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.

Obsolete media

I had hoped to find some takers for the children's videotapes you see here, but I guess the combination of the outdated technology and the US-region made that unlikely. So into the Orange recycling bin they go.
The other items are simply things I pulled out to recycle: they count because they aren't the detritus of daily living, but were clutter for at least several months before being culled.

Pairless

It was a wrench to let go of this right shoe- I kept on thinking that maybe, just maybe, I would find the other and could donate them (at this point, they are too small for T2).
I finally bit the bullet and it went into the Orange bin for recycling.
I stole the other items from T1s underbed storage and recycled them away.

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"fine" work: here you see CD-ROMs that are no longer viable, belonging to recycled computers and OS's that are 7 years out of date, as well as empty toner cartridges.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.

Shh

I hid this in a drawer for two weeks to see if it would be missed. It wasn't, it's broken, into plastic recycling it went.

It's not the Bode, but it needs to be done.

A friend dropped a date to hit a museum with me today, so I took some Sudafed and went through some piles that had been hanging about.
1. Plastics recycling



2.A few dingy ones to the orange bin and the others added to the clothing donation bag.
3. Went through a pile of papers and winnowed.
4. Took some of the girls' magazines to Kita for crafts.
5. Clothes for the donation bin.

The Orange Bin

Things to be donated and things for the new orange bin in the cellar: the one which takes not only small electric appliances, but also used clothing. Cool. I really like that my waste stream is diverted.