Friday is trash day in this part of town. Three separate trucks come around. One for garbage, one for recyclables, one for compostable yard waste (this one doesn't come from Dec. -- March).
Here's our recycling for today.
Regular stuff, like plastic milk bottles.
Then the basement stuff, like DH's college notes (mine went at least one move ago, maybe two), and old metal junk, like the Christmas-tree holder that is so shallow it only holds about a cup of water and you have to refill it every hour on the hour, and the aluminum jam-making thingie, which got all ... bloomy, the way aluminum does in a humid environment (it was in the root cellar).......
It's cold this morning, and the windows in the study don't fit very well. Hence the frost on the window..........
It would be interesting to know how many cubic feet of junk we've removed, and how many tons......... Those college notes are heavy......
We could graph it, with colored pencils............
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I need someone to come help me go through all that kind of "stuff". I found my advocacy paper from 1st year law school -- how embarrassing -- and, why is it still here? I'll bet it feels great to have all that stuff leaving the house.
I think some of all this stuff accumulates because it's easier at the time to keep it than to decide it can go.
Way too easy to accumulate piles of ancient useless stuff..........
I try to see what's going out without thinking of how (VERY) much more is still down there, but I'm not very successful.
I'd much rather go read a novel (or sit here at the computer, editing my pictures!) than (eeuwh!) go clean out the basement!
At least I am doing so much better about not accumulating (though I did pick up two National Geographics off the freebie rack at the library yesterday....).
I am trying very hard, with all the paperwork stuff, to touch it only once. I go through the mail right over the recycle bag, so all the junk goes straight in.....
I stopped our subscription to Nat Geo, and it's much easier for me to go through, rip out the few pages I want for collage, and get rid of the rest (I usually take them back to the library for the next collage person!), than when I have a subscription. When I've paid for it, I feel much more obligated to read all the articles..... So they pile up faster...........
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