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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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A few items of clothing went to the op shop this week via a friend who volunteers.

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Donated a few knick knacks this week.

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Hope you have not taken on too much. --- sometimes I do @Appleblossom , still learning to stop myself , hard though

Hello @Former-Member , @Smc , @Determined , @Adge , @Bunniekins , @Anastasia , @FindingStrength

threw out a few items this week

have a problem now -- we have the spare room full of our D1 things for the wedding next year

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Hmmmm.... thinks we need a more COVID-friendly list @Former-Member? I know that we've had no chance to use the "theatre tickets of our choice" gift that our son gave us last year.. what theatre?? 😛

Consumables still work... classes are mostly online at the moment... experience destinations are largely closed... the memories ideas are still do-able, and some of the time ideas.

In some ways, I think the best clutter-buster gift I could get is some free time and mental space to raid my too-big craft materials stash, and turn it into the things I actually want to have. So far, that's proving to be an elusive goal. But on a more positive note, I guess I have been fairly successful of late with doing a "seed stash-buster blitz", and all being well, the garden and the dinner table will thank me for that over the next few months. 🙂 Craft materials are bulkier than seed packets, but I guess the process for getting that stash-bust underway is essentially the same... something to muse on.

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Mr Darcy's brother had been visiting and bless him, some tap washers have been replaced on older fittings that I hadn't had experience with, we ended up needing to replace the tap heads in the bathroom and a tap in the laundry that I had not been game to use since we moved in as it was turned off too tight. Bro battened down a corner of patio roof sheeting that had lifted with some recent strong winds and also gave hand in the garden.

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