This was me heading to the fabric and shoe recycle bin yesterday
Mornin', Steem fam, how're you this fine day? I am good! I mean that - I actually feel RESTED. Do you know how rare that is for me?
Normally, no matter how much sleep I get, I just feel like I'm running on empty. After staying up for 24 hours or whatever it was yesterday, I don't know, maybe even more than that - and moving furniture and cleaning and everything, I slept a normal sevenish hours and woke up RESTED. I'm frikkin' amazed, here.
into the recycle bin!
Maybe between bug panic and sleep deprivation and physical labor, I exhausted my body so hard it was like ALRIGHT WE ARE NOT FUCKING AROUND YOU ARE SLEEPING DEEP TONIGHT.
Whatever the reason, thanks, body, I needed that.
So now I think I will have the energy to do more work cleaning up this apartment!
a somewhat blurry Yuan and his need to check out ALL THE PLACES
Part of my purging yesterday included half a bag of random stuff that is giveaway-able so I think i will have fun leaving things in little free libraries (a couple of books are in there) and geocaches (a fun place to leave odd little trinkets for people to find).
Honestly, in all my purging, hardly any of it has gone into a thrift store bin. That's what most people do, right, drop off some stuff at ARC or Goodwill and forget about it - that's why in the wake of the Marie Kondo craze, I saw articles about Goodwill being overrun with donations. Instead, a lot of mine has gone into LFLs, listed on Freecycle or NextDoor or Facebook, given to friends, left with a neighbor who brings clothes to different clothing banks, I took old linens to an animal shelter, a few things were sold, properly recycled when the opportunity arose, like my mom was going to an electronics recycle drop off so I gave her my old printer to take, or old clothes and shoes into the fabric recycle, etc. Only a few boxes went with a friend who was making a run to the ARC that I couldn't figure out what to do with. I would much rather GIVE things directly to people who need them, than make people pay for them at a thrift store. That being said, ARC is a good cause, so if I'm going to drop in a bin, I'll use theirs and not for-profit Goodwill who pays disabled people sweatshop labor wages.
All of this takes more time, of course, and you're holding onto it until you get it to it's new home, but I think it's worth it, and I do things slowly, anyway.
The last time I dropped off a bag of books in a LFL, I added a couple of framed pictures, too. I figured someone would find and enjoy them there!
So anyway - let the purging and organization continue! :)
As long as you knock it off with the vacuum monster!!
Poor Maggie tolerated so much yesterday, that her only safe space was on the bathroom counter. Furniture moving, vacuuming, and another hooman in the apartment, it was just too much to bear! I'll try and be quieter today, m'lady. <3
Be good, Steemians!
