Stretch goal: remaining crates of kitchen stuff half unpacked in LR: keep, store (Box, garage), give, trash
Stretch goal: office boxes, shelves, books
Stretch goal: plants
Unfucking self goal: massage accomplished! Also this place is great and 5 min away and not busy, def returning.
Note: I feel like the first 6 can be done pretty expeditiously, but anything unpacking related (includes kitchen table which has unpacked but unhoused things) is intimidating
I didn’t get a before but my bathroom has been bothering me for 3 weeks since we moved in. For some reason there was a drywall putty thing on the counter?!?! It’s clean now!
BN crate full of stuff outside. Consistently surprised by the things people take, but grateful. Hoping to drop off some old bedding for migrants (perfectly useable but doesn’t work for me now that I’m so sweaty at night) and a load of clothing at the thrift store. There is still plenty in this house I could BN. Exciting!
Today, at a much slower pace, finished stairs, did more laundry (including soaking some whites in oxi clean… Water was very ew but socks didn’t seem much cleaner? But will see once dry.)
Remaining task is now kitchen table. But this has hidden tasks like reorganizing the wire shelves and the pantry to create useful storage for kitchen table things. Maybe I’ll take a nap first.
I had a storage tote that I threw some stuff into a while back when I was rearranging my desk. And by a while back I mean like 2022 I think. I just cleared all the stuff out of it (it was not even a third full) and it took like fifteen minutes.
Because at some point they’ll start charging you 0.05/bag at the grocery store, so you’ll need to use your stash for kitchen garbage liners. And then they’ll ban single use bags altogether at the grocery store and you’ll look at your dwindling stash and consider that one day soon you’ll need to actually buy garbage bags.
At the beginning of covid the foodbank was asking for people to donate their plastic bags, since their clients could no longer come in with reusable bags.
Sunshine and I were the designated bag ladies. We’d collect, fluff, double, and stack all the grocery bags.
We received SO MANY bags. Zellers, a store that went out of business when J2 was a baby? We got ZELLERS bags even.
We do use these as trash bags (and haven’t actually had to buy trash bags in over two years, between these and paper bags from our weekly takeout – just compost bags and little cat litter baggies). And even so… the pile is huge.
We felt like we could write a dissertation on people’s bag habits by the end. It was a fascinating and unexpected look into how people operate /organize.
Some dropped off big green garbage bags full of bags.
My kids needed community service hours towards their scout awards, and friends kids needed community service hours to graduate. Prepping food bank bags was an excellent socially distant way to get their hours
accomplished! 
Kitchen counters
