#Snow Reports, Clutter, And Subscription Boxes

Snow Reports:

We got something like four inches of snow in my area, though only had maybe two or three inches on the ground at any given time.   Then it stuck around for almost a week.  Lilie showed you some of the photos, but here are a couple of the nearby mountains that we also took during the snowy weather:

 

 

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Clutter:

Since the end of last year, we've been working on doing some de-cluttering.  If it's not something we have a use for, can see ourselves having a use for, or want to keep for some other reason, we're getting rid of it.  It sounds pretty ruthless, but we've ended up with a lot of stuff we don't really want or need, or were holding on to for sentimental reasons despite knowing doing so was only putting it in the way and making it difficult to organize other stuff (like a dressing table I'd been given, which I wanted to keep even though it wasn't being used and was in the way) and want to get rid of those things so we can properly organize the things we do want or need.

 

Us doing this has made some people who were hoping we'd store things for them unhappy, but that can't be helped.  We're not a storage unit, we don't want to keep living in chaos and clutter, and seeing how we've somehow managed to have an overly cluttered house in less than two years after having managed just fine with a whole lot less space before - I mean, we moved from a flat that was technically listed as a two bedroom, but only because it was a one bedroom that had been turned in to one by putting a kitchenette on the end of the living room and making that room smaller, in to a three bedroom house, so you'd think we wouldn't be buried in stuff - makes us feel we should take steps to change things, even if certain other people would rather we didn't.

 

Anyway, we still have a long way to go, but we're making progress.

The bedroom is essentially sorted (apart from some small tasks like putting the few audiobooks I’m hanging on to in the right order on the shelves, for example).  It actually looks like a bedroom again.

 

Besides that, I've been working on de-cluttering in my office/craft room.  I’ve gotten rid of a stack of craft kits I wasn't really bothered about doing from those I’d acquired from those subscription boxes I was getting, and given away some craft supplies I was hanging on to because they’d been Nan’s, even while knowing there was little to no chance I’d want to use them.  I’ve still got a lot of organizing to do in my office/craft room again now that I’ve gotten rid of that stuff, but now I actually have some space in there to do it.

 

Now to help Kelly tackle his office/gaming room so he can have space to do things in his room too.

 

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Subscription boxes:

Since they closed down, my subscription to The Vegan Kind's lifestyle box was cancelled, and I'm OK with that, because it was starting to not seem worth the money any more due to half the stuff being things I wouldn't eat, so I'd end up giving to others, so I'd been considering stopping it anyway.  Some of the stuff in it was really tasty, but the constant need to make meat-flavored versions of vegan-friendly snacks was spoiling it for me, since I can't stomach the taste of meat.

 

But I personally cancelled my subscriptions to Bird & Blend Tea and Sara-Jane Candles.  Not because of the cost, nor because I wasn't enjoying the stuff.  I was, and I still think them worth the money.  I stopped them because the amount I was getting from them was a lot more than I was making use of each month and my supplies of both tea and candles were piling up.  You can just order stuff from both Bird & Blend Tea and Sara-Jane Candles, so I decided I'd stop my subscriptions, catch up on using what I have on hand, and keep them in mind when I need or want to order more of something later.  In the meantime, my tea cupboard is overflowing with different tea blends, and I could light a candle every day for the next few months without fear of running low on scented candles.  Again, wanting to de-clutter somewhat has played a part here.