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Let's celebrate our small and large successes in the battle of the piles!

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That's surely got to be one for the quotes file!

Aside from that - a very timely one for me too - have been trying to declutter the garage and the study. I think it gets worse before it gets better - the hall is evidence of that at the moment!

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"It's happy for deep people!"
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Originally posted by Chelley:
Aside from that - a very timely one for me too - have been trying to declutter the garage and the study. I think it gets worse before it gets better - the hall is evidence of that at the moment!

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Originally posted by PeteC:
How does this differ from the thread in Heaven (of which you are all aware)?

Answers on a postcard before 0900 EDT (Canada).

PeteC
tealess grumpy AS Host

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"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
William Morris

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Originally posted by Earwig:
In my back garden, I have a studio. I know, it's very cool. I just need to properly waterproof the studio before I can store my fabric and wool in there - otherwise, things get mouldy.

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Originally posted by Huia:
Earwig I just had my garage re-roofed. It was definitely worh doing as messy things can go in there.

I have found a young woman to help - I don't know her but she sounded OK on the phone - coming Saturday.

Huia

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Originally posted by Avila:
Okay so I have discovered the floor in my study adn have been inspired to get a 'proper' filing system going.

I tried in the past but the suspension files available don't fit the width of the filing cabinet. So now I am looking at getting one of those metal frames that sit inside the draw - but very few options, and HOW MUCH???

All I want is too be able to put files inside the filing cabinet - is that too much to ask?

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Don't give up on the suspension files yet. I once got caught out buying them too small, and only then discovered that they come in more than one size. The smaller size is usually A4, the larger size Foolscap, but there are other sizes as well.

This page on ebay has some useful information. Also, check out an office supplies shop like Staples first.

Of course, you may already have done all this, and just have a weird filing cabinet.

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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Unclutterer.com is good. Erin Doland, who posts there, has a good book on the subject. And there's a good e-mail newsletter, for free.

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Thanks Golden Key - going there now!

The corner cupboard is sorted - a full black bin bag of rubbish given away/recycled/thrown!

I dare not tackle the pan cupboard as that is Mr Boogie's domain (he's the cook round here). We have double of everything since we cleared out MILs house, so it could do with a declutter.

So I am moving on to my study/office/studio. First, the bookshelves. Well, one shelf will be more than enough for today.



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Originally posted by Avila:
Okay so I have discovered the floor in my study adn have been inspired to get a 'proper' filing system going.

I tried in the past but the suspension files available don't fit the width of the filing cabinet. So now I am looking at getting one of those metal frames that sit inside the draw - but very few options, and HOW MUCH???

All I want is too be able to put files inside the filing cabinet - is that too much to ask?

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Okay so I have discovered the floor in my study adn have been inspired to get a 'proper' filing system going.

I tried in the past but the suspension files available don't fit the width of the filing cabinet. So now I am looking at getting one of those metal frames that sit inside the draw - but very few options, and HOW MUCH???

All I want is too be able to put files inside the filing cabinet - is that too much to ask?

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This is your chance to get rid of suspension files!! They are horrible, take ages to label up and waste space. Just get normal folders that fit in the cabinet, and prop them up at the back with some small empty boxes or something (some people use magnetic bookends, and there are apparently some mythical types of file cabs which have a metal plate which you can slide back and forth)

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Originally posted by Nenya:
I was about to post with confidence that we don't have crumby cutlery drawers, and just went to check. Of course, what I seldom do is actually get the cutlery out... once I did that I realised that we do have crumbs in them but I'm glad to say we don't any more.

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But how does this mysterious fact happen?? We put the cutlery in clean and we get it out to use still clean and yet the crumbs appear! (And they don't seem to appear in the other kitchen drawers so it can't be from crumbs escaping when the worktops are wiped!). This is a very important question for a Coeliac who in all other circumstances avoids gluten containing crumbs!)

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Originally posted by tessaB:

I recommend having four boxes as you sort. One for rubbish, one for recycling, one for shredding and one with stuff to be kept and filed when you can reach the filing cabinet

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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
...I am itching to purge!!!

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As I mentioned on the other thread, I have great trouble working at it alone, so my best friend is coming over to have lunch, and after lunch, she'll sit in a comfy chair and keep up my spirits while I sort through boxes for a couple hours. Keep-throw-give away. I'm not going to subject her to actual labor because she has arthritis and needs to recover from teaching all week. Besides it's my mess.

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What a good friend – de-cluttering is SO boring it's a great idea to have someone to natter with while you are doing it.

I'm not so motivated today, so the timers will be out in force.

Today's job is to sort all my paints and canvasses - I paint so much and very few of them see the light of day so I paint over them in white matt to re-use them. I had no idea how many tubes of paint I had until I gathered them all in one place yesterday – it’s going to be great to have them all organised.



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I've just used it as padding for a box of Precious Things. So that just goes to show....

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Nooooooooooooooo ... this is the argument mrTal uses when an article comes in useful 25 years after the last time. That bale of wire in the shed that came out his grandad's shed... 25 years ago... 10 metres of it used by artistic child... gone back in the !"£$%^&*! shed.

I am so not motivated today.
ANd I don't even got a timer.


ETA: so glad Huia, that all is progressing ok. Good luck.

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I was about to post with confidence that we don't have crumby cutlery drawers, and just went to check. Of course, what I seldom do is actually get the cutlery out... once I did that I realised that we do have crumbs in them but I'm glad to say we don't any more.

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But how does this mysterious fact happen?? We put the cutlery in clean and we get it out to use still clean and yet the crumbs appear! (And they don't seem to appear in the other kitchen drawers so it can't be from crumbs escaping when the worktops are wiped!). This is a very important question for a Coeliac who in all other circumstances avoids gluten containing crumbs!)

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It's a good question and I confess I've just had a peep in a couple of my other kitchen drawers and they do have crumbs lurking at the back. I further confess that I just shut the drawer on them and didn't set to and clean them out as I did before.

I've started a sorting system that I think and hope is going to work for me, based on the inspiring pictures of folders stacked plastic boxes in the other thread. Mr Nen found me an empty plastic box in the loft and I bought myself some nice folders and labels and a gold pen. If a piece of paper is not worth a nicely labelled folder it goes in the bin. I've always thought I wanted a filing cabinet, but the comments on here are making me think again.

I've only just started, though and it feels as though there's a mountain to climb.

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ANd I don't even got a timer.

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