BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:02 PM

Today was the mother of all garage sale days. I stumbled upon at least a half-dozen very good ones and probably spent about $25. A couple of appliances for my daughter, a set of sheets for my son, candles to burn in the fireplace (we don't burn wood in there, we set up candles). A couple of collectible maps I'm going to donate to the library where I work (Special Collections) and some useful odds and ends. I'll clean up the kitchen then clean these things (a Welbuilt bread machine and a good brand convection oven, $5 each).

I don't think I mentioned yesterday that I've decided to dismantle one of the television viewing areas for now. The televison and converter box will go on a table in my bedroom and I'll take out the table and trunk in the corner and fill in some shelves I have all across the rest of the room. Since a DVD player and VCR died in the front room we'd already moved that part of the system. For my shelves I'll need some supports and three boards, but this will give me a good way to move magazines out of the living room and more books from my office into there.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:47 PM

I didn't go to yoga tonight, I'm about to get on the treadmill instead....just didn't feel like leaving the house today!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:00 PM

2 miles on the treadmill & all hardwood floors (that's my entire downstairs) mopped.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 12:28 AM

I have already had two bids on the menorah and have two watchers on the other item I put on ebay, a little girl's purse in the shape of a Scotty dog. My cousin gave it to me when I was little. I figured it could go as none of the grandsons want it.:-) I started them both out way low wiht no reserve. They may not bring in a lot, but it all adds up. One of the watchers is in the UK. I am getting her a postage estimate tomorrow. I have a basket of stuff by my dining room desk, full of stuff for ebay.

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 10:38 AM

I'm glad to see you got that listed, Kat. And early bids usually amount to more bids in the lifetime of the auction. I have one closing today and several more things to list.

Last night I scrubbed and detailed the bread machine and convection oven I picked up at garage sales. The DaLite screen doesn't need any work. I've had a slide projector for years and always projected on walls or sheets because these screens are so expensive. This one was $5.

Garage sale stuff.

It feels good to go through this process, to know you've adopted a device that is still in good order but just wasn't treated like a useful device in its old home. I keep my cookers and this-and-that makers clean and shiny, then they look like a nice part of the kitchen. These both needed to have cooked on grease spots scrubbed off, and lots of grimy crevice work with cotton swabs and toothpicks. But they cleaned up nice! They're here in my pool of appliances for days when I need more than the one I already have or to go with the kids.

The sheets I picked up were laundered and then hung on the line for several hours. I then put the dry sheets into the dryer with the rest of the batch of laundry (still waiting to be dried) and ran them till everything was dry. I like to use the line this time of year, but for this project, the most important thing was to get the slightly perfumed smell out of those sheets, replaced with the typical laundry smell of things washed here. I'm much more likely to have easy acceptance of these sheets by the kid in question if they have the right smell. (Same with clothes we bring home from the thrift store--they get washed so they smell right before they get worn).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 02:31 PM

Flipped a mattress, washing linens, and getting ready to run up into the attic. I've done the measuring and figured out the placement of the computer table and such in the new room. Heckuva lot of moving this afternoon, but it will be worth it in the living room.

Going to take the dogs for a walk and then give them a bath since it'll be warm enough this afternoon to not make them miserable to be damp out of doors (well, Poppy is always miserable if she's damp at all, but she dries fast.)

When losing weight, every time you get low enough to be in the next 10 pound increment, it gives an emotional boost. I've been hovering a couple of pounds over the next hurdle most of the week. I'll have to make that dog walk a really brisk one to help move to the next lower level.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 07:37 PM

We decluttered some turf-squares cut out of the yard, to trench a bit of anti-dig into Dog World, today.

One of the two trenches created was not only WAY too wide, the same person who made that mistake also made some mistakes on ag panel fabrication that left a HUGE gap under about 16 feet of fence-- right along the road. So we used some rubbly broken cinderblock pieces I'd gotten from FC to fill that trench to ground level, and then added layers of these turf squares yp bnring it all up to the berm of mud Mr. BooBoo ALSO left melting into the grouind on both sides of the trench-- it can;t be dug up now for backfiill without a majoor investment of time and valuable strength.

The built-up sod layers will melt thru the cinderblock fill, into a nice raised berm over the winter. It will not only meet the berm that is NOT supposed to be there, making it look like we planned it, it will bury that lower foot or so of fence like it was supposed to be.

About 1/3 of this is done as of today-- Hardi and I both working hard, sick, because it just must be done.

The other properly-trenched section was cut so nice and clean, I'll be able to fill it with unused small logs for a mowing border. Even after the ground freezes, I can chuck a few of those in there at a time.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 09:48 PM

Parked a mile from church tonight...got a nice walk in before and after the service.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 11:08 PM

Finally got back the novel this evening and decluttered another 1600+ words. We will do chores tomorrow morning then I am off to a nano write-in event for four hours of non-stop noveling.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 01:30 AM

I'm fishing wires in the wall tomorrow. Got them down the hole from the top but haven't managed to connect with them at the bottom. I'll go up in the attic again tomorrow, with a dust mask, and re-run the wires (and a string to make it easier to fish). I think it all curled up in the top of the wall.

The shelves (18 linear feet more) are in place and I've begun moving the magazines from around the house into stack on the bottom shelf (that rests on bricks).

Garage sale linens are in great shape and have been installed on the bed. They look and feel good.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: mouldy
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 03:17 AM

I haven't been on for a few days because I haven't really done much more sorting. However, I did get the 4 pieces of salt dough made that have been ordered, and now I just have to get them painted and varnished. After that, ALL the craft work equipment can go up into the loft.

My niece and her gorgeous (down girl!) Moroccan husband are coming later this morning to help me get some deep-rooted bits dug out of the garden. They actually volunteered to come as they are in the area this weekend for the christening of their friend's baby. As long as I keep them fed with home made soup, they are happy! Karim's family own an olive farm, and he has been to agricultural college in Spain, so he loves working on anything outdoors and physical. I have to go up to church for the Remembrance Day service, but they will arrive about the time I get back from there.

I'm absolutely gutted, as the house I had been keeping my eye on up north has been removed from sale. I suspect it's because the seller can't get what he wants for it. It had dropped price twice in the last year with "offers above", and then dropped again earlier this year to a fixed price. I hope it reappears in the future. There are other possibilities, but that one ticked all the boxes.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 07:06 AM

My 87 year old nana is visiting from downstate (staying with my mom) and I have invited them over for Sunday dinner. I have great childhood memories of going to Nana's house after church and having a family dinner with my nana, pappy, mom, great grandfather and great grandmother....so today feels really good to me. I have some tidying up to do but nothing big. :) The menu is simple too....the idea being that we are together as a family. We'll play cards or something after dinner. I'm looking forward to all of it!!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 12:45 PM

All the rubble-fill along the front trench is done (I can hardly move now)-- the broken pieces were all used up so I spent about an hour smashing half-cinderblocks with a little 3-pound mini-sledge. That was actually a lot of fun, angling the pieces to break easily on one good hit. I was able to sit to toss them into place, until I discovered that some of yesterday's work had warped the fence panels inwards, so I heeled some fill in, deep, from the unfilled side to push it back straight.

I hope we might chuck the rest of the turf-squares in on top of all that, later this afternoon. Then the top of the chainlink needs to be properly fastened to the top rail-- right now it's just tacked up in a few spots (don't tell the dogs!)-- and I can work in the log-border during the week.

But man, them dogs sure do live their Dog World, though, and with each improvement it's a little more escape-proof so they are getting to spend longer times out there each day. And it's still warm enough in the afternoon to go in there with them, police the poops (such fun), and give them a good workout.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: mouldy
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 01:50 PM

The bed at the back of the vegetable patch is emptied of its unwanted growth. Cat and Karim did sterling work, and we ate best part of a pan of veg soup. I bet the local cats will love the new latrine!

Moroccans love bread, and I have never seen anyone eat so much and still stay so toned! We got through 75% of a loaf, and he ate most of that! The bread machine will have to go on again again tonight so that I have some for Freya tomorrow. A loaf normally lasts me the best part of a week!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: maire-aine
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 03:33 PM

I'm embarrassed, but those of you who've read these de-clutter posts for any length of time will know that I'm not a very good house-keeper. Cooking, baking, gardening, canning-- all good. House-cleaning, not so much.

I try to avoid physical work on Sundays, but this morning, I dropped a paperback book next to my chair, and a cloud of dust flew up. I knew I needed to vacuum the floor, Sunday or not. So, the living-room and dining-room are all clean now, and I can go back to reading my book.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 09:27 PM

Maryanne, I have the same tendancy. The kitchen is clean, the bathroom is clean, the worst of it is picked up elsewhere, but there is a lot of dust around and behind and under things.

I made the big push this weekend to wire my son's room (with a couple of mis-steps and a trip to Home Depot for a new, larger and longer drill bit.) Today, when he came in, I moved a couple of pieces out of his room (a small desk and a chair) and moved stuff around as I swept and mopped. And when I got far enough along that he could see the space that I intended for his computer table, he picked up the task and emptied his table, dismantled the computer, and once we moved the table to his room, he put it back together. Right now the couch is alongside his bed, meaning he'll be climbing over the couch or off the end of the bed to get in and out, but it is perfectly positioned for playing video games on his large television (from the neighbor after her mother died at the nursing home). He knows I'll go in and check on him occasionally, but he's so busy with school and homework now that I think this is the right time for this. He's not great at housework or chores, but he is a very good student and I think deserves the adult upgrade on his space (he's 17 1/2).

I'm tired, after all of that up and down into the attic. Time for a hot soak in the tub and early to bed. Lots of work for work tomorrow.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 12:32 AM

Now that the bath is complete (felt great!) and I'm looking at the living room I can see that now that the gob of computer stuff and kid detritus from that corner is out, I will be rearranging the room - again. It'll look nice, I think, to just have living room stuff in the living room.

Sold a couple of little things on eBay, have a few more to list tomorrow.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 09:22 AM

Houseguests coming-- gonna have to vacuum up the cluster flies collecting upstairs.

DAMN, this mean my whole house will have been vacuumed and cleaned in the same month.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: MAG
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:10 AM

It took me all day yesterday to clean out one file drawer of a 4-drawer cabinet.

20 year old crap I haven't looked at in that long

Tell me I'm not alone.


MA

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:20 AM

Of course the problem comes in when we actually LOOK at the stuff. THEN it gets complicated. I always to to look at it this way-- not "should I toss X" but "When will I use X?"

But no, you are not alone.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 01:01 PM

No, you're not alone. I did a lot of the file purging last year, to compress the contents of several files and get rid of one four drawer file. I could stand to do some more. Meanwhile, much of the paper that NEEDS to be filed is sitting out on surfaces, in boxes and in stacks. [sigh]

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 01:13 PM

Alone...oh, no, definitely you are not alone!**bg**

I have a four-drawer cabinet, brand new a couple of years ago. Rog bought it for me because I whined about needing somewhere to file everything. Did I file? There are two drawers which have some files in them with stuff piled in flat behind them. The other two drawers have stuff lying flat in them which I need to go through someday.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: MAG
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 03:25 PM

and what do you do with the empty file folders?

and for that matter, plastic magazine boxes from magazines sitting around for the same 20 years?

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 05:04 PM

Give them to someone who needs them? A non-profit, a young student? There's got to be someone who could use them,:-)

I have so far decluttered 10,126 words. Waaaaahaha!

This weekend we took a rocking chair out of the living room and gave it to Morgan as part of an early b-day present. He loves rockers and they didn't have one. We also did the usual clean up, though Rog missed the litter boxes...there's always tonight.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Penny S.
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 05:32 PM

I've got problems with flies in the new place. They were gathered around in the bathroom, crawling up the window (as in the song), so I started by leaving the window open when I was out - second floor (third in US) so no problem of security. No use. And when I changed the lightbulbs for eco versions, I found a whole bunch of them in the fitment. I put a repellent in, which uses permethrin, so should kill them, and they all disappeared.

Into my new bedroom. The repellent did not move them from there, as they were all hanging out round the venetian blinds. I'm afraid I've sprayed them.

I keep moving boxes of books etc. over there, but am a bit behind, as my neighbour who must not know what I am doing keeps working on his flat between tenants.

Someone has painted the walls around the wooden veneer wardrobe doors, and onto them, and not cleaned it off- but I think I can get round that by rehanging them inside out. There are drawing pin holes, but I can fill them with wax crayon. Two person job, though.

The house has no window sills, and I have loads of nice things I put on window sills - glass paper weights made by glass artists, rock specimens, and so on. I think I can put little shelves alongside the stairs, though. My sister has something like that on her cellar stairs.

There's a Virginia Creeper at the end of the garden that's going to need controlling - I want the fence for a climbing rose and honeysuckle as well, from my grandparent's house.

I'm moving my emergency food backup larder over and making sure I've got a list of what's where - I do tend to make duplicate purchases. I went a little mad when the flu broke out in Mexico, and replaced all the stuff I'd eaten to make the move easier!

Today I have eaten two packets of Cadbury's chocolate fingers -not good, I haven't had a chocolate binge for ages, and can't bring myself to eat 70% dark, which usually sees it off. (There's a meeting of the flats board on Wednesday, and I'm not looking forward to it.)

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: maire-aine
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 05:51 PM

No, you're not alone. I save newspaper articles-- used to be clippings from the paper, now it's articles that I print out (2-sided to save paper). Mostly politics & economics. Maybe one day I'll write a book (ha-ha). Occasionally, I have looked for something and actually found it. They are stored in three large plastic bins, stacked in the corner, and they don't take up too much room. For things that I'm actively working on, or that I refer to regularly, I keep things in a loose-leaf binder, one for each topic. Things like bank statements, etc. are in a separate bin, with hanging folders even.

As far as old folders, if they're in good shape, I just re-label them; otherwise they go in the recycling bag. For all the clutter around my house, I'm actually rather proud of my filing system. I can (nearly) always put my hands on what I'm looking for.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 06:23 PM

I did some filing today too. The adoption paperwork is never ending. We had a request for duplicate forms, originals of clearances, Homeland Security stuff, 8 passports for each of us (and that's not even for travel plans) and the list goes on. I made copies of everything, notes where required and filed them in the appropriate spots.

I also paid bills today. I wish I had them as organized as I have the adoption stuff....maybe someday but it really isn't at the top of my list like the adoption is. :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 06:38 PM

Kat, you might enjoy this article: How to Write a Great Novel. I like Laura Lippman's approach--maybe you end up with a novel and a work of art when you're finished!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 07:32 PM

Penny, whatcha got there is Cluster Flies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_fly

Ain't they FUN?!?!?!?


Alas, the only declut today was putting away some laundry. On the other hand, it had sat there in front of the shelves for about 3 weeks. Amazing there was any left.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 12:10 AM

A challenge to each of us with bulging file cabinets: purge/shred/recycle 5 pounds of paper by the weekend. I think I can do it (though it may involve some catalogs; they add up quickly).

My son is very happy to be computing in his bedroom, but I'll have to stop by periodically to see him. I doubt he'll come out often. :-{

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: maire-aine
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 12:32 AM

Got a few things done today. My front tire looked low (I'd picked up a small screw) & Belle Tire fixed it no charge. Also dropped by the city planning dept & got my 2010 calendar. The Downtown Dev. Authority puts out this real nice calendar that fits perfectly into my binder. While I was at city hall, I met 2 of our newly-elected commission members. Got 3 loads of laundry done & put away.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 08:50 AM

Already loaded into the car and ready to be delivered are a bookcase and dresser mirror to a bedroom set I passed on to my niece. Today she'll get the final pieces and it will FINALLY be out of my house!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 08:50 AM

I've been really, really careful not to add more clothes the last year or so, to give the closet a real good, all-year test (What do I really NEED?). It did sustain me through the recent spate of funerals, despite NO time to do laundry or go to the cleaners.

I discovered, though, one category in sore need of re-supply-- warm leggings for the cold winter. I stopped wearing them "out" when I redesigned my look, so the last pair is in tatters and I wear them WAY too much when they need a good wash. So-- I am going to go look, forthwith, for some clearance stuff in weird colors so, between crazybusy times, I can sit a spell in my pretty-clean house and not FREEZE!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 09:14 AM

FOUR pairs! Two to put into rotation, two to save unopened for next year.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 10:54 AM

All bedding washed and hung up to dry. Clean bedding on all 4 beds. Kitchen floor swept and washed. Harry helped hoover the living room and dining room.

The kids toys have yet to be sorted but it's on my must do list for the next couple of weeks.

Xmas shopping is all done and put away. The ties for the wedding arrived last week and have been put away with Amelia's bridesmaid dress. Invitations have been worded and proofed.

Saw the doctor last week, he's still happy with my weight loss. Slow and steady and it will stay off. Going to body pump class tonight, 2 mile brisk walk there and a 2 mile jog home. The metformin for my PCOS upset my stomach for a couple of days but all seems to be well now. Waiting for an appointment to have the pins in my left leg checked as they may need to be take out as they have moved.

Tomorrow I need to bake and ice the MIL to be's birthday cake when we get back from playgroup

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 11:01 AM

You're done with Christmas? HOLY SMOKES BATMAN! I have SOME of it done...actually very little. I know it's early but I am really looking forward to decorating this year as for the last couple years, we haven't done much (sometimes NONE) decorating at all for various reasons. I am really looking forward to that!!!

Michelle :)

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 11:06 AM

I started in August so I could spread the cost. The kids presents were delivered last month which was the major expense. I can't wait to wrap them though, then see the kids rip the paper off and open the boxes...it's the best bit! Cake is made too, looking forward to decorating it...will post a picture when it's done but there are a few more weeks to wait for that!

Enjoy decorating your home Michelle!

Khatt x

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 11:27 AM

Khatt, I'm also impressed! You've finished the shopping? I've done a little, put a few things aside. I have a couple of ideas, but no firm plans. My kids are old enough that I ask for suggestions, and I am expecting my son's treatise to be delivered to my computer desk one of these days. He's very efficient at breaking down wants versus needs and prioritizing. :)

My living room looks disheveled right now as I think about the things in it and what I want to move. I am considering moving the dining table into there and using the room partly as dining room. I have two living rooms as it is (I think this is common in the South, I didn't used to see it in houses where I grew up in the Pacific Northwest) and this is the large room. I was originally going to use the sun room as a breakfast room, but it has been piled up with craft stuff and eBay things for so long that it isn't practical to try that now. I could move the breakfast table (a small round drop leaf oak antique) into the current dining area and move the big dining room table into part of the living room and make it an attractive zone. I'll think about it some more.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 12:00 PM

Thanks for the article, SRS. It is fun to read of others' methods. I'd go nuts if I tried to do what Lippman does, though! (Like the idea of artwork after, though!) And I like her books. I do most of my writing in my head...kind of the highlights, then when I sit down I just start typing. Of course it needs to be edited, but usually not all that much. My Rog made me feel really good the other day when he told me I don't realise how easy it is for me when other folks, i.e. the young reporters he works with, struggle over each story of a few hundred words. I don't feel that superior, if at all, but I do forget that I have put a lot of years into learning to be a writer and have developed my own way of going about it. I have the informal "Mudcat Writers' Group" to thank for some of that.

I have been picking up and putting away stuff as I walk through the house the past few days. Failed miserably on exercise...haven't done much, but I do have new Birks and have been way more active, so I am counting that!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: mouldy
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 01:48 PM

2 and a half pounds back on this week, dammit!
It's the rest of the soup and home made bread what done it!

The back of the garden's looking very naked since it got "Karim-ed", but I don't think it has attracted that much attention from the local moggies - yet. Trouble is, the rest of the garden is now looking a bit on the wild and woolly side.

At some point I have got to de-clutter the tables yet again, and start to prepare for Christmas. To be honest, I can't be bothered at the moment!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Penny S.
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 03:02 PM

I thought they might be cluster flies - they're in my Dad's house as well. But I want the earthworms, so killing them doesn't bother me too much. I did leave the windows open and ask them to go....

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 03:03 PM

So this morning I made the best oatmeal. Lots of cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins....YUM. I opened the cupboard door to get some brown sugar and BANG...the pepper mill fell out of the cupboard, smashed right into my oatmeal and broke the bowl. I'm pretty sure was a sign to clean out my spice cupboard today....and that's just what I did!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 03:08 PM

Headline:

Pepper Takes Header into Good Groats

I've had things pitch out of the cupboard that way. It must have been really disappointing to lose that bowl of breakfast. :-/

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 05:00 PM

What we do to manage our cluster flies is pick a spot where we don't mind the bodies piling up, and leave the light on, there. They clustrer on that ceiling and when they die they fall to the floor, where they are conveniently vacuumed.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 06:40 PM

Hey Khatt,

    What do you find relieves the pain of PCOS on the really bad days? I had a miserable night and today is proving to be worse. I have a heating pad, a constant stream of Advil (per my doc) and my legs up...but man...what I wouldn't give to find some relief. ARG.

Seriously. I hurt.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 03:28 AM

Heat bags, hot baths,I take codine on really bad days. The metformin seems to have an effect on the symptoms too. I've been on it now for about 6 years. The doctor put me on dianette (contraceptive pill) which is designed for PCOS but it made me ill so I had to come off it. Funnily enough exercise helps too but sometimes when I'm bad I just don't have the energy or enthusiasm to do it. See if you can get an appointment with your gynocologist (sp?) they might be able to give some help. I was told they can operate and remove some of the cysts but they would probably come back in time. Hope you feel a bit better soon. ((hugs))

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 06:18 AM

Hey Khatt,

Thanks. I've been to the Dr. and they gave me Metformin too but all it does is make me sick. I was taking Sprintec (contraceptive) and that helped for awhile. My symptoms have been markedly better with the weight loss but every once in a while...BAM. I was up with it again during the night and this morning I am sitting at the table with the hot bean bag on my belly. I just hurt. And it's gross. Walking usually helps with cramps but for now, gravity just isn't my friend....and like you said, the energy and enthusiasm just isn't there either. BLAH. (and I mean it!).

Thanks.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: MAG
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 10:05 AM

I sympathize with you ladies who are in pain.

For me, yesterday I tackled a spare room which has been solid junk for way too long.

I found 3 (more) boxes of papers stuff and got through one of them. Absolute crap sittingthere for no good reason.

on the weight side, I have not been to the Y in months; am in a real emotional slump right now.

My size 16s still fit; the 15/16 do not, so I am stuck on a weight plateau and getting flabbier. but not overeating.

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 10:55 AM

Some of the house tasks that didn't get done in early October for the MIL visit are getting done today for the impending houseguests' visit. I don't think THEY care, but it is nice to see the house coming back together. With a recent couples' dinner, the whole downstairs is staying relatively tidied up. Even the dnstrs loo is "OK." That means I can focus in the upstairs stuff that has not gotten done in awhile.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 11-09/De-clutter & Accountability report
From: maire-aine
Date: 11 Nov 09 - 04:05 PM

100

Saw the dentist yesterday, and he said things are looking good. Not as much soreness as I expected. Visited a local antiques/resale shop and found a real nice enamel double-boiler. Of all the stuff I have in the house, I didn't have one before. It looked like it has hardly ever been used.

Put some beans in water to soak last night, and made baked beans today. The house smells delicious.

Maryanne