Unclutter check-in
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unclutterWhat have you achieved in uncluttering recently? Today, this week, this month? The tiniest bit counts!
note: I'm aiming to post check in posts once or twice a week for at least a couple of months. I am not going to aim for any specific day of the week but whenever I'm online and think of it. If other people make check in posts, I'll just skip a few days and then post -- the more people we have doing this the better!
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Date: 2024-01-30 09:52 am (UTC)My uncluttering for the last few days is net negative. I dealt with a box of books that I was considering rehoming (sorted, gone to the op-shop) and several of the items scattered around the lounge. And then I went and picked up Stuff from a household. One set went straight to the op-shop, while the rest (say, eight garbage bags) has come home for various people to look through -- plus size clothes, to be looked at by a bunch of uni students.
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Date: 2024-01-30 01:36 pm (UTC)Sounds like there are at least plans and deadlines for everything, though...?
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Date: 2024-01-31 12:58 am (UTC)Oh, absolutely. And we will have an influx of people on Friday, so worst case is that the rest goes to the opshop on Saturday.
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Date: 2024-01-30 08:25 pm (UTC)Ooof, clothes for free are hard for me to sort through and discard. I need larger sizes, too (I refuse to call them plus size, though) and they are hard to find second hand. I hope the uni students have time soon to go through the bags and decide and that you can then let go of the rest. Please keep us updated. :-)
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Date: 2024-01-31 01:01 am (UTC)I think on this occasion I decided that I really wasn't ever going to read those books, and I shouldn't 'just have a look' at the eight book series!
We've done the first pass on the clothing, sorting by size. And the relevant offspring has acquired a couple of items. I ended up with a pair of purple steel cap boots, which maybe I'll never wear, but if I don't I have several people who would happily take them! As to the rest, apparently we will have people come look through them on Friday.
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Date: 2024-01-30 10:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-01-30 01:35 pm (UTC)Huzzah!
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Date: 2024-01-30 08:44 pm (UTC)I haven't married so far but I have such a hard time letting go of clothes associated with particular events.
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Date: 2024-01-31 01:03 am (UTC)Oh, I hear you on letting go of important clothes. I finally got rid of my high school ball gown when all of my children grew too tall to wear it -- I had worn it once since high school, but only because everything else was unexpectedly too large.
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Date: 2024-01-30 01:35 pm (UTC)We have made progress! A tip trip for some of the more unusual recycling, prompted by the arrival of a lot more expanded polystyrene; a bag of things dropped off at the charity shop, including a book that originally came from it about 5 years ago and which I have now read (and moved on to the next one); handed some socks I don't like wearing and never choose to wear to my partner, who was sufficiently interested in them that they didn't just go straight into fabric recycling; admitted I am never going to wear the elbow-length velvet gloves and put them in the charity shop pile; and I have successfully got rid of several things brought back from my mother's last summer via Freecycle. (They didn't go previously but did this time. Who knows.)
Also rationalised and catalogued the embroidery floss I picked up from a charity shop in September plus the stash retrieved from my childhood home, so I know what I've got (and have been able to tidy it away into sensible storage); used one of the containers to organise some stationery bits. Which is at least helping with the new stationery bits I have incoming not turning into Piles...
Next job: now I've established it's no use to me, take the yoga kit I was gifted to a charity shop; continue reading current ex-charity-shop book.
... gosh, that's actually quite a lot to have got done since the start of the weekend.
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Date: 2024-01-30 08:22 pm (UTC)I admire you about the embroidery floss and the stationery containers. I should go through my hobby supplies, mainly stationery but some textile ones, too, and consolidate them, declutter the ones I haven't used in years and see what I have. Every time I tidy up my room, I find something I had forgotten about, usually stationery >.>
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Date: 2024-01-30 08:30 pm (UTC)And thank you for the reminder that I have 2 pairs of elbow length gloves that should be donated.
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Date: 2024-01-31 01:06 am (UTC)Fabulous progress!
I should take your example and work out what I have in embroidery floss. Earlier in the year I moved it all into a single location, and roughly grouped by colour, but I don't actually know what is there!
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Date: 2024-01-31 01:10 am (UTC)Fabulous progress! Good job on emptying the bins. Every minute counts!
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Date: 2024-01-31 02:49 pm (UTC)The good thing I found out is that the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus *does* collect aerosol cans so I can take the bus there rather than ask Mom for a ride over to a suburb that really does not have daytime service from the city to the suburb.
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Date: 2024-01-31 11:43 pm (UTC)Fabulous! Getting things out of the house is so satisfying.
That is fabulous about there being a more convenient way to recycle the aerosols. I discovered our local library has a battery recycling programme, which is good as before that we were doing it through the schools, and Youngest finished school three years ago!