weekend uncluttering / check-in

[rmc28]

It's the weekend, and for me that's decluttering time. So let's make it a community check-in too. How is your week going for decluttering things? Set goals, vent about difficulties, celebrate our successes in the comments.

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[wychwood]

I did nothing all day, but then when I came home from church, I ate dinner while reading A Slob Comes Clean posts from 2009, and was inspired to:
- clear off most of what was on my desk that shouldn't have been
- take some of it back into my bedroom, where I then put away the box of shoes which has been on my chest of drawers for months, and in the process moved a bag of hangers which I then decided to recycle and found a parcel of new pairs of trousers I bought in summer 2021 but hadn't had room to hang until I took out a handful of items last week for donation
- reshelve all the graphic novels my friend gave me back in the morning
- pull out receipts and bank statements old enough to be recycled and put them in a logical place to be packed for my next trip to the office (where the industrial-strength shredder lives)

So that's better than it could have been... if not great.

[rmc28]

That's lots of good stuff! Go you!

[tanaqui]

That a lot of small wins! Sounds great to me. :-)

(I'm so there with you on things like the box of shoes, where I will walk past something multiple times thinking I must put it away -- and when I finally do and it takes moments and makes such a visual difference I wonder why I didn't do it weeks ago!)

[wychwood]

There was a reason why the box was still there, originally. But I decided that after mumble-mumble months I might as well admit I wasn't actually going to do it, and I can get the box out of the wardrobe as and when I change my mind...