weekend uncluttering

[fred_mouse]

What have you found to rehome on this final weekend of 2018? I went foraging in yet another box of yarn, this one in the craft storage area, and pulled enough out to half empty it. I've used up two balls already, and figure that I should be able to use up the rest by the end of January. Which might mean I'm just about at the point of being able to move yarn out of the spare room, and into the craft storage. Probably not all, but some.

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[tanaqui]

Good on you for reducing the yarn stash and doing good in the world! (You're making donatable squares, I think?)

I framed some more photos, so the photos and the frames are no longer clutter. I also measured all the unframed photos I have left to work out what size frames I still need, and ordered some of those.

In general, things have been coming into the house for the past couple of weeks. All carefully thought out purchases that I've known for weeks or even months I'll need -- but I still feel a bit weird about it! So time to get back to getting things out.

I went through a cupboard that I'd largely decluttered a while back and found a picnic bag that I'd evidently kept for "fantasy me" and a life I'm just not going to lead. (I have other options for picnics!) I also found one item of obsolete electronics and its box, as well as a box for something else that I'd kept for far too long. (This was before I got much better about only keeping boxes until I was sure things worked and I was past the date to return them.) I also threw out some socks that I noticed had worn thin enough they were likely to get holes the next time I wore them.

None of it has actually left the house yet, but it's ready to go! I also have some ideas for other things that can leave (a couple of items from the same cupboard that I put back but, on reflection, should ditch, and some stuff in another cupboard.)

[fred_mouse]

Nice going with the photos and frames and making a plan to finish the job. And on finding the assortment of other things to get ready to leave the house. I love how going back to a cupboard you think you've finished with shows that you could have been more ruthless, and it would have been fine. I find it reassuring, because so often I fret about how much I get rid of.

And yes, still making donatable squares. At the point that the person I pass them on to is going to want them, I might have enough for a whole blanket at the rate I'm going!

[tanaqui]

One thing I've learned is that I'm almost never truly "finished" with an area like a cupboard -- there's almost always something that I wasn't ready to part with on the previous occasion that I can see this time should go. But yes, it's reassuring that I'm probably being ruthless enough, but not overly ruthless!

[fred_mouse]

Sounds pretty normal to me. Uncluttering can be so exhausting, just because there are so many decisions, that I find I tend to default to 'nope, nothing else I can throw out'. I need to spend some time sorting the way I used to help my kids, where each artwork got held up, and the question 'keep or throw' was asked. They could deal with a significantly larger pile doing it that way than trying to get through it on their own.