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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 just fixed & replaced 3 side dripper (feeder) Retic pipes (plus drippers) - to replace/ fix what the Cowboy Gardening Guys slashed to pieces with their whipper snippers.

Also to stop up the holes, where the water was spurting out (6 feet high in air).

That's 7 Retic pipe holes/ slashed (missing) side pipes fixed in 2 days.

Now I hope I can finally get the water pressure up high enough (without so many leaks) - to run the system.

I keep on finding more bits missing, so I'm sure that there will be more leaks (that I don't know about).

These guys must know that they've done it (when they do it) - it's pretty obvious, when a retic feeder pipe goes flying up in the air (from Whipper snipper).

The thing is that when I don't see them damaging the retic, which I don't usually (because I don't watch them) - they always just leave without saying or admitting anything.

Then I find the damaged pipes, after they've left.

It takes me far longer to diagnose find & repair the damage (if it is in fact fixable) - than the 5 minutes that it took them to slash those holes & pipes off.

Adge

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@Adge. sounds like you need to go to a different gardening service. Is that an option?


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Frustrating @Adge .

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@FindingStrength , @Scoo

how are you going @Former-Member , @Smc , @Adge , @Determined , @octavia , @Former-Member , @Bunniekins , @eth , @Appleblossom

have a bag of clothes to take to the op shop

been holidaying in a small cottage for 5 days and we have relized we have too much stuff at home

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Gee, you are "high-tech" (tech-savvy) @Shaz51

You are holidaying in a small cottage.

Yet you you still somehow managed to use internet (comp? or Mob phone?) - to post on Forums....

Adge

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'onya @Shaz51

Regular cleaning is proving difficult for me. Keeping up with the vacuuming but the floor washing isn't happening in what would be considered an appropriate time interval.

Any tips greatly appreciated.

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back home now my awesome @Adge , got home last night

and me sick today

how are you xx

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