Just in time for the new year, I have turned some corners.
The dining room table is clutter free apart from a few patterns, and I can now decide what to make next, and
have room to work.
Lots of old/dusty magazines have gone. One of my neighbours might like a year's editions of Landscape magazine. Gradually the house is looking a teensy bit less cluttered. Some paperwork has been seriously edited. The shredder jammed, and I could not unjam it. So confidential papers have been torn up and added to the compost heap. Out of date food in cupboards has been binned.
Does anyone keep paper Bank Statements, or do you just download them and put them on your puter?
I am doing my best not to buy any more wool/fabric/books etc. Some of the needlework items (that I ended up with from elderly relatives) are going to a local hospice shop. They sell that sort of thing, and/or use it in their craft activities. Or people use the materials to make things to sell in their charity shop. AgeUK used to take in old/broken jewellery, so that is another thing to collect up. That is not my broken jewellery/watches etc, again it is things that I got landed with when relatives houses were being cleared.
It helps considerably putting similar things all in one place. I am concentrating on getting rid of large items that are no longer usable, and the things that I thought might be useful one day. I can see that this is going to take a long time. It is extremely boring, and I can only do so much at a time.
