Black wheelie was emptied today. A couple big bags of shredded paper gone in recycling bin too. I feel a bit guilty about sending stuff to landfill but I'm thinking in the very long term planetary scheme of things junk is junk whether it's in landfill or in the house. Once I've got rid of the junk, the responsible thing to do will be to not accumulate any more junk Actually, I'm pretty sure most of my stuff will go to a power generator incinerator so I'll be heating some London homes with my junk - what a hero!
I have two very full black sacks going out tomorrow. Our nextdoor neighbours have seen us putting out an unusually large amount of rubbish every week for the past few months. It used to be about half a sack every fortnight or three weeks. Now it's two or more sacks crammed full every week. Also getting rid of two large sacks of recycling and a wheelie bin of garden waste. The house still seems to be awash with stuff.
Been back in the loft this afternoon. I'm sure someone keeps adding to the contents when I'm not looking. Even found two old mousetraps (minus mice, thankfully) - a reminder of the problem we had when we first moved in. Not had mice for years now. I'm taking the traps with me, just in case!! Packed the remaining pictures this morning, including several that my wife has yet to see!! Fond memories of Carisbrooke Castle!!
Back to paper shredding now that bin is empty. Still on bank stuff. Utilities next. Manuals for things I no longer have are an easy dump option. Still finding it really hard to dump cards. I wish people wouldn't send me them! I've decided a way of easing myself in, is to dump all the ones that haven't got a personal message. Love X doesn't mean much years on. Even lots of love X
I also find it hard to dump cards! I’ve taken to cutting the fronts off the prettier ones, easier to dump the others, and the sides with the messages on. I then use the pictures as bookmarks or coasters, and I also have several strategically parked around the house with upturned glass tumblers on, ready for rounding up unwelcome spiders!
When we started going out, I began "writings" for my girl, which I stopped five years later, a few weeks before we got married. She did the same for me. Both of us were away from the country for periods of time, and we added pictures, newspaper cuttings, "Love is" cartoons, Snoopy cartoons, and much more. Then exchanged them when possible. Now, MANY years later, neither of us can yet bear to part with them. Several lever arch files contain these, but what to do? They weigh a ton!! I'm just too sentimental, and we both accept that when one of us dies, these will be a source of happy memories. Cards have mostly gone - but with regret. We just cannot keep everything. Maybe I should get scanning.
We decided that once you keep something for a length of time it becomes nostalgia, now we put Christmas and birthday cards in the compost bin straight after the occasion. At least they’re going back on the land. I never shred papers, they go on the compost heap as well and are best scrunched into balls.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
It's quite liberating and addictive , I'm finding. Who knows - in a few years I might be minimalist😉 PS found an old photo of my husband. I'd forgotten he was quite good looking one time.
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I feel a bit guilty about sending stuff to landfill but I'm thinking in the very long term planetary scheme of things junk is junk whether it's in landfill or in the house. Once I've got rid of the junk, the responsible thing to do will be to not accumulate any more junk
Actually, I'm pretty sure most of my stuff will go to a power generator incinerator so I'll be heating some London homes with my junk - what a hero!
Also getting rid of two large sacks of recycling and a wheelie bin of garden waste. The house still seems to be awash with stuff.
Not had mice for years now. I'm taking the traps with me, just in case!!
Packed the remaining pictures this morning, including several that my wife has yet to see!! Fond memories of Carisbrooke Castle!!
Still finding it really hard to dump cards. I wish people wouldn't send me them!
I've decided a way of easing myself in, is to dump all the ones that haven't got a personal message. Love X doesn't mean much years on. Even lots of love X
She did the same for me.
Both of us were away from the country for periods of time, and we added pictures, newspaper cuttings, "Love is" cartoons, Snoopy cartoons, and much more. Then exchanged them when possible.
Now, MANY years later, neither of us can yet bear to part with them. Several lever arch files contain these, but what to do? They weigh a ton!!
I'm just too sentimental, and we both accept that when one of us dies, these will be a source of happy memories.
Cards have mostly gone - but with regret. We just cannot keep everything.
Maybe I should get scanning.
I never shred papers, they go on the compost heap as well and are best scrunched into balls.
Who knows - in a few years I might be minimalist😉
PS found an old photo of my husband. I'd forgotten he was quite good looking one time.