Tackle It Tuesday - Hello, Mr. Mailman

Dear Me,

I'll be heading to the post office anytime this week so I decided to prep the stuff I'm planning to mail - that would be a couple of postcards for my friends and some books mooched from me via Bookmooch.

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I was planning to do all the preps the other day but since Miguel had been so restless during the daytime, I had to put it off.

It has been my predilection to gather/pile all the things I will use in one place before I literally sit down on it to accomplish the task.

And so it looked like this:

a heap of books, green box containing my postcard collection, stuff like scissors, glue and tape, new envelopes, recyclable plastics and bubble wraps

Sitting in the floor, I was a little messy - stuff strewn around me.



The books which are mooched from me via Bookmooch are the first to go. Everytime I will send out books, I include small notes in stationeries that will go in the package. Then, I will wrap them in plastic to avoid getting wet while in transit towards its destination. Afterwards, I'll enclose them in thick envelopes, write the contact information of the recipients.

Just today, I decided to do some recycling. Instead of buying all the time, I was informed that I could still utilize those envelopes and bubble wraps from the packages I had received before. At first, I was against it but then, I got the idea of being environment-friendly and pocket-friendly (hehehe). And so, I used them and they looked pretty decent to me. :)

Next, the postcards. I mentioned before that I'm into Postcrossing. I'm out to send five (5) postcards to someone in Taiwan, Finland, France, the Netherlands and USA. I have some stamps (not only do I collect postcards, I'm also starting to collect stamps) with me so I made the initiative of sticking them in my postcards.

The output of my endeavor:


I also organized these recyclables for my next use. :)


The over-all result:


Mind you, I had fun. All throughout the task, Miguel was sleeping soundly in his crib. I was able to sweep the floor after tidying up. :)


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