Woo adulting
Jul. 22nd, 2015 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelSo a Supportive Church Friend came over today for a few hours to help me sort through boxes-n-bags-n-shit that have been sitting for a long time in what I call the hall closet. (It's not really a closet, no doors or anything, but too big to be called an alcove; it used to contain a side-by-side washer and dryer, which gives some idea of the width and depth. The originally-furnished w/d got taken out by the apartment management some years back and at the time I opted not to replace, but the hookups are still there. Current plan is to get, or at least rent, a stackable w/d and put open-backed shelving in the other half to store large tubs of whatever needs storing, but I needed to get the area uncluttered before any of that could happen.)
We went from Closet Stuffed Full Of Who Knows What to: a tall garbage bag worth of stuff to throw away; some stuff to be donated, which SCF took over to SPCA's thrift store; two tall boxes of yarn and knitting paraphernalia, some of which had me going "oh is that where that went"; a zippered bag (the sort that comforters or sheet sets come in) of cross-stitch supplies; a box of beading supplies, although I'm pretty sure I have more of that *somewhere*; and an unsorted box of books.
Yay progress!
Next step is to sort through books to open up bookshelf space. Step after that, sort yarny stuff into a) tools and gadgets, b) wips I might ever finish, c) yarn I love, d) yarn I don't love, and e) yarn I can't decide about. c will be kept, d donated (possibly in part to SCF who has very recently started knitting and is adorably enthused about things like fun fur and lb homespun), and e dithered about but probably donated.
I also need to figure out what I'm doing with the beading stuff -- logic says rehome it, emotions say keep it, and there's some good quality stuff in there that I feel I ought to sell or something...
We went from Closet Stuffed Full Of Who Knows What to: a tall garbage bag worth of stuff to throw away; some stuff to be donated, which SCF took over to SPCA's thrift store; two tall boxes of yarn and knitting paraphernalia, some of which had me going "oh is that where that went"; a zippered bag (the sort that comforters or sheet sets come in) of cross-stitch supplies; a box of beading supplies, although I'm pretty sure I have more of that *somewhere*; and an unsorted box of books.
Yay progress!
Next step is to sort through books to open up bookshelf space. Step after that, sort yarny stuff into a) tools and gadgets, b) wips I might ever finish, c) yarn I love, d) yarn I don't love, and e) yarn I can't decide about. c will be kept, d donated (possibly in part to SCF who has very recently started knitting and is adorably enthused about things like fun fur and lb homespun), and e dithered about but probably donated.
I also need to figure out what I'm doing with the beading stuff -- logic says rehome it, emotions say keep it, and there's some good quality stuff in there that I feel I ought to sell or something...
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Date: 2015-07-23 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-23 12:19 pm (UTC)New knitters are adorable.
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Date: 2015-07-23 05:44 pm (UTC)(I can't judge, I did the same thing, I'm just *amused*)
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Date: 2015-07-23 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-24 12:08 am (UTC)When MyGuy reframed my beading situation from "working jeweler" to "bead collector," I became much more relaxed about keeping the really lovely stuff and passing along the mundane to a community center summer camp.
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Date: 2015-07-24 03:12 am (UTC)Keep on poking at it; it sounds like you've got through quite a bit of it!