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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2020-12-19 06:07 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2020-12-19 06:07 pm
Today's Keyboard Smash
Did I say "impressive," because that was overly optimistic of me. Cleaning report! I did nothing!
No, really, I didn't get any cleaning done all week. It just wasn't happening. That's okay. I've been going hard for a while now, and this is going to be a long-term project, so the occasional slow week isn't a bad thing.
Part of the issue has been that I'm not sure what to move on to next. I've got a couple possible areas, but there's a lot of jigsaw puzzling--this depends on that, which can't be moved until this other thing, and so on. That sort of quandary is exactly what makes me stall out--choice paralysis.
There's a small set of shelves in storage, currently housing a bunch of nonfiction books of mine, which would probably work great in the kitchen to organize some of the stuff that's stacked about in more precarious ways. So it looks like I'm going to be tackling the house container (as we call sea container one of two) sooner than I expected. I have clear the way to even get to the shelving, and I have to find a place to store the books I decide to keep from it.
To that end, I did just a tiny bit of work today. I went through a couple areas in my book armoire, focusing on comics collections that I've either read or never will and don't feel inclined to keep forever. All books I decide not to keep are getting moved into my travel trailer for safe storage until the local library is accepting donations again.
I also grabbed some boxes of trading cards from the mess in the house container. I've got a lot of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and .hack trading cards. I used to play Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! in high school, so I have enough cards to make actual, functional decks, which means a lot of repeats. I've also got a bunch of booster packs that have been opened and looked at and picked over, but I don't remember what's in them anymore. The thing is, I'm never going to play the games against anyone, so full decks are unnecessary. But damn, do I love those cards. So I want to go through and pick out the ones I want to keep. I'm going to create some themed sets and frame them to hang in my room. Fancy nerdery!
Going over the cards and sorting them into keep and discard piles will be a lovely thing to do on work nights. I've been missing those fifteen-minute sessions in the evening, but there just isn't anything in the house that needs that treatment at the moment. Reopening all those booster packs will also be like giving myself gifts all over again. That's the fun of being a clutter gremlin--all the stuff I forgot I owned makes for nice surprises.
No, really, I didn't get any cleaning done all week. It just wasn't happening. That's okay. I've been going hard for a while now, and this is going to be a long-term project, so the occasional slow week isn't a bad thing.
Part of the issue has been that I'm not sure what to move on to next. I've got a couple possible areas, but there's a lot of jigsaw puzzling--this depends on that, which can't be moved until this other thing, and so on. That sort of quandary is exactly what makes me stall out--choice paralysis.
There's a small set of shelves in storage, currently housing a bunch of nonfiction books of mine, which would probably work great in the kitchen to organize some of the stuff that's stacked about in more precarious ways. So it looks like I'm going to be tackling the house container (as we call sea container one of two) sooner than I expected. I have clear the way to even get to the shelving, and I have to find a place to store the books I decide to keep from it.
To that end, I did just a tiny bit of work today. I went through a couple areas in my book armoire, focusing on comics collections that I've either read or never will and don't feel inclined to keep forever. All books I decide not to keep are getting moved into my travel trailer for safe storage until the local library is accepting donations again.
I also grabbed some boxes of trading cards from the mess in the house container. I've got a lot of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and .hack trading cards. I used to play Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! in high school, so I have enough cards to make actual, functional decks, which means a lot of repeats. I've also got a bunch of booster packs that have been opened and looked at and picked over, but I don't remember what's in them anymore. The thing is, I'm never going to play the games against anyone, so full decks are unnecessary. But damn, do I love those cards. So I want to go through and pick out the ones I want to keep. I'm going to create some themed sets and frame them to hang in my room. Fancy nerdery!
Going over the cards and sorting them into keep and discard piles will be a lovely thing to do on work nights. I've been missing those fifteen-minute sessions in the evening, but there just isn't anything in the house that needs that treatment at the moment. Reopening all those booster packs will also be like giving myself gifts all over again. That's the fun of being a clutter gremlin--all the stuff I forgot I owned makes for nice surprises.