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abendgules ([personal profile] abendgules) wrote2008-04-04 01:50 pm
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Spring in the air

Today is the sunniest of a run of mild and springlike days we've had this week. That, and the time change, mean my days have felt noticeably birghter and more pleasant.

After 2 months of relative inactivity, I'm hoping for a bit of spring cleaning. Thanks to my tricksy and stubborn chest pain from the cough, I still have to lift and carry and pull things carefully, so vacuuming is pursued only with care.

Inspired by [profile] purple_peril, I'm also hoping for some pre-emptive strike decluttering: sorting books, clothes and maybe even Piles of Important Paper - though that last bit might just be crazy talk. 

Clearing the kitchen table so I can use the sewing machine is always a useful incentive. I have hopes of assembling the back panel of the patchwork quilt from linen scraps, to push along that project. It's been stalled while I've been sick, so I thought I'd tackle it from another angle.

Does anyone have suggestions for useful, responsible disposal of clothes that are beyond charity use? 

I'm thinking of undies, and SCA t-shirts that I'm not happy passing on. They're collecting faster than I realized. I just don't need that many dusters and rags. 

Besides, keeping dusters would suggest that I dust, and that's just plain misleading :-).

[identity profile] sismith42.livejournal.com 2008-04-05 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
similar to the quilt-thing: you could use the tshirts to make bags.

the other thoughts are: stuffing things (quilt batting, perhaps?) and, how do you feel about reusable menstral pads...?

[identity profile] bend-gules.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
I've thought of the quilt batting, but don't really want a cotton-stuffed quilt - at least, not cotton that's been sweated into for years already. I'm pretty hard on my t-shirts before I part with them!
Hadn't thought of pads. I've used a menstrual cup for 15+ years, so I don't use many, thankfully. But it's a thought - there must be instructions somewhere.