I would expect that your surplus items are all of good quality.
That would be a big assumption! Since I shop mostly at discount stores like Ross AND TJ Maxx. I must admit though, I'm starting to see the attraction of a good-quality capsule wardrobe.
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I also purged some of the extras of the several veggie peelers, extra pizza cutters and metric crap ton of paring knives of varying quality.
Yes, my kitchen has many duplicates because of CMM bringing his kitchen stuff and not wanting the boys to use his stuff. When he finally passes I will be doing some serious purging of utensils in the kitchen. Fortunately I have enough space in my kitchen.
I like the idea of doing a little organizing task everyday. I still have to do my bedroom (which still contains some of the mess from doing the walk-in closet) - that will be my project for next weekend. Then my mom's old bedroom, which was used for Xmas package hiding and my one son is using the closet for his excess stuff, needs to be turned back into a guest bedroom for the guests we might be able to have some day after the pandemic passes. It's also designated to be the sick room if one of us gets Covid.
It is very satisfying to purge things. Since my t-shirt drawer is full, I will need to adopt a one in/one out plan for it. They are all now neatly folded in a Marie Kondo sort of way so I can see what I have. I still have a Randy Rainbow t-shirt arriving that was a Xmas present from one of my sons so I will have to find one to give away.
The big challenge will be the garage, which needs purging as well. I have stuff from all of my kids previous abodes plus one son's ex-girlfriend etc. I've already gotten rid of quite a lot in the past year but it's still too full. A three car garage can be a blessing OR a curse! It also functions as storage for my medical charts and an auxiliary pantry.
I agree that purging is satisfying. For me, when I was going through my divorce, it was extremely cathartic. I moved from our shared marital home to a much smaller duplex and I got rid of a ton of stuff then. I lived in that little place for about a year and a half before I moved home and when I moved here, I moved to a larger house than my duplex, but still not as big as what I had lived in when married, because it was just me and the dog, so no need for a huge house. I purged again then. And, when I moved to Sparky's last fall, I purged even more, but still have a lot I can do.
As far as my organizing every day, I just needed something I could focus on and feel productive about to reset my mind. I am not at all a big primper and I eat breakfast with Sparky before he leaves, so it really only takes me about 10 minutes to get ready, if even that, so I have at least 30 good minutes of time to do something productive. I realized it will quickly become a game, too, in that I will do whatever I'm going to do without mentioning it to Sparky then see how long it takes him to notice. We're just weird like that. LOL
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A month or so ago I got some of those little fabric box dividers for my underwear drawer. that has been a life changer in terms of organizing what was always a sloppy mess. Well worth the $15 or so on Amazon.
And lest anyone get the wrong idea from me name-dropping Marie Kondo, I’m more of a “socks on the floor/ book piles on the nightstand “ kind of person - just aspiring to be a little tidier. (Somehow autocorrect just tried to make me tell you I was aspiring to be a little yogurt lololol).
"I'm a little yogurt, filled with healthy fats, here is my sock drawer, there went the cat
If you want to be healthy, eat some up, in a lahsi, but not with brats"
Hmmm - better not give up the day job.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
Had a long text conversation with my middle son last night. He'd had a short phone conversation with his father and needed to check in with someone who understood how bad he can make you feel, all while appearing so "nice".
The family cat stayed with my ex - it had been this son's cat. The cat is old (17) but not ancient. Ex tells son that he believes the cat is going to die (on her last legs). Son innocently asks if he has taken the cat to the vet and ex replies that he "doesn't trust vets" (he's a doctor and he doesn't trust veterinarians???) and that he'd "felt her for lumps" and was giving her vitamins.
Now - of course feeling for lumps doesn't rule out kidney disease or infection or diabetes or thyroid disease or any number of other treatable ailments that a cat might have as they get older. And he's treating the cat with vitamins after spending years deriding me for using vitamins and supplements in my practice??? Seriously???
And as my son says, he's a well-off doctor, just find ANOTHER vet if you don't like the one you have. I mean, we all realize a 17 year old cat MIGHT be dying of old age, but she equally well might have some treatable condition, one that a VET would know a lot more about than a surgeon!!! Ugh.
Doctors make the absolute worst patients I am sure. Not a huge surprise that "he knows best" about the cat. You hear apocryphal stories all the time about doctors doing their own veterinary work.
An old friend of mine's wife used to be a specialist in doing sex determination surgery on fetuses - not sure if that's still a thing or not. She switched to be a regular OB GYN as she found it too stressful. My friend and I were out at the pub one day and called her to see if she could do a sex change on one of my cats - I had a male and female and didn't want kittens around. She - ahem - asked if we'd been drinking
Stay safe down there. Reports from your part of the world are getting more and more disturbing by the day. You probably have a few weeks yet to go before the post-Christmas surge passes - it undoubtedly has a ways to go before it peaks. They are talking here about shipping patients from the urban areas up here because of a lack of capacity.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
