But not my personal body weight!
It's all a bit convoluted, but in order to be able to bring a sweet little old desk from my father's flat to this house, we need to move the desk from our bedroom into what was our son's room, which means we need to dispose of the small pine table he was using as a desk, which means we need to unearth it from beneath a great stack of stuff that has accumulated since he left nearly 20 years ago... I could go on but it's never-ending....
Clearing space on bookshelves downstairs is part of this process as we also want to replace a small shelving unit with an oriental medicine cabinet.
Procrastination has suddenly got an end-date imposed upon it of 6th July! Urk! 10 day's time!
So, this morning we filled 8 whole bags with our1 books (never fear, son and daughter, we left yours alone) and took them to the charity shop straight away, delaying only to phone ahead to see if they would accept them all.
This afternoon we filled another 8 bags, this time some books, and various cases etc that had been put aside ready to go, and a canteen of cutlery I had been given by my godmother as part of her decluttering back in 2019. Once again, we went straight to the charity shop again.
Hurrah! We can at least see the table our son's room again! Our downfall has always been stacking up the stuff to go, but not actually taking it for weeks. (Months, to be truthful) (sometimes years, even).
I know we could sell it online, but this way we are supporting the British Heart Foundation or Cancer Research or whoever. It works for us.
My resolution is always to take 2 bags of stuff to charity shops every month, but hadn't done so this year. I reckon we've smashed the target for the first six months.
Still a long way to go to be ready for 6th July!
Music
Scicilenne by Paradis, with the wonderful Pinchas Zukerman
I MUST bite the bullet and tackle the back bedroom tomorrow - there are at least 4 bags of stuff in there to go to a charity shop. and it will be so much better once they have gone - space for me and blessings for others. But I want to do some sewing for myself tomorrow, in between all the other requested projects....
ReplyDeleteOh for 30 hours in the day and energy enough to use them...
DeleteWhat are you sewing for yourself?
WOW that sounds like a really good decluttering session. Puts me to shame when it takes a month or more to get rid of some bits lol. I'm plodding along and will keep going - either that or at some point I'll just get rid of the lot of it.
ReplyDeleteIt's less impressive when you know that about 4 bags had been sitting around readycto go for months 😂 But I'm still pleased that we did a sort of whirlwind through the boks again .
DeleteI'm impressed with how much you packed up and took away!! Isn't it something how one little desk set off this whole project?
ReplyDeleteIt seems all we needed was something to kick-start us into action - we've been all talk and no action for months.
DeletePerhaps there is a benefit of moving so often - there's never been time for a build up of stuff!
ReplyDeleteWe've been in this house for over 40 years! Previously we moved every 2 or 3 years... that kept the junk under control. Now.......
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