Cleaning Blog
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redroseSunday, I spent 4 hours sorting through papers and ditching the ones that are useless, like the 1993-1998 phone bills. I threw out the dated articles. I kept aside the feminism articles. The lists of books will go into the books folder. The other articles are in a box, waiting to be read at some other time.
I am attacking the paper that has eaten my room. The goals are a working filing system, and keeping only the papers I want, I need, or I find useful. I probably have a cubic yard of unsorted papers and detrius. I was keeping all my receipts for a given year, because I wanted to sort out where my money went, but in 3 years of doing that, I have never gone back and calculated where the money went, so I am going to pitch them. I am not sure what do to with all the papers on craft patterns and techniques I have printed out over the past 7-10 years. Maybe I should file them in one of the filing cabinets? I will keep things like bank statements and final bills or closures on accounts that show zero balance and tax papers.
Really, the craft stuff is organized enough, and the books are doing okay, but for the need to be put into LibraryThing and then into storage in the attic. The clothes and closet are going to need to go through Mary Dell's Closet Algorithm. I could probably purge the clothes, jewelry, and books, but that is a worry for later.
I am attacking the paper that has eaten my room. The goals are a working filing system, and keeping only the papers I want, I need, or I find useful. I probably have a cubic yard of unsorted papers and detrius. I was keeping all my receipts for a given year, because I wanted to sort out where my money went, but in 3 years of doing that, I have never gone back and calculated where the money went, so I am going to pitch them. I am not sure what do to with all the papers on craft patterns and techniques I have printed out over the past 7-10 years. Maybe I should file them in one of the filing cabinets? I will keep things like bank statements and final bills or closures on accounts that show zero balance and tax papers.
Really, the craft stuff is organized enough, and the books are doing okay, but for the need to be put into LibraryThing and then into storage in the attic. The clothes and closet are going to need to go through Mary Dell's Closet Algorithm. I could probably purge the clothes, jewelry, and books, but that is a worry for later.
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Date: 2009-05-05 04:03 pm (UTC)Now if I can just get past "It feels so wasteful to throw out the T-shirt in the wrong size with a hole and a ketchup stain..." I'll be in business. :)
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Date: 2009-05-05 06:36 pm (UTC)If it's any help, one of my friends says that clothing donation places have people they pay to mend the clothing which is donated, so anything unstained that can be mended will be.
If the T-shirt is one you love, I would not throw it out! I would save it and maybe use the front or back for a T-shirt quilt, or store if for a while longer intending to make a T-shirt quilt until I let go of that particular idea!