declutter my house

Just finishing shelf assembly. I can feel already that this will solve part of the clutter problem. Feeling more positive – I’ve found a way forward.

J.

Hey-ho,

I’m having yet another attempt. To be fair to myself I’ve been away for practically a month – and you can’t declutter a house when you’re not in it.

I’ve just ordered 4 new shelving units. Kinda feels like cheating, because if I decluttered plenty I wouldn’t need the shelves. But so far, I look around and think “Where the hell am I going to put anything?” So I’m figuring shelve it first, and get tidy. After that I can see about getting rid of more stuff. :-)

Lets hope this works.

J.

Hmmmmm. So here I am, thankfully with time to declutter. Now I just need to maintain energy and hope! I’ve returned from holiday to a digusting dump. I know for a fact I have less “stuff” than I had because I have emptied the house of so much. But what I have seems to spread out like melting ice to fill every inch of floor and surfaces. This suggests lack of storage. But I have quite a bit of storage, so actually I think it spells too much stuff for size of house. :-(

As I’m not about to buy a bigger house, I need to get rid of yet more stuff – even though I thought I’d reached the end of what I could part with. Thats the exhausting part – having to make decisions about every ‘thing’ that I own. I mean who has to go through this crap? I guess its the price I pay for accumulating and being busy. Being busy on many projects generates so much different debris. I need more order, which in turn requires more space, and we’re back to the vicious circle!

I’m going to make yet another start! I just want to get to that ‘a place for everything, and everything in its place’ stage. God knows how far I am from that. Yikes!

Dear Lord!

I’m going to have less and less time to do this fruitfully. So today I want to max out on it. I figure I have roughly 10 hours from now. That’s maybe 2 hours per main task:

1. Organise all cupboards & shelves (inc. attic cupboards!)
2. Organise Attic floor & stairs (inc. Keyb) – use cupboards?
3. Clear some kitchen, clear sofa & Organise lounge
4. Watch VHS Tapes (to dump) whilst organising desks

Got Talking Heads on (loud).

Here goes!

Here’s my decluttering wishlist. I hope you guys can hold me to it, please!
1. Organise all cupboards & shelves (inc. attic cupboards!)
2. Organise Attic floor & stairs (inc. Keyb) – use cupboards?
3. Clear some kitchen, clear sofa & Organise lounge
4. Watch VHS Tapes (to dump) whilst organising desks
5. Huge amount of Amazon/Ebay sales to list!!!
6. a) Freshen, b) dust c) clean d) tidy and tend garden/yard!
7. Move bed down a storey for new bedroom and make attic into study
8. Empty Shed and renovate it fully

Doing very well again – thank heavens! Emptied some cupboards to find they were mostly full of stuff I can dump – thus freeing up new storage space if needed, but also lightening my load should I need to move house :-)

By the end of the summer I should be left with only possessions that I need or want – rather than miscellaneous crap. This should make it easy to clean and organise and decorate – finally! Feeling better again and hopeful again. Thanks for your support – though I still need it!!!

Here’s my decluttering wishlist. I hope you guys can hold me to it, please!

1.Clear some kitchen & sort some drying
2.Clear out and organise all cupboards & shelves
3.Organise Attic (& Keyb & Boss)
4.Clear sofa & Organise lounge
5.Clear last of all Stairs
6.Watch VHS Tapes (to dump) whilst organising desks

J.

Haven’t done so well lately. Just haven’t had the energy/fitness to tackle a whole room and doing a few papers here and there doesn’t seem like enough. :-(

Would like to capitalise on last week’s progress soon as I feel better though!

Bye for now guys!

The house is still a bomb site. However, I know I’ve done a bigger clear out in the last week than I’ve done in the last 18 months or so. Real progress. If I can keep this up all summer I should end up more clutter-free than I’ve ever been in my life! Here goes…

Tonight my goal is to fill a few bags of books for the charity shop.

Here goes…