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Date: 30 March 2004 13:37:34
..including, it seems, the printer ink on my favourite bed sheet. (Don't ask, just don't ask!) Although not the strange bright-blue stain on Smudgelet's bedding which seems as bright and beautfiul as ever. It's the bits of plastic that I particularly hope will come out and not clog up my machine again. I ask you, however did a whole three handfuls of shredded plastic padding material in pink and green manage to find its way into my washbasket... and more to the point, how on earth could I not have noticed it as I put the washing into the machine?
Also emerging from last night's wash, and now merrily drying in the spring sunshine outside, eight PAIRS of my socks; one single larger size school sock, and one tiny sock with a skateboarder doing tricks on the side. Also, a week's worth of undies for me and... well... NO UNDIES WHATSOEVER for boys. Dare I go in that bedroom to investigate?
While the washing was washing, I've also managed to rediscover another huge area of bedroom floor. I've filled another bin bag with things I can throw away (although to my frustration the boys found the binbag of "things not to be thrown away but to have a home found for them" and put all their rubbish in it). My biggest dilemma as far as decluttering is concerned is my conscience. I have so much accumulated junk (of the sort that will definitely come in handy one day) that I haven't room to store it all or even to sort it properly into piles which I can give to the charity shop or carboot. Flylady (yes, that bossy email get-your-life-more-organised website) says to bite the bullet and throw it all away, starting your saving the planet from a position of strength having already got rid of most of it, because otherwise you won't. I know she's right, I won't do it unless I can actually bring myself to bin it all and start again, but somehow I can't reconcile that with my conscience about waste. So instead I just move things from one place to another and get more and more frustrated by it.
Still, seven bin bags in total have already gone to the tip, so I'm doing well! I'll have this place looking habitable if it's the last thing I do...... you can come and visit in 2042 and see if I've achieved it!