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Jan. 4th, 2019 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adairI've taken first unclutter steps into the new year. I took 10 books from my house to Books to Prisoners yesterday, and today I laid out a pair of corduroy trousers to shorten. They had been in my mending pile for months. Since they are cords and it is January and chill they seemed like the best first choice to emptying the mending pile. I've done nothing with them yet, but once I make the first cut to shorten them I will carry on to the finish. It's that first cut, the commitment to the work, and the unchangeable cut that requires thought, and measurement, that seems to make me hesitate to start. Why this should be so I do not know. I have shortened other pants; I usually have to do that to any that I buy, but I am always slow to do it.
More of the mending pile is actual mending. I am going to try to fix one item each week until the pile is empty, or I decide that the item is not worth the effort. I think one item a week should let me actually do some work rather than looking at the pile and turning away because it looks like it will take so long to complete.
On the paper front I have 4 areas where stuff accumulates; the desktop computer desk, the side table next to it, the other desk across from it (this has heaps of stuff and is where things get deposited, and the kitchen table by my laptop. The desktop desk and kitchen table are in fairly good order. I am trying to look them over every day. The side table gets used for a lot of daily work - bill paying and the like, and needs regular attention. The other desk will need to be a big project in itself, but i am trying to establish a habit of clearing the other three areas regularly.
More of the mending pile is actual mending. I am going to try to fix one item each week until the pile is empty, or I decide that the item is not worth the effort. I think one item a week should let me actually do some work rather than looking at the pile and turning away because it looks like it will take so long to complete.
On the paper front I have 4 areas where stuff accumulates; the desktop computer desk, the side table next to it, the other desk across from it (this has heaps of stuff and is where things get deposited, and the kitchen table by my laptop. The desktop desk and kitchen table are in fairly good order. I am trying to look them over every day. The side table gets used for a lot of daily work - bill paying and the like, and needs regular attention. The other desk will need to be a big project in itself, but i am trying to establish a habit of clearing the other three areas regularly.
