It seems the "light at the end of the tunnel" has a nice smell more than a bright light-- at least for decluttering. A lemony vanilla smell. We're treating ourselves to nice cleaning products from now on.

Details:

The LR's slow progress has resulted in a room the housecleaner is about to pretty-clean, Monday. The timing is all God's, and I love it-- MIL arrives to clean house and relaxed hosts, another friend due for Sept. visit in an improved upstairs bedroom, and my office is workable but due for a cabinet build with Ade to increase intentional storage and to absorb the 4 workshop go-bins for existing Diocesan responsibilities.

The fam financial office has moved successfully upstairs from the room I had prepped for a tenant or our adult son's uni return, which now provides a gracious home for a friend and housemate who is giving us all the boxes as she unpacks-- a housemate with an endless supply of great-sized cardboard boxes from work, YAY! I have no clutter to fill them-- only planned archives of records and yard sale items to display/categorize.

Hardi's contribution to the early-Oct. yard sale project is all that is needed to price and sell a front porchful of pass-alongs, and when that is over there will be FreeCycle and then the landfill-- all before winter freeze-up. So we will have a clear and lovely front porch in the spring to house a summer chill tub. There is actually room for both a chill tub for me and a fall/spring hot one for Hardi. And we have the wading pools already on hand to do it.

THIS is what I've worked so hard on, for the last several years, so I could be OUT and so that when we are at home we can CHILL.

The next smell will be LR paint and probably kitchen paint as well.

TBTG!

I know that some of you here are not my friends, but please at least take note from my example that decluttering CAN actually be done and CAN result in your goals-- keep decluttering!!!


All the best,

~Susan