One little declutter before going up to my parents' place was that I got together all the old feeds sacks I could find, chopped up the ones that were getting stiff or had holes in them to go in the soft plastics recycling, and stacked up the good ones at the front gate. We've occasionally had people in town asking for empty feed sacks, so I put up a post on our town's facebook page, and they were gone by the next morning. 😄
Because we were tired I didn't really get any sorting done this trip, but out of the trailerload we brought back...
-Dressing table goes into Younger Daughter's room, chest of drawers is going to my sister, two drawer filing cabinet inside somewhere (as yet undecided) and move papers into it from their current cardboard boxes.
-I've brought back some Christmassy paraphenalia that neither my sister nor I want, but I figure it will be easier to sell it on from here than to try to do so there with little or no internet.
-Some of Dad's stamp albums. Will need to go through them with Sis and decide if they're keepers, or if we take them to a dealer.
-A bunch of Dad's paperbacks, unsorted. Will keep some, sell some, possibly recycle some that are seriously junky.
-A fair portion of Dad's beloved "Phantom" comics collection. Am keeping those.
-Some of Mum's potted bromeliads and bulbs. Keeping those.
-A front grille off a classic car that Dad had in his scrap metal, and which will be a desirable item, so we'll be contacting some relevant car clubs to send that on to a good home.
I'm wanting to get together enough to have a garage sale. We've got good things in our house that have been superseded by things that we like better, so we need to find that precious mental time and space to decide which things need to move on to new homes.
