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Saturday: decluttering
Aug. 29th, 2020 09:07 pmM. came for a visit, but it was pouring so we did not walk.
In the evening, when it cleared up, I did the 3 mile loop by myself, while chatting first with my sister, then with R. on the phone.
I did more trip laundry: sheets and towels, mostly. This was revelatory. The king sheet set had completely dead elastic. I asked my sister what it was like making up the bed (she and B. had used the king bed). She said it felt crunchy at first, and she worried it would not stay on, but it did — but she would not want to trust that fitted sheet a second time. She had not mentioned it to me, and I had not noticed it when I stripped the bed. If I had not been folding the sheets, I might not have realized they were Done.
There were other sheet sets in the same closet with related issues, and sheet sets with no fitted sheet (because they had torn after becoming threadbare) that R. hoped to match up with other flat sheets and elastics and whatever. He is finally willing to let them go. I wanted to make it possible to _find_ a blanket or a replacement set of sheets easily, as well as store the new vacuum cleaner when it arrives on Monday. All the throws are now collected in one bin. The blankets are on an easily accessible shelf! In the course of moving some other things out of that closet (bathroom related items moved to bathroom storage, for example, but that meant towels moved from the bathroom to a different bathroom’s closet), I realized that we had three sets of bath towels for two bathrooms. Again. This keeps happening. *sigh* We buy new things that replace older things and then do not get rid of the older things! Then you cannot find anything. I pulled all the brown towels out and was going to donate them, but when I mentioned what I had done today to my sister, she asked for the brown towels — she was going to go out and buy some tomorrow. I cannot get them there that quick, but I can ship them on Monday. I will also send her the Agent Perry throw blanket, because they are all Phineas and Ferb fans.
That particular closet — the one at the top of the stairs — is _very_ prone to getting out of hand. It is super awesome to get through so much of the things that were _not_ useful and _were_ getting in the way.
ETA: I also took T. to martial arts. R. went to Costco and bought a Shark stick vacuum. That is pretty awesome! The pink straw hat that K. gave to A. a few years ago (maybe 2017?) on our last trip to Seattle does not fit any more but A. still liked it, so we took down the hand print jigsaw puzzle from kindergarten that I framed ... years ago and put the hat up instead. I pulled the puzzle and poem out of the frame, trimmed them down and put them in a page protector and into one of the scrapbook albums. Frame went back to the basement.
In the evening, when it cleared up, I did the 3 mile loop by myself, while chatting first with my sister, then with R. on the phone.
I did more trip laundry: sheets and towels, mostly. This was revelatory. The king sheet set had completely dead elastic. I asked my sister what it was like making up the bed (she and B. had used the king bed). She said it felt crunchy at first, and she worried it would not stay on, but it did — but she would not want to trust that fitted sheet a second time. She had not mentioned it to me, and I had not noticed it when I stripped the bed. If I had not been folding the sheets, I might not have realized they were Done.
There were other sheet sets in the same closet with related issues, and sheet sets with no fitted sheet (because they had torn after becoming threadbare) that R. hoped to match up with other flat sheets and elastics and whatever. He is finally willing to let them go. I wanted to make it possible to _find_ a blanket or a replacement set of sheets easily, as well as store the new vacuum cleaner when it arrives on Monday. All the throws are now collected in one bin. The blankets are on an easily accessible shelf! In the course of moving some other things out of that closet (bathroom related items moved to bathroom storage, for example, but that meant towels moved from the bathroom to a different bathroom’s closet), I realized that we had three sets of bath towels for two bathrooms. Again. This keeps happening. *sigh* We buy new things that replace older things and then do not get rid of the older things! Then you cannot find anything. I pulled all the brown towels out and was going to donate them, but when I mentioned what I had done today to my sister, she asked for the brown towels — she was going to go out and buy some tomorrow. I cannot get them there that quick, but I can ship them on Monday. I will also send her the Agent Perry throw blanket, because they are all Phineas and Ferb fans.
That particular closet — the one at the top of the stairs — is _very_ prone to getting out of hand. It is super awesome to get through so much of the things that were _not_ useful and _were_ getting in the way.
ETA: I also took T. to martial arts. R. went to Costco and bought a Shark stick vacuum. That is pretty awesome! The pink straw hat that K. gave to A. a few years ago (maybe 2017?) on our last trip to Seattle does not fit any more but A. still liked it, so we took down the hand print jigsaw puzzle from kindergarten that I framed ... years ago and put the hat up instead. I pulled the puzzle and poem out of the frame, trimmed them down and put them in a page protector and into one of the scrapbook albums. Frame went back to the basement.