SPRING-Clean Declutter - Need Help

Hi @soul,
Not the day for small jobs for the day hanks - have inspection tomorrow so it was full on.
// re the birds - i slept through their morning call - but a quick trip to toot at 6am i was greated with lovely song from the male bourke bird (any suggestions for a name for him?), so loud & persistent he was (as if excited) i had to stop and chat a while, check their food & water. We had a lovely two way whistle chat - so cute ☺🐦☺🐦☺🐦☺🎶i jad a late night so woke feeling so heavy, sore & exhausted - went back to sleep few hours. Rr nesting - I put more dead grass in the cage yesterday and busy finches had a party with that - packing out their nest basket. Theres a bourke bird egg i put in there after finding it in seed bowl (bourkes dont have a nest box yet, but don't think the eggs fertile. Cant see any Finch eggs, theyre in and out of there all the time. The naughty cat and butcher bird are less inquisitive since i moved the birds to a less accessable location. Though without the dog the cat is around all the time, occasionally comes in so i do try keep doors closed now (no screrns). Thanks for being asking☺
// "What's on the agenda today?" Tidy living area for inspection tomorrow. I really attacked the kitchen dinnong shelves & benches etc - and very pleased with it 🙂 Then I spent a couple hours in the back yard tidying up. Ladders, patching jolevin wall, half filling trailer, picking up. Should have mowed but ran out of daylight.
// My son didn't want to talk last night, said hes really tired (pain meds wouldnt help) and work is challenging with his left hand, but i sense something elsevis wrong. Fortunately the injury occurred on day 8 their 9 away so they had done all he wanted fortunately. He then had 24hr flight delays (weather) which I'm glad about because he fibbed about how recent it happened in case the airline deemed him a flight risk. The dr split the cast for him in case the altitude & cabin pressure increased swelling (i had no idea). He has lots of photos to show me.

Hi @Faith-and-Hope,
nice to see you ☺ nope, couldnt do the "sit down jobs" thing today - potential buyer tomorrow doing inspection, a young couple. So my goal all day, Wed, was to make the living areas beautiful, And i did - I can't believe it - I actually pulled🎉 Good suggestion though. I think it'll feel it tomorrow though - and I have to work arvo shift at the shop tomorrow. Its all gogo! Really hope you're holding up there - do try to follow you here and there bit lose track - just keep swimming, hey 🐬🌷💜🌷☺

Hi @Former-Member,
Pitty you couldnt "deal with even one thing on the weekend" I'm guessing you mean Spring-cleaning / decluttering?). Can i ask - were you sick? 😞 Too Busy? 😨 Enjoying enjoying family?👥👍 Procrastinating? ✖ or just chilling? ✔☺ That's the thing with housework, hey? It can always wait 'till tomorrow lol ☺
// Thanks for dropping by here and encouraging me - need it today. Appreciate you all. In my home draft I'm slowly working backwards on replying to your messages in between jobs, when i stop to rest the back spasms & shoulder tendonitis flarup, get subtenants etc. I'm worn out but have a clear objective today.
// And thanks for caring enough to raise the 'elephant in the room' issue. I'm nervous about it but also about staying here where I'm so lonely. Its difficult to know if its Blackdog but ther
🏠 WHERE TO AFTER THIS❓
You said: "If you can afford it, can you buy another place and perhaps rent it out while you travel? Have some security behind you" This would be ideal Darcy, but with the apx 150k I'll have left after paying mortgage, solicitors, fees etc, I could only afford a shack in a small town (more isolated than this) or a cheap 1BR villa with unaffordable body corp fees & nothing short of 'criminal' exit fees. I have looked closely at it all.
🏠 Its crazy to have so much money - 150k in my hands and yet not afford stable shelter for myself, unincombered. Its a basic human need. So, it causes me to wonder if there's really any security in this world?
🏠 However, I am leaning toward a cheap place in a small country town to maybe rent out or just store my stuff while I travel, maybe help my parents a bit - hopefully with a better car, little caravan or some sort of RV. I have seen private (not big aged care complex), 2BR Brick villas in small towns for 130k + bodycorp fees (excluding rates) of only $400 a quarter: 1600yr + 2000 rates = 3600 ÷ 52 = $70wk + internal maintenance, even when I own it outright 😞 That particular place, if still available when I sell, will rent for 160wk, which, after the cost of storage elseehere for my stuff, would not leave much benefit anyway. Maybe I could still make it a home base to store my stuff - a place to come back to to rest, to age... (as its in town with a couple of home services) and it would be a good rental for my son to inherit. But... I don't know,
// I'd like to involve my son in the selling up... but the timing doesn't feel right. This being his 'childhood home' (he commented recently how lucky I was to have it, and the memories... Reading between the lines - what I heard him really saying is that he appreciates the stability of still having his childhood home to visit since breaking up with the love of his life 8months ago, and losing his sister.
// Anyway, what will be will be. I'm not sure about anything anymore myself 😕 💜🌷🌿

Its almost 3am and I'm still winding down 😕. Just have to mop in the morning and go work the shop. Having rouble going to sleep, in so much pain. My hamstring just had a cramp - ouch! The upper back scoliosis has been inching making it hard to find a comfortable position. Feet are the worst and tendonitis Rt shoulder... I not long as took strong otc pain medication but hasn't kicked in yet. Hope it makes me sleepy. Wish o had a bath to go soak a while. Might have a hot choc though. Starting to get the shakes, cold I think, need to distract. Betta set alarm so I'm awake & gone before they get here lol

Good Night (morning lol) to you all, thanks for checking in on me. Hugzz💜

Hope things go ok @Former-Member and that you got some good sleep. Hope inspection goes OK.

Procrastinating on decluttering here. We probably need to move - Mr Darcy not coping with our farmlet. Hope you are able to work things out about what to do. There is a bit to consider and private aged care facilities can end up having horrific fees - been stuff on news about a company recently (?Aveo). I hope it will all sort out and that you will find a place where you feel at home.

Take care
Darcy

The inspection / or viewing nor favourable - he thought it too much work than they could handle. 🙂