weekend check-in

[rmc28]

Hello all, I fell off the uncluttering wagon in, er, January. But I have a surprise! free! Sunday today so I thought I'd try to get back on it, and check in with the community while I'm at it.

My theme for today is "getting stuff to actually leave". So far I have

• sorted the giant pile of outgrown clothes (which I made nearly a month ago!) between nibling A, nibling B, and charity shop
• realised one of the garments for nibling A needed washing, so that prompted me to start a laundry load
• found boxes to make parcels for the niblings (well, actually their respective mothers), wrote a note to go inside each one, stacked the parcels waiting for the laundry to finish
• bagged up the clothes for the charity shops, and added my Gift Aid donor id to each bag
• took photos and made four Freecycle posts for assorted things waiting to be freecycled

Nothing has actually left the house yet, but a bunch of things are a lot closer to doing so. Progress! Now I'm taking a break, further adventures will be added in the comments.

How are you all doing this weekend?

Comments

[rmc28]

Ok, glorious success with getting the bags of clothes to the charity shop! This is not always a given: it is a very convenient shop for me because it's only a few minutes walk away, but it's also very convenient for anyone coming into Cambridge, as it's on a main road in from the ringroad, and has car parking right outside. So it gets lots of donations, and quite frequently has to put up a polite sign saying no more donations today please. But today I got there before the sign had gone up, so that's two big carrier bags of clothes no longer in this house.

Also 2 of the 4 freecycle posts have been claimed and should leave tomorrow.

My brother rang and is making an unexpected visit, so I may make no more progress today. (Unless he has room in his car and willingness to take some things from the garage to the tip? Hmmm.) But at least I have made some!

[wychwood]

That sounds like a good start! Having things-to-get-rid-of sitting around can be quite disheartening, I find.

[rmc28]

Yeah! I did get as far as booking the parcels of nibling clothes for postal collection tomorrow (when I am WFH all day). The freecycle people postponed until today, but one of them is taking two things, so that's 3 of 4 should be gone by this evening. I listed a fifth thing, but so far no-one's expressed interest in that either.

It's a hectic week so I can't even think about any new decluttering work until the weekend (and probably I need to put effort first into the paperwork my brother brought me).

[fred_mouse]

yay for getting things out of the house!