The magic of tidying

@Dimity

Yesterday's ten minutes was take some rubbish out and clear the coffee table. Not much, but I deliberately planned the smallest amount possible on my first day back at work. But oh my goodness how nice to come home this arv to a clear coffee table! It still has stuff on there that's supposed to find another home, but it just feels so much clearer. I hope that you're seeing a nicer space after all your hard work too.

I unblocked slow , gunked up drain on bathroom handbasin, only an 'O' ring looks chewed out, so not worth bother of reassembling. got bucket under basin now lol. will get to hardware shop tomorrow @Chantarelle @Dimity

Good work @Chantarelle @TAB

Yes the coffee table could be the first thing I do in the livingroom.

I need to clean the lines of grout on the shower, the home help simply doesn't do it. Thank goodness I might be able to do it now, I couldn't when she started.

good work @Dimity , @TAB , @Chantarelle 😍

@tyme , @Oaktree

i get most of grout done @Dimity there is some that is siliconed like in corners, needs to be removed and replaced. has done for near 3 years lol .

I though was on top of things w kitchen table where I spend most of my , well, Life, but its disaster again,and pile of boxes and cardboard in corner has grown back again.

might be time to

• donate deposit containers
• spend 30 mins flattening boxes and take to bin ✔️
• also can use some to stop weeds and some for fire, ha✔️
• have two bags new clothes and books from internet been sitting around forever. books werent what I thought they were and clothes didnt fit. yet I still buy online..
• also a parcel been on sideboard forever with old phones in it to donate .. ffs been there a year now maybe
• also have clothes over backs of chairs that never wear . time to put them away. Have chest of drawers but drawers dont work properly, needs to be fixed , ah ha , but still functional.

UPDATE since started msg attacked cardboard pile. Most is gone now. in bin or next to wood heater.

..also found a mini plum pudding unopened haha , couple extension leads, some boxes for computers etc will keep.

@Ta

When I moved house in 2022 I set aside a space on the kitchen bench (nothing is supposed to live on the bench) for laptop and cords and stuff to take to electronic recycling. It's literally a little basket of rubbish (OMG I just realised where that basket is that I was going to store my toilet rolls in!!!) and yeah you guessed it, 3.5 years and it's still there. It's been there so long that I don't even see it anymore. I can't tell you how valuable it is that I can share this with people who understand. Thanks

thanks @Shaz51 making hay while the sun shines I guess. Just have to try and keep on top of things so dont need such big cleanups

That plum pudding is a bonus @TAB

.. I had a giggle @Dimity thats pretty out there even for me lol.

I also saw more of old computer speakers that should have sold over a year ago , nothing wrong with them used them here b4 had furniture, sat on esky for months at laptop on big plastic storage box lol, upgraded a few times since then.

@TAB @Chantarelle I guess it's not a competition but I reached peak clutter 9 years ago and have been whittling it down since. It had been building up for a long time.

I have a lot of old computers from work and study I should do something with but I haven't faced up to the drafts of the PhD I abandoned. There's other stuff I'll face first.