New school year, do I get a new Trapper Keeper?

[flexagon]

Happy autumn, everyone! The little school over by my house just repainted the basketball courts on their playground, two of my yoga teachers are back from their summer gallivants around the world, schedules are changing all over the place (it's performance review time at work, ugh)... in short, time for new beginnings. Some newsletter or other that I got recently was claiming that fall is a time that our bodies want to start slowing down, but I disagree. For me, this is when the lethargy of summer suddenly lifts, and I have nesting urges that could easily be ancient "gather enough food for the winter" messages from my DNA. Or they might be the memories of the beginnings of many school years.

In accordance with all this briskness, I got rid of a heaping couchful of stuff this weekend and it felt great. I'm still in the mood to get rid of some more... why do we own so many objects? they're annoying... but another big run to Goodwill won't be happening soon. I think I might put a box in my closet for things I don't really need, so that when I think of something I can just throw it in the box. I also think I should sign up for freecycle or something; I have some stuff that might be useful to someone but that is too specific to just leave on the curb, like the arms from my Aeron chair.

Some of my fitness classes have moved, especially acrobalance, and I'm excited about trying my new workout schedule starting right now.

Monday: advanced yoga
Tuesday: rest
Wednesday: acroyoga
Thursday: acrobalance
Friday: intermediate yoga
Saturday: lower body weightlifting
Sunday: upper body weightlifting

I'm not sure but I think this'll make it easier to keep an early sleep schedule through most of the week (because now Thursday's the late night), reduce thigh agony in Monday yoga because it's further away from squats-day, and give me more energy in acroyoga because it's now NOT right after I get beat up in acrobalance. Of course, that might not be optimal given that I tend to be bouncing off the walls in that class anyway, but oh well. It'll be enjoyable for me.

Comments

Donation box in the closet

[taegubcrusade.livejournal.com]

Great idea. We have one of these, and it's nice to have because it allows you to spontaneously discard stuff as the inverse action to all the spontaneous consumption we do every day. Wonder why you have it? Toss it in the box. If you must, you can vet the contents just before making a donation run, lest you recklessly discarded your grandmother's turquoise brooch. Our two biggest problems are actually making the time to do the donation run and our kids getting stuff back out of the donation box (especially toys that were put there by their parents). You, at least, should have no more than one of those problems.

Re: Donation box in the closet

[flexagon]

it allows you to spontaneously discard stuff as the inverse action to all the spontaneous consumption we do every day

Thanks for saying it this way; it's exactly the thought I was kind of going for. We seem to have consumption built into our lives in a way that makes it easy to accumulate things in small increments, but getting rid of stuff in small increments just isn't built in (at least when "getting rid of stuff" doesn't mean "dump it in the trash").

I doubt I'll really have either of your problems, as we live a 10-minute walk from a Goodwill and have reason to walk that direction every couple of weeks anyway. The hard part will be simply setting up the box.