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23-01-2019 07:11 PM
23-01-2019 07:11 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
Good work @Smc, papers can be very time consuming to sort.
Mr Darcy threw out some old work training course manuals.
Three jigsaws went to an op shop and a few bits have been put aside to see if we can give them away at the weekend.
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27-01-2019 02:35 PM
27-01-2019 02:35 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
hello @Sophie1, @Former-Member, @Determined, @Smc, @Former-Member, @Former-Member, @Janiee, @Appleblossom, @greenpea, , @Adge
well from mum`s and our house we have thrown out 2 vacuum cleaners , I cot , I Fan
@Former-Member, I had a chair full of paper and things and now are on the nice cleared table
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27-01-2019 02:39 PM
27-01-2019 02:39 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
@Shaz51 Yay! I love decluttering!
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27-01-2019 03:56 PM
27-01-2019 03:56 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
'Onya @Shaz51 👍.
Love to hear of any decluttering victories, no matter how small @greenpea.
We got a section of our roof replaced this week as well as the guttering sorted (following leak onto house). It took a fair portion of our house repair $$.
I forgot to take the stuff I had hoped to give away when we caught up with some friends.
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27-01-2019 04:06 PM
27-01-2019 04:06 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
@Former-Member Okay Darcy when I was manic and in hospital my family through out 90% of what I owned (admittedly most of it was crap but still ....). I moved into a new place and 18 months later moved again so I chucked out everything the washing machine, dining room table, the sofa, it felt fantastic!!! I bought a smaller washing machine and table but no sofa .... I am determined not to have to do it again so I don't buy anything that I need to lug around. I could easily live in a teepee or a 1 bedroom cabin.
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27-01-2019 04:32 PM
27-01-2019 04:32 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
Yikes @greenpea don't think I could live in a tent and I do like my sofa 😀.
Sounds like we could learn a thing or two from you about not buying unnecessary stuff or holding on to things we no longer need.
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27-01-2019 04:53 PM
27-01-2019 04:53 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
@Former-Member 🙂
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27-01-2019 06:26 PM
27-01-2019 06:26 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
my step D1 has learnt that too @greenpea, @Former-Member
she has moved around a far bit , settling down now as she has a partner
but on every move she would sell things and throw out things before her next move
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27-01-2019 10:01 PM
27-01-2019 10:01 PM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
Bag of clothes to op shop = 👍
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28-01-2019 09:49 AM
28-01-2019 09:49 AM
Re: Decluttering and home maintenance
Hello All. 🙂
@Shaz51@greenpea, when someone's moving frequently, it does often make more sense to sell/pass on and refurnish at the other end. But yeah, I'd find it hard to live like that. I love having heirloom or heirloom-worthy pieces around. (I'm looking across the room at the bookcase that my sister and I had as children for all our picture books, and sitting on a ladderback chair that used to be my Grandma's. 🙂 )
We've got a fair bit of "scruffy antique"/vintage furniture here, the kind of things made to last for a century or two (or more?) so if we needed to cull out any of those pieces we'd be hoping to sell them to a good home. I do want to get rid of some of the more modern and not-as-well-made pieces. Some we'll pass on to new homes, others will probably be broken up and any useful bits salvaged. (Wonky chipboard shelves don't count as useful... if I break them in half they'll fit in our rubbish bin. 😛 )
We managed to do a decent bit of clearing up before our friends came to visit on Friday. Sadly, the other extreme of our furnishings is cardboard box storage... often unsorted or semi-sorted boxes of things that were getting in the way. A lot of the latter part of the clear up was just restacking said boxes more neatly to make space, BUT I did find a few things I was looking for in the process, and a few things which I could immediately pin as rubbish. And the restacking means we can have a better idea of what we have to sort out next.
It's nice having a bit more room to move, so we're hoping that works as a motivation to keep up the momentum. Today's task is clearing up some of the clutter in and around our carport, because a friend and a friend-of-our-friend are coming to visit, and want to look over our currently mothballed motorbike.