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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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I need dusting too @Shaz51 The top shelves, the window-sills, the windows too.

Spiders like sneaking their webs into the corners of my windows (behind the curtains).

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Ohh @Adge , @Former-Member

We have those geckos that do not clean after themselves @Determined , @Smc , @Former-Member

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I don't understand @Shaz51

What do you mean when you said you have geckos that don't clean after themselves?

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we have geckos in the house and they leave little messes everywhere at night time and they sleep during the daytime @Adge , @Former-Member , @Determined , @Smc , @Former-Member

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Oh little Gecko messages @Shaz51 I see what you mean.

Then you would not have any spiders or flies in the house (I think) - because the geckos would eat them all.

I used to have a gecko living under the outside brick fireplace slab.

& a gecko living in the electricity meter box (at the front door).

Sadly, they are long gone....

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Yes no spiders here @Adge

But with spring we now have baby geckos xx

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I'm happy now @Shaz51 @Former-Member I just went out & checked.

I found a small Gecko living under the old iron fireplace hotplate (I don't use it).

So I put the hotplate back, & left him/her there.

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Ah ha future geckos @Adge xxx

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I got through my Rental Inspection with no dramas yesterday.
And found someone to hosesit while I'm away at Christmas - so gotta kerp it nice for them too. Clothes my biggest problem, textiles, musical instruments, sewing stuff and books 😮yikes, it's all too much lol

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Yep baby geckos would be good @Shaz51

Praying Mantis still like laying their egg-cases on my front screen door (for some reason).

There is an egg-case on the front door right now - there have been a succession of them, one after the other.

At least there will be no bad bugs around, because the Mantis eat them.

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