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daisydaisy
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Originally posted by Eigon:
A leg fell off my wooden sewing box, which also has a dodgy hinge on the lid, so I decided it Had To Go.
At first I was going to donate it to my neighbour as kindling (or Morning Wood, as they call it locally), but now I've had a brainwave - the drawers are deep enough to fill with soil and put small plants in, and it will look quite decorative outside the front door (as long as I prop up the corner where the leg fell off!). So I shall be off to buy some flowering plants shortly.
That should be really pretty - what a good idea
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Boogie
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I watched another hoarder programme this week. It was a school teacher with 35 years worth of school clutter. That thought 'I may need it one day' is very strong regarding teaching materials!
Now that rang a bell! So this week I've been being ruthless. If I haven't used it in 3 years it has been binned/given/recycled. 90% of the resources I use are online now anyway.
I now have shelves with accessible stuff that I USE! Hurrah!
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Welease Woderwick
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I really must do something about my desk - I thought of posting a photo of it on Flickr but really I would be too ashamed ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I really must do something about my desk - I thought of posting a photo of it on Flickr but really I would be too ashamed
Take a photo / save it / do a declutter / post a before-and-after piccy.
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Welease Woderwick
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Good idea!
Before piccy taken but it might be months or years before I get round to an after piccy.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Good idea!
Before piccy taken but it might be months or years before I get round to an after piccy.
What kind of commitment is that ? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Erm, MY kind?
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
eta: you have to realise that some of this stuff hasn't seen light of day since Paloeolithic times.
[ 28. April 2013, 09:32: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Ethne Alba
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nothing like having a boomeranging young adult back in the home to sort the de cluttering
~no church this morning, we're still recovering!~
[ 28. April 2013, 12:27: Message edited by: Ethne Alba ]
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Ethne Alba:
nothing like having a boomeranging young adult back in the home to sort the de cluttering
erk!!
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Yeah...
My mother was suddenly ill and rushed to hospital. She didn't want to go home, because of all the messa and clutter. So the siblings and I went in with a 'shovel and bags' mentality and carted a load of it away, to be stored.
She is now home, and asking for bits back (and thank God we identified the stuff in genuine use and had it at the front) which we bring her.
She feels much better. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Upcoming renovations mean I have to clean out my storeroom -- I finally found a home for boxes and boxes of leftover inventory from a deceased business (more involved than I care to go into now). So... I spent the day organizing all of that to get ready for delivery. I hope to finish up tomorrow. Yesterday I had to clean out a small shed, so that some of the other stuff in the storeroom can be moved into that.
I'm exhausted -- but really feel I've accomplished something! (But there's still a long way to go...)
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Not as dramatic as some others' posts, but I dipped out of band practice last night and sorted out all the T-shirts that I normally put on and think, gosh that's too big/gone baggy or whatever, but keep on wearing and washing ad nauseam . Also my Very Favourite pair of blue trousers that won't actually stay up and are far too complicated to alter ... all gone to the Clothes Bank
Nearly had to declutter my ancient and much-beloved Frister & Rossman sewing machine, lugged home ON THE TUBE about 40 years ago from Gamage's closing-down sale, believe it or not. The lead, as I unplugged it from taking up another pair of trousers, emitted a very satisfying blue flash and blew (blue?) various fuses ![[Confused]](confused.gif) Luckily The Intrepid Mr. S dismantled the lead and restored it to life - what a star! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Mrs. S, hair still standing on end ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Golden Key
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Am making progress.
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Not as dramatic as some others' posts, but I dipped out of band practice last night and sorted out all the T-shirts that I normally put on and think, gosh that's too big/gone baggy or whatever, but keep on wearing and washing ad nauseam .
I have started making dusters out of mine. No more washing dusters, I just throw them away when used.
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Firenze
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A rag rug is a good way of using up old clothes. I put about 20 T-shirts into one, but they seem to have crept up again...
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I'm not one to talk my desk is a disgrace and has layer upon layer of stuff that has now spread onto piles on the floor and I just can't bring myself to deal with it but I'm feeling so much better reading this thread (It's a form of denial, I don't have a problem like those people over there )
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A rag rug is a good way of using up old clothes. I put about 20 T-shirts into one, but they seem to have crept up again...
Isn't a rug made of old t-shirts just clutter transformed into... even less useful clutter than before??? Does anyone really need a rag rug?
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Evangeline:
Isn't a rug made of old t-shirts just clutter transformed into... even less useful clutter than before??? Does anyone really need a rag rug?
My niece makes lovely rag rugs - they look great in her farm cottage. I had a go once, it hurts the hands!
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I wonder why making a rag rug hurt your hands, Boogie? I've made rag rugs by two different methods - one with a sort of pair of scissors that you stick through the sacking and pull your 3" length of cloth through to make a tuft 1 1/2" long each side, and one done with the sacking stretched on a frame with a tool to push long lengths of cloth into the backing. There's another method with a rug hook which I haven't tried. I've made several rugs over the years, one of them a portrait of my dog running. They use tons of fabric and wear well, and look attractive - and I don't remember ever hurting my hands doing it.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Eigon:
I wonder why making a rag rug hurt your hands, Boogie?
To be fair, it's because of my Arthur-itis.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Evangeline:
Isn't a rug made of old t-shirts just clutter transformed into... even less useful clutter than before??? Does anyone really need a rag rug?
I dare say you have a more decoratively coherent home than I do. It amused me to make it and I enjoy stepping out on to it each morning. Some day I can bin it with the feeling that I got my money's worth.
But I am an inveterate recycler.
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Mr Shrew has gone out to the pub for the evening so I am taking the opportunity to tackle filing...
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Belle Ringer
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Originally posted by Boogie:
So this week I've been being ruthless. If I haven't used it in 3 years it has been binned/given/recycled. 90% of the resources I use are online now anyway.
I have my bookshelves in the living room because I'm always into the books - but recently I realized I haven't looked at any of my books in - years? If I want to know something I go on line.
That awareness startled me, but it sure suggests I can ditch a lot of books. Maybe a bookshelf too?
I guess most of the cookbooks ought to go. If I want a recipe I go on line.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Upcoming renovations mean I have to clean out my storeroom -- I finally found a home for boxes and boxes of leftover inventory from a deceased business (more involved than I care to go into now). ...
A friend with a larger vehicle than mine just helped me deliver 15 large boxes to an organization that can put this stuff to good use! I feel so liberated,as if a huge weight has been lifted!
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Upcoming renovations mean I have to clean out my storeroom -- I finally found a home for boxes and boxes of leftover inventory from a deceased business (more involved than I care to go into now). ...
A friend with a larger vehicle than mine just helped me deliver 15 large boxes to an organization that can put this stuff to good use! I feel so liberated,as if a huge weight has been lifted!
Yippee indeed - well done Pigwidgeon, and that's a very special feeling of liberation you got there.
I've got to the stage where, under stress, I start looking around for things to throw away - not AT anyone, just AWAY!
Mrs. S, feeling pretty libersated these days
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Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Ethne Alba
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[Anyone who has bought a rug (BOUGHT!)...could do with making a rag rug. They're lovely things.]
On another matter.....the files are being emptied, our blue paper recycling bin is filling up and spaces are appearing in the bookshelves.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Ethne Alba:
... and spaces are appearing in the bookshelves.
My problem is that I always see this as an excuse to have a day in the bookshops!
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L'organist
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Yippee!
After nearly a year of searching I've found me an adult's version of Mrs Doubtfire. Tracking down this paragon took 6 months because everyone (Macmillan, CAB, hospice, CRUSE, etc) thought such people existed but didn't know where or how to find.
She's now helping me go through the 30 cubic metres of administrative chaos bequeathed by my dear departed - getting through the first lot reduced me to such a state my GP said I was displaying symptoms of PTSD
Quite apart from anything else, she's found 11 unpresented cheques ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) so we're now busy writing to former clients, etc, to see if they'll reissue...
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
My problem is that I always see this as an excuse to have a day in the bookshops!
You need an excuse?
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Ethne Alba
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[in the interests of honesty: i HAD visited a second hand bookshop two weeks previously...
......maybe i'd forgotten exactly why i needed space.....i now need to make More space.....grrrrr.....}
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
My problem is that I always see this as an excuse to have a day in the bookshops!
You need an excuse?
Nah, I just need a spare few minutes or, preferably, an hour or two.
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Golden Key
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More progress.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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L'organist
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"Mrs Doubtfire" is wonderful - organised and methodical and just getting on with it.
And the best thing is that all the dreck means I can have a bonfire...
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Boogie
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Originally posted by L'organist:
"Mrs Doubtfire" is wonderful - organised and methodical and just getting on with it.
Excellent
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Golden Key
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Dealing with a "major cleaning before workers come in for major repairs" situation. Workers should be here early next week. Nervous, and unwell (for other reasons), and did I say nervous?
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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Golden Key
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I got through it, and the repairs are done!
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--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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L'organist
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For "bonfire" mentioned earlier read "garden incinerator": lit it just before 2pm on Tuesday - finally extinguished by torrential rain just after 8pm Thursday
Mrs D has now completed the first pass through - now just to get the stuff we've kept into some kind of order.
And I finally got rid of a rocking chair I've hated since 1993
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I dared let my friends in to see the chaos in its natural state, (normally I relocate junk from the living room and close all other doors). They came back this week and zapped some of it. I have a craft room i can do stuff in so don't need to take it elsewhere and then it gets left there etc.
It feels like my brain has been tidied a little bit too.
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Eigon
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I joined my next door neighbour in a table sale this afternoon and got rid of a rug that's been sitting rolled up at the back of the bathroom for a couple of years. I got £5 for it, which is pretty good considering I first got it when someone further down the street had left it out for the bin men!
(It's a good rug - I just don't have room for it any more)
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Congraulations everyone.
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Originally posted by Avila:
It feels like my brain has been tidied a little bit too.
I know what you mean. I can't think properly when everything is in a mess.
I'm feeling a bit flat after the big attic clean out. I think there is more to do but I'm not sure what. Surely I can't be finished?
I need to sort out my socks. Seriously. The little drawer is crammed full and I can never find a matching pair in the right colour. Every day it annoys me. Maybe if I do that it will clear my mind.
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Originally posted by Thyme:
I need to sort out my socks. Seriously. The little drawer is crammed full and I can never find a matching pair in the right colour. Every day it annoys me. Maybe if I do that it will clear my mind.
I recently had a sock sort - I keep the odd, holey, ancient ones for one-off throw away dusters.
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I'm in the midst of moving, and it's done great things for my decluttering.
Here's the deal- we don't have movers outside of the urban areas, and the do-it-yourself moving vans are prohibitively expensive. So we bought a trailer- the size we'd fit one single snowmachine into. It has 2ft walls, no roof. And my life has to fit into this thing. It's a 2-3 day drive, partly through a corner of Canada, so more than one trip is not possible.
This has caused me to switch my thinking around from "what can I bear to part with?" to "what absolutely HAS to go with me?"
I've reduced my entire wardrobe by 2/3rds (including stagewear and costuming) and officially donated enough books to the library that they asked me to stop. We have given four full sized truck loads to the local charity shop and taken 4 truckloads to the dump. I have also given away a good portion of my belongings via facebook. No yard sale, just unload.
It's been difficult, but it feels very FREE!
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Uncle Pete
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So, Comet, you didn't need me - ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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I always need you!
Shall I fedex you these matresses?
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Upcoming renovations mean I have to clean out my storeroom -- I finally found a home for boxes and boxes of leftover inventory from a deceased business (more involved than I care to go into now). ...
A friend with a larger vehicle than mine just helped me deliver 15 large boxes to an organization that can put this stuff to good use! I feel so liberated,as if a huge weight has been lifted!
I got the last of all the miscellaneous "stuff" out of there yesterday, and the renovations began this morning!
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Mrs Shrew
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Well done Pigwidgeon, and best of luck with the move Comet
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Was "mummyfrances".
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Nenya
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Mr Nen took a carload of stuff to the community recycling place this morning. Two computers. Two monitors. Two televisions. Two radios. All from the loft. I never realised there was so much stuff up there... I must have known about it once, but forgotten...
Nen - still shellshocked.
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Eigon
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I joined my two neighbours in a table sale outside our houses today - had a lovely time sitting in the sun and chatting and made £13.50, and got rid of enough stuff to make it worthwhile doing again.
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Avila
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Originally posted by Nenya:
Mr Nen took a carload of stuff to the community recycling place this morning. Two computers. Two monitors. Two televisions. Two radios. All from the loft. I never realised there was so much stuff up there... I must have known about it once, but forgotten...
Nen - still shellshocked.
Sounds like the Ark for electricals - the items went in 2 by 2....
I'll get my coat....
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Sioni Sais
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We aren't so much decluttering - too many non-fiction books that we simply can't dispose of - but we've disposed of stacks of old craft magazines, two dying chairs and an awkward piece that doesn't hold enough bottles, knick-knacks or hobby stuff to earn its keep, replacing them with yet another bookcase and a couple of smaller, more useful cupboards that stow away more easily. Once they are in place, a couple more tatty old bookshelves can go.
I suppose it's going to be eBay again next, then maybe a front-of-house sale and the charity shops.
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