I am glad you found a process that works for you. There is no absolutely one right way to get things done!
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Iām glad youāve found a system that works for you. Thatās freaking awesome.
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This is such critical self-knowledge 
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Bookshelf done! I have had six boxes of books in the basement since we moved to CO in fall 2020. Apparently buying a bookshelf was the motivation I needed to go through them.
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Today I went through a 2 foot pile of paper and recycled about a foot of it, filed a 1/2 foot, and have about 1/2 foot left that needs further perusal.
This was both current paperwork and shove it into a box weāll deal with it after the move paperwork. It was a disaster
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But now itās a much smaller disaster
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I went through my dresser drawers and now I have a whole box of clothes to donate and much neater, organized, easy-to-close drawers with only things I actually wear in them.
And then I helped Son with his room and we got rid of a lot of garbage and now his room is not gross.
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SO and my mom decluttered her linen closet and closet top shelf. He now has 3 black giant garbage bags to donate for animals. And there is still towels and extra sheets left! But so nice to see all the space.
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I have a doc appointment this morning. I had a batch of āsweetā romances that are currently in the potato bag for the dumpās swap table.
I asked last time if the hospital was still taking book donations? (I used to donate paperbacks to 2 different hospitals, one near the flea market where I was permanentlly set up and the other being this one, which is local to the house.) They are. It occurred to me that I could get rid of those sweet romances a day early by putting them in a bag and taking them with meā¦
YAY!
If I still had a lot of romances, Iād donate them to the local āold folksā home, but most of what I have left ISNāT romance but SF and general fiction.
Another winā¦ DH got us to paperless receipts with the electric company. 
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I did a wardrobe cleanout yesterday and my drawers are so much more roomy. Now I have to resist the urge to replace with more clothes. I am really trying to own fewer, nicer clothes. So I will buy new things but only if Iām convinced I will wear them regularly and ideally if they are made of natural fibers.
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When I dealt with this in the past, I changed how I folded and stored the clothes in my drawer, so it felt very museum curated with white space, and I felt way less tempted to fill it.
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Sorted baby clothes and now have a bag to take to one of Wizardās former coworkers who had a baby last month.
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When I went to go pick up our auction loot this morning I thought of it and grabbed the 2 empty boxes I had set aside for the antique store. I was going to bring them home and unpack them (Done) and using these meant that I didnāt bring in uncessarily MORE items. I did need 2 more boxes to pack everything sanely, but that means i added 2 boxes and packing materials instead of 4! So yea meā¦ because I thought of this!
Also, today is a dump day, so the extra boxes could just go away this afternoon. I probably will take them to the antique store too, but maybe not?
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