Not quite a horder - decluttering
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After I finished chemo (did it first), while I was doing rads, I cleaned out my drawers and closet. Didn't want any of my family to have to throw out the old ugly yellowed bras and panties. I really got busy. After I finished rads I tried to finish up what I had actually started the year before. I've still got junk in my dining room buffet, and junk in other drawers and closets but at least now if I drop dead tommor I won't be embarrassed by my house. I spent several hundred dollars on shelving and storage bins, but as time passes I find myself doing less and less decluttering. It just seems so hard sometimes to get rid of things. After typing this I'm motivated to get rid of some fabric and a couple of stuffed dolls. Off to goodwill this weekend, but early, this Arizona Heat is dragging me down.
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I finally cleaned last week after slacking off for about a month, so I'm good to go for another month...lol!
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Small closet cleaned out and reorganized. Not a lot to do with a one bedroom apartment, but every little bit helps.
Hotand cold - I know what you mean about having family clear out things. When my Dad died, then Mom moved into nursing home - it was challenging to say the least. Then my DH died and I got the house ready to sell. Yikes, it has been 5 years since I sold and moved. There are basically 2 things, besides photos that are worth anything. The rest can go into a dumpster when/if it is my time to go.
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GrameE, what are the 2 things worth keeping besides photos?0
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My new 2012 Metallic Cherry Red car and a beautifully carved teak wood chest that my father got for his mother before WWII. I was the eldest grandchild, so grandma gave me the chest.
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I really need to get started up again. I have too much stuff!
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I lift my hand to you,
oh intrepid,
band of declutterers.
Ginger
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A miracle has happened in my closet. My Dd helped me go through my hanging racks. I am now down by about 2/3, yes that much. My closet looks sort of lonely. We eliminated things that I just didn't really care for, ever, or any longer. Things that felt scratchy or "funny." Things that didn't really fit. we also eliminated a pair of pants that my Dd made me swear never to wear again! That was the first time she had ever told me that. I, on the other hand, had bought a pair of jeans off of her body when she was in college. Those were the most unflattering jeans on her ever, ever. I think I paid her $80.00 for them back in 2002. Worth every penny.
Next she is going to help me go through my canvas bins I have on the shelves. I folded and perfectly organized the items in those bins before we moved two years ago.Thing is, I have no clue what it in them. I hate to pull them down and make a mess because I know they are lovely, Stepford worthy, bins. I think I need to move those bins into the real world. They contain good tee shirts, the kind you could wear with anything. Turtlenecks, again nice ones. Things that would be useful to me often. Dd really should become a professional organizer. She makes it nearly painfree and took my leavings to a womens, charitable "back to work" group. That is much better use than stuffing my closet to where I can't see what I have.
Today I bought DD tickets to Wicked and Book of Mormon, she was ecstatic.
Laters Ginger
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Congrats on you lovely looking closet Ginger. DDs are so nice to have especially when they are good organizers. I just finished decluttering my fridge and wiping it down. Now for the rest of the kitchen. Geeze -- it gets so cluttered during the week and then I spend a day decluttering it. Why don't I just put things where they go when I walk in the door instead of on the counter or table? I think I've heard it takes 7 days to do something that becomes habit - I should put things away immediately for seven days and see if it can become a habit.
Happy Decluttering ladies!
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Congrats Gingerbrew. I'm envious of your emptied closet. Thanks for the idea to buy my daughters unflattering jeans off her body. I loved it!. And now to think that she is helping you with your closet. Wonderful !
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Nobody around here is decluttering? I am thinking of having FDIL clean out my pantry while I sew bridesmaid dresses for her today.
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Well I had FDIL wash some crystal on Saturday. I worked on cutting out one of the dresses and then I pushed the girls to get the Shower invitations printed, addressed and sent. I feel I acomplished a lot!
Yesterday I straightened up the messed which had been left from Saturday. I am going to try hard to clean up after myself before I start another project so I can keep my house under control.
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I have declutttered my life by neccesity. and im glad. my son is extremely ill and has been for nearly 6 years. we spent hundreds of rhousands of dollarss trying to find a cure. our net worth is currently negative 200,000 [no, we are not considering bankruptcy though i do not judge those who do]
we could no longer afford our mortgage and now we [husband as of 2 days ago. we have been together for nearly 18nyears. my son LJ, 3 dogs and myself are living in the mountains of colorado in a tiny camper trailer.
from our home we work an avon business, do all of the paperwork for the rapidly sinking automotive shop we own, homeschool my son, encourage him in his guitar lessons, and balloon art and have to find room for all his medicines. it is so hard to keep decluttered bUT i'm not as worried about money. it is quiet and peaceful here. very healing. i have grown nearly phobic about 'stuff' and have lost pracctically all attachments to it. over 85 percent of income goes for insurance and health care. BUT by choosing this lifestyle [ choice? hell, we could be living under a bridge. this is a good choice] and as much as i now hate 'stuff' I find myself creating [making footless sandals. i do live in a nudist ranch] collecting and selling stuff to others. getting rid of stuff, even houses, can be freeing.
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What's a footless sandal?
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sorry, i meant barefoot sandal. i make mine from all sorts of beads from simple glass to swaroski crystals. you can use anything but avoid metals as they can get hot.
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i wish i could jump back in and clean up this mess. working one handed is so hard right now . i can't ask DH to do one more thing. he has been so wonderful.cast comes off in a couple of weeks snd maybe then i can start again.
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teka,
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I need to do something! I have a notebook for important things including a list of clothing and bedding that is stored. I list the box and contents and where the box is. I'm missing an entire underbed box! It contains my fairly good winter clothes. I've looked everywhere for it and have opened all the other boxes to see what's inside. All of them were where they were supposed to be and contained what the list said was in them. We have a 1944 house that doesn't have large rooms, so this box was under our bed. I've checked the attic and basement as well as under all the beds and dressers. I doubt that someone broke into our house and took a box of clothes from under the bed, leaving all the computers and tv, but I can't imagine where it could be. Maybe it's hormonal brain?
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I have ADD, so have lists of what I've given away. Perhaps I took it out of the box cause I've found 2 items in my closet that the list says are in the box. I'll do a closer look in the attic.
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Wren I do the same thing. Is it possible someone helped you by hanging up the items in the box?
I am still looking for a box that had old family jewelry in it. A few valuable pieces but many just bits of gold bands that were from my granmas generation. I value the pieces in that box over any jewely I own but haven't seen it in two moves and since 2007. I fear it was carried off by a worker during some renovations or the moves.
Good luck finding your clothing. I sort of feel like I have found my mind when I finally track down such things.
Laters Ginger
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Wren: Good Luck finding your box. If it's a whole box there is hope. I did find a box I had misplaced. It wan't where it was suppose to be and it was labeled wrong by somebody else.
Anybody working on cleaning out closets? My house looks OK. Wouldn't die if neighbors came in unexpected. I'm dreading my closets. It seems like everything has an emotional/sentimental tie to it. What should I do with my Aunt's real alliator purse from the l950's? My oldest daughters prom dress that I sewed? My youngest daughters pictures that she drew for me? My Red Rubber rain boots that I wore in England when we lived there for a year? I just seem to be having such a hard time with these closets and all the sentimental stuff.
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OK, isn't anybody around here uncluttering? I thought that now with fall coming, summer vacations over and kids back in school that we would all get busy again.! Is everybody all done ? ?
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hah,hah. waiting for cast to come off and inspiration to strike.
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HI everyone. I'm new but I am trying to declutter. Can't believe how much stuff we have. I want the junk all gone!
Take care.
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Always clean closets in the Autumn, but last year didn't do it because of diagnosis.
Thanks for this thread to get me started again. After Rads, that's all I did was clean.
Then I got over it! LOL! Time to get back at it! Thanks!
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Hot and Cold, am I all done? Bwa hahahaha...... Ahhh, um, nope.
I'm always beginning again and that keep us all young, right?
Welcome newbie declutterers.
Ginger
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I found my lost clothing in a box in the attic. Whew! I think I must haVe combined 2 b oxes at some time. It was marked 'winter', how helpful. There was no box marked winter on my list. I think it's the one that was originally marked sweaters and sweats. I also found a really cozy jacket I didn't remember buying last year.
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Welcome to teeballmom and Denise and any other newbies. Glad you found your box Wren! I donated a set of towels today from 1991. I had washed the towels and they had faded, but not the handtowels or washcloths. Why did I keep a set of towels for over 20 years? I really liked the floral print, I kept thinking I would use them ! and now they look so old fashioned. Out with more old stuff. "Life is a marathon, not a sprint." Sandra Felton in her book Messie No More
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Count me in. I spent the summer filling freezers with garden produce and thought of it as decluttering the garden. Meantime my closets have been having flashmob parties and unnatural sex and I don't recognize what all is in them now. I know they were celibate and orderly when I went outside a few months ago...
Spent all week starting Fall cleaning -- scrubbing, polishing, washing, picking up and putting away in the house - yikes it's almost time to put away the lawn furniture, rake leaves, and pack firewood.
DH-the-builder/maker/inventor/fixit guy has spent the summer rebuilding his supply shed - a huge job. He saves everything because it might be useful & it usually is. but he's promised to do a certain amount of decluttering sifting and winnowing of his "stuff" before he puts it back in - we'll see about that - for the summer his stuff has been laid out all over the back part of the property but at least I don't have to look at it. The part I'm taking care of has the gardens & yard.
I still don't know what happened to my closets and the garage shelves - how they got so out of control.
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I am happy to report I went up to my sewing room and began to get some things organized. I am motivated because my DD is using my cutting table. I got a couple boxes unpacked and organized a little. I am hopeful I will be able to get a good amount done because DD is coming over every morning to work while DGD is at Montessori. I am so happy to be able to work in the same space as DD.
I will report back and maybe someday even be able to take a photo.
Hugs Ginger
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