Weekly (ish) check in

[fred_mouse]

... this was meant to happen on Friday. I am not entirely sure how it is already Tuesday!

Hi Everyone!

This is your check in for the week ending Friday 13th December. Have you found something to declutter? Made a plan that you can implement later? What are your recent decluttering wins? -- big, small, it all counts.

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

Comments

[spiffikins]

I spent 15 minutes tearing down the massive pile of cardboard boxes that has been accumulating in my garage, and filling my blue wheelie bin on Sunday!

I kept getting boxes and thinking "oh I should keep that, and use it to pack things in to donate/get rid of" but it was getting away from me - and a lot of the boxes were either too big or too small anyway - and the "boxes to help declutter" were just ADDING to the clutter - so out they went!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ah, I know this. I say 'oh that's a good size box!' too many times for too many situations which never arise and have a pile of flattened boxes in storage for when we move...I've had them for almost a decade!

[spiffikins]

at least you flatten them! Mine just pile up in unstable towers, and block off my garage, LOL!

I come from a long line of box hoarders - when we moved out of our house in 1990, my dad pulled out a dozen or more (empty) boxes from the basement crawlspace - all of them in pristine condition, for electronics he had purchased 15-20 years earlier.

I don't actually recall if he (smugly, I'm sure) used them to pack up said electronics for the move - I think he might have - although I think he did end up throwing out more than half of them, since he no longer had that item.

We also had one of those ubiquitous green Coleman camp stoves - it was at least 30 years old when I was a *child* - and we kept it in it's original box, which was getting pretty battered - and meant that you couldn't actually use the HANDLE on the stove - you had to carry the thing around in the cardboard box.

Currently I am holding on to a handful of "official" boxes - my tv, and two computer monitor boxes - mostly because they are fiendishly difficult to box up without the original packaging. Trying to get rid of everything else though :D