Daily Check-in

[fred_mouse]

Hi Everyone!

Have you found something to declutter? Made a plan that you can implement later? What is today's decluttering win?

Open to regulars, drive by commenters, and lurkers alike!

Comments

[arlie]

It's not clutter per se, but the results of decades old sloppy decluttering.

I opened up a filing cabinet, and looked at what was inside. Much of it appeared to be random papers from 2 decades ago; some from even longer. A few were organized by category, but no longer remotely relevant. Others look like the result of gathering loose papers from desk and other surfaces, shoving them into a file folder, and cramming the file folder into a file cabinet. Repeatedly every month or three, for what must have been years.

I've looked through several of these folders so far, with most of the contents winding up in the recycling bin. A few were things like personal letters to me, which belong in a different file cabinet, sorted by sender. In the course of filing them more appropriately, I found all kinds of now useless papers in that cabinet too.

When I get through all this, I should be able to move various still useful groups of files from filing boxes to file cabinets. That might in principle reduce the number of filing boxes. Unfortunately, I just repurposed an empty filing box for mostly non-paper random junk from my office floor, as a temporary (hah!) location while I have workmen in the room next week, wanting to move furniture for access to selected locations, and needing a place to put it. (When the dust clears, unfortunately somewhat literally, there will be a heating and AC vent in my office. Central heating and air conditioning for the win.)

[Edited to add: this isn't really something I did today, but something I've been doing off and on for at least the past week, and intend to continue. I kind of missed that this was a daily thread.]

[fred_mouse]

It is absolutely okay to drop in once in a week and tell us all about the week's decluttering! When it happens is less important than getting to brag about it :)

And that is an amazing amount of work to have achieved. So! Many! Decisions!