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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: CamiSu Date: 01 Dec 08 - 11:04 AM She decluttered her family?!?! :~) I wouldn't call it that. Well...at least not where my kids are concerned. I could deal with them closer all the time. Mom...well I can manage 3 days of constantly together. Don't see enough of the brothers that were there, but they had things to do. BUt my youngest DID leave his room in pretty much the same condition he got it in! Amazing! CamiSu |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Dec 08 - 09:40 AM She decluttered her family?!?! :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Dec 08 - 08:47 AM Here's the next one! |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: CamiSu Date: 01 Dec 08 - 12:20 AM Oh good heavens--it's December. Congratulations Kat! I have sent back all the family that was here. Getting Ben and his classmate to school was fine. Getting back was rather exciting. I91 was very slippery, and very crowded! May have had something to do with the fact that we were all going about 35 MPH so were all on the highway for longer. I broke loose once, and was definitely thanking my heavenly Father-Mother when I was back going straight and sticking to the road again. I had cars on 3 sides (and a grassy median strip on the 4th) so it was a bit scary. Now off to bed! Cami |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 30 Nov 08 - 11:20 PM Thanks, gals! Today felt kind of strange, but good. I am ready to get to editing, but have to focus on gifts which have to do with some of the things I've been working on; can't say in case my sister comes in here and reads this!:-) Maggie, are you going to start a new thread tonight? |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Nov 08 - 06:30 PM This is what I tried desperately to post yesterday: Good for you, Kat! Now you have tomorrow to yourself, not the computer, if you want it. I've been pulling together things to list on eBay, some of it sent by a friend for test runs. And some listed just because it's in my way to get to other stuff I need to do. My kitchen/dining room is the big news--I've pushed a lot of things out of the room for our dinner last night and this morning when I brought a couple back in I was very selective. There is now a lot of room in the middle and it looks much better and larger. I tried to achieve this look for the big dinner, but it didn't quite work, we were still too crowded and a couple of us ate at smaller tables nearby. But now I think I could actually make the tables work the way I wanted. I've also moved the microwave and some other small appliances to get rid of some of the surfaces they were sitting on. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:17 AM !!!KAT!!! The FC guy who took Hardi's bike offered an item I had JUST decided I HAD to have: double bed sheets. We picked them up Friday night and I went through the whole lot as soon as I got up yesterday AM. It turned out to include blankets, table linens, and some other stuff-- 4 HUGE bags in total. It took a mere hour to go through it all to grab the all-cotton items, and 3 of those bags went to the thrift shop the same night I culled them (the bags were in the house less than 24 hours). The culls are pretty, matched sets with a low poly count-- someone will LOVE them, I am sure. The 1 smallish bagful I kept are exactly the colors and fabrics I wanted, are in great condition, have been washed to get the years worth of fabric softener perfume and feel out of them, and have already been sent upstairs to their intended beds. The matching pillow cases that I probably didn't "need"-- can NOT believe I have really accumulated "enough" of THAT desperately-wanted category (all beds have 9-12 pillows)-- will replace a few Sallie cases that are not all-cotton, or are about to shred, etc., which will be torn up for rags. Cottonnnnnnn..... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: maeve Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:03 AM Decluttered my cookie as well. Sorry about that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: GUEST Date: 30 Nov 08 - 09:54 AM Congratulations on reaching your goal, kat. Such meaningful timing, too. We've continued to clear out. Clothing, books, and who knows what else went to the swap shop in the village yesterday. Laundry and outside work today, with messy weather arriving by tonight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 29 Nov 08 - 10:30 PM Actually did some real decluttering, too! The rest of the day I knew I needed some physical exercise, so we went out and got rid of some more of the trash and boxes of my sisters' stuff which had been ruined by weather out of the driveway. We also covered the rest of it better, I hope. It looks better, at least. Also moved all of the furniture back into the living room and decided to leave one table out there which had been in the tiny office and bugged me. We put it by the front door to catch purses, mail, etc. and moved the sewing cabinet which had been there, back to the office. It looks better, too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 29 Nov 08 - 10:30 PM Thanks, Maggie! I did it!!I think it was about 230p my time. I called Rog in to watch while I typed in the last two words and the word count went to 50,000! I had to add a few more as I had some footnotes which will eventually be edited out or incorporated in the text, but anyway nanowrimo's official counter didn't count them, so I actually wound up with an "official" count of 50,157. I've got loads to add, research and move around and change, but it sure feels good to have done it, esp. after all these years of saying I was going to get my dad's book done. Hmmmm...I just checked, it was four years ago, to the day that my dad passed on. That brings a few tears. |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: maire-aine Date: 29 Nov 08 - 10:05 PM Got lots done today. Found a box of Toby mugs that I had misplaced. Also found a page of song lyrics that I know I had printed out; the page has the URL too, so I can retrieve an electronic copy. I mailed off my Secret Santa present. Whew! Made a pot of beef-noodle soup and used up the last of a bag of apples to make apple crisp. The (artificial) tree is up, but not decorated yet. I need to get new lights. The wreaths and swags & "kissing balls" are all hung, and and some decorations on the mantel. I think my plans for working part-time have been derailed by year-end budget squeeze. Not looking at any work until February at the earliest, if that. Oh, well. More time for music. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Nov 08 - 01:07 AM GO, Kat, GO!! Yessss! The finish is in SIGHT!!!! I moved stuff out of my dining room to try to make room for everyone at the table. It didn't quite work, but I'm not going to move stuff back in, I'm going to see what I can do with what is in there, and I'll consolidate some of the stuff in trunks around here and maybe sell a couple of trunks. 3,999 doesn't lend itself to a catchy song (99 bottles of beer on the wall, for example) so I'll just urge you to unclutter as fast as your delicate little fingers can scramble across the keyboard. :) SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 28 Nov 08 - 10:19 PM Less than 4,000 words to go in decluttering the novel from my head; my stuffed-up head cold head, the one which couldn't breathe at all last night so also didn't sleep. Much better, today and thank goodness I have been able to write. I have until midnight Sunday night to get to the 50,000 goal. I am just to the part where my grandparents get hitched.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Nov 08 - 12:50 PM Rearranging the dining room, moving out some bulky furniture. It's beginning to look nice. I did manage to get a surprising amount of this stuff actually put away and not just set aside, but now comes the "just move it out of the way" stage. Alas. Maybe next year it will all be like clockwork. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Nov 08 - 12:53 AM Time to brine the turkey. The big meal is tomorrow here. Had to talk a friend into coming over, he was going to cook a turkey at his house on his own tomorrow. He's often here for the holiday, but was thinking of passing. He called here for an obscure ingredient--methinks he needed someone to tell him we really do want him to come over this year. His mother died last summer--he needs to get in with a group of old friends this holiday, of all holidays. I've counted up and packed away a bunch of brochures and maps that have been on the dining room table for ages. I'll take them to work and donate them to the Special Collections next week. I've rearranged the room and will set the table early so it looks great when people arrive. The kids are in the living room doing "old home week" tonight--in this instance, they're watching an old VCR tape of Peter Pan with Mary Martin. I hear gales of laughter coming from the front room. OOoo--the pirate music just played. . . I'd better take my brochures out to the truck or they'll end up back in the clutter again. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: LilyFestre Date: 27 Nov 08 - 05:43 PM Just finished packing up 9 bags of clothes that are far too large for me these days. I've had them sitting on top of my hope chest in our bedroom for over a year now. The pile is so high that it blocked sunlight from one of the windows. Now the clothes are all packed up and will be given to a favorite charity tomorrow. Having actually having to look for these sized clothing, I know they are hard to find and I remember how excited I would get to find them at Sal's or other places. I'm hoping that same excitement I experienced in finding many of the things I have bagged up, will be passed on to someone else. There are even brand new things packed up in there, price tags still on them, but if they don't fit, they don't fit, right? They are no longer of use to me. It feels good to get that all out of the way. I also packed up 2 bag fulls of shoes. It seems that as I have moved down the scale, my feet have gotten smaller. Man, this feels good. Antiques to be unpacked in a bit. Michelle :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: LilyFestre Date: 27 Nov 08 - 02:58 PM Recently sold my Nana's house. I got rid of most everything but there are still some boxes of antiques that I haven't put away. These boxes are at the house and the boxes of everything else currently resides in a storage building. Today, the shadow box is going up as well as a photograph of my Nana as a child...it's a large oval photo in a very old frame....it's kind of nice to have her in this house with me. :) In other decluttering news, the piano is coming out of the music room and out into the music room where I think I will play it more often. The fiddle's been out more lately too. My students are busy learning new Christmas music and since I have a piano in my classroom, I play the music and we work on the words..it's kind of pushed me to get my music back out...I had to tuck it away for awhile. Now it's calling so I'm going to put it where it's more easily accessible. DH just got himself a guitar rack to do the same thing....no more hassles with the cases..if he feels like playing his acoustic, there it is. If he wants electric, there it is. If he wants his 12 string, there it is. Lap steel? Same thing. Anyway, it's all part of the decluttering. I have a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday and part of these days off will involve getting ready for a home study for our upcoming adoption. I have been making plans for the nursery....currently my office....so lots of decluttering will be going on in there as well this week. I'm actually looking forward to it!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Nov 08 - 02:20 PM Oops, backslid... BUT cool learning-- This time of year, crazy-busy church stuff. (Progressively crazier Advent/Crimmiss/February, brief respite, then Lent-Easter nuts again till summer.) So-- I had to break into the new-nighties stash due to laundry pile-up. BUT, as I put away the just-laundered items, the summery colors go RIGHT into the stash-zone, and the newer, worn-once items go into the "wear now" zone. Thus! I will stop wearing to death the summery colors, go back to the limited number of wear-now items that encourage more frequent laundering, and have the summery colors to look forward to when it warms back up. Rotate the nighties-- never thought of it! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Penny S. Date: 27 Nov 08 - 02:09 PM Cleared some more space in the storage unit, by putting some stuff in with the University things, and stacking the rest more neatly. Found some more stuff for shredding. The bin men took away a whole binfull of paper, cans and plastic bottles. Then the day turned to waste. Yesterday I found that my digital TV set top box had gone berserk with the numbering. This was to do with the Freeview system having changed. This morning I phoned the makers, and was told that they have no plans to upgrade the software. So I researched things on the internet and went off to Currys for a twin tuner box. They had to process the purchase with paper because their machines were down. Then the thing proved not to connect to the VHS. Went to buy new leads - paperwork again. Still no joy. Took the things back and they found the dockets, wrote cancelled on them, as they didn't have one to change. Then I had a phone call from the card company to check the purchase. Back to the shop to check what they had done. Turned out that they had rung to authorise the transaction, but of course it hadn't gone through, so looked odd. Total waste. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: CamiSu Date: 27 Nov 08 - 01:13 PM I understand Linn-- particularly if it is one that makes sense to the spellchecker. I heard the quote too but I was sure Land was not there! (bg) Gotta go to Orford where the rest of my family has gathered. Cami |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Bat Goddess Date: 27 Nov 08 - 12:10 PM That's restED not restING -- wish I could fix my typos. (Better yet, wish I could proofread my own posts BEFORE I hit Submit.) Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Bat Goddess Date: 27 Nov 08 - 12:08 PM Tom just came in, resting his hand on my shoulder and repeated what he had just heard on the radio -- "Remember, guests come first for the conversation, second for the food, land if they get bored with those, they'll look around to see if your house is clean." Which reminds me, I really need to clear off the table and empty a chair before Jeri gets here. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Nov 08 - 10:15 AM Oh, look! Google ads are for a "House cleaning checklist" and "We Clean For You." I have an extra day until my big cooking thing, so I'm still puttering. I did pick up buttermilk to make a nice brunch (my son won't be up till late) of pancakes and bacon today, and I'll continue to move stuff, put stuff away, and hopefully build a stack of stuff to go to Goodwill that I'll put in the pickup so we're not tripping over it in here. I have to make veggie broth this afternoon for tonight's brining of the bird. Everything else happens kind of all at once tomorrow, in slow motion. I wonder if the neighbors will notice or care if I mow my back yard today? Not a typical sound one might here on Thanksgiving, but I need to mulch the leaves and it is supposed to rain tomorrow. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Nov 08 - 12:31 AM The banana bread is packed away in the freezer and the kitchen counter looks like a |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Nov 08 - 10:29 PM I'm not gaining much space right now, mostly rearranging it. I picked up a bag of bananas (a local grocery puts their ripe bananas in a bag that can be anywhere from 5 - 8 pounds for $.99), and after eating quite a few I still had enough to make a quadruple batch of banana bread. Several of the loaves will go in the freezer after they cool. They make great gifts for co-workers the holidays. We're not doing the big meal tomorrow, we're doing it Friday, so I have more time to putter and clean before the crowd descends. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: maire-aine Date: 26 Nov 08 - 04:58 PM Since I'm going to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving, I don't have to cook a big meal. Instead I de-cluttered a whole shelf in my freezer, but roasting all the beef bones (I had 3 bags of them, plus some frozen pieces of onions & celery), then made beef stock. I'll make the soup on Friday. I also filled up the gas can for the snowblower, so I'm set for the weather, altho the forecast is for cold but sunny & dry on Thursday. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Penny S. Date: 26 Nov 08 - 02:39 PM I emptied part of one of the three stacked boxes into another, compacting things somewhat, making space for putting external stuff in. I took some of Dad's clothes to Oxfam, with a mysteriously duplicated skirt of mine and a mini book of Punch cartoons. spent part of the morning shredding. Tomorrow morning is bin day, and they will be taking off the recycling paper. I tried decluttering the C drive of my Asus EeePC by moving the Onspeed program to the D drive, but it then didn't work and nor did IE. The C drive, 4 Gb, is very small for putting programs on (well, not compared with my first computer, which had 20 Mb). I had a letter addressed to my troubling neighbour at my address which I had to declutter to another who has his address. I found a house I could afford in the rural hinterland. By a good architect. But the village has lost its first philosophical rapture, and the shopping area is scruffy with empty shops. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Nov 08 - 10:25 AM LOL, yeah. I can't remember now what Pergolesi I sang in choir years ago, but it was SO LOVELY I just could not scan that "decluttered" sentence! :~) But yes, once it's firmly in the head (I wish it still was), the dots are extraneous, aren't they. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: CamiSu Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:01 AM LOL No, Pergolesi is not clutter, and neither is Scarlatti, but when you've been obsessing a bit over them and sung yourself a bit ragged (those tenor parts are LOW!) it is a bit of a relief to turn to something new. SRS-I DO feel lucky to have Allen nearby. Years ago, we were building the addition above the kitchen, and had gotten into the trim, which is more my specialty, and Allen was an eager student. At one point his girlfriend came up to see and we were there with our (equally old) tool belts on and she looks at me and asks "So Cami, is Allen teaching you some carpentry?" We purt near burst out laughing as Allen explained that at that point I was the teacher... But for the heavy stuff that I just can't seem to even get started on by myself--what a Godsend! (and we have a LOT of fun doing fussy stuff. We work well together. ) Cami |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:43 PM It would be a real bitch to lose that work. I think I'd go quickly insane if that happened. Back to de-cluttering--working on some lots of paperback mysteries for eBay this evening. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:29 PM Ya know, Maggie....THANK YOU! I just saved it to the external HD. Can't believe I hadn't already done that. I might email it to my google account, too, just to be safe. I can also encrypt it and put it in my nanowrimo page. phew! |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:35 PM Kat--I hope you have a backup file somewhere outside the computer? Just a thought . . . you can even email the file(s) to yourself somewhere else if it can park on a remote server and be there for "just in case the 'puter crashes." A friend sent some things for me to try listing on eBay. If they work, he'll list them himself, but he's not experienced at it now so these are a test. Plus some things left in a neighboring apartment (I haven't opened the box yet--I expect it to be a bit smoky--harder to sell--maybe I'll go put the contents in the back of the pickup, with the screened windows open, so fresh air can get to them.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: MAG Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:54 PM Succeeded in getting the other female stray to the vet's for spaying today.(wallet declutter: $150.) You know, my vet says the animal shelters are experiencing a terrible glut; people are abandoning everything, even horses. It's terrible. Please do what you can for innocent animals. 6 hours of cleaning Sunday and you can sorta see a difference. I am probably one of those hoarders. I was hoarding cardboard boxes when I really thought I was getting another job and would relocate. Back to my job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:38 PM LOL...I didn't get much done, today. Morgan came over after school and took out a pizza box for me. Oh, I did have to go out this morning for about an hour and a half. When I got back I started writing on my nanowrimo novel. My brain has now emptied 42,832 words onto the PC..only 7,168 to go before the 30th. I think I am going to make it! we have managed to keep the house fairly clean since doing a bang up job on it on Sunday. I have a few dishes and a wall area to scrub tomorrow, but that's about it, besides cooking the cranberries and making the pies. I think Morgan may come spend the day with me, so that should be fun. He likes to cook so maybe I can bribe him into cleaning a bit more,too.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:02 PM Pergolesi is clutter?!?!?!? Tonight I declutted the guest rooms-- fam coming. Including Febrezing the older pillows and then (when dry) putting them in pillow 'tectors and new pillowcases. WEARING the new support shoes to stay warm and keep moving. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:20 PM I'm in the process of decluttering my wallet too.. a new boiler is required... but at least that will de clutter my kitchen of a 4ft boiler that overpowers the room, and it's a pretty small room to start with! Ho hum... we may have to start a serious declutter and ebay stuff to pay for replacement radiators that will no doubt be part of the deal... But at least we should stay warm and not have to fork out £120 every month for a new circuit board or a new pump or a new divertor valve or a new something else.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:59 PM Penny, you've been busy. CamiSu, you're lucky to have such a talented neighbor and son. Joists are a lot of work! Me, I de-cluttered my daughter's boyfriend's car of two bald tires and de-cluttered my wallet of the cash to do it. At least they'd replaced the two other tires fairly recently, and thankfully various parents are all kicking into this enterprise--keeping the kids on the road so they can go to jobs to earn money to keep going to college. In the last two weeks a new battery, repairing a leaking coolant hose, replacing the dead alternator. And now it is running rough--O2 sensor isn't happy. [sigh] SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: CamiSu Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:44 PM I once did some carpentry in a house that had at least one room that you could get no closer than a foot to the floor on account of all the JUNK in it. I am enjoying my less cluttered digs and even got the counter of the kitchen cleaned off. Even washed the reusable plastic bags! My neighbor was suddenly out of work so he and my 16 yr-old started to put new joists up under (one of) my set lofts. It already looks sturdier. And next week I get wireless!!! Declutter the Pergolesi and Scarlatti out of my folder and put the "Messiah" in. and after next Sunday I get my Sunday evenings back until I start rehearsing for something else. Cami |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Penny S. Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:14 PM I also emptied another cardboard box. And having cleared a surface to be a dressing table, with mirror, again, have put a friend's bags of clothes on it, off the floor. The spare room now looks like a spare room with rather too much stuff in it, rather than a store room with a bed lurking in it. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Penny S. Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:03 PM That craigslist link looks awfully like stuff from the "Children of Hoarders" website which is of compulsive hoarders' homes. It concerns me that it was NOT posted by the hoarder, and there are psychological issues involved with clearing other people's stuff. You wouldn't believe how attached to old newspapers and used carrier bags someone can be. Yesterday I emptied a plastic box, throwing some things away, but mostly refiled them. I mended a hem marker, sort of - the superglue didn't want to stick so it's done with sellotape. I took a load of old National Geographics into the school I used to work at. I emptied a cardboard box, and found a folded one which can also go down to Dad's. Today I found some more Nat Geogs and took them into school along with an old laptop. I sorted out and got rid of a few Open University texts, but kept too many. Moved them to take less space. These things were in an odd piece of furniture I bought at a secondhand shop ages ago. This consisted, when I bought it, of three boxes with drop front openings and a drawer on top, made of mahogany veneered chipboard. The boxes had been assembled wrongly, so that the doors were flush with the tops, and the previous owner had joined them vertically with a sort of step backwards to allow opening. I redid this, and found that under the drawer was a finished top, so I have the drawer on legs as a dressing table. One of the drop doors had its bracing thing broken off, and today I had to reglue it. This entailed going out to buy new clamps, since my knitting machine G-clamps kept slipping off. When the glue dries, I'll have to drill through a wooden black to add new screws - the old ones had pulled out the board because of the glue, and had to be hacksawed off. I aim to repack the contents so that some of the external stuff is out of sight, as originally intended when I bought the thing. But there is more to throw. Another thing today was a very early draft of something I wrote ages ago - that's gone. I might shred it first. I have also been decluttering old video tapes - since Dad died I have been recording things, but not watching them, and I am gradually working through "Lark Rise to Candleford" "Secret Army" liberating Brussels, "Ashes to Ashes" and other stuff. The trouble is that even as I watch, I am building up new tapes as I still can't spend the time to watch in order. The person whose house I have worked on is enthusing about "Little Dorrit" but I missed the first episodes because of what was going on, so I can't watch off air. Ho hum. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:43 AM I declutted a shelf-ful of videos I caught (Hardi's fave TV series) into a nice box with new video labels, against the day when Hardi may have to stay home with the dogs (and the work) while I adventure in Philly. Later today I will declut some cinders for the "new" back step I tweaked, to have not only cinders where I need to scatter them on MY STEP but access OUT to do daily winter outdoor chores in the SUNLIGHT. Shouting, yes. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:24 AM I visited the other link also. Shifting into a higher gear today--rounding up brine ingredients, a bag of ice (even if the icemaker was hooked up, it couldn't make enough ice for this event in a reasonable amount of time), bringing in the cooler. Cleaning the house. Amazing how much more you can see when the holiday looms. . . SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:10 AM I did, Maggie, and I read it through including visiting the link given. It's basically just their way of trying to make sure there are no fake memorabilia items sold there. Collectors of such take authenticity very seriously, from what I read.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:31 AM I'm listing oddball things on eBay right now--I thought I'd try the approach of "this is in my way, it is intended for eBay, why not just list it?" Not the most efficient method, and I need to put some more substantial stuff out, but it has been interesting. Money from the t-shirts goes to my daughter. Kat, did you get a screen telling you that there are strict rules about posting political memorabilia when you posted those rally passes? I just put up an auction for a 1920s Theodore Roosevelt lapel pin, one of a gazillion left over from a fundraising effort. The park rangers used to just give them away--I don't know if they still do, but I picked up a few 30 years ago. I thought I'd unload a couple, but that is a pretty intimidating message from eBay. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Nov 08 - 05:29 PM Mudcat has been de-cluttered of a few dozen threads. Sounds like the kind of dancing where you want to be sure the curtains are drawn, Kat. Don't want to get a reputation in the neighborhood! (Ha!) Washer drain overflowed, so it needs close monitoring. I need your five-year-old to come teach my 16-year-old some cleaning tricks. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:32 PM Finally got Rog to carry out the one box of books left to go to the library and a bag of clothes to go to sally army. More laundry done and put in our bedroom, not away, but it's getting there. Morgan called to ask if he could come over while his parents went shopping. I told him yes, but come ready to clean. Do you know, that 5 year old loves to clean house and did a great job! He emptied all of the trash cans, took the trash out, and put in new liners. Held the trash bag open for Rog to empty the dust pan; helped me mop the whole house; and used his own "wipes" he brought with him to wipe down a few surfaces, plus he brought his own feather duster! He even wiped down the front of the washing machine. I might have to borrow him every Sunday!**bg** When he got all done he asked if I wanted to watch him dance, which I love to do, so we put on a CD of dumbek tunes and he went to town. I even did a little belly dancing type moves! I still have a lot to do before Thursday, but I am mostly done for today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: MAG Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:32 PM Bright sunny day. Perfect for shredding leaves. "Light housekeeping" has me beat, but not by nearly enough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Nov 08 - 01:03 AM I cleared a kitchen counter and put up an under cabinet light so it now is a great little workspace. Looks nice. I don't know what I will eventually leave there (it is beside the sink) but for now I put away the drain board and thinned out the stuff that used to sit on it. It all took up more space than it needed to. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: De-cluttering November; sustain momentum From: katlaughing Date: 22 Nov 08 - 10:49 PM It sure looks as though it was, Maggie. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to make that mess, regardless!:-) We will be decluttering tomorrow, clearing out and cleaning to get ready for turkey day. I only have another 15,433 words to go to declutter my ancestors from my head into my book! |
