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daisydaisy
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
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So pleasure from knitting and from wearing.
I have pleasure wearing a Lothlorien-knitted pair of socks, as well as pleasure in knitting (I love turning heels) and am working my way through a stash of light-weight yarn to top up my sock stash.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
... He'd worn them every day except Sundays, when he washed them ...
That wouldn't have happened in the Western Isles ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
The story reminds me of the old saying that Queen Victoria had a bath "once a month, whether she needed it or not". ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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North East Quine
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I have taken Cottontail's excellent advice and have bought Marie Kondos book (on my e reader, thus avoiding further clutter) and am reading the introduction. I note one former satisfied customer decluttered his/ her spouse. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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If you only ever buy black socks not only does it save confusion it also means you never have to wash them!
The evidence is here.
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
If you only ever buy black socks not only does it save confusion it also means you never have to wash them!
The evidence is here.
And just who taught you that, eh?
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My singing club at work really love the Black Socks song!
It's a very mixed ability group of singers comprising of students who chose to be there, and staff who are there to support and not necessarily by choice. It's quite the most entertaining couple of hours of my week!
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
If you only ever buy black socks not only does it save confusion it also means you never have to wash them!
The evidence is here.
And just who taught you that, eh?
You, O Illustrious Master - praise be to your illustrious name!
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North East Quine
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Buttons.
We are binning some shirts which are frayed beyond redemption, but the buttons are perfectly good.
It is my habit to cut off such buttons and put them into the button tin. But, is there any point, really? I inherited my grandmother's button tin, and there are buttons in there on cards priced in old money. Some of those buttons are older than I am. The chances of any button going into that tin actually being used in the future is nil.
But old habits die hard....
Should I cut the buttons off? They're not clutter after all, as they have a home in the button tin all ready and waiting.
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The button box is playtime. Open it, spill the contents out, sort them, try to find matching ones, tip them back, and,on your knees, grovel, looking for those that fell on the floor. Twenty minutes plus passes in a flash... and think of the exercise involved.
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Moo
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When I was a child I loved dumping my grandmother's button box and playing with them.
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Brenda Clough
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I have buttons enough to fill a bathtub. God knows what my kids will do with them when I die. At least I am trying to deal with the 14 floor-to-ceiling steel bookcases.
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Welease Woderwick
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I have a button plastic jar and always cut off the buttons when a shirt gets to qualify as dusters or whatever - they are, very occasionally, useful.
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Rossweisse
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Basic Idiot Question: How does one start with decluttering?
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Welease Woderwick
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Bin bags, you need lots of bin bags!
You also need a ruthless streak and, in my case, reaching that point where I am screaming I can't live in this tip any more!
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Rossweisse
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I did that. It helped, but not enough.
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Basic Idiot Question: How does one start with decluttering?
Heheheheh. Check your email.
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Buttons.
We are binning some shirts which are frayed beyond redemption, but the buttons are perfectly good.
It is my habit to cut off such buttons and put them into the button tin. But, is there any point, really? I inherited my grandmother's button tin, and there are buttons in there on cards priced in old money. Some of those buttons are older than I am. The chances of any button going into that tin actually being used in the future is nil.
But old habits die hard....
Should I cut the buttons off? They're not clutter after all, as they have a home in the button tin all ready and waiting.
Buttons are for giving to primary school teachers for their craft boxes and math counting projects. They will love and adore you.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I have buttons enough to fill a bathtub ...
For your next church fête count them into an actual bath-tub*, and have people guess how many there are. Charge something like 50¢ a pop, offering a suitably silly prize. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
* or other large vessel
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Golden Key
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Rossweisse--
Some things I've found helpful:
Space Clear--Spacious Home, Spacious Self
Stephanie's book "Your Spacious Self" focuses on sorting out emotions that lead to clutter and interfere with decluttering. Her approach is very gentle and kind.
Unclutterer
Unf*ck Your Habitat--You're Better Than Your Mess
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Buttons are for giving to primary school teachers for their craft boxes and math counting projects. They will love and adore you.
I loved playing with the button box that my mother and grandmother had when I was very little. My grandmother had worked at a place that made women's clothing and often was allowed to bring home left-overs.
These days, I'm wondering if small children in a school or daycare setting are allowed to do so. Buttons may be considered choking hazards.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
... These days, I'm wondering if small children in a school or daycare setting are allowed to do so. Buttons may be considered choking hazards.
How else will they learn?
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Lamb Chopped
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That's why I said "primary school," not "preschool." If children in general don't know better than to eat buttons by age 6, there's no hope for protecting them. (keeping them from shoving stuff up their noses and ears might take longer, mind)
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Brenda Clough
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My son, age 9, put a dime up his nose. When I asked him how it had happened, he used a classic example of the passive voice: "A dime got up my nose." One must envision a wanton and unprovoked assault upon the bodily orifices by US coinage.
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
These days, I'm wondering if small children in a school or daycare setting are allowed to do so. Buttons may be considered choking hazards.
My three-year-old and her classmates have stuck buttons (and various other objects) on to paper some time in the last few weeks.
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North East Quine
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7.15 - The North East Man and I start the Marie Kondo thing, all full of enthusiasm.
8.15 - Our spirits are starting to break. We have stopped for a cup of tea. We are both wild-eyed and staring.
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Cottontail
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That's probably normal. She does say that blitzing things means 6 months in her book. After one week, I am still working through my clothes, but I am seeing definite results. I am astonished by how little space they are taking up.
Great that the North East Man is on board, though.
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North East Quine
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The thing about tidying categories, rather than areas made sense.
We have a downstairs bathroom, an upstairs shower room, a BOGOF box for duplicates in the hall cupboard which includes toothpaste etc, and individual items wander - the Vicks menthol on a bedside table, the hand cream in a jacket pocket, the nail varnish remover on my desk. Invariably, once in the shower, it turns out that the shampoo is downstairs, or the conditioner upstairs. We keep buying more to make sure that there is at least one of everything in both places. Until we discover that both shampoos are downstairs, or both conditioners upstairs...
So collecting everything into the living room and sorting, and then deciding once and for all where everything went made such perfect sense.
Until we started....
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North East Quine
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We have twelve bottles of shower gel so far, and probably more still to be unearthed. So why have I found myself in the recent past in the shower with three bottles of conditioner, two tubes of scrub and no shower gel?
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Cottontail
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The clothes are finished! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Three bin bags, and an equivalent for the charity shop. The wardrobe and drawers all neatly lined up or folded. I call that a job well done.
Next stage is terrifying me. It's been my nemesis in the past. It's ... papers ...
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Huia
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That's not too much shower gel NE Quine - it's too much in the same place.
Huia - shower gel Queen
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North East Quine
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We've spent a second night of sorting out the contents of our bathroom and showerroom. We had seven bottles of shampoo and ... thirteen bottles of conditioner.
We're about half way there.
It does seem to be working, though. Up to now, tidying the bathroom involved moving stuff upstairs into the shower room, and tidying the shower room meant moving stuff downstairs into the bathroom. We have binned four carrier bags worth of surplus packaging, out of date items etc. The North East Man has found an unopened aftershave he likes, and I've found some bath fizzers I'm looking forward to using.
But - how did we let so much stuff pile up in the first place? How did I fail to notice thirteen bottles of conditioner?
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Huia
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I once helped an elderly cousin of my mother's clean out some cupboards. The item she overbought was rubber gloves. She was really embarrassed until I told her about my collection of light bulbs ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) (this was before the longer lasting eco bulbs were available).
Finding the fizzies was a great reward for all your work. Well done.
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Lothlorien
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Toilet paper was on every shopping list for a long time for me. Thing is, there's basically just me here most of the time. I did not need four packs of multiple rolls each here. Now I do not get it in every order as if there were five people in the house and a constant stream of visitors. I was running out of storage space for it .
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Jengie jon
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Sock draw reduced so old socks have gone to a charity. A second bag came due to celebrating tonight as I needed to clear a hook for coats and decided to check through the outdoor stuff before hanging back up.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
But - how did we let so much stuff pile up in the first place? How did I fail to notice thirteen bottles of conditioner?
Tidying blindness? If something is always in the same place it looks as if it should be there. I've found it's easy to completely ignore things for weeks and months,tidying round them, before realising they could be thrown in the bin.
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Roseofsharon
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I have also been decluttering toiletries etc this week. There are large cupboards in both the bathroom and the downstairs cloakroom containing toiletries and cleaning materials, a box of first aid and simple medical supplies in the kitchen and also a small but deep cupboard of cleaning materials.
I was somewhat surprised at the multiples of various items, too. Strangest is the collection of carpet stain removers, Three (or maybe four) each of which has probably only been used to remove one stain then got shoved to the back of the cupboard to be replaced with a new bottle when the next stain occurred.
Before I started that particular job I cleared out the dressing table drawers and found a couple of very tarnished silver lockets. Couldn't see any silver polish, so on Saturday bought a polish impregnated cloth to give them a bit of a clean.
And yes - at the back of that small, deep cupboard I found another of those cloths, a tin of Silvo, a jar of Silver Dip, and a rectangular metal sheet that claims to clean silver by some form of electrolysis (presumably a commercial version of the aluminium foil and baking soda method demonstrated on YouTube).
At least I'll have the right equipment to hand when I start de-cluttering the loft and find Mr RoS's father's silver trophies. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Ethne Alba
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Just cleared a shelf of a book case.....and solved the problem of Bags for Charity Shops under the stairsL one of those internet sites that pay for unwanted books and dvds.
There's a box taped up and ready to go by the table and hopefully just over £20 in the bank by this time next week
hurrah!
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Cottontail
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I've started on the papers. The shredding machine is red hot, and I have filled a bin bag already. So much more to go. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Japes
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I tend to buy shampoo and conditioner, washing up liquid, washing tablets and laundry conditioner only when on a special offer or BOGOF. It's mainly why I tend to have more of any of these items than I reasonably need at any one time!
Think it's also because a few years ago when I knew I'd be going through a very tight time financially I stocked up for about a year's supply on those items beforehand, and seemed to have maintained those levels ever since!
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Roseofsharon
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I forgot to mention the boxful of accumulated hotel toiletries and free sample shower-gel/shampoo sachets I unearthed.
I will pass all the mini tablets of soap and travel-toothbrushes to the folk packing shoeboxes for the Samaritans Purse appeal this year - but can they include sachets of shower gel in the boxes?
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I don't think anything liquid or semi-liquid can go in shoeboxes, RoS - sorry!
(memo to self - get shoeboxes down from church attic, where they were 'decluttered' to last year after turning up too late for the Samaritan's Purse project!)
Mrs. S, writing on her hand ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Pigwidgeon
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Around here, food banks and women's shelters are always happy for small toiletry items.
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North East Quine
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We have finished the bathroom and shower room and are delighted. The concept of decluttering by category rather than place did the trick.
We threw away 6 carrier bags full, and can now see and access what we need and use. I estimate that if we hadn't done it, I'd have spent £20 between now and Christmas buying more of stuff we already had.
The only downside is that it took several hours, off and on, and our living room floor disappeared for 48 hours. Still, it should save time in the long run.
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Brenda Clough
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I am selling my son's toddler toys on Ebay. Since he is 27 years old he is cool with it.
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Lothlorien
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Son and his friend tidied my pantry yesterday which was very messy. It's beautiful now. I sorted three big totes of wool and sewing supplies. I was planning on making more charity hats for children's oncology ward at Westmead kids Hospital. I have given away three garbage bags of good wool to others who will do charity items from it. I still have plenty left for my own knitting.
Looking at pantry now makes my mind sigh thankfully. Not a lot went out as out of date etc, but it is all tidy and sorted by category.
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Ethne Alba
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Three more boxes sorted, sealed and off for free dispatch.
Two book cases that now only contain books one row deep.
A CD stand that has oodles of space in it now.
+ a bit more money in the bank.
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Roseofsharon
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quote:
Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
I don't think anything liquid or semi-liquid can go in shoeboxes, RoS - sorry!
That's what I thought, and I think charity shops are a bit wary of toiletries. I'll try freecycle, although I've not had much success there recently - there are two disassembled bookcases hanging about in my dining room that no-one wants
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Roseofsharon
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Around here, food banks and women's shelters are always happy for small toiletry items.
I'll try the local food bank, thanks.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I knew that, Pigwidgeon, but it slipped my mind completely - sorry
Bad memory is NOT the declutterer's friend. As I told y'all at wearisome length, I had a new kitchen (including new fridge, freezer etc). New freezer had very cute little ice-cube trays.
Come last Friday Mr. S came home from his shift at the food bank with a carrier bag full of fresh ginger which I peeled and finely chopped. Looked round for old ice-cube trays in which to freeze it - oh sh*t, did I throw them out? must have done. Poo. Down to local supermarket which didn't have ice-cube trays - but did have silicone baking trays shaped like 3-inch high owls. Not at all sure when I shall make 3-inch high owl cakes, but *have* to have them. Also cake pop (?) moulds which will do to freeze ginger.
Next day go to larger supermarket which *does* have ice-cube trays. Buy two ice-cube trays - but all the ginger has now been frozen in the cake pop moulds. Decide to store ice-cube trays in tidy, lidded plastic boxes on top of new kitchen cupboards. Climb up on stool, lift down box, find -
ice-cube trays ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Mrs. S, still cursing ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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(Now is not the time to tell Mrs S of the ability to use ginger straight from the freezer, is it? I just grate mine straight from a frozen block of the stuff...)
I, er, decluttered the freezer. Or, in other words, came back from the Farmers Market with stuff for the freezer and realised that it was chock a block.
I chucked out things which were unidentifiable, or provenance dated from far too long ago (the skirt beef bought during Mr F's stint of parental leave to make some sort of pastie. Three years ago.) But still have a packed freezer. So October is buy-no-protein (for it is mostly meat and fish) month, and I'm hoping to start November with freezer space I can use productively (for important things like ice cream).
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