Somewhere around the house is a hand tool for cutting the sheaths off of cables but can't find it. So I started looking above the dryer where some of the small hand tools live and ended up sorting the basket with tools then moving to sort the basket next to it that holds old lightbulbs and various small electric socket extenders, dim/bright adjusters, switches, etc. I've set aside some bulbs to list on the Freecycle page (incandescent, curly fluorescent, and halogen - I use LED now).

In the cupboard and shelf over the washer I organized all of the paint brushes, small saw blades & the Ryobi reciprocating saw, rolls of tape, hammers, and several analog timers. I should donate a couple of the timers.

I need to sort the garage workbench area where more tools live. It's easy to pile stuff on the workbench, hiding small tools. And it wouldn't hurt to go through the cables and computer peripherals in the office closet. So many tools in so many places.

Yesterday I did a similar purge of the tea cart, dumping ancient boxes of flavored teas and discarding some old containers that looked nice but aren't air tight. I can see all of the various boxes and cans now that they're arranged in a single layer. I have some duplicate types of black tea so I won't be shopping for a while.

The result is a lot of stuff going to the recycle bins, a full donation bin for Goodwill, and a large bag of trash. I'm sure there was something else I was supposed to be doing instead, but this job came along and got done.