Oh yeah, straight to Goodwill! I just learned that if they can’t use clothes (e.g. too damaged), they recycle the textiles in other ways. Free yourself!
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I’d try it on BN being honest. Some folks (eta in my neighbourhood) will take it hoping there will be stuff to resell, and I figure that they’ve earned any money they get.
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I recently acquired a lot of tea. How do you efficiently store tea in your kitchens?
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I have half of a shelf dedicated to tea canisters and boxes arranged nicely with plenty of space in between. All the extras are in a plastic bin that I can pull out and rifle through when the main section is uninspiring.
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Came here to say there’s nothing like moving for the first time in 10 years to help declutter! Do I want to move this, set it up in a new home, and then move it again once our renovation is done? No. No. No.
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I have a basket of less used teas on the second shelf, and a lot of tea on the first shelf. Once I had a tea drawer. That was beautiful
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We have one tin of caffeinated and one of non-caffeinated that live on the counter by the tea kettle and then a chaotic shelf that is a mess of tins, bags, and boxes that the tins are filled from.
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Ooo, tins sound cute! Maybe I’ll do something like that.
(Thanks to all who responded!)
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Was all set to take the keyboard and stand to the auction person, as we were going to be in their town. Except… I can’t find the (deleted) stand.
Also missing? The table I bought/saved for ? years to be at the end of the new “hall,” that is where the wardrobe had been. I moved the small drawer unit in there, exactly as planned. I know where the one (had 12 at one point) typewriter I saved is. But the table it was going on at the end of the hall? Nope it’s still missing, along with the keyboard stand.
I’ve checked the shelter logic, the wood shed, the shed, the attic, and asst. corners here and there. Still haven’t found either. ARG!
I really don’t mind culling things. I do mind when I have a specific idea in mind and then I can’t do it. Also, I mind when I spend a lot of time organizing something or the other and then still can’t find a related piece I know I had. This hits both buttons.
I’m going to go work in the attic some more. There’s a rug that’s in the way on the edges of the kitchen that needs to be put in the attic, when it’s mostly empty. There’s a trunk of rotten clothes in the far corner of the attic that needs to go to the dump. Near the same corner is a box (or 2? I hope!) of books to return to a consigner. Also, in that same corner is a custom-built table that was my dad’s. If my SIL doesn’t want it and we don’t have a place for it in the old folks’ home here, it’s going to auction.
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Quick trip into the attic. None of the missing things were found, alas.
Pulled out the base for a set of trays, put it with the trays. Put some mustard jars inside a crate to take up less floor space. I keep forgetting how many books I have in the attic. A huge book sale needs to happen at the booth or via auction. There’s just too many!
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Started working on the pile in the living room, again. What’s in the car or waiting to be put in the car: 2 batches of comics, a wooden crate, 2 MA Hadley plates, a foot cubed box with asst. books and an MC Escher poster in it, 2 rolls of packing paper that came in something, the extra meat fork, 4 mugs, the packing pillows that came with something else, 2 books to one friend, a stack of magazines to another, and 2 books for a 3rd, 4 stacking/nesting baskets (replaced them with the 4 stacking/nesting Shaker boxes, which are visually cleaner), etc.
I think I’ve spent an hour doing this? Not long. It helps that the pile I was tackling was mostly things that were already set aside to go away or to be put elsewhere.
The wooden crate sold.
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I had quoted someone a book and two magazines. They didn’t want them, so they’re going to the booth.
Today’s errands, postoffice, antique store, bank, then home.
The post office outs: 3 mailers, ? fanzines and 4 books out. At the antique store, I pulled the unsold merch. and replaced almost all of it with new stuff, books, 2 wine racks, a crate, and books. There was a customer buying a stack of comics (not mine) so I gave him a book which hadn’t sold for $3 about the history of comics. He was pleased and so was I! I also donated 2 boxes and some packing pillows and paper we had hanging around the living room.
I didn’t have room for all the merchandise I took.
I bought 12 linen napkins for $12 and a huge old commercial biscuit tin (like a huge trashcan) from a company in MA, an advertising and probably wholesale shipping container.
I have various 5 gallon buckets in the kitchen. Most are empty now, but I buy food in bulk, right? I have a problem with where to park the produce, etc. when it comes in, before it gets cleaned and sorted and put into its final location, that’s why I have the food-grade buckets.
Like I said, they’re mostly empty. There’s one the stray plastic bags go into, for example… There’s 3 or 4 stacks of the buckets. I’m hoping I can put at least 2 stacks inside the new tin thing and take back some of the kitchen’s footprint!
Something I was tempted by, but did NOT buy: a huge and I do mean huge, stainless steel cook pot, 30 gallons? 50? Dunno, but it is BIG. I was tempted. It was $125, I just can’t justify that much $ for something which would be in the way most of the time. The piece I bought has a lid, so I can move the food grade buckets inside the tin thing to the attic, even when the attic has its usual winter mouse infestation. (We’re going to work on that this summer, and have reduced the mouse population a great deal last winter, but until we do the extra caulking, etc. we’ve planned, I’m figuring whatever goes in the attic gets fouled and chewed by mice, so NO foodstuffs in plastic containers. And no plastic containers, bought to store/sort food, unprotected in the attic. No doubt it will still smell of food and the mice would chew them to bits.
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Today’s outs: ✓bag of food to the local food pantry,
The farm is NOT taking anything on the swap table but food this year. Darn.
So… the loaf pan, a vegetarian cookbook and another book are in my car.
Revised Plan: I’ll put the 2 books in the paper bin to take to the swap shop’s book bin or paper recycling. The loaf pan I’ll have to give away, elsewhere.
An unsalable book was put in the paper recycling bin for the dump.
The loaf pan and a brass candle sniffer were donated.
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2022 decluttered items
- Book
- Sweater
- Sweater
- Yoga mat
- Make up bag
- Another make up bag
- Socks (brand new)
8-33. Maternity clothes
Got $40 for 26 maternity clothes items 
money and more space in the house.
Hoping to sell a few more things or post to BN this week.
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Need to go to the antique store and then the thrift shop today or tomorrow.
I haven’t sold anything at the antique shop since I did the restock on Monday, but I couldn’t get everything I had ready in the booth either. Some of what l pulled will go to the thrift store, along with some pieces from here.
Have added a few things to the thrift shop stack. DH and I talked about long-term supply storage, the maybe new pantry, and what’s next in my office and the attic clean out this morning.
He has an unexpected day off, his customer has the day off, so he does too.
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2 dresses and 3 tops have found a new home.
A pair of jeans have been put in the garbage, and I’ve brought back two pairs that had been in the ‘to donate’ pile. They aren’t things I would buy today, but they should work for ‘walking around town in spring/summer’ situations.
I’m still torn on the blazers. I don’t really wear them, but if I go back to a lifestyle where they’re appropriate, I don’t want to have to find more. But also, the fit is not a modern cut, which can be harder to get away with at my age…
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What’s the likelihood that you’ll need those blazers again, and if you had to go back tomorrow, would you wear all of these happily?
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I’ve been doing some decluttering, with a mix of shifting things around the house in much more sensible ways. Since we have our toaster oven air fryer combo, I am giving away our toaster through BuyNothing. And now I’m using that space to move down our popcorn popper and blender, which will allow me to put meds up in that cupboard, which will allow me to move them to downstairs Where they make a lot more sense. I’ve been trying to do a bunch of that stuff, just to make life more functional. Moving with a toddler and living with a toddler with no childcare means that my organization system has best been described as shoving things. And even when they’re things we want, there’s definitely a long way I can go to optimize stuff.
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I don’t know what the likelihood is that I’d need the blazers. Predicting my feelings in October seems a fool’s errand atm.
The ones I’m most attached to:
green blazer - the fabric is worn, I’d probably be more likely to wear this just out and about than in a work setting. It’s good for meeting up with former colleagues, casual but not giving up. I can’t tell if anyone else notices the fabric is starting to fray.
black corduroy blazer - most edgy cut, makes me feel cool when wearing with jeans
tweed purple blazer - goes with basically everything except loud red florals
grey blazer - I should probably get it altered to fit better around the shoulders, a designer I really like
the ones I struggle with:
blue blazer - always a struggle to match it to anything, because it is close to denim shades, but it fits really well. I thought I had put it in the clothing swap, and then I regretted it, was so happy when I found it again, but still never started wearing it?
orange blazer - I think this is the least modern cut, but it’s the best shade of orange and fits well. Would work well if I was in a more conservative context
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Can you dye the blue blazer to some color you would wear more / fit more with you wardrobe colors?
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