I'm trying to really clean alot of JUNK out of the house. I'm ashamed of how much stuff I've bought in the past decades.........plus how much I bought for the kids.......clothes/toys/school supplies.
DS hasn't lived at home for about 5 years, and his room has become a shrine/pit of all his stuff. He doesn't really want to deal with it (he's very busy with his job......he really is). So today I collected all the old/half-used/barely-used school notebooks that have sat idle in that room for far too long. What to do with them? The Caring Center, which locally accepts all kinds of things for people with little means, is so overwhelmed that there's no way on earth I would take these there. I won't use them as a dumping ground for things I can't deal with.
I won't take them to schools, since they usually encourage buying new things. I also have to take into account the gas that it would take to drive to various "donation" places.
So.........I didn't something very painful.. (emotionally and physically, since I have severe hand arthritis).....I tore them all apart and will send all the totally empty pages to paper recycling. I will throw away the wire rings and the plastic covers, and recycle the backs (cardboard). I would love to have recycled the rings, but my hands just can't pull all that paper stuff away from them. I wish I could recycle those plastic fronts, but I'm almost 100% certain that our local recycling doesn't accept those. I have already apologized profusely to the trees. I AM truly sorry.
Am I anal? Yes.........but if you're into recycling, I don't think there's an alternative here. (except to quit buying so damned much and quit buying into the notion that everything has to be new).
Plus........this clean-out has made me sick at how much most American's have. It's shameful. The local Caring Center is overwhelmed with all the stuff they receive every day..........good, useful stuff........Stuff that people just don't need/want anymore. What happened to wearing something until it fell off of you?
Yes, I AM part of the problem, but I am trying to change that. It really does make me sick to see all this extra stuff that most EVERYONE in the U.S. has. I think we'll end up drowning in it, one way or another. It's Karma............
DS hasn't lived at home for about 5 years, and his room has become a shrine/pit of all his stuff. He doesn't really want to deal with it (he's very busy with his job......he really is). So today I collected all the old/half-used/barely-used school notebooks that have sat idle in that room for far too long. What to do with them? The Caring Center, which locally accepts all kinds of things for people with little means, is so overwhelmed that there's no way on earth I would take these there. I won't use them as a dumping ground for things I can't deal with.
I won't take them to schools, since they usually encourage buying new things. I also have to take into account the gas that it would take to drive to various "donation" places.
So.........I didn't something very painful.. (emotionally and physically, since I have severe hand arthritis).....I tore them all apart and will send all the totally empty pages to paper recycling. I will throw away the wire rings and the plastic covers, and recycle the backs (cardboard). I would love to have recycled the rings, but my hands just can't pull all that paper stuff away from them. I wish I could recycle those plastic fronts, but I'm almost 100% certain that our local recycling doesn't accept those. I have already apologized profusely to the trees. I AM truly sorry.
Am I anal? Yes.........but if you're into recycling, I don't think there's an alternative here. (except to quit buying so damned much and quit buying into the notion that everything has to be new).
Plus........this clean-out has made me sick at how much most American's have. It's shameful. The local Caring Center is overwhelmed with all the stuff they receive every day..........good, useful stuff........Stuff that people just don't need/want anymore. What happened to wearing something until it fell off of you?
Yes, I AM part of the problem, but I am trying to change that. It really does make me sick to see all this extra stuff that most EVERYONE in the U.S. has. I think we'll end up drowning in it, one way or another. It's Karma............
The Madness of Too Much Stuff (not you TooMuchStuff!)............
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