RevGals Friday 5

(Link in meme-roll)
De/Re/Clutter?

1. What things do you like to hang on to?

I keep an awful lot of paper: letters, announcements, photos, newspaper clippings, etc. Digitizing my life would make it much less cluttered, but also really dull.

2. What is hard to let go of?

I have a hard time unloading clothes that I love that still fit me, even when they are years (in some cases, decades) old.

3. What is easy to give away?

Clothes that don't fit me, unused stuff (small appliances, furniture, etc.), knick-knacks that don't work for me, books I've read and don't ever want to read again. In most areas, I am perfectly happy to unload extraneous stuff.

4. Is there any kind of stumbling block connected with cleaning out?

I tend to want to look through things "one last time" when I'm doing the tidying up. I suck at "pick up, decide, move on" in a lot of cases.

5. What do you like to collect, hoard, or admire?

I have a de facto collection of S&Ps that is growing like Topsy. Really should make some decisions about how to display them all one of these days.

Bonus: Tell us about recycling or whatever you can think of that goes along with this muttering about cluttering.

Once a month or so Ann, the Purple Heart lady, calls. About every third month I tell her I've got some stuff, and gather it all together, usually a few plastic grocery bags full of clothes or household things.

And, of course, we recycle as much as we can: paper, plastic, metal. If I could get organized, I wouldn't mind having a compost for the kitchen waste, and I would love for Beast to stop subscribing to the paper. HUGE waste of paper when he can read it online.