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?

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[wychwood]

I've been making small amounts of progress in various directions, but nothing major.

• sorted a handful of papers and such out on my desk and moved some of them to long-term homes and/or the recycling.
• cleared out some older emails in my personal email and abruptly realised that I was down to a single page! in my inbox! for the first time since I created the account! in 2004! which then inspired me to go through and sort out a handful more of them. I did get down to under 10, but it's back up to 15 now; I'm trying to keep it that way.
• made more progress on my bench painting, which is partly for the sake of the bench and partly so I can put away all the things I have out for it.
• took several spider plants into work with me (on the train!) to give to a colleague who had expressed an interest, so that my kitchen windowsill is no longer overflowing - I may get more plants, or at least pot up some of the latest crop of babies, but for now I'm enjoying the space.

I am meditating various slightly larger sorting-out projects, but haven't quite summoned up the energy yet. Also still trying to persuade my friend-with-a-car into a tip trip to get rid of the aggravating pile of dead electrical items in the spare room.

[rmc28]

I have a slowly-growing pile of things in the garage which need a car to go to the tip. I was cheered to find out there's a recycling point about 30 minutes walk away which will take small electrical items, but I haven't yet actually acted on taking any of them there.

[wychwood]

Technically speaking my local tip is only about 30 minutes walk away (well, maybe 40) but a) I definitely can't do it carrying the dead humidifier! and b) they don't permit walk-in customers, slightly annoyingly. Oh well. I'll get there eventually!