Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Karmacat

Yep, I'm wondering about that myself :eek: at the moment, I'm on those SFX magazines - lovely print quality, lovely photos, and the ones with articles I *really* like, I'm keeping - which is 5 magazine files at the moment :eek::eek: but considering that they on their own used up 4 full shelves, thats not bad :eek::eek::eek:

taxi73

It is hard to let go of stuff though isn't it?

Karmacat

It is ... but reading some of the stuff that shortbird has posted on Hypno's thread is helping. And the fact that my packers are arriving in 9 days concentrates the mind wonderfully, I'm not kidding! I will actually cut and paste some of the quotes from there onto here, they're so lovely.

Here's what short_bird wrote:
I've been reading a lot lately and distilling ideas! On the American site, Unclutterer, there's a post about the Red Velvet Rope test. Imagine you're the doorman to your stuff: would you let it back in to your life? Are your possessions things you truly value? Do they fit? Do they flatter? Do they work? Are they in good enough nick to donate, or give to friends? If not, let them go.

Also, I've been reading Trash It or Treasure It, about your relationship to your stuff. And the most meaningful one - so far - for me was: do your possessions reflect who you are or who you used to be? (Or who you're trying to be but not quite succeeding? )And there was a lot of baggage tied up with that idea, as far as I'm concerned.

Go back to Hypno's posts (last diary) on buying from TM Lewin and rediscovering her wardrobe through adopting a healthier lifestyle... prime example. Clothes fitted, flattered, projected the right work image and were either bought via MSE methods or "shopped" from her own wardrobe...:D

Hope you don't mind, short_bird!

Cheery_Daff

Well done KC, sounds like you're motoring along!!

I'm really inspired with all this decluttering that's going on round here and on Hypno's thread :j Must just be careful to PRIORITISE PHD - sometimes decluttering is rather *too* appealing... :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and don't feel bad about your kitchen cupboards... my plates-etc cupboard currently has a cheery little spider merrily colonising one of the corners :rotfl: Can't quite bring myself to get rid of him!

Our house is Extremely Cheery, lots of sequins and feathers and nonsensical decorating - but incredibly dusty, a couple of rooms are a complete and utter tip, half of the decorating hasn't even been finished (like, after Mr Daffs has been here for 20 years...) - very much a 'fur coat and no knickers' house :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

(sorry, just made myself laugh out loud about that - I have to think of it like that from now on - I very much have a love-hate relationship with this house, always feel it's against me, and this will be a much more cheery attitude!) :rotfl:

hypno06

My clutter has been getting me down for far too long. But despite talking about decluttering on every diary I have written since joining DFW, I have really only ever scratched the surface, so never really got the full benefit, although bit by bit things have got better over the years and bit by bit space has been freed up again.

However, now the time is right for me to do a more thorough job, and it is quite liberating, because it is right.

There is just an awful lot of it

turfy6

I know I know I really must begin somewhere and I too have resident spiders in my plate cupboard oh no perhaps tomorrow I could start :rotfl: why does it make you feel scared????

Karmacat

Evening all! When I had a long bath at the end of this afternoon, I noticed the usual spider residence in the bathroom has been filled again - dangling from the washbasin thank god I'm leaving soon, is all I can say. They're those very flimsy ones - they move around, but they don't push my buttons in the same way as others do. Don't *think* I'd want any on the plates tho :eek:

Cheery, I appreciate you describing your house - sounds like you have a lot of work on your plate - I'd be wary of coming into actual contact too much with the dust. My allergies came from letting my cats sleep at the head of the bed with me, tho I had weird skin well before that. And my dust :eek: yesterday was still dreadful, even so - when I was mopping 2 rooms, I changed the water 3 times, and it would have been a dozen except that I picked off the worst of the dust that the mop had collected by hand - it made a nice little nest at the bottom of the bin :eek:

Hypno, isn't it weird how *much* stuff we have? Admittedly, where I have SF stuff, you have sports stuff, but its still all *stuff*. I got rid of about 50 books and magazines today - that feels good!

I also finished off cleaning the inside of the windows, did lots more ordinary washing up and removals washing up (washing ornaments - it doesn't get done except on a Sunday with a blue moon in the proper quadrant of the sky

Pippajo

Karmacat wrote: »

I also finished off cleaning the inside of the windows, did lots more ordinary washing up and removals washing up (washing ornaments - it doesn't get done except on a Sunday with a blue moon in the proper quadrant of the sky

Don't forget it has to be a leap year :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

I knew there was something else :rotfl:

Today its either a trip to the tip, helped along by my trusty business partner, or a trip to the charity shop, helped along by my trusty trolley luggage (then a trip to Homebase to look at loos for the 2nd loo - I've realised I better get a move on there ).

Plus I need to do phone calls. Lots and lots of phone calls (gas, elec, blah blah, *those* phone calls. Hopefully better than Nationwide).

In one of my many idle moments, I was checking out gluten free bread flour - if it works, and I don't have a problem with yeast, it would be great - I miss bread/toast, but I really can't justify £3 for a little tiny loaf.

Right. Brekkie, and a canter around the forum.

xxx