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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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😞 Not really the right form of decluttering @Determined. Hope you're ok... noticed you posted in your own thread, popping over there.

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@Determined

Have you been able to assess the damage as yet?

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Juat finished checking it out @Former-Member it is not neatly as bad ad I feared. Couple of cups? It sounded like a lot of pieces she was sweeping up last night so I may be missing something. Most of the mess seems to be in the cutlery drawer. She managed to trash the plastic divider so the contents are one big jumble.

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Built in divider, or an insert that you can easily replace?

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Perhaps an opportunity to attend to unwanted items when dealing with the aftermath @Determined .

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Plastic divider easily enough replaced @Smc . Possibly can patch it up.

Juat glad she did not damage the drawers

She was opening and slamming them shut because she knows it bothers me. Noise like that really hurts my ears.

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In other news.... finally got to washing the Christmas Day plates today.
Pretty tired. But happy to have that done.

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@Smc

Christmas dishes done = yay

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Well... mostly. The delicate glassware is still waiting, but that's seven glasses. No biggie.
Sadly, a couple of them were found to have hairline cracks, so they'll be out of commission. It's a set of 1960's-70's style ones that I've collected second hand, so as such I have "extras" but not in every colour. But like I said, better that they're used and enjoyed.

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We cheated for Christmas day and used disposable plates bowls cutlery, cups even the serving bowls. Put it all in the big green dishwasher at the end of the day lol.

That was darlings compromise to having everyone here as she was worried about the mess.

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