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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.

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Noticed my office desk is becoming a bit cluttered again ...

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4x tap washers replaced and a seal in a leaking toilet replaced today.

2 of those tap washers I had already replaced but they were damaged again due to over tightening 😡🙊 Not hhappy Jan

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@Determined Annoying jobs done = yay.

Did a bit of sanding today (prepping for painting).

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Annoying when it has to be redone @Former-Member

Wait and see how long before little people wreck them again.

Painting sounds like fun.

Wold love to do some painting at our place but too stressful for darling.

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Our porch was only accessible through the carport roller door so we had it reconfigured to make it more user friendly @Determined . Doing the painting ourselves to save $.

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Hello @Determined , @Former-Member , @Smc , @Former-Member , @Former-Member

Wee trimmed our bushes and did gardening at mum's, looking good

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Did I tell Yas I've had 3x3x3 storage shed jammed full since selling my house 2yrs ago? Well, today, for the first time, I opened up and started to unpack it. Came back with a full van, sore bones and muscles. But I dropped off a load at the tip too. Stupid paying storage for stuff I'm not using. So it's a start 😇👍

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Well done @Former-Member

We still have boxes in our shed that were dumped there at the.end of moving more than 2 years ago.

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@Former-Member Agree with you, paying for storage = ☹️ and "decluttering" that expense from your budget = 👍.

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