Besides being overweight and the hopelessness of ever losing a few friggin’ inches, I’ve opted to reduce the amount of clutter accumulated as brochures, pamphlets, flyers, booklets, advertisements, coupons, sales, deals, and general information, such as knowing signs of strokes and heart attacks.
The effort of thinning out my PRECIOUS junk of mostly papers (bless the trees, of course) started out with the parakeets. For whatever reason, I awoke at around 07:15am and decided to greet the parakeets and allow them flight time outside their cages.
I noticed that Yeyo was in and out of her nest box and not staying inside with her baby boy, who was crying for food. Bugsy was so distracted that he couldn’t feed the VERY nervous and starving Yeyo.
So I tried feeding Bugsy and Yeyo some oat groats by hand in the hope of encouraging them to throw up some food for the baby boy. But that didn’t work. After eating breakfast, my brain stormed and decided to install JoJo’s old black cage. This was to lock both parents inside the cage. And for safety reasons also, the curious baby boy could come out if he wants and not fall to the floor below.
But something was still not right about the parakeet area. It was an eyesore. I had to `test` out my plastic storage of three drawers from upstairs and proceeded to consolidate toys, food and other plastic junk from two other big plastic drawer containers into my mobile organizer.
It worked! Food is on top, toys in the middle and junk on the wider drawer below. But that meant my office supplies and fax machine have no place. As a result, I bought an Iris® 5-Drawer Organizer from Staples. It was much shorter and the drawers were more shallow. I was pissed!
But wait: the two jewelry containers given to me by a dedicated blogger fit nicely on top of the built in organizer tray! Other junk, such as an unpainted pewter of a dragon, a photo of my brother and me, and a box of other jewelry fit into other compartments.
The fax machine found it way atop the old plastic container of mostly CD’s. The double bulk now sits on the left side of my mini-desk, which came originally with the other furniture pieces from my childhood.
Then I went through the hanging folder and threw out unread materials. Sixteen cardboard boxes of UPS and USPS and other shapes and sizes were flattened for recycling. The packing popcorn, newspaper, paper towels and other plastic materials were throw away in the recycling bin. And Maw and I stepped on the plastic packaging material of air-bubbles. That was around 15:00pm.
Now I have to figure out what else needs to be discarded, recycled or sold.
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