last week of July

[fred_mouse]

 Despite the fact that we have sequentially gone through their clothes in recent months (season by season), the kids have managed to find *more* outgrown clothes to rehome. At least we seem to be running out of winter clothes in this category.

And in the last week, I have continued the purge of paper. My 'really can't deal with that' pile is about 1.5cm thick, and I have filled our little bin (say, 10L) about five times. In addition, I found a box of old convention books, did the legal deposit thing (because there didn't appear to be copies in the state archive, even though I thought I had done this already), made sure the relevant community archive had copies, and ditched the rest. One box-o-stuff completely gone! And I have been completely ruthless with old newsletters and community magazines. If none of the family feature, and I can't find something else that makes me smile in nostalgia as I flick through, out it goes (the one thing that really made me nostalgic was a Student Guild Elections book which featured two people who later became Guild President, and one person how is a current federal politician. They were *so young*)

Comments

[peaceful_sands]

Well done! Your steady attitude is paying off!

[tanaqui]

That sounds like excellent progress, especially on the paper and newsletter/magazine front - it can be so hard not to be sentimental about those things.

And I guess the kids are still growing, so they are going to keep outgrowing things! But it sounds like you've somewhat defeated the backlog, so it's getting down to just newly outgrown stuff?

Good luck for the next week/month. :-)