We spent Easter weekend at home, working on some junk purging around the house - just the two of us. Our basement storage area is organized and uncluttered for a change. And I've added all of the items purged - either trashed or sorted for the rummage sale - onto my declutter spreadsheet. I'm up to 179 items purged.
Each year our community does a city wide clean-up day when people can put large items out on the curb for disposal. For $10 added to our garbage bill, the city will pick up those large items on our designated garbage day. The funny thing is all of the "scavengers" - folks who drive around and pick up things they think they can use. We began putting things out on Saturday afternoon along with one of our neighbors. We had a lot of broken office stuff - old printers, office chairs, shelving units, etc. By Sunday evening nearly everything was already gone that both houses put out. Our designated garbage pick-up day is actually today, and there is almost nothing for the city to collect from us.
A little clean up happened in my sewing room over the weekend too. I really need to do some purging of quilting and craft books again.
One item that kept getting moved from drawer to drawer in my sewing room, and never finished - this snowman themed "thing". This was a UFO from at least 20 years ago that was sandwiched with batting and backing and pin basted. The bag even contained the binding all prepped. It's such cute fabric, but was too wide and too narrow to be useful as either a wall hanging or a table runner - about 30 x 45. What was I thinking? That probably explains why I never finished it. So on Sunday evening I took the seam ripper to this thing, and it's destined to become something useful. Maybe a couple of placemats or something. But it is NOT going to be taking up any more space as is.
I did finish a couple of small quilting projects too.
One of the placemats got its binding. This was another orphan block, and I even had some scraps of the red print so it's big enough for a placemat. There are 10 finished placemats in the donation stack now. And there are more of them in my sewing room ready for binding.
And another doll quilt is finished and ready to wrap around a stuffie. This cowboy boot fabric was the leftover from the pillowcases I made for my great-niece for graduation.
5 comments:
Here in the boonies we have to take our own garbage to the transfer station. There is dumpster pickup but it is pretty expensive!
Wow you are on a roll! that is cool that so many things were picked up. Interested to see what becomes of the snow men!
Wow! Great job on the declutterring. I don’t have a basement, and I am so glad because I’m pretty sure I would fill it with lots of unnecessary stuff! I hope you will give an update on what you do with the snowman runner.
Our town has a spring and fall "trash pickup" - normally we are allowed 2 trash cans and one can of recyclables per week. I'm not sure of quantity for "trash pickup" but I know it can't be more than 2 men can lift. We always put ours out by Sunday for the pickers. And when Tuesday, our trash day, rolls around - there is usually nothing left either.
Sounds like you made really good progress on the decluttering. That has to feel good. I've got back to tackling the attic this week. I took another car full of boxes to the reccycling center. Apparently both My Guy and I suffer from the "well we might need that box". It's amazing what we keep.
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