I am currently dealing with someone else’s stuff. I am borrowing a house from a friend and they have so much stuff!
I am currently sorting out the things I moved to their basement. I only moved about a tenth of their stuff. I am presently at 35 medium sized boxes and I am only about halfway done.
And that’s just the stuff I moved!
Presently, I am washing everything that was in their linen closet. It’s about 24 inches wide. I am at twelve loads of laundry and I am only about halfway done!
I think I may need to call in some troops to help.
If you don’t have new double pane windows, you really should. You need the heavy winter drapes to block the drafts and minimize heat loss, and it’s such a joy to take them down and hang the light, airy summer curtains in preparation for the Easter family dinner.
Not that I do that. I have double pane windows.
Paranoia, I know, you’re right, but my grubby work clothes are all very good quality; they just won’t die.
I’ve got laundry backlog again. And I haven’t made a lot of progress on my garage other than mentally plan what’s going where. And I cracked open a couple boxes to confirm contents in anticipation of the cleanup.
But this weekend I’m going to see some floor in my garage, so help me!
Yes, we are. I had overnight guests last night and so now there is more of the usual day-to-day tidying and cleaning to do. Looks like I won’t be getting to any of the zillion things on my To Do list today.
I spend my whole weekend cleaning my house. I came across a beautiful set of old designer carpets, which were stored in a old wooden shelve in my basement. The carpets are having beautiful design on them, but they smell like dog piss. I tried to clean them by using normal detergent, but the results were not satisfactory. Then after lurking on internet for a while a came across a product, which cleans pet stains and odors. I read a lot on topic such as Top 10 Tips to Remove Pet Odors, clean pest smell,etc. After getting annoyed by search, I hired a local cleaning services to work. Now, I am back to my daily cleaning routine.
I’m trying to keep myself accountable to myself, in two ways: posting here, and inviting company every now and then. So tonight, I get to pat myself on the back just a little bit. Finally, two months after moving in, got the third bathroom operational. New sink faucet, new toilet, new shower head, door rehung (painted too.) Still need to put up a towel bar and some shelves, and I’m still waiting for the contractor to finish the trim in the bathrooms and office, but we have a reasonably nice guest bathroom now. The stupid bit? Once I finally got all of the bits together (tools, new fill line for the potty, etc.,) it was a 2 hour job to finish the room, at least to functional if not yet ready for a magazine photo shoot. All of my projects are like this - I know perfectly well that I can finish in a relatively short time once I actually force myself to start.
And I did the same with laundry: I had it all done recently, then fiddlefarted around with folding for a couple of weeks. Finally spent an hour today folding and putting away, and realized that I’d wasted far more than that hour just moving the mound of clean clothes, rewashing stuff that fell on the floor, etc., while I procrastinated. Silly.
But I invited the grandparents to come celebrate Lily’s birthday this weekend, so now I have to clean/fix/finish projects. I suspect that I’ll accomplish more this week than I have in the past two months!
I spent most of yesterday morning sorting through my ‘spare’ clothes wardrobe. It’s still warm but winter is approaching and I wanted to see what I had (lots) and what I needed (not really anything but that won’t stop me). Three large bags of clothes to Vinnies. Not a lot but a step in the right direction.
Hey, that’s my mother! She’s got a 120m[sup]2[/sup] plus 49m[sup]2[/sup]-terrace 4B2b flat and only one butt. And that flat is generally recognized as having the best views in town, so it actually should sell pretty well, but “what do I do with the Stuff?!”
I was home last week and we sort a made a pact (pacts with her are worth the used poo paper they were written on, and this one isn’t written) to, when Grandma dies or I’m 49, whichever comes sooner, sell my flat in the mountains, sell her way too large flat and buy a smaller one in the town where she and my brothers live, under my name.
We’ll see whether that ever happens, but it’s gotten her to toss a ton of Stuff that was doing nothing but get layers of dust, so it’s good.
I finally got around to cleaning a closet that hadn’t been cleaned in 15 years.
I realized 15 years was a bit too long when I found all the dead mice. (But at least they were dead. And I had some Chlorox on hand.)
I cleaned the toolshed too–no mice but a lot of dust. I put a bunch of cardboard boxes in the recycling and in the process found tools I didn’t know I had.
Now to sort through the junk drawers and see what strange stuff turns up there.
SOOOO happy we again have regular trash pick up. Proud that at least the house didn’t get worse while that was interrupted.
Am now bailing up the old magazines for transport to the recycler on the next trip (I usually go once a month). Also, getting together some old electronics for the same treatment. These items are now out of the main living space and in the “removal” holding area. This system works for me, and seeing the “holding space” empty out once a month is getting to be a good thing.
Now working on getting caught up with winter bedding. Also, threw out a pillow that had acquired mildew instead of attempting to clean it like I would have tried a couple years ago.
Hi - I’m simster - and the simFamily -we often hang onto alot of stuff we don’t need.
We’ve taken a step - reboxing/consolidating and trash removal (primarily from the garage).
We’ve literally hauled a ton of stuff to the dump over the past month. (literal ton - 3 trips, 600# plus per trip)
1st trip - 2 aquariums and supplies + a couple of old cabinets/furniture
2nd Trip - took apart 2 barely ever used exercise things - took them to the scrapyard and got paid
3rd trip - generic trash/clutter/destroyables
We don’t feel ‘cluttered’ as much as it seems its just really surprising how fast stuff accumulates when you have a 2 car garage that isn’t used for storing cars.
Now on to clearing out a storage closet and selling a huge collection of toys that hasn’t seen the light of day in 10 years - if I can’t get a decent offer (or worth it to peice mill out on ebay) I’m taking it all to goodwill.
