The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

MrsMoo2U

Sounds like a fabulous day

Dorastar

I am officially the best mum in the world - dd loves her clean, tidied, re-arranged bedrooom and the few new 'grown-up girl' accessories (we have shifted the disney princess look for good now thank goodness!) Coolest thing is a new lamp that is touch sensitive and she can reach from her high bed. Deal is that she is now in charge of keeping it lovel - time will tell!

clairewop

Well I have had a lovely day today a very lazy one

Dh has cleaned and done a pile of ironing

Willow92

Ello all, not a lot to report coz I've been really unmotivated... OH has been on my laptop for hours and hours scouring ebay for "bargains" even though I keep saying that it's not going on for the day. He spent three hours doing "important" stuff and sorting an ASDA delivery out. I took the laptop for 10 minutes to apply for a job and catch up on posts here and he's having a hissy fit coz he wants it back...

Might change my laptop password again...

Dustykitten

Finally sitting down (but still have the kitchen to clear up from dinner - dw done but not the rest).

Still no moths found and more cleaning done. Upstairs starting to look great, downstairs getting worse by the minute.

Watched Dragons Den whilst ironing and was very inspired. I'd love to start up a small business next year but don't have any ideas as to what yet. The couple who came up with the idea for the caravan bed thing saw a great gap in the market.

Need to try to get the balance right this week between getting more of the cleaning/decluttering done and some more fun things.

milann

Hi

Just been looking through the thread and am inspired!!

I was very pleased to have completed the 'decluttering tasks' last week - before even reading this thread. I made a pledge to myself to try and keep on top of my decluttering every school holidays when I am off work (my kids grown and flown the nest now) so far so good - have I missed a challenge though was the last one doing under the bed?

Milann

Dorastar

Morning - no idea what to do with small people this week that costs nowt, they are both addicted to tv atm and want to get them away from it but not feeling very motivated and quite a bit CBA. Weather is changeable - bright sun followed by torrential rain - so off to search through thread for all those ideas we had listed the other day.

Memory_Girl

OOps!!! Saturdays missing challenge:

How many of you have this category of clutter - "the stuff you bought for a diet that you never stuck to" clutter"

Now I can imagine a few raised eyebrows at this one.

After all you guys know me pretty well = you know that food isn't wasted here and everythig is used up.

But "Mummy Dearest" has this box full of stuff from when she was going to use when following the Gillian McKeith "You are What You Eat" eating plan.

Well she dn't stick with it - come of the dishes were just too different, too "way out" for my Dad to palette. So there is languishes, mung beans, aduki beans, seaweed, tofu - and lots more.

So hands up!! Who has got some? Or some food replacement sachets? Snack bars? Juicer?

Mum hangs onto this stuff because "they were too expensive to throw away" - so we came up with a solution the "Matrix Girl Swap Shop" - which if you think about it is appropriate for a Saturday morning.

She swapped her "diet food" in my store cupboard for stuff my day would eat - tinned beans, prawn crackers, crackerbread, white rice etc and got rid of the guilt of all that wasted money.

I know we only swaped, but she went home with stuff that she will now actually use up and gradually de-clutter rather than a box in her kitchen that silently reproaches her for a failed diet attempt.

So if something in your home is "guilting you" - diet foods, unfinished projects (that you know you never will finish), books (that you know in your heart-of-heart you are never going to read)... time to let go.

Let all those guilty clutter zones go off and bless someone else's life if you can - if not just get rid. There's no need to have all that negative energy pulling you down.



On Sunday we didn't have a challenge Day of rest and reflection (or in my case Pirates and Picnics)

MG


ETA - Mondays challenge is up on the Matrix

Dustykitten

Morning all

Stayed up late last night watching the riot/looting on TV/twitter as dh was in brixton; he was home before it started there worrying sad times.

Going to Hoover and mop downstairs to make it look at bit better and then cycle to town with youngest two on the great trainer hunt.

Dora my ds3 is TV mad too. Trying to cut his back but he is not one for playing unless he has friends and then he wants it to be sport related. There is a thread on here with cheap/free ideas for the school holidays.

gilligansyle

Like you MG, food doesn't get wasted in this house, but my "clutter zone" is unfinished cross stitch projects. Mainly unfinished because my eyesight isn't good enough anymore, but some because I don't really like them any more. I set myself a challenge in the new year to finish a few off, so now have some finished projects waiting to be made into 'something'.

My real 'biggie' though was a wedding sampler for a friend, then the wedding was off in quite dramatic circumstances. She is now engaged again to a lovely bloke, and so far has set 4 different dates for the wedding, so she is definitely being given the sampler but I will wait until *really* near the time.