Wednesday, January 29, 2014

De-cluttering - Week 5: One Thing Leads to Another

As I mentioned, I have a new computer. My old one still had a floppy drive but the new one, of course, does not.  I still had lots of floppies full of photos and other files I wouldn't want to lose.

I spent the week sorting through all my old files on the floppy discs and copying things I wanted to keep to my external hard drive.  I had some with sensitive material on them that needed to be reformatted before I could dispose of them.

During all this I actually found some files I thought I had lost as they had disappeared from my computer sometime during the past year.  I'm happy not to have to do all that work over again.

One good thing about all this was that it forced me to clean up the top of my bookcase, where many of the floppies had been stored.












 It looks a LOT better now.  Mind you, I will still have to tackle the rest of the bookcase.....but not yet.

 I hear the local United Church will be hosting a big book sale this spring, so I'll get it done in time for that.  In the meantime, I did send a big bag of books to my daughter-in-law this week, so that's good.



While I was at it, I decided to tidy up the top of the storage unit next to the bookcase. The cubby holes are full, and stuff has now started landing on the top.  Like the bookcase, the rest of it unit will have to wait. I have a new season starting at the karate club soon, and I need to prepare for that before I tackle messes that are, for the most part, contained.

The floor vinyl floor in this room has buckled and is starting to split, so it will need replacing soon. At that time all the furniture will need to emptied and moved, so I guess that's when the book case and the storage unit will get cleaned out.


In the meantime one more area looks somewhat better.











I even managed to tidy up the spare bedroom I showed you week one.  I think I've done quiet  well this week.

7 comments:

  1. You HAVE done well this week. You got more accomplished than I did. Good work!

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    1. Thanks Bonnie. I'm on the mend apparently. You did the right chore in your current condition.

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  2. Whoa go Yabut! You've been a whirlwind this week!

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    1. Thanks Nelly. I thought it was time to show some sort of improvement in my surroundings.

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  3. You accomplished a lot this week. Wow!

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    1. Yep, but don't expect that to happen every week. LOL

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  4. I am impressed! I think I've gone backwards again over the last couple weeks, so I even feel a little jealous. Maybe NEXT week will be my week!

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