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The (Flylady inspired) Anniversary Declutter Mission
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Hi Dusty honey - yes i know its a ridiculous list but its made me realise the jobs that are needing doing - the cleaner helps keep the flat respectable but its all the extra jobs that get missed - anyway i have edited my post and deleted a couple of duplicates and things that I maybe dont need to do so it looks better-ish!!!!!
paper is going to be my bugbear for a while so i think I might alwys try to do paper on a monday on my flylady list and it might become a better habit - here's hoping!
thanks for your concern angel
toots xxPeace will be mine
could do better - must try harder
Live each day as if its your last
DFW Nerd #1000 Proud to be dealing with my debts
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Done a few more bits off my list - going to sharpen the knives next.
Like you Toots paperwork is the biggest job. Whilst I've almost done the bits I selected it is an ongoing thing. I'm going to follow you lead and try to do an hour of paperwork every Monday.
Also need to put some more bits in the car boot pile in the loft; hoping to do a sale at the end of April.The birds of sadness may fly overhead but don't let them nest in your hair0 -
Toots' List
This is where I still am - havent achieved much! Work in progress:rotfl:
1st Paper Monday
instruction booklets and guarantees
bank stuff
do filing
photos
sort through box of cards for re-using in card making etc
kids pictures
books
magazines etc (2 gone only another 200+ to go:p)
2nd Cotton Tuesday
[STRIKE] ebay leather trousers, 2 velvet dresses, navy skirt, brown skirt
try on cropped trousers, fat face top, pink skirt, green skirt,
check t-shirts and shorts[/STRIKE] not ebayed - put to charity shop
mend navy blue cardigan
3rd Leather Wednesday
polish brown boots
polish black boots
polish black shoes
ebay jane norman belt and brown woven belt
ebay navy shoes
ebay cowboy boots
4th Linen Thursday
Deal with striped curtains - ebay/ freegle or charity bag
Iron with starch my white tablecloths
5th Wood Friday
Sorting sheds - this will need a week!!!!
2 x Desk drawers sort out
6th Iron Saturday
Dig out bike from shed and clean to give to C
Garden tools/lawnmowers again get them ready for spring - if I can reach them if I havent done the shed!!!!
baking tins need a home
7th Wool Monday
Knitting wools/fabric box - give them a sort, how about HH working on a project you have left for a while
Sort your sewing box
8th Bronze Tuesday
Bronze to me is coins so today is anything money related
find my bronze dog
9th Pottery/china Wednesday
Sort out any china that you don't use, do you need it
10th Tin/Aluminium Thursday
11th Steel Friday
12th Silk Saturday
11th Lace Sunday
its only a little less but it all helps!!!
toots xxPeace will be mine
could do better - must try harder
Live each day as if its your last
DFW Nerd #1000 Proud to be dealing with my debts
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Week 4
Paper Monday
[STRIKE]put bills away[/STRIKE]
do filing - one box left
[STRIKE]photos[/STRIKE] - decided to use card instead, hand made and cheaper
kids pictures - buy frames to go on walls
books - sort out for charity shop
Cotton Tuesday
[STRIKE]sort out my wardrobes[/STRIKE]
sort out socks ready for bin/rags etc
Any woolen garments to sort, jumpers, coats, hats, gloves, scarves - after the winter we have had if you have not worn them then you won't so get rid!-still using them brrr
[STRIKE]Knitting wools/fabric box - give them a sort, how about HH working on a project you have left for a while i started, but still yet to finish
Sort your sewing box and do that mending i started, but still yet to finish[/STRIKE]
mending oh's trousers again:mad:
Iron Wednesday
sort all shoes out
[STRIKE]sort belts out[/STRIKE]
Linen Thursday
[STRIKE]sort bed clothes out[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]give away on freegle[/STRIKE]
sort towels out
Wood Friday
sort toys out again - does it ever end
[STRIKE]2 x Desk drawers sort out[/STRIKE]
Iron Saturday
pump bike tyres up
[STRIKE]clean out car[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Any other financial bits you have been putting of -[/STRIKE]
Or take yourself into the garden and get some sunlight on your skin - me too
[STRIKE]Tins - sort out your pantry and meal plan around what you have[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sort out your box of candles and holders.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Tins of buttons/odds and ends have a rummage[/STRIKE]
Steel Friday
[STRIKE]Cutlery drawer, do you need everything that is in there[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]If you are in charge of the toolbox give it a sort and make a list of anything that needs restocking - fuses/picture pins etc[/STRIKE]
Steal an hour to yourself - you all must do this and do something just for you; the idea of all this hardwork is to give us more time and space to be us.
Silk Saturday
look for worktops
lace Sunday
sort kitchen out
bleeding i've made way :T still have one last box of paperwork, then done all done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks dusty your making work and get decluttered at the same time yay thanks !!!!!!!!!0 -
I am still working on the paperwork. I will not be beaten by it!
Also listed loads more clothes on ebay.business mortgage £0))''(+ Barclay's business kitchen loan £0=Total paid off was £96105 PPI claimed and received £13527
'I had a black dog, his name was depression".0 -
I too am working through the paperwork mountain, not least because I need to find my decree absolute before I can renew my passport
. Nothing like needing something to inspire you to get on.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need' Marcus Tullius Cicero0 -
Making inroads in a chest of drawers full of papers. Most now filed & sorted and the rest binned. Don't have the old photos to sort as my DIL borrowed all these about a year ago and brought them all back filed and tidied:D Have still the bureax to sort as it is full of everything that doesn't have a home so may sort a bit a day for the next week while I watch TV. I didn't know that I had such a pile of cards so will sort them out and put them into 1 box.0
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we all seem to have the same problem - paper!!! I have sorted a lot of mine into piles on the sitting room floor and I am going to file and sort today.
toots xxPeace will be mine
could do better - must try harder
Live each day as if its your last
DFW Nerd #1000 Proud to be dealing with my debts
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Paper is my biggie too, be it paperwork or book/magazine.
Will declutter another box of paper stuff.DFW Nerd 267. DEBT FREE 11.06.08
Stick to It by R.B. Stanfield
It matters not if you try and fail, And fail, and try again; But it matters much if you try and fail, And fail to try again.0 -
I decluttered my spice collection this week and some were last century hehe:o But Asda today had 3 for £3 of the schwartz jars so they have all been replaced with nice new ones.0
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