weekly check-in

[wychwood]

Where's everyone at today?

I bribed a friend to take me to the charity shop yesterday with all my heavy bags, and completely cleared out the donations pile in my spare room, which was exciting.

Then today I went through my stash of used (but reusable) padded envelopes and bubblewrap and so on, and threw most of it away; I haven't needed one of them in years. Half-a-dozen in assorted sizes kept in reserve should be plenty.

Comments

[tanaqui]

Nice work on the donations and packaging!

I made up two bags of household recycling and got them OUT OF THE HOUSE. I shredded about an inch of old papers and got the shredded paper OUT OF THE HOUSE. (Do you sense a theme here? I struggle a lot with the practicalities of actually moving things on.)

I went through my basket of gardening sundries, decluttered the junk (mostly empty seed packets — and now I know what seeds I need to buy this year) and rearranged it neatly. The junk went into the current ongoing rubbish bag, which will go OUT OF THE HOUSE on Friday when the bins are collected.

I've also been doing a lot of digital decluttering and organising, so the bin on the computer has been emptied a few times.

Nothing huge, but quite a lot of small wins that are slowly making a difference. I'm planning on taking a similar approach next week, with an effort to follow through with the OUT OF THE HOUSE part.

[wychwood]

Excellent work!! I always like the bit where I've sorted enough to work out what I need to get next.