Off into the sunset …

No stories today, just a pile of dead and/or ancient rechargeable batteries, and two redundant chargers.

No stories, but another 17 items gone.

I’m going to have to put in some hard yards this weekend, because I’d like to get rid of plenty of stuff (and there’s certainly plenty to go), and I’d like to have things organised […]

When I moved from Melbourne nearly two years ago there were some last minute things that needed to stay unpacked or which arrived after I’d packed. These were collected into a shoebox, which came with me in the car when I crossed Bass Strait on the ferry.

And then, in the midst of all the unpacking a […]

Okay, something weird happened for this one.

I sorted out all my old Church magazines into three categories — the one for kids, the one for youth, and the one for grown ups – a week or so ago, and took photos of them back then, ready for the three days for which I was going to […]

I have faithfully kept all my received Christmas cards. They are, I will concede, the detritus of a nice tradition, and so candidates for minimising.

I have now faithfully kept the newsier, more memorable ones, while the remainder — some 14 years’ worth of appreciated-but-let’s-face-facts-they-don’t-need-to-be-retained-forever Christmas sentiments — have now been sent to recycling heaven.

In all, the […]

Today’s choice feels like a bit of a cop-out, as it is a second batch of computer backups burned on CDs/DVDs.

There are, however, 13 of them.

It was also extremely satisfying to smash them with a hammer.

(I should point out that I have two external hard-drive back-ups as my data-protection plan, but it might also be worth […]

I’ve had a stack of reasonable quality plastic shopping bags stashed away just in case I needed something a bit better than a supermarket bag on some occasion or other.

But I haven’t.

So I’ve kept a couple (the just-in-case gene is a dominant one) but the rest — over twelve — […]

Okay, this one involves a little creative interpretation, but it’s a good feeling to have these gone.

I moved house over 21 months ago, and actually managed to unpack things quite efficiently at the time. I then stacked the packing boxes neatly into various corners of the garage, promising myself that I would soon call the removal […]