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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[rmc28]

Today's goal: do 3x 15 minutes of decluttering work, with 5 min rests in between.

First 15 min: go round the house with the bag of "things that belong elsewhere" from, um, a fortnight ago and empty it out. And then stand just inside my front door and start looking for trash & easy things to rehome.

[kaberett]

We spent a bit over an hour out in the garage Sorting Out the shelf at the back that we have not cleared out properly since our ex-landlord moved all of his stuff out! Some things got binned. Several things go Oraganised. It is MUCH tidier and there is SPACE up there and now we will -- hopefully -- be able to use it to sort out some of the main section of the garage.

I continue to read A Slob Comes Clean, from your link the other week, and the house is mysteriously Tidier. It's really nice.

[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.