Are rooms in your house overstuffed? Are you having trouble finding important papers or favorite photographs? Or are you moving and wondering how to decide what gets moved and what to discard?
Andrea Keller and Tracy Niro of Wise Moves, will guide us through assessing our needs, whether room-by-room or floor-by-floor, then planning and carrying out the major decluttering and reconfiguration.
And what to do with everything that cannot be kept? Andrea will show how to develop a strategy for reallocating treasured items to family members and friends, donating to a charitable organization, or discarding appropriately.
And even if you’re not ready to declutter and reorganize now, this event will provide the building blocks so you will be better prepared when the time comes.
View the Recording here: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/GGGkIdlqyOdUxvdPsUfAJqo_kUh6zeEkeflyNSQxDHJt82_KiFH6SKikfBYpCEE_.YUHv8zIfgk1ScLQf (Passcode: 8Zw&kUt#)
Chat Box Comments and Questions:
What are the types of items that have been collected by participants?
shot glasses
Sugar & creamers
Cat figurines
Items representative of trips to different countries I’ve visited: Japan, France, Iceland, Russia
Things from when they were children
Souvenirs
Where can we shred papers?
14820 Southlawn Lane, Rockville 20850 open 7-2.
We have many Lego sets that I know people would like (we have assembly books but not original boxes) but don’t know how to sell them?
Toy market usually good for wooden items, but people prefer buying new for items that are still being manufactured
You can recycle Legos
www.givebackbox.com/LEGO.
How do I dispose of collections from parents’ chotckes? Formal china/silver? See recording.
Possible organizations accepting donations:
I like Buy Nothing, but some things are more valuable or just too much! New4You Thrift
Boutique replaced Montgomery County Women’s Thrift Cordell Ave Bethesda accepts
donations proceeds go to Shepherd’s table
Habitat for Humanity,301-926-4141
A Wider Circle, 301-608-3504
Walter Johnson HS is sponsoring a book sale and is looking for donations. (Details will be sent out to the North Bethesda Village email distribution list)
Friends of the Library, 301-984-3300 Interfaith Resource Center 301-424-3796
Family trip photographs of thousands of snapshots may need to be discarded - how to dispose of them to minimize impact on environment? Ditto picture slides. See recording.
Conversion of photographs, home movies, etc.
Video Editor or Rockville Pike. 301-231-7160 - participantused them in past to transfer old family movies. Video Editor or Rockville Pike. 301-231-7160. I have used them in the past to transfer old family movies.
There’s a place on Rockville Pike - Video Converters?
There is also a place on Rockville Pike that will take old movies. Video Editor I believe, near Party city.
Free paper shredding
CLean Cut Shredding 301-424-5677, 14820 Southlawn Lane (off E. Gude), Rockville 20850 open 7-2.
What about Art prints….WPA era
artprice.com
askart.com
Do you have any Smithsonian or other museum contact for Middle East and Asian crafts? See recording.
What do you do with army uniforms from WW II ? See recording
Genealogy – see recording
Books and records?
Friends of the library takes records
New4You thrift
Second Story Books is a good resource
I’m considering painting some of my brown furniture. Is that acceptable these days? See recording