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Mid-week uncluttering
Mar. 7th, 2018 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fred_mouseHow goes your decluttering on this fine Wednesday?
Hopefully the rest of you are having weather more suited to your physical needs - we've had a series of stinkers, and I'm desperate for a cool night and a deep sleep. However, that didn't stop me decluttering on Monday, which was a public holiday. After my weekend of shopping and napping, I woke up raring to go, and headed in to the Spare Room Disaster Zone. I moved Stuff, and I sorted Stuff, and I threw out an old washing basket that wouldn't hold washing (but was holding junk), and reams of papers (seriously, how was there a stash of papers from 2013-4 that didn't get found in last years paper sorting bonanza), and some clothes I'm never going to care enough about to do the necessary modifications. I emptied a 120L plastic crate that had been in the garage, and has been moving around the house ever since the garage clean out of last summer. Everything in it got washed. A set of items have been put aside for kids to go through. I filled a small box with items to go to the op-shop. I moved boxes out of common areas into the newly cleared sections of the spare room in such a way that I can still get in, and I can get to every box that is in there in under ten seconds without making a mess!
I have space where I despaired of ever having space again. There is still a long way to go, but it is so lovely to be able to get in the door, and to know that if I'm looking for specific types of objects, they'll be in specific plastic crates.
Oh, and the fig tree in the front garden is gone, bar the stump. Tree lopper came Friday, council truck came Monday and took away green waste for the whole street. So many possibilities!
Hopefully the rest of you are having weather more suited to your physical needs - we've had a series of stinkers, and I'm desperate for a cool night and a deep sleep. However, that didn't stop me decluttering on Monday, which was a public holiday. After my weekend of shopping and napping, I woke up raring to go, and headed in to the Spare Room Disaster Zone. I moved Stuff, and I sorted Stuff, and I threw out an old washing basket that wouldn't hold washing (but was holding junk), and reams of papers (seriously, how was there a stash of papers from 2013-4 that didn't get found in last years paper sorting bonanza), and some clothes I'm never going to care enough about to do the necessary modifications. I emptied a 120L plastic crate that had been in the garage, and has been moving around the house ever since the garage clean out of last summer. Everything in it got washed. A set of items have been put aside for kids to go through. I filled a small box with items to go to the op-shop. I moved boxes out of common areas into the newly cleared sections of the spare room in such a way that I can still get in, and I can get to every box that is in there in under ten seconds without making a mess!
I have space where I despaired of ever having space again. There is still a long way to go, but it is so lovely to be able to get in the door, and to know that if I'm looking for specific types of objects, they'll be in specific plastic crates.
Oh, and the fig tree in the front garden is gone, bar the stump. Tree lopper came Friday, council truck came Monday and took away green waste for the whole street. So many possibilities!
