FIRST EMPTY BOX - [sound of big cheers offstage]

Landmark day for three reasons.
(a) I have just emptied the first box, that green one you can see to the left, and the contents are now in the box to be put in the re-cycling later.

(b) I actually put something in the grey bin which I had not listed here. It was a bag of scraps of black plastic upholstery material some of which I think could date from when we lived in the caravan in Sandyford before we moved to Tallaght in 1970.

(c) Several of the items listed below were only generated yesterday, and already I have been able to 'let them go'! I am busy congratulating myself for doing this, while disciplining myself not to think of how interesting those catalogues would be to compare with today's version. Life is too short for spending time on tasks like that unless I am going to make work out of them.

Today's items:
MANILLA ENVELOPE
This envelope came from Encyclopedia Brittanica, March 10 1993. That is the year we had major work done in the kitchen, and this included having a glass-fronted press built to house the copy of Brittanica we had recently bought. Now Brittanica is online, and we rarely open the glass doors to read the hard copy.

IKEA CATALOGUE
This small catalogue is dated 2008, and is obviously a companion to the one I threw out yesterday.
There was a TESCO gift catalogue with it, but I retrieved it so it doesn't appear in the picture.

SOFTMINTS WRAPPER
This wrapper used to contain six packets of softmints, most of which I have now eaten. I removed the final packet yesterday and put it in my coat pocket.

PHARMACY BAG
Yesterday I bought some vaseline for dry lips and two combs in a pharmacy in O'Connell Street and this is the bag they were in.

SERVIETTE
The Admiral Restaurant is wehre we went yesterday to celebrate my son's birthday. Vereniki is a Ukrainian dumpling dish, served in a brown delph bowl.

LABEL
This tiny label was taken from my navy/black cardigan when I put it on this morning.

POSTSCRIPT

In the image at the top of this entry, under the empty green plastic box, you can see the box of assorted items I am planning to start work on tomorrow. I am not sure whether they are 'virgin territory', that is never actually sorted before, or whether they may have come from one of the boxes opened in the course of the Wrinkley's Playhouse exhibition 2010.
Either ways it is going to be interesting to start work on it.