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weekend check-in
Hi all, it's been a while. Today's check in is brought to you by me finally finally doing a reorganisation of the living room furniture that I've had in mind for literal years. This was not strictly a decluttering exercise but I ended up doing some along the way. (Because I am a nerd who has done too many projects, there were many cries of "NO SCOPE CREEP" as I made myself stop sorting out a shelf that wasn't on the critical path.) And now I have things I should try to move out the house over the weekend.
I'll ramble in more detail in the comments, please join in with your own goals for the weekend, large or small!
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How satisfying that you got that reorganisation done that you've had in mind for years! Very cool that you have even done some decluttering along with that, very sensible given that it is much easier to organise with fewer things in the room. I am for sure going to check out your comment!
As for me, well... I had in mind for this lecture-free time to do a lot of decluttering in my room, take out the books I decluttered months ago and also the broken electronics I likewise decluttered months ago. But then work and general exhaustion got the better of me and today is already the last day of the lecture-free weeks! So I rallied all my energy and successfully went through the decluttered books again, recluttered some (because I want to re-read them and in some cases, read more of the series), put 33 books into my outgoing stuff list and took those 33 books to the public bookshelves. I was initially afraid of a) not being able to transport that many books at once on my bicycle and b) there not being enough room at the public bookshelves to shelve my about 1.4 m of books. Well, a) turned out not to be a problem (but I couldn't have taken more books in one trip so it's good I recluttered some) and b) wasn't a problem either, there was even more than 1 m of empty shelf space left when I left. Unfortunately, I did end up taking 4 books home but oh well. I know I can just take them back to the public bookshelves. I love those! Them and the Giveboxes, for non-book usable decluttered items.
I didn't make it to the small electronics rubbish container but that is a task for another day. Perhaps for the Christmas holidays, when I have more time off from uni. I am quite satisfied I finally got those books out of my room!
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Hurrah for getting those books out of your room. Public bookshelves are so great. We have a few Little Free Libraries nearby, and also a couple of converted phone boxes which are now "community libraries" on the route to my younger kid's school.
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Public libraries here cost a yearly, monthly or daily fee, only university libraries give out cards to non-students free of charge but they don't have many novels to borrow understandably. Some private/church libraries also give out cards free of charge but they are usually very small and only have German books while I love to read English books.