Sunday 7

[neadods]

I've been winding this down with only the basement yet to go through and no energy to deal with it, and yet I found plenty of things to toss this week, and I mostly do mean toss:

1) My grandfather's extension cords. They were given to me when I set up house, but I looked at them when M pulled out the tree and thought "I'd never plug those in; they went out of code 50 years ago." Into the trash with them.

2) Lots of old makeup. I know you're not supposed to keep it, but I was out of sheer stubbornness for the price paid for it. However, it looks like it's all going to be replaced with mineral makeup anyway.

3) Tangled snarls of yarn. I was keeping them to disentangle someday... why?

On the Freecycle side, there were:

4-5) Two of those recipe books where you put index cards in slots. I've been using a regular 3-ring binder so I can rip articles right out of Fine Cooking and put them in.

6) A china serving dish - a long rectangle with four compartments that I haven't found a single use for since I picked it up at a yard sale two years ago.

That's one short, but not bad for a week where I haven't even been trying.

Comments

[lagilman]

I thought of your Sunday 7 yesterday, when I was having a fit of "not me" and getting rid of things I've been carrying now for (counts back) 3 moves, for reasons sentimental or pragmatic, and yet never actually used.

Mostly they were gifts given by people who didn't have a clue what I liked... but some of them were things I picked up and thought "I could use this" and then never really did.

(fortunately, I had friends over who tended to go "OMG, you're getting rid of that?" every so often, and so I was able to regift rather than toss, which eased the guilt a little)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I was able to regift rather than toss, which eased the guilt a little

The HUGEST challenge in the whole thing for me hasn't been picking what stays or goes. It's been forgiving myself for having it in the first place, or for having outgrown/grown disinterested in it. And that has been a hard, hard thing to do.

[moropus.livejournal.com]

I've been keeping a big box in the junk room to toss stuff in to take to charity. I have changed my mind a few times, but hoarding is genetic in my family. Do you have that in your family or are you just cursed out of no where?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It runs in the family. Oh, the stuff we had to take out of my grandfather's house...

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

Bravo for getting rid of fire hazard extension cords.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Love the icon!

The extension cords were things I never thought about one way or the other - they were just *there* - until I needed a cord, looked at them, and thought "no way!"

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) It's from my recent batch of macros- definitely the most popular of the lot.
Been accused of spoilers with it a time or two, until I point out that series 3 is generally considered fair game and that's from in the actual episode, not even the preview.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I find myself getting particularly snippy with what I feel are oversensitive spoilerphobes. If it was in "next week on," it's fair game, IMO.