mid-week check-in

[yukonsally]

 Wednesday already!

I took some time on Monday to clean up the garage, which resulted in a thing left at the curb.  Someone took it.  I left two other things at the curb with no luck.  I had to take them to a second hand store today (where I was searching for a bookshelf--no luck there).

I knit.  I have a lot of supplies.  A few months ago, I gave away some needles I'll never use, then got some canvas pencil bags to organize the rest of my tools.  Well, I decided I'll probably never use certain needles, so those got sent to a friend today.  I'm down to TWO padded envelopes, one of which I could recycle but I'll hang on to it just in case.

The things leaving did not make visible progress, but cleaning the garage up a bit did.  I'll take it.

Pantry challenge (using up what we have) is slow going.  That's fine.  But you know I will eat the last cookie, just to reclaim space!

Comments

[adair]

Ah, knitting supplies. I used to do quite a bit, and have a couple of things almost finished, but I have not started a project in about 10 years. I've given away batches of yarn, but still have some I will never use. Congratulations on keeping up your knitting and editing your supplies. Somehow knitting needles accumulate at a tremendous rate.

A pantry challenge; what a good idea! We could certainly stand to take that on. Yes, it's good to have a reason to eat the last cookie; guilt free.

[lenine]

I've done counted cross stitch (and in recent years hand embroidery) since before buying online was an option. I'd hoard things because I might want to make something with them someday... you can imagine the stash. I went through and eliminated a ton of things I'd kept for 20+ years and gave them to the senior center. It didn't make a visible dent in the stuff in the attic, but it was still very satisfying to get it out of the house and into the hands of someone who might like them. So congratulations!

[tanaqui]

That was a really inspired place to donate those items -- I'm sure they were thrilled to get them!

[fred_mouse]

I sympathise on the rehoming of knitting supplies not making a dent in the visible clutter. Nice that you had the garage items to make up for that!

I've been rather busy sorting things. I've pulled a couple of boxes out from the study, and three friends, Youngest, and I went through most of them. These had come from a friend, and another of their friends was supposed to come and take most of it, but 6 months and counting and they haven't turned up. Turned out that there wasn't just fabric in there, but some intact clothes, most of which weren't going to fit any of the five of us (in size range Aust 6 - 24), so straight into the op-shop box they went!

[tanaqui]

Ha, good work on dealing with those (annoying! taking up space! for someone else!) boxes and on being able to put lots of it straight into the op-shop box. I hope there was some nice fabric in there, though, that you were all able to divide up between you and have plans for. :-)

[tanaqui]

Go you for making visible progress in the garage, and for getting some unneeded supplies out of the knitting stash, even if that didn't result in visible progress! Sounds like you're making progress in lots of other areas, too, with things like the pantry challenge, even if it isn't fast.

I put six bags of various kinds (overnight bags, a beach bag, a document bag) into the donation pile (uh, donation mountain...). That was most of what was left from when I did a major cull three or four years ago. (I had somehow acquired a LOT of bags without actively choosing any of them. Lots of freebies.) I haven't used any of those bags or felt the need to use them since I last looked at them, so I clearly don't need them. (I have plenty of other bags I do use.)

I also found a couple of other items to donate: a cardigan and a set of cloth hanging wardrobe shelves that were taking up a lot of space but weren't storing much. (I thought I'd use them more, but didn't find things to put on them.)