I spent a little while today cleaning out a couple of totes that contained various cords, old electronics, and other miscellaneous items. I now have a box of electronic trash for me to take to the next electronic recycling event at the dump and one condensed tote that contains a smaller amount of miscellaneous items which might possibly be of use at some point in the future (you know, like the other things I finally decided to throw out). I used the other tote to store the multiple LEGO instruction booklets that had just been in a pile on the floor in my office. [Note: I had planned on putting them into a filing cabinet, but drawers that I thought were empty are actually full of empty spiral-bound notebooks.]
From there, I moved to my dresser drawers and closet. My focus was on shirts--of which I filled one small box with shirts that someone else could use and two trash bags of shirts that are either too stained or damaged to hand off to someone else. I am holding on to more t-shirts which I will likely never wear than I probably should, but those are for reasons of nostalgia. In the end, I cleared out a previously over-filled drawer and a half as well as about a third of my hanger space in our closet.
This is still a far cry from the reorganization and pairing down that I really should do, but small steps are still progress.
From there, I moved to my dresser drawers and closet. My focus was on shirts--of which I filled one small box with shirts that someone else could use and two trash bags of shirts that are either too stained or damaged to hand off to someone else. I am holding on to more t-shirts which I will likely never wear than I probably should, but those are for reasons of nostalgia. In the end, I cleared out a previously over-filled drawer and a half as well as about a third of my hanger space in our closet.
This is still a far cry from the reorganization and pairing down that I really should do, but small steps are still progress.
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