Each of you is inspiring me to look around at all of the stuff I have ignored so far. I pulled several garments out of my closet today, I'm sure I'll make several more passes through that small room before I'm finished. Today was cherry-picking the obvious stuff I won't wear any more. I probably have more shoes than I need, but I purged the old and ill-fitting pairs last year, so I'm not too worried about them.

In my office I exchanged the simple throw rug for a small antique Persian carpet that has been rolled up at the side of the den forever. It looks lovely! I'd forgotten I had it.

I've made several trips in and out of Moonglow's bedroom this afternoon. I figured the only way to know for sure that what I hang up is clean is to wash it. I'm on about the fifth load of laundry, one more to go, hanging everything as it comes out of the dryer. I took the sheets off of the bed after excavating through stacks of costume patterns and material and school papers and gadgets and toys and lots of clothes and dust. Her closet is much better and I've been able to hang a fur coat in there, a family antique that I need to donate somewhere. The last batch (this family was from New England and had lots of fur coats) I donated to a theater group in town, I'll probably do the same with this, though I might give it to the theater folks on campus where I work. (My great aunt who owned this was rotund, and this could double as a mink pup tent if need be.)

Since the paint cans vacated my shelving unit to go live in a kitchen cupboard I'll be rearranging the shelving contents later this week. Maintaining already de-cluttered areas is so much easier than how things got done before.

My carbon footprint might in theory be looking a little better, but I'm contributing to the airborne dust particulate now so I'm probably not ahead of anything yet. :)

SRS