Dumpster report

[pegkerr]

The dumpster arrived noon on Friday. It is enormous. Now it is about 1/4 to 1/3 filled. I logged almost 18,000 steps on my pedometer from going up and down the basement stairs.

Kij arrived at about 5:00 yesterday. We worked some on the kitchen cupboards last night, and will be going to the Organized Living store today. I'm glad she's here. I'm finding this quite stressful, as Rob and I have strenuous differences about what's appropriate to keep and what's appropriate to throw away.

Comments

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you're getting good exercise!

Ericka and I have difficulties about what to keep as well. She's has (from my point of view) become a lot better at letting stuff go over the years.

A couple of things I've picked up from the TLC program "Clean Sweep" that may be of use: If one of you claims that something is important but it is in a box, covered in dust, in disrepair, etc., make a deal to keep it if it gets a place of importance in the house and is kept nice (even if that is special storage). For large collections of things (shoes, bags, books, whatever) challenge each other to make a one-for-one or two-for-one sort of which to keep and which to let go.

Good that you've got support for this as well. Hang in there!

[carbonel]

I don't know if you'd find the Usenet newsgroup alt.recovery.clutter useful, but I know that I do.

[vass]

Do I know you? I used to be Katisha on there, until I lost my Usenet access. That was *not* a good decluttering.

[carbonel]

I don't think we overlapped. I just started reading a.r.c a few months ago. I don't post all that much, though I have a few times.

If you have Internet access but not Usenet access, wouldn't Newsguy work? Or if all else fails, DejaGoogle?

[vass]

I use DejaGoo sometimes, but it's a pain. I last looked in there in November last year.