A few more for the bin.

I expect socks to wear out (although I'm still confused as to how we inherited so many in good condition), but I thought it amusing that T1 and T2's matching socks sprang holes the same week.

• 3 pairs of socks to the orange bin
  
• an undershirt with a permanent stain ditto
• and a mailing envelope to paper
  

Another day, more recycling

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• 4 shirts (orange bin)
• 1 pair pants (orange)
• kids' magazines (paper)
• odds and ends (paper)
  

The hardest thing

The most difficult thing about posting here is not finding things to de-accession on a daily basis. The hardest thing is to title these posts. Since this blog is really just to serve as an aid to my tidying, I'm just going to use numbers when I can't think of titles. Which would make this post 73.

• magazines: overflow to the kita
• worn out socks and torn ribbon: to the orange bin
• checklist from a pokal: to paper
• tchotchke: to the garbage

Binned

Going through the drawers while considering seasonal change over

• 11 pairs of girls underwear: too small and too worn to donate
• 1 of my shirts— so dingy that I won't wear it anymore, which means extremely dingy
• one child's shirt with a stain that I can't remove
• one child's skirt too dingy to be worn

All into the orange bin for recycling. Germany makes it so easy to do the right thing.

I also threw in

• a plastic bag, (green point)
• face mask, (paper)
  
• poster with a nasty crease (paper)
  
• and a tchotchke from an überaschungei (green point)
  

Another day, another pile

Going through piles of paper in an effort to make them smaller and to know what I need to do.

• Volkhochschule bulletins for the past year,
• Children's magazines they haven't missed (from the overflow)
• magazines from BEA that I have finally finished going through to determine what I missed, what I want to read in the next year, and what is happening in publishing,
• more miscellaneous paperwork

Then a few more odds and ends while I am trying to tidy up the children's DVDs (and some of my own):

• A tchotchke squirreled away from the children (orange bin)
• Obsolete DVD and cracked jewel case (orange bin)
• rag so grungy I don't want to use it for cleaning any more (orange)
  

Another walk through...

If one spends some time taking a look at what one can sort and discard, the job sometimes seems never-ending. I think doing it for only a limited time a day helps with the seeming endlessness of the quest.
Paper recycling:

• A case for a camera accessory that 's not needed as it has its own case (paper)
• A review manual in a 3-ring binder for a course that the German taught, which is too out of date to be passed to someone else (greenpoint for the plastic, paper for the contents, but I kept the binder for my American 3 hole punched papers)
  
• and some review materials still new enough to be passed on to people

and trash:

• an insert for an electric toothbrush that's not needed (greenpoint)
• a broken child's stethoscope (green point)
• a moisturizer I didn't like (emptied then greenpoint)
• a deodorant ditto (emptied then greenpoint)
• old balloons retrieved from under T2's bed (trash)
  

Another pair.

• Sometimes I wonder how we received so many hand-me-downs in such great condition while my kids burn through socks and stockings. Are my girls wilder than others or are they just slow-growing? (orange bin)