Decluttering: Spare Mykis (Public Transportation Passes)

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pent a LOT of time at home and some of that time was spent decluttering which resulted in the surfacing of the previously lost mykis.Each time we came across one, I just tossed it into my top dresser drawer with the idea of someday reconciling it which is transferring the balance onto my active myki and cancelling the lost/found myki.One additional myki here and there didn’t seem like much. I figured there were a few so I kept putting off that seemingly small task of reconciling until, well, today.This morning, I emptied the top drawer of my dresser to find not 5 or 10 discarded mykis, but 20!Twenty mykis! Holy moly! How did that happen? (It happened because, at the start of taking public transportation in 2017, I didn’t have a good system in place. Live and learn.) Only one myki per person is essential.</

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p>It took me about 30 minutes to register each of the mykis, report each one as lost, and request that the balance remaining be transferred onto the myki I carry. Not a big deal nor a huge time suck. Just something that needed to be done.The sunk cost is the $6 that each myki cost when it was purchased. There is no option to return the myki that is no longer needed. This is a sad oversight on the part of Public Transportation Victoria.Now, we have a system. When my daughter and I are heading out, we are mindful of having our mykis. We each pull out our myki and show it to each other before we leave the house.Previous article: <a href="https://readmedium.com/have-you-met-your-childs-online-friends-4c204168a6af?sk=a1ed581ce13e77077a65c6c03b755124">Have You Met Your Child’s Online Friends</a>?</article></body>

How did we end up with 20(!) mykis?

Image created by Ann Leach.

As we walked up to the train station, I prompted my then 7 or 8 or 9 yo daughter to get out her myki and was faced with a deer-in-headlights look that clearly said, “I don’t have it.”

If we walked home to get the myki, we had to take a later train and entirely miss or at least be significantly late for the day’s activity. *sigh* It was easier and simpler to just buy a replacement and get on with the day’s activity.

When we went into the lockdowns dictated by the pandemic, we stopped hopping onto public transportation. Instead, we spent a LOT of time at home and some of that time was spent decluttering which resulted in the surfacing of the previously lost mykis.

Each time we came across one, I just tossed it into my top dresser drawer with the idea of someday reconciling it which is transferring the balance onto my active myki and cancelling the lost/found myki.

One additional myki here and there didn’t seem like much. I figured there were a few so I kept putting off that seemingly small task of reconciling until, well, today.

This morning, I emptied the top drawer of my dresser to find not 5 or 10 discarded mykis, but 20!

Twenty mykis! Holy moly! How did that happen? (It happened because, at the start of taking public transportation in 2017, I didn’t have a good system in place. Live and learn.) Only one myki per person is essential.

It took me about 30 minutes to register each of the mykis, report each one as lost, and request that the balance remaining be transferred onto the myki I carry. Not a big deal nor a huge time suck. Just something that needed to be done.

The sunk cost is the $6 that each myki cost when it was purchased. There is no option to return the myki that is no longer needed. This is a sad oversight on the part of Public Transportation Victoria.

Now, we have a system. When my daughter and I are heading out, we are mindful of having our mykis. We each pull out our myki and show it to each other before we leave the house.