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Boogie
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Originally posted by Ethne Alba:
OK, help please:
How do i deal with the apparently never-ending piles of paperwork that accumulate around our living room?
I am a file freak who loves nothing more than seeing rows of orderly files, containing sorted documents. However i am married to someone who likes to leave their paperwork lying where it was dropped.
Make sure your spouse has their own office, then transfer all piles there.
Keep their office door firmly close at all times.
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daisydaisy
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Had just started to successfully use Green Metropolis to sell my excess books, to find out the site is closing in the next couple of weeks. Foiled. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
You could try WeBuyBooks - it's who I used for the CDs and will be trying for books next.
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Ethne Alba
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Boogie, thank you!
It's sounding like my method for dealing with the children in their teens
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Beethoven
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Originally posted by Beethoven:
This week I really will put the boxes of Christmas decorations away. Honest. They're currently stacked up the stairs which is horribly inconvenient and conspicuous, so I have to get them dealt with soon. Even I can't cope with the idea of them still being there come March...! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
I made it! Put them all away last Friday, so I even had a whole day spare ![[Biased]](wink.gif) It's nice having space on the stairs again, but I do wish Op 1 had followed through on her offer to tidy the living room since I'd done the rest of downstairs. In practice she put away 2-3 things, moved a few others, and watched the TV. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) The kitchen now looks like a disaster zone since my fridge needs replacing. Replacement was due yesterday so I cleared the microwave & all the clutter off the top onto the table. Replacement now not coming until Friday, so I have a couple of days to get rid of all the clutter...
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by daisydaisy:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Had just started to successfully use Green Metropolis to sell my excess books, to find out the site is closing in the next couple of weeks. Foiled.
You could try WeBuyBooks - it's who I used for the CDs and will be trying for books next.
Interesting, I'll have a look at that. I've been checking out Bookmooch, but swapping books (which is what happens on the site) is not getting rid of books.
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Belle Ringer
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Man knocked on the door asking to buy the wrecked car, still in the driveway from last years accident because I need to find the title to gt it hauled away.
I said the chassis is bent. He said a family member is a mechanic and can bang it into shape.
So I had to find the car title, which is not in the file "Car"! Where could it be?
I spent the entire weekend going through papers (interesting articles I saved, old taxes and receipts and budget plans, old letters, travel literature - way too much paper in my house), didn't find the title.
I discovered a replacement costs only $2; the guy backed out; I filled the garbage can! I think I'll call and thank him for getting me to do some clean-up. (Long ways to go, but a good start).
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Well, my cunning plan was a somewhat longish-term plan but unexpectedly we needed to do a bit of crisis cleaning, and by sheer Providence a friend called when I was about to start an all-nighter, and he was happy to help, so the apartment is AMAZINGLY WONDERFULLY BETTER NOW.
Um, so, there you go. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) Thank you God!!!!!!
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Golden Key
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Yay, everybody!!! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
And I'm making some progress.
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Nenya
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Decluttering is being forced on me by major decorating chez Nen. The small bedroom is to become my study but I need to pare my paperwork and books down to fit into it. The going is slow.
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Boogie
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A massive declutter has been forced on us by the arrival of carpet moths. (Foul creatures which EAT carpet, serves us right for getting the most expensive wool carpet) We have carpets in the bedroom, living room, stairs and landing - the rest of the house has oak floors.
The carpeted areas had to be cleared completely. All cupboards and drawers too. Then the rooms had to be fugged, then sprayed. It took three days, but a lot of stuff was decluttered.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Huia
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Decluttering is wonderful. I found some possum fur innersoles for my sheepskin slippers.
No cold feet for me this winter.
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daisydaisy
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Yesterday I finished decluttering my back garden. It's small, so it doesn't take long to become cluttered, but about 3 years for me to get around to decluttering. I am looking forward to relaxing there in the sunshine soon.
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Uncle Pete
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It's magic
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The books are breeding behind your back. They must like it in your house.
My mantra is 'Books do not count as clutter'.
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To The Pain
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Originally posted by Huia:
Decluttering is wonderful. I found some possum fur innersoles for my sheepskin slippers.
No cold feet for me this winter.
Huia
I loved my possum fur/sheepskin slippers but had to switch to sheepskin only ones last year as I'd worn the possum fur footbeds bald! Come to think of it, those were probably the slippers I bought the last time I visited CHCH and we went for milkshakes!
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jacobsen
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Basking in the virtuous sense of a job done.
Small spare room contains bed and computer. Music room contains too much of everything, many LPs and a convertible couch. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
In order to relocate the computer in the MR which is on the first floor, faces south and gets the best light and the least use in the house ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) I had to:
*Rationalise the contents of over 40 box files containing music. Lots of paper waste to the recycling, and 20 box files to landing preparatory to finding good homes for them.
*Move the LPs, till then stored in 4ftx18 inch bookcases lying on their sides, one stacked on the other, to the resulting cleared shelf space.
*Move bookcases, now upright, into temporary position in my bedroom.
*Move couch into the newly freed space under the window in the music room.
*Move computer table and computer, scanner, monitor etc. into newly freed space in the music room.
*Move spare room bed to newly freed space where the computer had been.
*Move the bookcases from their temporary location in my bedroom to the newly freed space in the spare bedroom where the bed had been.
* Finally, after four years, put overlarge books into the newly freed space in the bookcases in the spare bedroom.
*Distribute spare box files to interested friends.
*Have a large glass or three of wine.
*Pop in to spare room and music room to admire and bask in suddenly increased space. Also that on the landing.
That's my lot for the foreseeable future. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Piglet
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Jacobsen - ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Yes indeed
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Huia
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To the Pain - that was years ago. I hope mine last that long.
Jacobsen, I hope the wine was enjoyable - you certainly earned it.
Huia
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jacobsen
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You bet. (Hic)
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Golden Key
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Trying to do a big push over the next few days, but I'm sick.
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jacobsen
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Sometimes you just wake up, the energy is there, and you begin....
Hope you feel better soon. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Huia
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Jacobsen, following your wonderful example I bought myself a bottle of wine
Now I just have to earn it. (sigh)
Golden Key, I hope you can balance looking after yourself with cleaning up.
Huia
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North East Quine
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Jacobsen
I had a coffee morning in my house yesterday. This neccessitated decluttering the porch / hall, living room / kitchen/ bathroom / dining room.
This involved the time-honoured technique of boxing up my husband's clutter and shoving it in son's bedroom, for him to deal with "later." The boxes are stacked on top of the boxes which resulted from the last similar declutter.
The household and my clutter was shoved into the study. And it looks almost manageable. So today's task is to sort it out properly. I'll be in the study anyway (article to write) so perhaps it's do-able...
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jacobsen
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This was your husband's clutter? he obviously never missed the stuff from the previous decluttering which is still in boxes underneath the most recent lot. How about just giving the boxes the old heave ho?
Good luck, anyway
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North East Quine
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It's mostly paperwork, some of it work related, which might be important. Definitely not anything I could chuck out.
My husband does like to hang onto stuff, though. Our most recent argument was over a cassette tape. We were in Paris in 1991, and listened to a street artist playing the pan-pipes. It was sunny, it was Paris, it was romantic - we bought one of his tapes. We listened to it once on our return and realised that without the holiday ambience, it sounded pretty grim. But we didn't throw it out.
A few weeks ago, I chucked it, and husband spotted it in the wastepaper bin. He was outraged! How could I even think of binning a tape which neither of us had listened to since 1991? It is sentimental!
It's back on the shelf. Sigh. I have binned all my cassette tapes, but my husband is hanging onto his collection. Why, I don't know. I guess he looks at a mix tape circa 1982 and is transported back to the halycon days of living in student halls.
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
... he looks at a mix tape circa 1982 and is transported back to the halycon days of living in student halls.
I'm afraid I can relate to that - I've still got cassettes of Queen's Greatest Hits and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Architecture & Morality, which may not have been listened to since about 1982, but I haven't the heart to throw them out.
They're part of my youth ...
As for all D's magazines and periodicals about pipe-organs dating from before the Flood - don't get me started. ![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Oddly enough, I only thought of this this morning. The Former Miss S's grandmother-in-law always remembers Mr S and me very fondly, although we really didn't know her at all well. I've come to the conclusion that she thinks of us so kindly now because when we did know her she was in a happier place, i.e. living with her husband and daughter rather than widowed and living in a home for the slightly confused.
The thought of us takes her back there, rather like all these antediluvian cassettes - funny, I've never compared myself to an ancient mix tape before ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Mrs. S, ancient and getting more so
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My house is a chronic disaster area, but I do make a point of getting my trash out every week, and my recyclables unless it's raining or snowing.
Friday is trash day. This is the sixth Friday in a row that I could not put my newspapers and catalogs out because it was raining in the morning. As usual, it cleared up in the afternoon.
They say that in two months they will give us covered recyclable containers. I want mine NOW.
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Yangtze
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Why can't they just go out in the rain? That's what happens here. All our recycling boxes are uncovered. Doesn't matter if the contents get a bit soggy.
(ETA By 'here' I mean round my way. Not speaking for what everyone else's recycling boxes are like in the UK.)
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Moo
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Originally posted by Yangtze:
Why can't they just go out in the rain? That's what happens here. All our recycling boxes are uncovered. Doesn't matter if the contents get a bit soggy.
If they get soggy, they can't be recycled.
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Can't you use blue bags? All of our recycling goes out only in clear plastic blue-coloured bags.
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Moo
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We have open rectangular containers. As I said earlier, we're supposed to get covered ones in June.
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Huia
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In Christchurch we used to have open plastic boxes for recycling, now we have coloured coded wheelie bins - green for organic which goes out every week, yellow for recycling and red for rubbish - those go out on alternate weeks. I would be tempted to be the first to put the wrong bin for the week and see how many people just follow ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) except I rely on other people to put out the right bins so I can follow them.
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Golden Key
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Huia--
Thanks. I'm getting some cleaning done, and keeping a fairly good balance.
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Mrs Shrew
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Today is a major declutter day at chez shrew!
I will be tackling the bedroom, which is an absolute disaster zone.
Mr shrew is on side and I am readying the dusters... Wish me luck!
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Originally posted by Huia:
In Christchurch we used to have open plastic boxes for recycling, now we have coloured coded wheelie bins - green for organic which goes out every week, yellow for recycling and red for rubbish - those go out on alternate weeks. I would be tempted to be the first to put the wrong bin for the week and see how many people just follow except I rely on other people to put out the right bins so I can follow them.
Huia
We've had carts for about 25 years and it is very true that one person leading out with the wrong cart can turn a whole street over to the wrong ones. I always wonder what the worker picking up the carts thinks!
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Go, Mrs Shrew! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Mrs Shrew
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Hooray! Bedroom is not finished but is very very much better. I'm completely shattered now!
Many bits of toiletries ready to go, and Tue northern hemisphere's major hairband stock replenished.
I also finally took the curtains up ( we bought them 14 months ago....)
Next weekend I'll be sending the surplus yarn and fabric to the charity shop. Must be strong....must not get sentimental about yarn.....
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Roseofsharon
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quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
This involved the time-honoured technique of boxing up my husband's clutter and shoving it in son's bedroom, for him to deal with "later." The boxes are stacked on top of the boxes which resulted from the last similar declutter...
...It's mostly paperwork, some of it work related, which might be important. Definitely not anything I could chuck out.
Having the same problem. There are also plenty of old cassettes - but at least they are hidden away in the same boxes.
Yesterday I sent a box of ornaments & other 'bric-a-brac', much of which had been gifts from family and friends, to a local jumble sale. At this rate I will have decluttered everything I own and we will still be buried under a heap of total cr*p that Mr RoS can't part with.
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Yangtze
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quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
quote:
Originally posted by Yangtze:
Why can't they just go out in the rain? That's what happens here. All our recycling boxes are uncovered. Doesn't matter if the contents get a bit soggy.
If they get soggy, they can't be recycled.
Moo
Ah, round here they say it doesn't matter if they get wet. Must be different ways of recycling or something.
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North East Quine
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Originally posted bu RoseofSharon
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At this rate I will have decluttered everything I own and we will still be buried under a heap of total cr*p that Mr RoS can't part with.
[Roll Eyes]
That's a disincentive for me; that by decluttering my stuff I'm creating space for more of my husband's stuff.
In fairness, I have two shelves of photo albums, dated, labelled etc and certainly not "clutter." If I want to get nostalgic about life c1982, I look at my photos. Whereas my husband's memories are tied up in his accumulation of cassettes, lidless tea-pots, chipped cups, too-small sweatshirts, old bottle tops, lecture notes, etc etc.
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Which reminds me... you can sometimes get a hoarder ('scuse me, person-with-memories-tied-up-in-clutter) to let go of a lot of them by taking photos of the objects before disposing of them. The photo (even as a never-looked-at digital file) seems to be just enough existence that the concrete thingy can be let go without fear of somehow losing the memories.
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Golden Key
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{{{{{All of us}}}}}
I'm making progress. But it's wearying.
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Ethne Alba
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Family arriving!
Yikes!
De Cluttering button is now jammed on Full Steam Ahead. Main bins and paper recycling been taken to tip already. This is kicking my backside so hard.
Must remember to invite people to Stay far more often......
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Yangtze
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I have cleared and tidied up the area between my front door and the coal hole. Including cleaning the front door and door frame which were apparently filthier than a dirty movie judging by the colour of the water after and the fact that the door is now orange all the way down rather than a two tone orange-black.
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Boogie
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I've just done the dog cupboard, which was so bad I was afraid we'd get mice.
Pleased with myself now ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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