Weekend check-in

[fred_mouse]

What unclutttering have you done recently?

Taken the bins out? Win!

Sorted things into 'keep this' and 'rehome that'? Win!

Actually got stuff out of the house? Win!

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[fred_mouse]

Today, we took literally everything off the kitchen island, and put it on the dining table. Then cleaned the counter, and started moving things back. There are still some things on the table, but it is so much better than it was!

We also moved a couple of boxes of 'can't deal with that' to the storage unit, and brought back four that have 'I could be using that' craft stuff, which I am planning to sort through -- using the same bit of table that is currently covered by things I should deal with.

[rmc28]

Oooh, this is a good one. I have a number of things that are sorted, but haven't yet left the house, I should figure out next steps towards that goal. I am feeling slow and migrainey today so whether I actually do any of the tasks is unclear - figuring them out is a useful step though.

• large parcel bag of children's clothes to go to my SIL, plus the beginnings of a new pile, complicated by them being in the middle of house building work
  • decision: wait until the building works are done, another month or two won't hurt (the gap between the kids is big enough everything can wait at least a year)
  • task: do a systematic pass through younger child's clothes to cull the outgrown clothes (he is growing again) and divide into charity donations / new parcel bag for SIL
  • task: do another pass through stored clothes younger child is growing into, and restock his clothing / make a shopping list for what we don't have
• suit bags and hangers from the set of smart clothes my brother passed on to my son
  • checked text message thread: he wants the bags and one specific hanger back
  • task: bag up the other hangers for the charity shop
  • task: text brother to say bags, hanger are ready for collection, when does he want to visit
• multiple bags for the charity shop, resulting from sortings out over the past few months, lurking in the back room
  • task: put a gift aid label on each bag
  • task: stick all the bags in the cargo bike and go round to the shop, worst case scenario I have to bring them all back again because the "we're full" sign is out, but best case I get rid of them all at once

[lilysea]

I spent this evening's post-rain cool change taking out some of the mountain of recycling that had built up inside my house during the heatwave to the outside recycling bin.

[kaberett]

... since my last I think I've actually only brought things into the house via clothes shopping?

WAIT NO I finished a book and that's gone back into the charity shop pile!

Update: have now messaged someone on Freecycle who expressed interest in things and then decided they couldn't make the trip to offer to drop them off (given that it'll be on our way tomorrow anyway) (and BINGO, have had a yes please back!); had another go at getting the mattress topper's cover back onto it; posted the mattress topper on Freecycle.

[vae]

Two books and three DVD box sets donated to a local charity bookshop this morning! It's not huge amounts but it's all progress.

[tanaqui]

I'm working on decluttering (more) paper related to my 30+ years of freelance/self-employment. I'm now ready to let a lot of stuff go, so am severely weeding it. At the moment, it's still in the "worse before better" state (and then I need to actually get the stuff that's being ditched into the recycling), but I've reached the point where the decisions aren't difficult as I work through it all.