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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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@Shaz51, yeah the "keeping" is always the hard part. 🙂
I find that the clutter that builds up is usually the stuff that doesn't have a definite "right place", or the place it should be stored in is inconvenient. We don't have a proper home office area, for example, so an awful lot of our dining table clutter is paperwork and associated items.

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We don't have a proper home office area, , yes I don`t have one either @Smc

and then mr shaz loves putting everything in one spot in the kitchen , until i can not stand it anymore and tidy it up and the he can`t find anything

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Managed to fix a leaking toilet today after more than 12 months on the to do list.

Could not find the replacement seal required to do the job initially. Was actually told such a part was not available.

Well after purchasing a new cistern and getting the change over half done had to go for a new flexible water supply hose.

Well there right beside the flexible hoses were the replacement seal.

$2 ...job done. After already spending over$100...

That will do for now.

Probably should install the new cistern now I have it but... back in the too hard basket now the leak is fixed.

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@Faith-and-Hope

Gradually getting your place sorted = yay

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@Determined, we have a leak under the kitchen , mr shaz used duck tape to wrap around it

we have rang a plumber 30 kms away but he wont come unless he has a couple of jobs this way

so hoping the duck tape will work @Adge , @Former-Member , @Smc , @Faith-and-Hope

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I hope the Duct tape works too @Shaz51 Plumbing leaks drive me nuts.

My shower is dripping again (won't shut off) - after being supposedly fixed by a plumber, at least 5 times (5 call-outs).

Adge

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hope the Duct tape works too @Adge , i don`t think the plumber wants to come with this virus around xx

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Just when you really Do need a plumber @Shaz51 They don't want to come....

Adge

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Spoke too soon.

Now we have a bigger leak 😬🤯

Seems I broke something when I put it back together.

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