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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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Well done @Ali11 sorting unpacked boxes from moves can be interesting.

Did it feel a bit like opening presents or was it more like 'I wonder I bothered moving this stuff?'

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A little of option A, a little of option B, @Former-Member Have you got much planned this weekend?

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I would like to sort another shelf or two in bookcase @Ali11 . Mr Darcy will soon be keen to tackle shed again so whether or not we venture out there this weekend remains to be seen. There are plenty more non essential items that could be packed. I would like to do a little in the garden too and we will need to vote.

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Pleased to report that I got some more books sorted today 😀.

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A box of books, a shade sale we had been given and a jigsaw puzzle passed on to some friends. Another box of books went to the op shop. 😀😀😀

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got rid of a big bag of mr shaz`s old clothes today @Former-Member

have to do some of mine xx

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'Onya @Shaz51

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Have another pile of magazines/books ready to go and a fair few old plant catalogues and supermarket magazines out for recycling.

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wow well done @Ali11

I find that hard , I would start reading the things in the boxes and not getting anywhere

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

Mum is still in hospital , so I gattered everything i could find to wash at home

now I should do bookwork but !!!!!!!!! i dont really want too

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@Shaz51 ahhh Shaz51 don't do book work talk to us instead :)xx

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