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Decluttering and home maintenance

Decluttering and home maintenance

When MI crisis happens, keeping house can take low priority. But having a messy house can further dent what is often an already low self esteem. Build up of grime follows and rodents have a field day in inaccessible places.

Getting that 2 minute job done (that has been annoying you for years) can lift ones spirit.

I have slowly been decluttering and tidying up our house. The progress made thus far has been achieved primarily by persistently dealing with one item a day.

What has often kept me going has been the encouragement from others @Faith-and-Hope, @Smc @Determined @Shaz51

This tip passed on to me today. Hang all your clothes in the wardrobe with the hanger back to front. As you wear them, return them with the hanger the right way round. In 6-12 months review all items that remain on back to front hangers with a view to donating/selling them.

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@Former-Member I love the box. Vintage port- right down my alley. Lol

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Love vintage storage @JB70 such as these looks, but admit I am not fond of open storage and prefer things behind glass/other doors to save on dusting. Custom made shelving such as they have done for the old suitcases so that storage boxes/items are readily accesible to my mind is also a must. Moving things to get to things =

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I want to copy these ideas! From the studio of Gail Rieke, an installation artist. I have a collection of lovely trunks, suitcases and boxes... but pulling them together into "furniture" is still on the dream-board.

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Spent part of this afternoon re-stacking the brick plinths I'd built up for the plant stands. When I set them up, everything was a bit on the wobbly side. I didn't want the extra work, but I realised that if I didn't even things up, I'd be causing myself ongoing problems.

The cause of the wobbliness is that the Victorian bricks are uneven in size, and also 4-bricks-wide was just a fraction on the skinny side for the bases of the plant stands. So I put the plants and stands aside, removed a double row of Victorian bricks from under the spots where the legs would go, restacked 2x5x3 high with modern bricks in those spots, and put the Victorian bricks 4-wide in between, where evenness isn't critical. I even got out a hammer to knock off some bits of mortar, and the spirit level to make sure they really were level.

It's looking a lot better now. I need to do one more 5x2 stack for one more plant stand, then I can fill the stands. Next steps after that will be filling in the path next to them, and rigging up a star picket+bedhead gate. Sort of like this, but the one I'm using is a fancy one with an arched top and a green finish. 🙂

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Finding the new cleaning regimen helpful, it is based on doing one job a day.

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Today we got rid of a trailer load of green waste that was quite an eyesore (thanks to a friend).

Mr Darcy dropped off a DVD he no longer wanted to the op shop.

I did a bit of tidying in the kitchen (including removing some items that have no place in a kitchen) and reviewed cleaning supplies with a view to restocking what is needed.

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@JB70 are you needing some gentle encouragement in the decluttering and home maintenance department?

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@Eve7 there are a few of us who in the process of decluttering or need encouragement with it as well as with cleaning or other household tasks. Feel free to join in ...🤓.

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@Former-Member how is your unpacking going?

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