The daily discard is becoming addictive. Or, it's simply that when one does not buy many clothes, the ones worn actually do wear out.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Holey City
The daily discard is becoming addictive. Or, it's simply that when one does not buy many clothes, the ones worn actually do wear out.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Keeping on keepin on
The German recently passed a certification exam and these are the study books left behind. They are too out of date, he thinks, to pass on. So these went to paper recycling, with their attached information. (As did some SAP security controls worksheets.)
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Decluttering the Kellar
There are actually "Kleingarten Kolonies" here in Berlin, but they aren't the community gardens that I am used to in the States, leased at a nominal fee and actually used for gardening. The ones here seem to be permanent temporary summer residences, usually with a building taking up much of the square footage and where Germans sleep and grill and live during summers (electricity, water and satellite dishes seen on the roofs). They range from 6,000€ to 34,000€ and really are not possible if all one wants is to raise some tomatoes. If we actually stay in Berlin long-term and don't get a small place back in the US for summers, we will probably start looking at one of these.
(crosspost to other blog)
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Culling Files
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Under the bed
I pulled the piles out from under T1's bed today and a whole bunch of things will hit the trash and the recycling. Although the picture on the left is from packaging and more old OS discs and those will go, respectively, in paper and electronic recycling.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Obsolete media
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Pairless
I finally bit the bullet and it went into the Orange bin for recycling.
A closer look...
Last night, when I was chatting with my friend about the difficulties of decluttering, and how if one has an easy opportunity, one should take it (that is, I would grab the boxes of childrens' toys and donate them before actually sitting and going through paperwork), I felt a bit revved up.
So I did some "fine" work: here you see CD-ROMs that are no longer viable, belonging to recycled computers and OS's that are 7 years out of date, as well as empty toner cartridges. The DVD's and CD's can go into our new Orange recycling bin and the toner cartridges will go to the recycling hof on Monday. I also went through a large box of "stuff" and turned it into a smaller box of paperwork and stuff and the remainder is in paper recycling or garbage.
This type of decluttering doesn't help the overall look and feel of the apartment, though, and I needed to wind this session up with a 10 minute run through that cleaned off surfaces (that had gotten covered while I was digging through bins) and reducing it to a state of visual order: that's what makes the room and the soul calm.
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