a list of the cleaning\/de-cluttering tasks i’ve undertaken in the last few weeks:
\n– consolidated four boxes of personal filing into one, highly organized plastic file storage box. there is a bag-full of shredding to do, but it’s nice to know everything is in one place.
\n– went though my clothes closet, organizing by colour and clothing type. took a HUGE bag of clothes and plastic hangers to the Salvation Army. also, found at least ten items of clothing i’d totally forgot i owned. it was traumatic, but i definitely like the results. discovered most of my clothes are black.
\n– went through my collection of shoes. just as traumatic as purging clothing, but i managed to find seven pairs to take for donation. i could probably purge another three if i really wanted to, but you can’t make me!
\n– sorted\/organized my desk drawers. i have too many pens and pads of cute paper. it’s a sickness.
\n– emptied, cleaned and organized the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. why i had so many sparkly hair accessories, i’ll never know. discovered perfume is not like wine and does not get better with age.
\n– took keyboard apart and scrubbed each key clean of many years of crud. boyfriend was shocked at the state of it, which says a lot about how gross it was.
\n– sorted the piles of books stashed around the house. set about returning all borrowed tomes because if i haven’t read them yet, i probably won’t any time soon; and, i can always ask to borrow them when i’m ready to. have two books i don’t know the owners of and four more belonging to people i don’t talk to any more. oops.
\n– got ruthless with the various candle-holders and nick-nacks cluttering my shelves. piled them into a whole foods shopping bag and put them in the free stuff section of our building. they were gone within a few days. that’s nice and satisfying.
\n– took all the knobs and dials off the stove top and scrubbed off the grime. seriously, i don’t cook that<\/i> much. how is it my stove can get that disgusting? ew.
\n– decided that owning six polaroid cameras is excessive, so found a new home for one, put another on ebay, am testing a third for keepability to replace the fourth. my two sx-70’s are non-negotiable and will stay with me forever. by this time next week, i’ll be at 50% polaroid capacity. sweet, less to dust!
\n– consolidated all my various stashes of (good) knitting supplies into the awesome red tote bag i got from Dove (post about that sometime soonish, i hope). the hope is that having it all in one handy place will encourage me to actually make progress on my yarn projects.
\n– after a shower from hades, a bathroom with water quite literally dripping off the ceiling prompted me to finally wash the walls as i’ve been threatening to for at least a year. you wouldn’t think walls could get that dirty, but when the exhaust fan makes more noise than moves air, things can get a little swampy in the loo.
\nnext up:
\n– attack the storage closet. no one needs that<\/i> many gift bags or extra keyboards.
\n– get ruthless with the linens. i only have so much space and hardly ever have houseguests. i don’t think i require so many blankets and throw pillows.
\n– socks? don’t talk to me about the crap-load of socks i never wear any more. then there are the ones with all the holes i keep putting off replacing.
\n– find some way to deal with DVDs. there are quite a few and they’re not very pretty, especially now that the living room is getting slicker with the recent chair exchange. there’s got to be a good compromise between access and organization.
\n– the inside of the oven and fridge are gross and need serious attention. after having to clean six years worth of oven yuck when i moved from my last apartment, i promised myself i’d never let an oven go so long without cleaning. well, i’ve been in this place four years so far… oops.
\ngee, think i might have a problem? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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