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[Former-Member]

@Eve7  how are your wrist and massive declutter going?

Have you got your new chair @Determined ?

[Determined]

Have the new chair and well on the way to wearing it out lol.

Now wonder why I left it for so long other than the obvious $ 

Don't think I specified but it is a massage chair. While expensive it does have  significant therapeutic benefits. 

[Eve7]

Hi @Former-Member  I see the surgeon on Tuesday so hoping all is well with my wrist and I can drive again.

The big de clutter is a work in progress but it is happening.

Thanks for asking. How are you and Mr Darcy?

[Former-Member]

Hope you get the all clear to drive @Eve7 . Would love to hear of any of your decluttering successes.

Have a few items at our place that still need attention and am slowly working through them.  We are waiting on a builder to do some work and am hoping once that is done I will be able to deal with the majority of it.

[Eve7]

I’ve cleaned out all my bedroom drawers and had 2 bags of stuff for Vinnies @Former-Member 

I read somewhere that people who like to read should not declutter! Last weekend I read the Diary of Anne Frank so that caused a bit of procrastination!

I’ve just thrown out 5 pairs of running shoes and am only keeping one pair for every day exercise and a pink pair to wear in the Mother’s Day run.

Tonight I looked in a cupboard that has 8 (would you believe) silver goblets that I last used at my 40th birthday when I had a princess party so they can go back to Lifeline!

[Former-Member]

WTG @Eve7

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I've been doing some unused-clothing sorting recently, that's about the only current decluttering project. The garden is a much more attractive place to be at the moment.

I've been checking the unwanted family clothing over carefully. Op shops can only sell good condition stuff, so anything that's got a stain or hole goes to landfill, at the shop's expense, which kinda negates the intention behind donating to them. So the good stuff has gone into a "donate" box", the scruffy stuff I'll attempt to use for craft projects, or whatever's too far gone for that maybe as cleaning rags.

[Former-Member]

Bit of excitement happening here, our builder popped in today and looks like our renovation is set to start in February.  Today we moved a table out to the patio to make room in our family area for a temporary home office as well as storage for beds and some other items not yet allocated a home since our move.

There is still some sorting I can do and I started clearing out some folders that have papers we no longer need including recipes taken from magazines that I am not likely to use. 

[Adge]

Yes that does sound exciting @Former-Member Sounds like you've been steady & constant with that decluttering...

Adge

[Smc]

@Former-Member, yeah, magazine recipes can be a trap. And craft and home decorator projects. My Mum's extensive collection was largely tossed out, but my sister and I kept the odd thing here and there that did interest us.

Apart from the clutter aspect of it, one problem with them is that they can end up carrying a "guilt trip" because they were things that you meant to do be never got around to. And/or they're a source of disappointment. Things you wanted to do but never got the chance to.

I've made a habit of slipping magazine recipes I think might actually get used into a related recipe book. My favourite choc brownies recipe was cut out of a newspaper, and I know exactly where to find it, tucked inside the cover of a "cakes, biscuits and slices" recipe book.

Nowadays most of my saved recipies etc. are on my copmputer... which can be a trap of a different sort, given I'm running short of memory space. I'm resisting offloading files onto a memory stick, on the grounds that if I do that, I'll possibly never get around to culling any of them. Funny thing though- I think there's less emotional connection to a virtual "save" than a physical one. The only issue is making the time to sort though and "trash" the unwanted bits.