Susan: I can understand him wanting all his stuff there: is it near where he gets dressed? Or presumably he picks up his socks and underwear while he's getting his shirt? I moved all my workout gear to the laundry nook a while ago, and it is so much easier having it all together, I just use a fabric bag to corral it all together, and then my shoes, gym bag and gym towels are all there too, and dirty clothes get dropped into the machine while I'm putting away my bag and shoes. It started out as a gesture of despair that there was no room in the bedroom due to dh's clothes-buying obsessions, but now I'm happy about it. Plus, the bag means too many things can't be stored in there or they fall out, so I purge whenever new stuff comes n.
Out: manky bananas and some of my baking shelf into banana bread (and a teaspoon of rum!), ds1's old school trousers are destined for recycling as they fall down constantly and are full of holes. An old bag found lurking in one of the understairs cupboards, I chucked it straight into the rubbish, it can't be freecycled or recycled as it had logos on it.
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Found a mailing tube in my closet with 5 poster in it. Will never hang them again to out to the recycle bin.
Task uncluttered:
-Listed the fourteen car repair manuals on eBay. They have a week, and then it's recycle bin
-Finally found time to fix the brakes on my car. I still had my truck to go to school but it cost a lot more money in gas...Posted 6 months ago # -
Lottielot: It does make sense to have the un-ironed shirts there, segregated from the others and near the ironing board. It would make more sense to have the underwear and socks in the closet, where he actually changes them and where the hamper is located. Also, having everything just dumped in a hamper made it hard to see stuff. He actually bought NEW SOCKS to take to Scotland -- he already had 50+ pair, but they were hidden in the bottom of the hamper.
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Have to admit I'm rather glad I'm allergic to cats! ;)
Out: old leftovers from the fridge; ticket stub & misc. receipts from purse;
I've weeded 90% of the file drawer I started working on a couple of days ago. Having found so many papers that needed to be recycled or shredded, I'm making a commitment to weed our files at least once a year. That's not very often, but I think it's realistic and will be a major improvement. I bet it's 3 years or more since I last went through all of them.
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Finished sorting the area dislodged with the removal of the aforementioned rug: Misc bits to the trash. Re-puposed a nice tray to hold DH'S bits on the dresser. Moved walker parts to the walker. Two hair styling wands to the garage sale box. Moved some other small items to their proper place!
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I am very upset about my decluttered object for today... someone stole my umbrella! It disappeared from the volunteers' cloakroom while I was volunteering for a concert tonight. We are hoping it was just a mistake and the "perp" will return it. It wasn't just any old umbrella but the classic Tibor Kalman Sky umbrella, a gift from a dear friend long passed away, given to me in 1992, the year this design was released.
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Sky%20Umbrella_10451_10001_12210_-1_11470_11470
I want my umbrella back! Boo-hoo-hoooooooooo...
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Tasks uncluttered:
- Transferred my vehicle registration to my new car and renewed my driver's license for the coming year.
- Wrote a couple of cheques for some bills that came in the other day.
- Filled out the paperwork to claim a renovation tax credit for the garage that I had built this summer.
Out: Some ancient hamburger buns.
In: 3 secondhand shirts; a round of flea medication for the cats.
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ella, i'd be a little upset too.
what a beautiful umbrella and what a nice memento of a friend.
if it doesn't come back, and i really needed an umbrella, i suspect i would buy myself another in the spirit of my friend's gift.
and i wish i'd never seen that moma shop.Posted 6 months ago # -
11/18/11 - Found a bunch of unlabeled CDs with various unnecessary files on them. They were rewritable, so I brought them to work, erased them, and put them with my other blank CDs (technically they live to see another day, but they are out of my house and at my office where I will definitely get use out of them, so I'm counting them as my ATAD).
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I'm with bandicoot on that MOMA shop and the umbrella. The first thing I did was curse my luck for living in a desert and not needing umbrellas much! :-)
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Oh, I lurve that umbrella! That looks like a dangerous website, I'll pretend they don't deliver to the uk and not even peek to see if they do :) Could you get the person in charge of volunteers to send an email round explaining that the umbrella has sentimental value and asking the culprit to return it? In a nice way, obviously! I have to confess I once 'borrowed' an umbrella, I was in Sydney a few years ago, we had consumed a huge amount of wine, spent a huge amount of money in an empty restaurant, the staff were quite rude and it was completely torrential rain outside. So we stole their umbrella, probably not very discreetly as I remember lots of drunken giggling...We did return it the next day though!
Uncluttered a load of strawberry plants from the allotment, tidied up paths, planted tulips and broad beans, more tomorrow.
Cleared out the vegetable slimer compartment of the fridge, it was truly disgusting :) Cleaned it out, chucked out the rotten stuff, put down fresh paper towels on the bottom and put in the new veggies. Chucked out some old food from the other shelves, I just need to keep on top of those jars...Posted 6 months ago # -
lottielot: Thanks for that suggestion. I've asked the volunteer coordinator to email everyone who worked there last night, and I included photos. What's even further upsetting is that the event was held in a church! No one had access to the room except the volunteers, so now I feel bad knowing that someone I work with took it.
I had hung it on a hook and draped my scarf and jacket over it, so someone had to actually go under my things to get at the umbrella. We tore the place apart looking for it. I have many sentimental memories attached to that umbrella after 19 years, as you may imagine. I am so sad.Posted 6 months ago # -
Nooooooooo! I am sorry about the loss of a splendid umbrella but *way* more sorry I am about the link. Oh. My. God. I found so much that I "need" that I do not know whether to laugh or cry. I definitely need that umbrella. Need. Right. Have three, no, four already.
Edit: forgot to add that nothing went out but four storage boxes of same size as previously came in. Goody. Also got some clear glass jars with plastic lids for the fridge; no more ghastly tupperware which gives me a bad itch still after the shock at grandma's. I am all happy about seeing the contents of the stuff in the fridge now.
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Another pair of outgrown trousers for donation, packed 3 more eBay parcels of kids clothes
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11/19/11 - I got fitted for new bras today - bought two new ones, uncluttered three that were the totally wrong size - yikes! (So it was "one in one out" plus an extra to count for my thing for the day.)
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Cleared the remaining two shelves and a drawer in the re-purposed bookshelves: 4 decks of cards, a sentiment frame, labels, weighted book marker and a purse to the garage sale box, a brass candle stick holder also added that is no longer needed.
From the shelf being cleared: a big pile of cookbooks to take to the library for donation. Emptied a 3 in. binder - paper to the be recycled, binder for donation.Posted 6 months ago # -
cleared some odds and ends from the laundry. a rusted bulldog clip. a broken peg. a broken plastic container. an empty icecream container.
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Thanks to all for the encouragement about kitty behavior...I'm still waiting! :)
Recent (kitty) de-cluttering:
1 skein of yarn...too slobbery to salvage.
1 piece of art...she jumped up on the shelf, knocked it down, and broke it!
1 roll of quarters...although I suspect my husband is the true culprit on this one, but he is blaming the cat.
1 coffee cup...she tried to see what was in it and knocked it over...broke it!
1 rug...coffee stains on it, couldn't get them out (see above sentence.) Now wondering if this was also the hubs...hmmmm?I am terrified to even think about decorating for Christmas this year!
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Beginning the big moving cleanup:
Recycle:
-40+ lbs of paper from elementary school (exercises books, binders full of homework, agenda and ''art'' from kindergarten. Emptied a 18gal storage binDonate:
- 250+ books. Will go to friends and family who requested them. Anything left will be either sold at the second-hand bookstore or given away.
- 4 trophies. Removed the nameplates and dusted them before putting them in the donate bin
- 2 boxes of hockey cards
- 5 stuffed animals (first round)
- Random wood scrap (about a truckload), to a family friend who use them in various woodworking projects
- 3 now empty bookcases (two already gone, one will go tomorrow, hopefully with a some boxes of books)
- 1 blender (will go tomorrow with the bookcase, same lady)Trash:
- Various bits and pieces of unknown originPosted 6 months ago # -
Amazing progress, arthelemis!
Here are my measly efforts for the day...Out to Free Box: 1 never-used tote bag
Recycled: 2 packing boxes
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