Decluttering and home maintenance

@Former-Member, a lot of what gets done at my Mum and Dad's house feels like nibbling around the edges. It's a big job and we can't get there very often.
So we try to be Dorys and "just keep swimming, just keep swimming...". Clearing a countertop was a little job out of a huge task, but it was a job done.

A couple of friends came around today and kindly finished our rainwater tank overflow water diversion today, a job Mr Darcy & I were having difficulties with. Feeling blessed.

@Former-Member friends are such a blessing 😊I'm so pleased you had some practical help today

tomorrow we are tackling the kitchen clutter monster 😼

hopefully lots of boxes for op shop come out of this one 🤞and maybe an organised plastics cupboard 🙀🙀

Checking in to see how everyone is getting along

@Sophie1 @Smc @Adge @Determined @Shaz51 @Faith-and-Hope

How is the unpacking going @Former-Member

Really pleased today, whilst in our regional centre we stopped at a tile place and found some really nice tiles on their bargain table (up to 60% off) which we have purchased in readiness for our renovation.

Woo-hoo @Former-Member 🎉

Yay for bargains, @Former-Member!

Not really any in-the-house decluttering happening at the moment, but that's because I'm concentrating on the out-in-the-yard jobs. Which are a mixture of decluttering and gardening.

It's so nice seeing bits and pieces of the yard coming into order. I'd love to see the same happen inside, but I think part of what makes inside harder is that the individual items are so much smaller and more numerous. If you make a neat stacked garden edge out of 100 or so bricks, it's made a big difference, both to the original storage site and the neatness of the garden. A "higgledy piggledy" stack of timber moved to a spot where it can be an "orderly and out of the way" stack of timber really frees up space.

A boxful of paperwork takes much longer to sort through, and doesn't free up anywhere near as much space.... But it is considerably lighter than either bricks or timber. 😛

@Smc Outdoors counts as much as indoors, getting things done is aim. Visible progress = yay.

Yup. Today I've been relocating some "building materials" a.k.a. bottles to make bottle walls out of, and started relocating flower pots. Found out that ants had made a multi level housing development out of one stack.

I've seen some nice looking examples of bottle walls, and also some seriously ugly ones.... am hoping I can achieve the former type.

Hi all @Smc @Former-Member @Faith-and-Hope

Well done on your respective projects and efforts - the bottle walls are beautiful !

we are two cupboards into the kitchen de-clutter yay 😀

A few more cupboards to go and then the kitchen bench 😬😬😬