Round 1: found a stash of paper that needs shredding, plugged in the shredder, started shredding a few sheets at a time, letting the poor shredder cool down in between time. Started tackling some boxes of Misc Child Stuff stashed in front of the bottom of a bookcase: so far I've extracted a small amount of actual rubbish, and sorted what's left into lego + misc other toys. Plus a couple of pens and bookmarks that have homes elsewhere in this room. Filled the shredder once, found a useful bag to decant into and continue shredding the pile.
Oof, it's dusty round these Misc Child Stuff boxes.
Round 2: abruptly derailed when I tipped a drink over and had to tidy it up, and then discovered the bloody timer app had reset, so I sighed and started it again, thinking 4x 15 min is no biggie. Dug through more boxes of kid stuff, increasingly high pile of recycling and probable-giveaway stuff, beginning to fill the bin, realised I'd completely missed the break notification from the timer app and decided to sit down for a bit - and as I poked the timer app it reset again. Grr. I think I'm going to take a proper rest and skim-read a couple of the kids books I just unearthed, to see if I want to bother keeping them. (They've been in a box in my room for multiple years, probably since at least 2018, and the kids haven't noticed, so probably they won't care either way ...)
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Round 1: found a stash of paper that needs shredding, plugged in the shredder, started shredding a few sheets at a time, letting the poor shredder cool down in between time. Started tackling some boxes of Misc Child Stuff stashed in front of the bottom of a bookcase: so far I've extracted a small amount of actual rubbish, and sorted what's left into lego + misc other toys. Plus a couple of pens and bookmarks that have homes elsewhere in this room. Filled the shredder once, found a useful bag to decant into and continue shredding the pile.
Oof, it's dusty round these Misc Child Stuff boxes.
Round 2: abruptly derailed when I tipped a drink over and had to tidy it up, and then discovered the bloody timer app had reset, so I sighed and started it again, thinking 4x 15 min is no biggie. Dug through more boxes of kid stuff, increasingly high pile of recycling and probable-giveaway stuff, beginning to fill the bin, realised I'd completely missed the break notification from the timer app and decided to sit down for a bit - and as I poked the timer app it reset again. Grr. I think I'm going to take a proper rest and skim-read a couple of the kids books I just unearthed, to see if I want to bother keeping them. (They've been in a box in my room for multiple years, probably since at least 2018, and the kids haven't noticed, so probably they won't care either way ...)