One tub is an accomplishment! Congrats!Originally Posted by iris lilies
One tub is an accomplishment! Congrats!
I eked out 30 minutes today reorganizing the area around our guinea pig cage so that we can secure the hay and bedding a bit better - otherwise, the cats get into it. I'm hopeful this new system will keep the area a little neater.
New total: 10.
Well done ejchase on your continual accomplishments!
I have been working on my room. One mindset shift that's helped me recently is thinking of what I'm doing as organization vs. cleaning. I always used to tell myself I need to clean, whereas I realize now that what I'm doing is organizing. It's not dirty in here, it's disorganized.
My sister told me about a cool website with a quiz about organizational styles: https://clutterbug.me/what-clutterbug-are-you-test . I'm a butterfly :)
Thank you for this, just a yak - I'll check it out!Well done ejchase on your continual accomplishments!
I have been working on my room. One mindset shift that's helped me recently is thinking of what I'm doing as organization vs. cleaning. I always used to tell myself I need to clean, whereas I realize now that what I'm doing is organizing. It's not dirty in here, it's disorganized.
My sister told me about a cool website with a quiz about organizational styles: https://clutterbug.me/what-clutterbug-are-you-test . I'm a butterfly
I did an hour this weekend - 30 minutes in our backyard which is a mess. I had to clear out our tomato plants which were contaminated by ash falling during the fires.
Then another 30 minutes in the house. I've given away a fair amount on Buy Nothing this month, which feels good.
New total:11.
I"m going out of town today so will need to put in some more time before I go - decluttering spaces in the main rooms - because a housesitter is staying here.
Redid our current files while watching All the President's Men, a great movie to rewatch, btw, so did 2 hours.
Speaking of files, I cleaned out 2+ years of files from one garden club job. While it is true I am just transferring them to a big tub that holds all historical records, at least I cleaned out one file folder and in doing do tossed some papers.
I am a bit stymied, tho amused at myself, for hanging onto several notebooks from the previous secretary of another garden group. I say “amused” because I know I should just toss them, but if I offer them up to the group, the hoarders will grab them and stuff them into our group’s rented storage shed along with all the other records no one will ever want.
Ever.
I predict I will have to clean out that storage shed someday when the 80+ year olds are gone. I did that for two other garden groups, when our oldsters/hoarders died. What a fkn PITA that was.
so why don’t I just save myself some time, and pitch these notebooks now? Hmmm….I suppose because I might be wrong about the future and someone will take the decades of old paper records to their heart.
haha who am I fooling, that won’t happen.
Nice work, Tybee and iris lilies.
Iris Lilies, every club needs someone like you - the one who's ruthless about getting rid of stuff. The hoarders just don't have it in them.
I spent 4 hours on Monday preparing for our catsitter, but would say only about an hour of that was decluttering (weeding out unneeded paper, throwing out expired stuff from the fridge, taking other items to Goodwill or posting them on Buy Nothing).
New total: 12.
I've been struggling with this goal since I worked more in January and February than usual, but I have houseguests coming in mid-April, so I'm really hoping I can finish the 40 hours before they get here. It would be nice to complete the hours and then be able to show off my work!
Today I did just an hour but found a lot of paper to recycle!
New total: 13.
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