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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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@Former-Member

Today I am dealing with myself.

Going to the (very much needed) gym after a while.

🙂

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LoL @Former-Member

Methinks I would be in trouble 🤣

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@Radleritis trust gym session went well.

@Determined is it possible to get an update your roof situation without your blood pressure rising through it?

We are starting to arrange quotes for some of the early maintenance/ renovation jobs that need doing here. Have a couple of jumpers that were given to me that have been set aside to go to op shop.

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Still waiting to hear from.insurance re roof @Former-Member but we are supposed to be having a quality auditor come to site to discuss our concerns. That may take weeks. We have however received a verbal and written apology from insurance rep for the stress that has been caused .

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@Former-Member

Yes, it was ok. That is one of the things that I like doing, exercising. 🙂

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Hey all. Spent most of the day sorting. Only got a small amount done volume-wise, but there was a lot of fiddly small stuff in it, so in that sense, it was significant enough. 🙂 I was working on some of the stuff that Younger Daughter had cleared from her room in a semi-unsorted manner...???

Lots of unwanted papers in the worm farm, soft plastics bagged to take to the supermarket for recycling, a bit of recycling in its bin, and a bag of general rubbish in the other bin. Beads and haberdashery oddments separated out, ditto pencils and pens. There's a bagful of "lost" items of clothing, and a much reduced boxful for Daughter to have a look over. Once she's pulled out what she wants, there may be the odd thing I'd like for myself, and the remainder should be rehome-able.

Tis late, I should get to bed. Hopefully I can continue the process tomorrow.

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Fiddly stuff = hard work @Smc

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Salvos came today and picked up a couple of bits of furniture the vendor left 🙌.

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Off to a new home they go. 🙂

I didn't end up continuing the "toss and sort" today. Too tired etc., for assorted reasons.

Tomorrow's another day.

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Tidying in the garden = home maintenance @Smc 😀😀😀

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