unclutter | checking in! (Reply)

Last week I: acquired something that needs some TLC, for which I don't have a designated home in my house yet, but which I am sure I can very trivially make someone else's problem, and make their day by doing it. (It's an overlocker. It was on Freecycle. Apparently nobody else wanted it?!) Nevertheless it is sat on one end of the sofa staring accusingly at me and I should Do Something About That.

But I did also do some actual uncluttering!

accepted I wasn't going to get around to getting the broken key out of my cheap bike frame lock, ordered a replacement, and put the broken one in the recycling
removed (and recycled) the packaging from a bunch of insulating wool that had been Accumulating from food orders various, and distributed it as mulch around relevant plants
got the last few bits of the stuff that had been lurking into the garage loaded up into a bag to take to the allotment this is not quite true, because I spotted one more lurking in the garage after I'd bagged the rest, but it's going to be true within fifteen minutes of me posting this, or at least if it's not I'm going to come back and fess up
rediscovered a stack of plastic food containers I'd been intending to return to my parents, and moved them from the shelves by the front door (where "things to go back to other people" live, but I'd overlooked them the last... several... visits) into the current box of Stuff To Take Along Next Visit
returned some other property to a friend that has been sitting on said shelves since the Before Times, via an outdoors meet-up
boil-washed an item that, if a boil-wash didn't fix it, needed to be binned (and the boil-wash did fix it!)
took some more steps toward finding potential homes for some sad brass instruments that are currently in my care (and I'm going to go and e-mail the museum that is potentially relevant to one of them now.)