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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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@Smc @Former-Member @Shaz51 @Faith-and-Hope

Group hug in order here also.

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@Smc @Former-Member

Cartoon a very good example of my shed pre move. New shed is better but not by much. And it is 1 bay wider. Was.planning to have had it sorted before uni resumed but supprise supprise that did not happen.

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@Determined

I have found that I have needed to be gentle on myself in relation to how cluttered our place became in our crisis and recognise it for what it was - a stress reaction to the trauma and I think perhaps the tidy up has been a reflection of my own healing.

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I can understand that @Former-Member

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Ditto here @Determined, @Former-Member.
I take encouragement from the fact that when I have control of a space, I tend to keep it ordered... not always, but often enough to prove it's do-able.

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Finished packing our books today ...yay.

A few more items out the door - a neighbour and friend the recipients 😀.

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I can also relate to all this. Clutter as a mirror of a depressed state of mind.

We (my wife and me) have done some major decluttering in our garage this weekend due to massive rats/mice infestation after returning from holidays, and it feels so good! 🙂 Clearer minds = clearer house. 🙂

And I love teasing her while we are doing such hard physical jobs to brighten up the whole process, and she likes it. Sometimes I just call her name while we are working, and when she probably thinks that I will tell her something about the jobs, I simply say: I love you. Also, I give her a lot of acknowledgement how amazing she is when she comes with some ideas and/or does some really heavy tasks. I can feel that lands really well for her. I tell her that she looks so beautiful and cute, all dirty and sweaty and she wonders how can I see her like that when she looks like a "grub". 🙂 We are Team and work like that always brings us closer to each other.

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Nothing like a rodent visit to facilitate a clean up @Radleritis 😀.

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Reckon we are just about done here, only a few bits left to pack.

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Hi @Radleritis. 🙂

Hope your house is rodent-proofed? Now that you've cleared their hidey holes, they'll be the ones looking for new "real estate". We've got an old weatherboard house, and it'll take major work to square things up to the point where they can't get in here, but we have at least got thoroughly rodent proof cupboards and pantry.

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