Declutter my home

Walter reminded me that we are just over a month away from our annual apartment inspection time. I need to make time to declutter!

We had our apartment inspections yesterday after our big clean-up. Everything came out fine, and they are going to replace our heat lamp bulb.

Now if only I could manage to keep the apartment decluttered so inspections are not so stressful to prepare for. In fact, although we are “inspection ready” there is still lots of improvement to be made.

We have apartment inspections again in about a week. I’m taking some time off later this week to work on the apartment. I don’t know why I have such a hard time working on this when I don’t have this pressure of the inspections.

I wonder why they are inspecting again just 7-8 months after the last inspections. Walter wonders if they might be getting ready to think about selling the building. Two other apartment buildings within 3 blocks have sold in the last year. Yikes, I hope he is wrong.

Our apartment inspection was yesterday. It was really quick and pain free thanks to days of cleaning ahead of time. I would really like to keep the place looking better on a regular basis so I don’t go through so much anxiety when this comes up each year. Better yet, wouldn’t it be nice to have things looking so good we could have company on a regular basis. That’s my dream.

Annual apartment inspections are coming around a little earlier than last year. We got our notice the other day. Thankfully they gave us two weeks notice – inspections start on the 22nd.

We just have too much stuff!! I’m taking off weekends and a couple days next week to work on it. Wish me luck.

I’ve been reading the Buried in Treasures book. It has a good plan for getting out from under the clutter for anyone who has a serious problem. I like the book’s approach and I’m going to give their plan a try.

Approximately once a year our landlords inspect every apartment in the building. We got our notice a few days beforehand and spent 3 days on the apartment. The inspections went fine and it looks a lot better, but there’s more that could be done. I hope I can use this as momentum to keep going and keep it from getting bad again.