Oh! I forgot to add my big improvement to the world of housekeeping: The Give-It-Back Basket. It is a basket! It sits by my door! The things that don't live at my house go in the basket when they're ready to go elsewhere, so I don't put them away and forget them there or else have them cluttering space that might be usefully used for other things. This includes borrowed things, still-useful things that are not still useful to anyone who lives here, and random informal gifts/favors. Right now, for example, the GIBB contains a pink pen for someone who might like pink (I don't, but it came in a set of 24) and a bag of tea for my mother because I was at the farmer's market and thought she might like tea.
The people who come here a lot know to check the basket because it will sometimes have, for example, books I have bounced off that are going free to a good home, or clean, empty canning jars for people who can.
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Date: 2013-06-13 01:10 am (UTC)The people who come here a lot know to check the basket because it will sometimes have, for example, books I have bounced off that are going free to a good home, or clean, empty canning jars for people who can.