Weekly (ish) check in

[fred_mouse]

How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?

Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.

And thanks to those who did the cheering after the last post, when my week completely vanished from under me and I forgot that dreamwidth is a place to spend time.

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[fred_mouse]

Today's decluttering has been closing tabs -- reading some, declaring I'm not reading others. I've not got through as many as I wanted, because I found a long form fiction piece that I'm really enjoying, and I'm alternating reading a chapter and then doing something else :)

If there has been any physical decluttering in the last two weeks, I've managed to forget entirely.

[vae]

2 bags of old souvenir guidebooks went to the local National Trust second hand bookshop this morning! And I've got another bag of books waiting to go to the local heritage railway second hand bookshop, and three bags to be donated to charity shops.

[wychwood]

If digital counts, I have consolidated all my book wishlists into one spreadsheet, which took a while!

[mekare]

I managed to go through a pile of magazines and newspapers today.

[vae]

digital decluttering helps clear the brain too!

[vae]

digital absolutely counts! Well done on your consolidation!

[vae]

Well done!

[screechfox]

Thank you for inspiring me to somewhat declutter my tabs! It's still not a small enough number to fit on my screen but we're getting there.

[screechfox]

On digital decluttering, I've cleared some tabs and some emails today.

Physically, I need to unpack my clothes tomorrow or Tuesday, and while doing that, I want to do a bit of clearing out. At least the box labelled 'clothes TBD', which is nearly all clothes I aspire to wear and then never do.

I also realised while shelving my PC games that I probably... actually don't need any of them. What with not having a disc drive on my laptop and all the games being old enough to be Quite Broken on modern machines. So those are something I need to figure out what to do with. I'd take them to CEX but realistically I wouldn't get much for them, so I might just donate them to a charity shop.

[screechfox]

Congrats! I have too many book wishlists right now, so I empathise and admire your achievement.

[adafrog]

Drive by sticky beaks? lol

[tozka]

I'm working on digital decluttering this week. I spent some time going through my bookmarks and organizing them-- I have a bad habit of just mass-bookmarking tons of tabs to clear them off and then never looking at the folder again. So this time I'm going through one such folder, opening all the links, going through the tabs and deciding if I actually want to keep it or not. If it's a keeper, it goes into a properly labeled folder. If not, the tab is closed.

I'm also trying to catch up with my photos again. I've imported everything from my phone and have loaded them into my photo program (Digikam) and now I'm quickly going through and deleting ones I don't want to keep. After that I'll need to tag them with the date/location and then later specific categories (like all pictures of cats get tagged as "cat"). I don't expect to get totally caught up this week but I'd like to at least do the "delete unneeded photos" part.

[fred_mouse]

<3 it is an ongoing project on my side of the screen.

[fred_mouse]

All great wins!

[fred_mouse]

Good job on spotting things that need some thinking about. I hope you get through the process and get things dealt with!

[fred_mouse]

Have I managed to find another Australianism? I'm told that 'rubbernecking' is a similar behaviour.

[fred_mouse]

Lots of great things to be working on. And I hear you on the tab collecting - I keep meaning to go through the 'read later' folder on my computer, and I'm sure there are thousands of links in there.

[adafrog]

Yep. lol