I can tell it's the end of the year/start of winter. My brain has flipped entirely into the "you need to go through everything you own and reevaluate it"....

Like clockwork

Putting together a box of books that I'm done with. 2/3rds if which Thriftbooks has no interest in and the Betterworld box at the library was *overflowing*

A white woman's hand holding a package of tea. It says plum deluxe, just peach black

Time to get back into my tea stash now that it's not miserably hot every day.

Plum Deluxe does delicious blends, though I wish I could filter their site for no Rooibos.

The green package with a small dragon drinking tea on it it says Friday afternoon tea and the type of tea is white silk. Earl Gray

Finishing up some of this delicious and creamy tea from @fridaytea.com

Testing Muted Responses

@hedgielib.bsky.social Testing how mute functions work

A white woman's hand holding a Crio bru brewed cacao "little bag"

Today needed some brewed chocolate. I'm most of the way through this sample bag.

A picture of dried tea pearls in a white and gold china cup and saucer. The picture says Friday afternoon (brand) zomba white tea pearls (flavor)

Making one of my @fridaytea.com advent teas this evening.

A green shiny bag of tea from palais des Thes. The flavor is Big Ben

Finished more tea today! Palais des Thes in the flavor Big Ben! I am making a legit dent in the "tea that is already open."

We will please ignore the shipment of tea that arrived today. Kthxbai

A tube of hand lotion. It says gourd out of my mind. The scent is pumpkin, cinnamon, vanilla

Four years ago I started thinking about a Use Up Year. The first thing I called myself out for was lotion. It's taken four years to work through the backlog. This is the last tube. I seriously thought it'd take me a few months.

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A white woman's hand holding a green foil bag. It is from the brand palais des these and the tea is quatre fruits rouges.

Finished a bag of tea! Now that I've rearranged and have all the open stuff in one place, finishing that first (or at least hoping I will -- it's easy to grab from that bin first!)

Palais des Thes is Very good tea.

Three piles of various sizes of aluminum trays on top of a toaster oven. There are a lot.

Found more, make that at least 18 months (this is just it gatherer in one place. Won't live here permanently)

Today in "wait there's more"... Going through the kitchen to pull out the single use aluminum trays.

Should be Very Set on these for a year, possibly longer.

(It does/does not help that they are usually in 2-3 packs and I forget to use the 2nd one).

#UseUpYear

But also notice how quickly they flipped that switch. If they could do it once they can easily do it again for any platform they choose. Welcome to digital hell.

A paper bag with the words organic and fair trade jasmine silver leaf From cultivate trade There are a variety of labels related to it meeting various standards I don't recognize.

Here's today's Use the Good Stuff

It's a really good jasmine tea, I believe I got it at the Chicago Tea Festival last spring.

#UseUpYear
#UseItUp
#Tea
#JasmineTea

Wait - There's More? Due to some house projects, we've had to do some rearranging in the kitchen and dining room. One result was that R asked me to move my tea, ...

The phrase I kept saying Friday as I was rearranging the tea cabinet.

It's actually something I've said about several things when trying to sort and clean things recently. I need to use things up.

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An extremely full kitchen cabinet with a LOT of types of tea and coffee visible

Reorganized all of the tea and coffee and, umm, well okay I am absolutely out of space on those aren't I

I got a whole bunch of hedgehog socks from friends and they've become my house socks.

I've already entirely worn through the heels on the pair I'm currently wearing. Less than six months and these aren't in heavy rotation.

Use it up indeed.

Today's goal is to see if I can get at least one small doom box sorted and put away.

Can't use it up if it's buried in a box

A few things to try and get towards more little successes

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Getting back to the other thing I had all the plans for....
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