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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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Really pleased with today's tidying up effort and we have made a decent dent in clearing some items from the big room (as we call it).

Along the way we:

1. Replaced some knobs on beside cabinets - they now match the ones on the chest of drawers.

2. Sorted and put away a few items that were previously unpacked.

3. Cleared out 1/2 dozen or so folders, recycling a fair portion of the removed paperwork.

4. Set aside a few things to go to the op shop.

5. Spoke to + messaged some family members offering them first pick of some items prior to disposing of them elsewhere.

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Very good day @Former-Member doing that

Now some me time for you xxx

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Still got to finish sorting some of the keeping paperwork @Shaz51 , Mr D having a siesta.

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Feels good when things get done @Former-Member

Yes we saved the filling cabinets which I will have to go through and throw things out

What I need now is somewhere to put my paperwork at mum's which is adding up fast

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I have been using some tubs that fit a suspension file system for our financial paperwork @Shaz51.

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Slow but steady progress made clearing our big room. Have a few more items set aside for donating. A friend called in today = 2 more items out the door 👍.

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Donated a few more items over the weekend which included a number of lever arch folders and plastic sleeves. Today a plastic tub full of papers went in the recycle bin and a few items were given proper homes.

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Expecting our builder to show tomorrow morning (or at least one day this week).

Excess furniture left the building today ... yay.

Have a few bits left to move from renovation area but all in all am pleased with our clean-up effort.

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Time for some Decluttering?....

Oh great - WA has gone into Lockdown (6.00pm) tonight, for 5 days.

All of Perth metro area, Peel region, & South-West region - That all the most populated areas, most of the entire WA population (in fact).

I got an email from UWU (5 minutes ago), which told me - They assumed that I already knew (no I didn't).

My worst nightmare - Not quite, but close....

They always assume that everyone has been told (knows).

No wonder my neighbours were Partying madly last night - Goto get their party in, before Lockdown.

They must have known...

Apparently there was Panic Buying (Big time) again today - I didn't know, because I wasn't out at the Shops.

Goto get into that Decluttering....

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