Pens and paper

We went through the children's school and art supplies and these pens are dry. To the garbage, with the broken tchotcke as well.

More paperwork pulled out of the piles for the recycling bin.

Artwork, paper and clutter

Sometimes I look around and wonder how I can keep decluttering and yet the apartment is still full of clutter. Then I look around at the artwork that the kids create every week (not even considering my own bills, magazines, and books!) and realize where it comes from.

Here on the left is 2.5 weeks worth of the children's creations. These are the finished works, worth keeping, not the drafts or errors. I separated them by child and placed them in art folders. I have one for each child for last year, one for each for this year, and this helped me remove some of the hanging artwork, put it in folders and replace it with newer art.

The three pictures below are my own paperwork, bills, magazines dealt with yesterday and today and ready for recycling, as well as some of the kids' draft artwork or first thoughts, that they don't want to keep. All to paper recycling.

Odds and Ends

• Some worn out clothing (to the Orange bin).

• Some tchotckes from the kids to the garbage.

• And a broken timer to the Orange bin as well (love that Orange bin).

My comfy jacket

My favorite comfy jacket has to go:-(.

The threadbare sleeves are at the point where hey are too embarrassing to even wear at home.

To the orange bin.

Donation and recycling

And herewith I stop counting. Because, does a pair of shoes count as a single object? The bag that I pack them in? Socks? What about a pair of tape rolls? I'm going to try to go back to getting rid of approximately an object a day and I will feel better about it.

• Here you see two rolls of a specific type of tape that we don't like. Bought when we painted the apartment, we didn't like them then and wound up actually using a different type of tape. The spouse put them outside our building door with a "Zu Verschenken" sign while dropping the garbage in the basement and they were gone before he left the cellar.
  

These all went to the Orange Bin.








These were donated in the clothing donation boxes.

Here's another bag of foam letters. Also "Zu Verschenken", although it took a few hours.

And here's a broken suitcase that went to the recycling hof.

Trolley and Telephone

This numbering system isn't really working for me. So now I find a bunch of photos that I haven't posted, but they would be numerically incorrect if I posted them where they belong. I'll have to consider what to do about that. So, this would be 63,64, 65? A broken child's suitcase/trolley, a broken handy and the concomitant attachments. These went to the recycling hof, where the usual folks took the electronics (I assume to refurbish and resell).

Broken Umbrella62

How annoying- this umbrella was a favor at a party I was at last month, I pulled it out for the first time, and it was defective. wasn't certain if it was recyclable, so in the garbage it went.