Things I’ve Found Today

I’m having yet another clear out, but this one is a LOT more ruthless than usual. Rather than just pulling out bits I can see that I don’t want, I’m actually digging through drawers, shelves and closets to really toss stuff I no longer need or want. I’m packing 56 litre bin bags full of stuff. Stuff stuff stuff, I have too much STUFF.

As a result, I have found some things I had forgotten I have, or had given up as lost a long time ago. Here’s a run down of the  more interesting things:

• A bag of canvases in all sizes from when I was going to “paint every day”
• A UV toothbrush sanitiser I got in a mystery box from Zazzle.
• TWO long lost prescriptions I’ve had to go and get reissued. Bah.
• The manual for my sewing machine (HOORAY)
• A notebook I made with scrapbook paper in a hard cover from a dead book.
• Two small prints I bought in Kuranda, one of which I am keeping and the other I passed on to my brother to give his girlfriend.
• 5 framed photos I bought in Darwin.
• Quite a lot of random craft supplies.

I’ve chomped the bullet on my VHS collection. I hung onto them for a long time because they’re mostly obscure Tim Curry movies or British Comedy that were slow to come out on DVD. A quick net search reveals most of them are now out on DVD so I can toss the VHS copies. I’ve packed up some yarn to send to a charity knitters group also, mostly yarn I bought coz it’s pretty, but will never use. Which is actually most of it…

My wardrobe is empty of too small clothes, which was well overdue. It was becoming a pain to pull out a blouse and find it too small,  pull out another one, too small…

I’m on a coffee break at the moment, but am about to haul out a bag of rubbish and open a new bag to start fresh.  It’s a very nice feeling to drop bags of stuff off at the opshop or whereever. Someone else can use the stuff, and it’s not falling in a heap around me anymore.