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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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mr shaz cut our hedge right back to the base @Former-Member , @Sophie1 , @Determined , @Smc , @Anastasia , @Bunniekins , @Appleblossom , @Adge , @Bezak482

now seeing new shorts coming up , need to plant a couple more inbetween to make a great hedge again

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@Shaz51Ekk! will it grow back quickly? 😮

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ha ha it is growing back my sister @Bunniekins

sooo glad

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Lots of Urgent Home Maintenance (all at once) -

Yes forced Decluttering too - Having to get rid of (Replace) equipment -

My Aircon tripped the RCD, cutting all power to the house (yesterday afternoon).

Now I cannot use it at all, even though it was/ is running fine.

Electrician charged $500 to replace one light & one powerpoint – Yikes!

He would not open up or check Aircon, to repair – Which was the main (most urgent) reason, for calling (booking) an Electrician.

He said I need to Replace the Aircon/ get a new one.

All my Aircon contacts (several businesses) have had their contact phone numbers Disconnected – perhaps they have shut-down, closed business.

I finally got in contact with one Aircon place which did not have a Disconnected phone number – they don’t want my business, even though they do have Box Aircons in stock.

They would get an instant $700 or more for a replacement Aircon – Yet they said “We will get back to you sometime, in about a week”.

The Neurologist – Referral for my 3 numb fingers (nerve damage), will not take Bookings until February 2021 next year (they said on telephone).

Oh my…..

Wow, it comes all at once…

Adge

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Watching some trees buffet around in the wind here waiting for a storm to pass (still approaching).

Have some more pruning to do.

I want to cut back to gutter level while they are small enough and safe enough for me to manage.

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ha ha ha that is Mr shaz totally @Determined

@Bunniekins, we brought some new hedging plants to go inbetween xxx

@Former-Member, @Adge , @Smc , @Emelia8 , @Anastasia , @Scoo , @FindingStrength

finding it hard to keep up with our garden and mum's @Appleblossom

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Spotted this little trick online as one way to hide wall blemishes.

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HI @Determined @Shaz51 @Former-Member ... anyone else hanging around.

Not doing much inside work at the moment, bt getting lots done in the garden. Still heaps of weeds but making inroads, and it's almost warm enough to start planting the summer vegs.

Have been finding and filtering out a bit of rubbish while weeding/garden bed building, and also am moving scattered bricks and rocks and suchlike into coherent piles that may, at times, do double duty as garden edges. 🙂

Oh, and cleanup work at our Older Son's place was very successful. The real estate agent looked delighted, paid friendly attention to the maintenance issues we pointed out, and now our son gets the opportunity of a fresh start instead of having the backlog from sharing with his sister hanging over him. 🙂

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Sounds good for your son @Smc

I had my son make a couple of decisions about his stuff in my garage. Gently Gently.

DOnt need it spotless ... proud of me. I booked a hard rubbish collection and will throw some things out ... phew ....

@Shaz51Hope you have not taken on too much.

Take Care of YOU as well as everybody and everything else.

Sort through those things with doc ... maybe ... maybe clarity and action will help reduce anxiety. SO hard. SIgh ...

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