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Weekend uncluttering
Jun. 24th, 2018 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fred_mouseHow goes the weekend?
For me, I've put a fair bit of work in, although not actually decluttered much. In some ways, I'm happy with this, because it means that we are using what we have. The work, in this case, was cleaning out five of the kitchen drawers (cutlery, kitchen tools, crockery, saucepans, food-in-jars). Every draw was emptied, vacuumed, cleaned, and then refilled. Every item was inspected, and considered. Anything not dusty was considered to be 'in use' and thus kept without further question. Everything dusty required a statement about why we are keeping it. Lots of things that rarely get used were kept because of rarity value (I've a pastry cutter from the 1930s -- I've only just started seeing them in shops again) or very specific use value (pear corer, melon baller, cake decorating equipment), because they do 'give me joy' and because replacing them will not be an easy task.
I also put three of the books that Youngest decluttered months ago into the out box -- I haven't even opened them, I shouldn't continue to claim that I want to read them before they get rehomed.
For me, I've put a fair bit of work in, although not actually decluttered much. In some ways, I'm happy with this, because it means that we are using what we have. The work, in this case, was cleaning out five of the kitchen drawers (cutlery, kitchen tools, crockery, saucepans, food-in-jars). Every draw was emptied, vacuumed, cleaned, and then refilled. Every item was inspected, and considered. Anything not dusty was considered to be 'in use' and thus kept without further question. Everything dusty required a statement about why we are keeping it. Lots of things that rarely get used were kept because of rarity value (I've a pastry cutter from the 1930s -- I've only just started seeing them in shops again) or very specific use value (pear corer, melon baller, cake decorating equipment), because they do 'give me joy' and because replacing them will not be an easy task.
I also put three of the books that Youngest decluttered months ago into the out box -- I haven't even opened them, I shouldn't continue to claim that I want to read them before they get rehomed.
