glass, some old pots of paint, a box of 'metal' from the kitchen (old baking trays and the like that were past their usefulness and had been replaced but not disposed of), some bits of no longer useful wood/mdf to the recycling centre and a bag to a local charity shop of miscellaneous items. Since then, I also packed a very large bag and box with no longer needed files, filing trays etc to be donated to a local school. I have then packed three boxes so far with mostly a mix of books and DVDs and audio books with a view to going to a car boot sale - and have started another box with other items - no longer wanted ornaments/vases, shoes in near mint condition (the ones I'd donated were still in good condition but a little more worn - the ones I've kept to try and sell were only worn once due to unforeseen circumstances - one has a base that for some reason induces crippling pain in me - yet I know other people who don't seem to have that problem with them but not in the same size/colour, the other induced crippling back pain - hopefully they wouldn't do this to anyone else!). I also returned some containers to my parents that they had sent to me with various things inside (mostly food).

I've also begun to sort paperwork into 'to file' and 'to shred' and to gradually work through food/drink stuffs removing items that are out of date or approaching out of date.

I'd hoped to get through more over the weekend, but two successive days with migraines (Friday late pm and Saturday) have left me feeling shaky today and needing to get up early tomorrow to run some friends to the airport before I go to work, so yeah, I've not achieved much since, as I took it easy today.

[tanaqui]

Wow, that's a REALLY impressive list of thing out of the house!

Sorry to hear about the migraines -- I hope now they're gone, they stay away for a good long while.

Now posted in the right place... whoops