Mid-week uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

What have you found to recycle, rehome, or repurpose today?

I've made up two parcels -- one with Youngest's recently cut hair, one with a couple of Viewmaster reels -- which will get things out of my home and to where they will be appreciated. And I've advertised a pile of books, and had takers for about a dozen of them. Some of those need to be packed up to leave the house as well. Given that I have to go to the Post Office tomorrow for the first two parcels, might as well have a bigger pile!

Comments

[kalloway]

Growing up, wrapping paper/bows would sometimes be reused for more than a decade and we've all finally hit the point of 'just tear it open!', it's okay to recycle and pitch stuff that's looking rough! But it was a long time coming.

[fred_mouse]

I recognise this! There may well still be bits of wrapping paper in my collection that date from my childhood, although some of that is that we don't use a lot of wrapping paper now, and some of it was really rugged stuff. I did a clean out of it years ago, and got rid of anything that wasn't large enough to wrap a standard paperback.

[kalloway]

I don't use a lot either. Friends and I pretty much just go the gift-bag-with-tissue-on-top route and reuse the gift bags so much that a couple of them have become running jokes. But a handful of giftbags and some tissue paper is so much easier to store than the whole rolls and bows and everything else...