I have never been much of a housekeeper, not something I learned when I was growing up. But over the years I have read the articles and listened to the housecleaning gurus and always managed to keep at least a decent house. But being a widow, living alone (KoKo doesn't care) everything has gotten away from me. Now that I am feeling better and the bi-weekly fitness is improving my strength, I will slowly start to clear out the piles and boxes of old papers and "stuff" in the office/library/computer room. Last week the offices of my financial advisors held their annual shredding day so their clients could dispose of old files. I took four full file boxes and hardly made a dent in my piles.
Almost cleaned out one end of the room. I did not go through the files. I haven't looked at those papers in decades, nothing there I need. These empty boxes are available to fill with all the papers in the two four-drawer filing cabinets. Those I will need to sort through the papers - groan.
And then there are the three bookcases crammed with books I have already read, photo albums of guild events and pictures of quilts, and a lot of doodads and whatnots from years gone by.
I'm going to work at this when I have the energy and the will power. I'll let you know when I have accomplished this goal. Probably by the holiday season!!
And I will need someone to carry the boxes to the car. Those four boxes nearly killed me. Good that the shredders unloaded them at the site.
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4 comments:
Good for you Del! This is something that so many of us put off. I'm determined to get some done too. In fact, yesterday I did my walk in closet. You can actually see the floor now and I have four bags ready to donate to our senior center shop. The paperwork is the worst though and I have boxes and piles of that too.
We have local shred days but not very often. I guess we need a Matt Paxton and team to go thru our treasures. Since I had to clean out my parents house (took me a year, and I was 12 years younger then) I have been diligent about keeping my house clutter free. But then I have a bit of ODC about clutter.
I use my office chair on wheels to push my boxes to the car. Then if you use a walker to get to the store door some one will help you unload. Old lady tactics!
My move to Tucson, where I had to pay for every pound the moving van took, got me to get rid of old files, photos I didn't want, books I'll never read again, fabric I won't use, etc. I took awhile but felt good to be done. But since you're not moving, you have some time.
Boy, is this something I need to do! Even moving four years ago, and not knowing where to put everything hasn't motivated me yet.
I collected a couple of book series, but I'm not going to read them again! There are too many new things to read! That might be a good start.
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