Tuesday, Day 2
Watercooler for those who are decluttering this month. Name your project, speak, ask & listen... (17 comments yesterday)
For today, the bedroom closet.
Need to organize all my photos in all these photo (shoe?) boxes. Taking up too much closet space. Too many unused photo frames need to dealt with. After 5 years of living in the townhouse i finally got the place painted this year. feel extremely relunctant to hang all these frames back up on the wall again. may be i have to sell the place sometime early next year. I may use those photo rails instead on some of the walls. Frames are too expensive to freecycle. So I need to find a place to hide them.
Too many travel and vacation souvnirs crowding up shelf spaces. time for some zen living.
de-cluttering it is.
For me, that means finding a good home for things, not filling up a trash bag/landfill.
All the work clothes I hate are on their way down south for hurricane relief, and I'm a little embarrassed that it took a national tragedy to make that happen.
They are all practically (or actually...) new and I have learned my lessons about buying clothes for business reasons.
Guido, great idea! In thinking about this, I don't want to send anything that will be too hot to wear.
Hey, Pixie...
Just wanted to tell you that I know (and know of through friends) a couple of Hurricane Katrina victims, and both of them are, at least temporarily, going to cold climates and are fearing the winter. One is going with her family to Illinois to live with a relative, and another one has been transferred to New York City for work.
Cold-weather clothes may not be bad, although I'm not sure how they are distributing to people who are moving.
Thanks Fiona.
It depends on who is distributing the clothes. My cousin who evacuated out of state has plenty of help, and is overwhelmed by the random offers of help she doesn't need. I think it's a case by case thing. I happen to have alot of newish stuff that I know will play well in the South.
Alot of groups are not even accepting clothes. Community Books in Park Slope is dealing with housewares like sheets and towels for 3 specific shelters they located.
Another group I trust to actually get things to people is the
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. They are accepting CLOTHES (socks and underwear NEW ONLY, shoes and clothes in very good shape only) and HOUSEWARES (air mattresses, sheets, sleeping bags, towels, flashlights, garbage bags etc) and MEDICAL/TOILETRIES (sealed only - analgesics, diapers, etc)
They have drop off points in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, and Harlem including . . .
388 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd Floor (Hoyt/Bond)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718.254.8800
drop offs Mon- Fri 10a - 6p, Sat and Sun noon - 4p
and in Manhattan
Caribbean Cultural Center
408 West 58th St (9/10 Ave)
212 307-7420
drop offs Mon- Fri 10a - 6p
For most people I don't have to say this, but please be sensible about what you donate, and don't dump your junk on disaster victims.
This might be wack but I don't know . . . someone just emailed it to me . . .
http://www.discsfordogs.org/
declutter, declutter, declutter . . .
OK, I meant to de-clutter a bit today, but didn't. Please let me keep my promise tomorrow.
Terry, I meant to declutter today, too, but I got sidetracked, as usual! I actually made a bigger mess in one of my in-need-of-decluttering baskets, searching for a birthday card to give to my niece. *sigh* Tomorrow, as you say...
Don't dump your de-junked junk on disaster victims. It's very bad form.
Be a good egg and give a check to the Red Cross or donate online at http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html
If you give old *stuff*, someone has to sort it, transport it, organize it, and distribute all the zillions of assorted bits and pieces of differently sized stuff. The disaster relief people can't be expected to do all that crap. They're trying to help people in an emergency. Look, half your crap isn't worth 50c at the average garage sale; why would you want disaster relief personnel to have to manage it, store it, and figure out what to do with it?
Give cash so people can go to Target and get a new piece of clothing that fits them, for goodness sake.