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Cellar Scribblings
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 15, 2021, 04:19:04 pm ---It's amazing how much stuff you accumulate, even if you're not a hoarder.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 15, 2021, 06:53:57 pm ---Every time I move I swear I'm never going to acquire another possession again. In recent years, I've even been downsizing a bit by selecting things I already own and giving them as gifts (I mean, only sometimes, and only if they're nice and appropriate, etc.). I also prefer gifts for myself that are consumable items.
I've probably told you this story, but when I was about 20 and living in Sun Valley, ID, I had some apartment-house neighbors -- three California guys in their late 20s -- who told me in the morning they were planning to move, and that afternoon threw all their possessions in a VW bug and a motorcycle and off they went. I've always envied that lightweight lifestyle.
Of course, they a) had a furnished apartment and b) were fleeing a bad drug deal. But still.
[Edited to add my age and location so it doesn't sound like this happened last month.]
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I actually have a good system for purging my apartment.
I have two tables that look similar to this.
The top opens and you can use it for storage. I take stuff that I haven't used lately, and put it into the tables. Then I wait a year. If the table has been unopened for the year, then I don't need what's in there, and I get rid of it.
brianr:
I, with great care, use bleach in the toilet bowl but would never use it anywhere else. It can be very dangerous.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 16, 2021, 11:59:55 pm ---The top opens and you can use it for storage. I take stuff that I haven't used lately, and put it into the tables. Then
I wait a year. If the table has been unopened for the year, then I don't need what's in there, and I get rid of it.
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I've heard of that technique. I actually have it happening in an informal way all over my house -- plastic bins in closets and under beds, a filing cabinet, basement storage spaces filled with stuff ... A lot of it is in the form of memorabilia from my kids' childhoods or things inherited from my grandmother (table cloths, dishes, etc. -- I did, as I said, sell the silver). The only thing I use regularly are Christmas and Halloween decorations.
I did, however, pare half a closet full of photos down to four shoe-box size boxes -- except they're cute colorful ones purchased from Amazon -- and a couple of larger colorful ones, also from Amazon, for 8X11s and other bigger things. It meant going through each photo one at a time, sorting them very roughly by when they were taken, setting aside duplicates, etc. So that was a major accomplishment!
The rough time-period categories are: before kids, when the kids were babies, and when the kids were in elementary school. Then they abruptly cut off. Bet you can figure out why.
CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!
Back to cleaning. Time to get the floors mopped.
--- Quote from: brianr on March 17, 2021, 12:10:41 am ---I, with great care, use bleach in the toilet bowl but would never use it anywhere else. It can be very dangerous.
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Hello Brian. I was using the term "bleached" in a generic way. I was using a spray cleaner produced by Clorox, a company that is known for making bleach. The spray cleaner is a combination of a cleaning agent, with some bleach added.
So I wasn't actually using pure bleach on anything.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 17, 2021, 11:14:43 am ---Hello Brian. I was using the term "bleached" in a generic way. I was using a spray cleaner produced by Clorox, a company that is known for making bleach. The spray cleaner is a combination of a cleaning agent, with some bleach added.
So I wasn't actually using pure bleach on anything.
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I've been using Clorox Clean-up for all my household needs for years. That's what I've been using to wipe down my door handle for a year now.
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