SPRING-Clean Declutter - Need Help

That was a busy day @Former-Member

I have a couple of days off - had a medical procedure today.

A very busy day @Former-Member xx

Hope you are OK @Former-Member after today , sending you lots of hugs xx

@Former-Member

At present I am doing part time medical typing. Hoping nothing major - secret woman's business - just a day procedure.

Having a couple of days rest from decluttering - friend dropped off trailer which needs filling - have quite a bit of stuff ready to go. Mr Darcy will be keen to get the job done.

Hi @Former-Member

That sounds like a huge amount of work - and you did well to take breaks while you were doing it - how massive that task has been over all - and you started that a year ago - yeah!!

I don't know what you mean about your spiritual sister coming for two days kinda souring on you - is this going to be hard for you? Will it stop your momentum? Will she help or hinder - you mentions "fireworks oo oo"

It sounds a bit ominous - I hope it works out though

I am okay - we had some glorious weather in Melbourne but it turned stormy over night - I had several loads of washing mount up on me but it's all dry from the warm wind we had yesterday and last night -

I think about you a lot Lapses - and I am glad your Dad is okay - how much longer do you think you have clearing out your old house? It seems to have been a huge task with all sorts of other things happening so nothing runs smoothly

It's hard work but bit by bit you are doing it - that's a good thing - you deserve a medal for all of this

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@Former-Member thinking of you and hoping things are travelling ok for you.

The declutter continues.

An old bar fridge that no longer works and e-waste from indoors along with broken outdoor furniture and rubbish from shed have been loaded onto friend's trailer - most will be sorted for recycling at the tip. Mr D doing all the work as I am not allowed to do heavy lifting for 2 weeks.

Helloooo all.

One of my "declutter" challenges is my simultaneous passion for "War on Waste" style landfill reduction... I cringe at filing up a bin with whatever. I'm much more comfortable if I can separate it out so it goes to better end uses, one way or another.

So I kept the rubbish bags from our party on the weekend aside to sort. A small bag is unmistakably "landfill". All the plastic cups and plates, plus cardboard and paper, got put in the recycling bin, food scraps either went to the chook or the worm farm, and paper serviettes have also been fed to the worms. Soft plastics are bagged up to take in to the "Redcycle" bin. Plastic spoons... I might give them a quick wash and see if anyone in town takes them as a "free if you want them" facebook offer. If not, they're rubbish. Nice bits of wrapping paper are going in our wrapping paper box for some other pressie.

A fair few of the pressies were plants for my garden. Some were edible treats, and there was a small collection of household or workshop items, plus gift cards and money. So as long as we're wise with the giftcards, we haven't added much "clutter". (The household etc. items are ones we can use, so I guess they're not "clutter" anyway. 🙂 )

We'd encouraged our family to avoid plastic decorations/balloons, so the hall decorations consited of fabric bunting (already had that), paper streamers and hanging decorations, lots of greenery and blossomy branches from the garden, stacks of our old hardcover books, and photos from "through the years". Fabric bunting gets kept for next time, paper decorations are currently being used by Youngest to give her room a cheerful makeover, branches can mulch the garden, books go back in the bookshelf, and maybe we need a few more wall hooks to put some of the photos on display...

So I'm happy. That, to me, is "everything in its right place".