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cleaning, cleaning, cleaning
Slowly, I am trying to get rid of all the annoying clutter and crap that makes me cringe when I see it.
First it was the assortment of no less than 10 bottles of shampoo in the shower ridge (Mom kept buying them when they were on sale), then it was the cat food area--I poured 8 open sacks of cat food into a large tub, tucked all Ki's treats in there as well, and got rid of the large box that had everything randomly tossed in it. Then I cleaned out my closet of pretty much everything so I could put my 5 CD changer boom box in there (I've always wanted my closet to play music, hehe).
Now, it was time to clean out under my bed. Before, there was barely room for a cat. Now...I think I can hide at least three bodies. I got rid of 2 wooden VHS tape holders and 1 cassette holder, three boxes of notebooks (one box had story snippets that I had written one a day for almost 3 years--those I tucked away (neatly) into a drawer by my computer), a huge stack of magazines that I was holding onto for Jeff (since he left and had already looked at them, don't need any more), a few boxes of 3x4 paper (are out of the boxes and neatly by my printer), some old crappy books, a few coin holders (yay money), a HS yearbook double (oops), a few three ring binders of newspaper clippings (one full of stuff making fun of Clinton that I did in the years before teh internets). And I think a few more random WTF things.
I vacuumed up several spiders, cobwebs, cat litter pellets, bugs, etc.
Now, all I have under there are my 5 notebooks containing my coin collections, a spindle of new DVD-Rs, 2 empty small binders that I will be using one of for NaNo, 2 photo albums and a box of lose photos, and....that is it :D
Took three hours, but makes me happy.
Next up...um...I really need to get rid of my old computer. Then I would have a nice little nook to put other stuff. Anyone have any idea how I can get rid of it? I am assuming the garbage not work. I hope it still works so I can delete a ton of crap off of it.
After that, there is a hall closet that has a few of my boxes in it that I don't want. Would love to be able to get that out of there, even though I rarely use that closet so the mess isn't OMG LOOKING AT ME EVERY DAY!!!111
Just wish I could get Mom to want to clean out some of her clutter :-/
First it was the assortment of no less than 10 bottles of shampoo in the shower ridge (Mom kept buying them when they were on sale), then it was the cat food area--I poured 8 open sacks of cat food into a large tub, tucked all Ki's treats in there as well, and got rid of the large box that had everything randomly tossed in it. Then I cleaned out my closet of pretty much everything so I could put my 5 CD changer boom box in there (I've always wanted my closet to play music, hehe).
Now, it was time to clean out under my bed. Before, there was barely room for a cat. Now...I think I can hide at least three bodies. I got rid of 2 wooden VHS tape holders and 1 cassette holder, three boxes of notebooks (one box had story snippets that I had written one a day for almost 3 years--those I tucked away (neatly) into a drawer by my computer), a huge stack of magazines that I was holding onto for Jeff (since he left and had already looked at them, don't need any more), a few boxes of 3x4 paper (are out of the boxes and neatly by my printer), some old crappy books, a few coin holders (yay money), a HS yearbook double (oops), a few three ring binders of newspaper clippings (one full of stuff making fun of Clinton that I did in the years before teh internets). And I think a few more random WTF things.
I vacuumed up several spiders, cobwebs, cat litter pellets, bugs, etc.
Now, all I have under there are my 5 notebooks containing my coin collections, a spindle of new DVD-Rs, 2 empty small binders that I will be using one of for NaNo, 2 photo albums and a box of lose photos, and....that is it :D
Took three hours, but makes me happy.
Next up...um...I really need to get rid of my old computer. Then I would have a nice little nook to put other stuff. Anyone have any idea how I can get rid of it? I am assuming the garbage not work. I hope it still works so I can delete a ton of crap off of it.
After that, there is a hall closet that has a few of my boxes in it that I don't want. Would love to be able to get that out of there, even though I rarely use that closet so the mess isn't OMG LOOKING AT ME EVERY DAY!!!111
Just wish I could get Mom to want to clean out some of her clutter :-/
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There are no doubt a number of places that will take old electronics for safe disposal (ask your librarian!) but if it still works, even barely, you might also want to consider either finding a charity that refurbishes them and gives them to the needy or something (I think it's called Free Geeks in Portland, for example), or steampunking it. I've still got my old laptop at my parents' house (which I'm on now) so I have my own box there, but also because I'd like to mod it. We'll see if that ever really happens, but it's a neat idea.
Anyway, yay on cleaning. I think you've just inspired me!
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Might call up a few electronic stores and see what's up.
And, changing subjects: Would you be interested in a write-in/sleepover at The Matrix to welcome the start of NaNo? I would love to get together with a group and do a countdown to midnight, then write for a few hours. Holly is all for it :D (Rick, not so much lol)
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Goodwill takes elec. recycles
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We pass by that Goodwill a few times a month, so that is good.
Re: Goodwill takes elec. recycles
I think what we've taken in were old monitors, cases, motherboards, video and sound cards, etc. We're a bit of recyclers, ourselves.