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edenfallingI defeated a housecleaning project this evening!
the regrettable pile of junk
I have, for a long time, been in the habit of saving boxes and packing materials, in case I needed them to wrap and/or mail gifts. The thing is, I don't exchange gifts with a lot of people, and in most of those cases I do my giving in person. The sheer amount of stuff I'd collected over the years was therefore somewhat ridiculous.
It was also very badly organized, and not what I wanted as the first thing guests see when they walk through my front door.
So I did something about it.
the now-tidy corner, yay!
the neatly organized packing materials (plus my air mattress and some linens)
The salvageable tissue paper is now folded neatly in the red bag (along with some smaller gift bags, and a bag of large bows). The large box to the right on the bottom shelf contains bubble wrap, and my box of ribbons, small bows, and labels. The two boxes beside it, one of which is hidden behind the blue sliding doors, are just boxes of boxes, because I couldn't make myself throw them all out. (Someday!) But I did get rid of about half the boxes, and all the non-pretty packing materials, the majority of which got broken down, folded, and squashed into the white box shown below.
box full of stuff to recycle
The styrofoam wrap is in my kitchen wastebasket, and a couple of the largest boxes simply got folded flat and stuck directly into one of the shared recycling bins on the front porch.
The box of Christmas ornaments didn't fit into the closet, so it's sitting under an endtable in my living room until I get around to organizing the boxes of junk under my coffee table. One cannot do everything in a day, after all. :D
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the regrettable pile of junk
I have, for a long time, been in the habit of saving boxes and packing materials, in case I needed them to wrap and/or mail gifts. The thing is, I don't exchange gifts with a lot of people, and in most of those cases I do my giving in person. The sheer amount of stuff I'd collected over the years was therefore somewhat ridiculous.
It was also very badly organized, and not what I wanted as the first thing guests see when they walk through my front door.
So I did something about it.
the now-tidy corner, yay!
the neatly organized packing materials (plus my air mattress and some linens)
The salvageable tissue paper is now folded neatly in the red bag (along with some smaller gift bags, and a bag of large bows). The large box to the right on the bottom shelf contains bubble wrap, and my box of ribbons, small bows, and labels. The two boxes beside it, one of which is hidden behind the blue sliding doors, are just boxes of boxes, because I couldn't make myself throw them all out. (Someday!) But I did get rid of about half the boxes, and all the non-pretty packing materials, the majority of which got broken down, folded, and squashed into the white box shown below.
box full of stuff to recycle
The styrofoam wrap is in my kitchen wastebasket, and a couple of the largest boxes simply got folded flat and stuck directly into one of the shared recycling bins on the front porch.
The box of Christmas ornaments didn't fit into the closet, so it's sitting under an endtable in my living room until I get around to organizing the boxes of junk under my coffee table. One cannot do everything in a day, after all. :D
(link to original post, in case Tumblr breaks the embedded images)
