DCOTD: Backlog

So! What did I declutter since Sunday?

• More envelopes.
• Empty cellophane tape dispensers. For some reason, I put them back in the drawer when they're empty. Maybe I'm under the delusion that I'll be environmentally conscious and buy refills. Not so much. So they're outta here.
• Dead frying oil. 
• Multiple bags of sunflower seeds, each with a bitty bit left in them.
• A whole lot of email.

A quick peer into the trash cans, and I think that's it.

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DCOTD: Mail

Today's declutter was the obvious trash from the Recent Mail Stack. A half-trashcan of envelopes and brochures, recycled.

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Answers: So where the heck did I go?

I'm not altogether sure why, but I seem to be taking a week's vacation from DCOTD. Maybe it's because I created another blog and my brain needs to work on being split one more way? Maybe it's solar flares?

Anyway, I plan to be back on, um, Sunday. Yeah, Sunday. On Sunday I'll throw stuff out and write about it.

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DCOTD: The mess?

There was no perceptible decluttering this weekend. However, there was cleaning, sweeping, rearranging, dishwashing, and the washing of many loads of laundry. So I'm declaring success on the spirit of the thing, if not the letter.

Hey! Wait! Dead candy from last Christmas got tossed! And mail got recycled! Ta da!

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DCOTD: ToDos that I no longer care to do

I use an application called OmniFocus to keep all of my ToDos and projects and tasks and such. It's been accumulating the usual dusty excess that ToDo lists accumulate, so yesterday and today I did a cleanout and a complete reorganization from scratch, and deleted all the "I really oughta do..." tasks that I'm not really going to do. I feel all spring-cleany.

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DCOTD: The Format

I liked the whole Target/Casualties format when I started. I no longer like it. So away it goes. Foom!

But I still like pictures.

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DCOTD: Still More Leftovers

A repeat of yesterday. Leftover eviction, refrigerator cleansing.

Should it worry me that that picture is making me hungry?

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DCOTD: Leftovers

With the tree gone, I declared that it was time to clear up the remaining holiday food.

Target: Fridge

Casualties:

• Scalloped potatoes of advanced age.
• Poultry remains.
• Expired cheese.
• Limp parsely and other greenery.
• Etc.,
• Etc.,
• and Etc.

Dead Food: Trashed!

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DCOTD:

Sunday there was much tidying, including the eviction of a very large population of glass bottles that had been hanging around for weeks.

Target: General tidying

Casualties:

• Wine bottles, ginger beer bottles, beer beer bottles, Coke bottles, root beer bottles. Glassfest!

Bottles: Recycled!

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DCOTD: Tidying away the tree

The tree went away today, and all the ornaments into their tidy little boxes. It's sad, but there's more space in the living room.

Target: The Christmas decorations.

Casualties:

• Old tissue, broken ornaments, bent hangers, saved wrapping paper, etc., etc.

Christmas scraps: Trashed! (And recycled.)

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DCOTD: Christmas Chaos Again

Christmas isn't cleaned up yet.

Target: Packaging, all over the house.

Casualties:

• A stack of boxes and the packaging material (bubble wrap, those puffy things, etc.) in them. Flattened and recycled, and the plastic stuff trashed.

Packaging: Recycled! (Well, and trashed.)

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