And so on.

• 5. More clothing, too dingy or damaged to donate.
  

Starting 2012

Starting the year off with a reinvigorated decluttering drive, I thought that I would take a page from another blogger who wants to de-access 2012 items in 2012.

I'm not going to make rules as stringent as hers, because this blog is meant to hearten me as I deal with what seems a never-ending accumulation of possessions: there are 4 of us and we have a small place. My goal is to strengthen my resolve by looking at what I have removed from my surroundings while sometimes feeling as if what I do will never end nor improve. But it clearly does.

So, I think I will count some of my discards, but I certainly won't count every item in a pile of paper. I won't count normal recycling and consumables, but I will count what I consider abnormal ones.

• 1. Recycled paper, but not just ordinary inserts, also menus and other long-term paper pulled while clearing drawers.
• 2. Recycled paper, including instruction manuals (in Spanish as well!) for cameras I no longer have, associated ownership materials, business survey research materials and magazines- which I will include because I accumulate them until I actually read them (and get them in chunks, rather than at news stands).
• 3. Recycled fabric- clothing and other cloth items stained, burned and used up.

• 4. Annoyingly chintzy, came in a children's magazine, toy that I persuaded my daughter to part with:-).

A few old chestnuts.

Literally. Cleared out from T2's drawers and pockets.

Emptying some drawers

Some things to the orange bin, some to the clothing donation.

Gathering it together

Gathered together things to give to a friend for her daughter when we visit over the holidays.

Some out of our current closet (she will have to wait a year to use them) and some from the boxes I have neatly packed in the Kellar (which I need to think about passing on in some way) which I hope she will be able to use this year. I hope she enjoys them as we did.

A few things

I still wonder how it can be possible to pass stockings down: my girls can barely make it through a season with them. To the orange bin.

A crafts project dissolved and a bow to the trash.

More Clothes

These clothes are all in good enough condition to donate (but not appropriately sized to give to friends).

And I just can't get the stains out of the below, so off to the orange bin it goes.