This week’s podcast covers strategies for parting with sentimental clutter.
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Posts mentioned in this podcast:
Why Freezer Cooking Tickles my Organizing Bone
How I Made a Perfect Roast Out of Cheap Meat
Cleaning for Paula – Using My Own Messy House Checklist
Step Two of My How to Clean a Messy House Checklist – Prioritizing and Keeping Focus
Getting Rid of Someone Else’s Memories (the silverware box)
I Didn’t Want to Hurt Your Feelings, Mom
Drowning in Clutter? (the e-book)
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Probably you were not cooking it long enough in the crockpot… 🙂
How do you seal your roasts/freezer cooking so there is no freezer burn? Do you use a vacu-master or something similar?
I just put them in ziploc freezer bags, and haven’t had a problem. I’ve found that it is very important to be sure the food is completely cooled before freezing. If it’s still warm, it lets off steam which forms the small ice crystals in the freezer. Not sure if that’s scientific or not, but it makes a difference in my experience.
I found your blog and books and of all the other methods I’ve seen, you seem to be on my wavelength. I’m trying to do your 28 day plan AND the 14 day plan at the same time (too much?). I listen to the podcast while I do my daily tasks and just heard this one. At the beginning I was about to comment here about my great revelation concerning sentimental things and BAM! that one the first thing you mentioned. We don’t need 20 items to remind us of someone or some event. We just need a thing that triggers all the memories that we carry with us. Of course, clutter in the mind is an entirely different topic.
I tend to take in the stuff other people (esp older people moving into care homes or smaller homes) throw out … because they cannot simply throw it out. It is sentimental to them.
Then, as I am not a sentimental person, I throw it out for them. I get rid of it for them. Most of the time they do not see me again (many of them move out of town to bigger cities with more doctors, hospitals etc) as we live on a farm out on a horrible gravel road which they do not care to travel. And none of them ever asked for the stuff again.