Question for 365 items out

[dialecticdreamer]

Do you count bags of "recyclable random papers" as one thing? or does the goal imply "usable objects I no longer want, or broken objects to trash?"

I'm supposed to be on item number fifty today, and I'm at... thirteen.

It's disheartening.

I've got a bag of "things to drop in the charity bin when we run errands" but that has to wait for Sunday errands, and I don't want to count the items until they are actually OUT the door. (Things happen to derail that plan, you know.)

Comments

[peaceful_sands]

Also thinking about the motivation/disheartening aspect - you say you've things packed ready to deliver at the weekend - why not have a mental count of 'things that have gone out' and 'things that will have gone out after delivery' so you can keep positive - or can the things be put in the car now ready to deliver? I find that if they're in the car they're much less likely to end up back in the general mill of things and much more likely to end up at the right destination.

Things going out

[dialecticdreamer]

I have to stay right on top of things or the other people in the house will "borrow" stuff, from the bags to go out, of course, and that means they don't actually LEAVE the house. Harrumph.

Re: Things going out

[peaceful_sands]

Another trick that I use to discourage things making their way back into the house is to pack them in boxes and then tape the box shut with packing tape - no-one knows what's inside then and if scissors are needed to break tape it's another deterrent to them migrating from the box.