Hoarding - Springing Ahead

purple.sarah

Just a quick tip for email decluttering, I see people talking about blocking the fly lady emails. If you subscribe to an email then decide you don't want it please unsubscribe through the site instead of blocking them through your email provider. Blocking sends the message to your provider that the email is spam you never signed up for so they might add it to their spam list and automatically redirect it to the spam folder, stopping people who want it from getting it. I just mention it because I subscribe to another daily email and saw on their site that they are having this problem of some subscribers not getting the email because others have blocked it as spam. If you are unsubscribing and not blocking, feel free to ignore me! 10 emails a day is a lot to deal with!

pavlovs_dog

Our bedroom is now mostly sorted. Got a pile of things for the CS, and a pile of things to try on again in 6 months, in the hope that we'll both have lost a few lbs by then.

Have been properly spring cleaning in there too... the on top of the wardrobe, washing the wood work, pulling everything out and cleaning behind it kind of cleaning. My mother would put me up for adoption had she seen the dust bunnies I've dealt with this afternoon. I am officially a slattern cow!

Got some wall art and a curtain pole to go up at some point in the next week. Need help from FIL with the curtain pole as I'm not sure I trust myself to mitre the joints properly (it is a bay window). Once that is up, I'll clean the windows too.

mcculloch29

Re your Mum, pavlov's_dog, I think our parents generation (mine were born mid 1920's) had the advantage, generally, of much less "stuff". My mum's lounge and living room were fairly spartan, she had carpet squares or runners to hoover rather than fitted carpets downstairs, and lino throughout upstairs. No central heating, just a few pictures and ornaments to dust. Books and magazines were relatively expensive so there weren't many of those, either.
Can I also say that I love your sig? My brother and his wife (a Welsh speaker) had "Calon Lan" at their wedding. Which was interesting for my Mum & Dad who were Estonian and Latvian...

This_Year

Thanks, Blossomhill, I will google that. Once I've seen how I sleep tonight! We finished at 3:30pm and that's it. No work after easter. Some hardened drinkers are still in the pub, making it a session but I wanted to get home and relax.

sjprmc01

Livingroom sorted and cupboard contents 'chucked' back in courtesy of the kids even though I DID have to resort to screaming at them to do it :mad:


The hall stuff is still there though and it needs moved before the kids go to bed as its not passable at the mo

Am shattered so I've sent OH for Chinese for dinner (the kids have already been fed) so, bar finding somewhere to chuck dds room contents for the night (possibly other two dds room as I have more painting to do tomorrow)I'm going to relax!

whitewing

For those of us that don't speak Welsh:

I ask not for ease and riches
Nor earth's jewels for my part
But I have the best of wishes
For a pure and honest heart.

We are having some family time over Easter. I am shattered today - had a night chock-ful of dreams of people drowning but I'd forgotten to take my medication so I think it was something to do with that.

I have actually joined flylady as a result of the latest posts. Easing myself in very gently i.e. the housework I am doing is not a result of the emails. Like this thread, it seems to be good at making me consider things that I would have ignored otherwise.

I hope to make a start on the cupboard tomorrow, and then reward ourselves with an Indian takeaway tomorrow night.

It's too cold out to do anything/go anywhere. What are you all doing for Easter?

pigpen

Bedroom decorated for DD2 we are finishing moving her stuff in tomorrow and she can dehoard her own clutter!! She has 2 large shelves for books so that is 2 boxes sorted already.. she has bit of a bag thing going on I want to curb and far too many clothes we shall hunt through together.. DD3 will get first pickings and the rest will go to CS.

lobbyludd

lol - I ignore the emails, although I'm sure I only get one a day? maybe I'm just not paying attention enough- but only use them to link to the daily task! and I've never made a folder nor do I read the "testimonials" selling things. I'm very selective, I just need to be given a task that I can do quickly, knowing that over time this will cover the basics everywhere in the house, and have found each time the same task comes around I get a bit further.

it helps me not get bogged down in trying to do one thing perfectly, whilst neglecting all the other things, or getting overwhelmed because I want to do something perfectly, which will take hours or days, so I don't start.

sorry pigpen - I'm not saying the thread is overwhelming - just that I find it so - it obviously works very well for lots of people, and it's great that we can find lots of different ways to help us.

pigpen

lobbyludd wrote: »

lol - I ignore the emails, although I'm sure I only get one a day? maybe I'm just not paying attention enough- but only use them to link to the daily task! and I've never made a folder nor do I read the "testimonials" selling things. I'm very selective, I just need to be given a task that I can do quickly, knowing that over time this will cover the basics everywhere in the house, and have found each time the same task comes around I get a bit further.

it helps me not get bogged down in trying to do one thing perfectly, whilst neglecting all the other things, or getting overwhelmed because I want to do something perfectly, which will take hours or days, so I don't start.

sorry pigpen - I'm not saying the thread is overwhelming - just that I find it so - it obviously works very well for lots of people, and it's great that we can find lots of different ways to help us.

That is why it is done in levels.. if you live in a sty.. like I do.. you do level one.. usually it takes about 15 minutes.. or if you ar elazy .. like me.. it takes 3 hours procrastinating and 2 minutes to delegate

This_Year

Sunny day out there. I have a cold and a list of things I had planned to do which is as long as my arm. Am just deciding whether to start in the bedroom and work down or clear [bin, charity, ebay and keep] the pile of stuff that OH dumped in DD's room while she was away and then moved it to the lounge when she came back. :eek:

And my alarm clock went off at 7am as usual. Despite it being a bank holiday! I just forgot to stop it.