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Brenda Clough
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I now have a powerful motivation to declutter. My son has announced that he is deploying, with the US Army Reserve. This means that we will have difficulty staying in this house, without a strong young man to do the snow-shoveling, leaf-raking and other brute labor chores. My goal is to persuade my son to hire a storage unit and move everything he wants to keep into it before he leaves the nest. We will dispose of some of the remainder and move the rest into a smaller place. I believe I have one year to accomplish this.

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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Good grief, Brenda - that's a pretty drastic way of getting motivated to declutter!

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There is stuff I'm quite glad I'm decluttering. The sofa that went last week I've wanted to get rid of for a while. And I needed a boot up the backside to go through paperwork and get rid of out of date stuff.

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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Well, we've just been out in a snowstorm (or what passes for a snowstorm down here in the soft South). We identified a load of electronics from the loft and offered them on the church 'For Sale and Wanted' board - but the person who said they might want this small stereo system kept not turning up, so we put it on Freecycle. Same thing happened again. Twice.

This morning the Church office sent out an email from the Mission to Seafarers, asking among other things if anyone had a CD player surplus to requirements. One phone call - and a short but exciting trip into town - later, and the stereo is theirs. Must have been Someone's intention all along, I think.

Mrs. S, happy to see it go to a good home [Yipee]

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Bookshelves - OK so I started with four tall, two small bookshelves and piles of books, which probably doesn't sound extreme to anyone here, but it's usually what people mention when they come into the flat. The current method of decluttering means far more than I would necessarily have chosen is going out and I *should* be able to fit everything on the bookshelves. I reduced the books on one bookshelf from three shelves to one yesterday -
but it means I can put the maps away together (full shelf of maps). Two big bags went out to the charity shop yesterday, plus a few really tatty books into the bin. I have another three bags in the bathroom from last night's going through one of the big shelves (one to go to the church, another full of books suitable for one or other of my previous work places and a third for the charity shop or throwing away) and another pile I would like to keep stacked up to have a go at cleaning. And I still need to go through another two bookshelves. It is surprising how many books can be stacked in a bookshelf having had them out across the floor.

I did pull the bookshelves out and cleaned behind them. I had my daughter's school creations on display on top of one bookshelf. The pottery had absorbed the funky whiff so is being binned to cheers from my daughter.

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