We had a similar system at Gentle Mesa for identifying orphaned objects, but it was done room by room instead of object by object.
It went like this:
Announce on slack you’re doing a clean out of a public space.
Put all the potentially orphaned objects from that room on a table. Put a picture of the table on slack for people who aren’t home.
If an object is still on the table within 48 hours, its’ up for grabs.
If an object is still on the table within 72 hours, it gets thrown away.
One of the benefits of this over your method is that it’s a lot less work for the initiator, because they don’t have to find all the objects in the house first (just check the room) nor do they have to check all the objects in the house at the end (just toss everything on the table).
We had a similar system at Gentle Mesa for identifying orphaned objects, but it was done room by room instead of object by object.
It went like this:
Announce on slack you’re doing a clean out of a public space.
Put all the potentially orphaned objects from that room on a table. Put a picture of the table on slack for people who aren’t home.
If an object is still on the table within 48 hours, its’ up for grabs.
If an object is still on the table within 72 hours, it gets thrown away.
One of the benefits of this over your method is that it’s a lot less work for the initiator, because they don’t have to find all the objects in the house first (just check the room) nor do they have to check all the objects in the house at the end (just toss everything on the table).