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Recently In Decluttering
Mar. 4th, 2022 08:22 amI’ve been decluttering.
This morning’s activity involved a cup that contains a lot of random plastic cards. There was an Applebee’s gift card from … a long time ago, that the Applebee’s gift card customer service line recognized as valid, but was not in its system. I figure that’s a sign that I should just toss that, as we basically never go there any more anyway.
I also found a Visa debit gift card, and tried to get the balance, however, phone and website customer service say that the 3 digit code I entered off the back is the wrong one. I’ll hand that off to T., suggest he have a restaurant attempt to use it or, if he isn’t interested, to just throw it away.
I also threw away numerous other cards, mostly rewards card where the reward card information is associated with an account that I now only access online / never need to have the card with me, or is for some business I never use any more anyway.
This activity seemed like a good idea, because the surface the cup of cards was sitting on had recently (yesterday) been decluttered enough that the cup of cards actually stood out as an action item. Ha! Yesterday’s decluttering of this surface involved a lot of other surfaces around the house. I was doing a global recharge station revision. I had charging stations set up next to my chair in the living room, 2 in my office, and a very minimalist one next to my chair in the bedroom. Now, I have one in the office, the minimalist one next to my chair in the bedroom, and the one next to my chair in the living room involves a lot fewer charge points and fewer cords. I did wind up setting up a different charging location for one device (not mine!) elsewhere in the living room. This is definitely NOT the very best configuration, however, it is a substantial improvement for me. Also, R. saw some of the No Longer In Use blocks and grabbed one for his charging station on the 3rd floor, to improve his setup there. So. Yay!
Along with the office revision of charging stations, I moved the recently acquired FB Portal Go from my desk, where it was really interfering with using the desk, over to the charging station. I’m still working on the angle, but it’s now high enough to sit comfortable in front of it in a chair. ALSO! The background over there is a little better — Disney Castle and so forth.
In Virtual Decluttering: I’ve been deleting photos on my iPad. While I was doing that, I realized that I had never ordered a yearbook for my son. Ooops! So I have now done that.
Unrelated to decluttering: I built the Vintage Taxi promo. It’s super cute, and now lives next to the Lego Boutique Hotel and Lego Police Station — they are all Of a Decade and go together quite explicitly.
I also started Monkie Kid City of Lanterns. This is the first Monkie Kid set I have done.
Also Unrelated to Decluttering: I did a bunch of online shopping. I’ve been doing some travel / packing related online shopping recently, but yesterday’s was not that. I ordered some food from Drew’s Stews. I ordered some wine and armagnac from Total Wine (Montinore that we had at Station House, La Crema that I had from Craft Beer Cellar in Westford — altho I got the Russian River and the Willamette, not the Sonoma from the box. Shula’s had the Russian River, IIRC, and it was even better than the Sonoma. Those are super drinkable and not too expensive. I also bought as many bottles of the Domaine Drouhin 2018 as they had — not the Laurene.). I’m still thinking about going over to Colonial to see what kind of armagnac they can get me / have on the shelf. I also ordered chocolate chips, since it is cold so they hopefully won’t arrive melted — that was from the Zon. And I _finally_ was able to order the Carolina mustard BBQ sauce from Pepper Palace! They’ve been sold out for months. I ordered 12 — they charged me for 11 and gave me the 12th gratis. Looking forward to having that again.
This morning’s activity involved a cup that contains a lot of random plastic cards. There was an Applebee’s gift card from … a long time ago, that the Applebee’s gift card customer service line recognized as valid, but was not in its system. I figure that’s a sign that I should just toss that, as we basically never go there any more anyway.
I also found a Visa debit gift card, and tried to get the balance, however, phone and website customer service say that the 3 digit code I entered off the back is the wrong one. I’ll hand that off to T., suggest he have a restaurant attempt to use it or, if he isn’t interested, to just throw it away.
I also threw away numerous other cards, mostly rewards card where the reward card information is associated with an account that I now only access online / never need to have the card with me, or is for some business I never use any more anyway.
This activity seemed like a good idea, because the surface the cup of cards was sitting on had recently (yesterday) been decluttered enough that the cup of cards actually stood out as an action item. Ha! Yesterday’s decluttering of this surface involved a lot of other surfaces around the house. I was doing a global recharge station revision. I had charging stations set up next to my chair in the living room, 2 in my office, and a very minimalist one next to my chair in the bedroom. Now, I have one in the office, the minimalist one next to my chair in the bedroom, and the one next to my chair in the living room involves a lot fewer charge points and fewer cords. I did wind up setting up a different charging location for one device (not mine!) elsewhere in the living room. This is definitely NOT the very best configuration, however, it is a substantial improvement for me. Also, R. saw some of the No Longer In Use blocks and grabbed one for his charging station on the 3rd floor, to improve his setup there. So. Yay!
Along with the office revision of charging stations, I moved the recently acquired FB Portal Go from my desk, where it was really interfering with using the desk, over to the charging station. I’m still working on the angle, but it’s now high enough to sit comfortable in front of it in a chair. ALSO! The background over there is a little better — Disney Castle and so forth.
In Virtual Decluttering: I’ve been deleting photos on my iPad. While I was doing that, I realized that I had never ordered a yearbook for my son. Ooops! So I have now done that.
Unrelated to decluttering: I built the Vintage Taxi promo. It’s super cute, and now lives next to the Lego Boutique Hotel and Lego Police Station — they are all Of a Decade and go together quite explicitly.
I also started Monkie Kid City of Lanterns. This is the first Monkie Kid set I have done.
Also Unrelated to Decluttering: I did a bunch of online shopping. I’ve been doing some travel / packing related online shopping recently, but yesterday’s was not that. I ordered some food from Drew’s Stews. I ordered some wine and armagnac from Total Wine (Montinore that we had at Station House, La Crema that I had from Craft Beer Cellar in Westford — altho I got the Russian River and the Willamette, not the Sonoma from the box. Shula’s had the Russian River, IIRC, and it was even better than the Sonoma. Those are super drinkable and not too expensive. I also bought as many bottles of the Domaine Drouhin 2018 as they had — not the Laurene.). I’m still thinking about going over to Colonial to see what kind of armagnac they can get me / have on the shelf. I also ordered chocolate chips, since it is cold so they hopefully won’t arrive melted — that was from the Zon. And I _finally_ was able to order the Carolina mustard BBQ sauce from Pepper Palace! They’ve been sold out for months. I ordered 12 — they charged me for 11 and gave me the 12th gratis. Looking forward to having that again.