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Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

£1 says you had to Google what that meant
I know I am about to.

Nah, lir has posted pics of her trees in the past. They look beautiful.

I look forward to receiving my pound

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Nah, lir has posted pics of her trees in the past. They look beautiful.

I look forward to receiving my pound

Pop over. It's here waiting for you

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Pop over. It's here waiting for you

I will. Just not this week

vivatifosi

How did you get on with the bid Pastures?

michaels

We got rid of the front wall and didn't replace it. About half the houses on the street have no fence or wall. Benefits are the school kids don't sit/lean on it and drop litter inside, downside is lots of litter just drops/blows in.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

We got rid of the front wall and didn't replace it. About half the houses on the street have no fence or wall. Benefits are the school kids don't sit/lean on it and drop litter inside, downside is lots of litter just drops/blows in.

Also, if they're 4rsing about, they can end up chasing each other across your frontage.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

The kitchen is fine. The living room can be made fine although a lot of the time it isn't. There's a large suitcase that's been in there for weeks with random stuff inside that I haven't got round to addressing. The whole house feels "not done". There are random piles and boxes of stuff in most of the rooms. The downstairs carpets are disgraceful. All rooms that DD has control of are more or less impassable - her original room, the spare room that she moved out into, and the playroom. The rest is just rather cluttered and not very organised. I'd like to live in a house where there are at least some flat surfaces that aren't covered in things, and where the rooms have been put together on purpose rather than containing whatever people couldn't think of anywhere else to put, IYSWIM.



Yes.

I know that feeling well as that was my house for a very long time. The way it worked for me (and this is only me, we all have our own ways of dealing with things), was to pick one small area of a room, never the whole room, to sort and do that. Then I would move onto the next area, maybe not the same session of clearing but I would set aside a little bit of time and tackle that one bit.

Ok, it takes more time but I found it was not quite so overwhelming (or tiring!) to do it this way. Setting smaller targets helped me feel not quite a failure because I had run out of time or was too tired to finish a room in a day. Do things at a pace to suit you, even clearing just a small amount of clutter a day is better than none at all and treat each bit of clearance as a triumph.

Please don't do what I did and look at the whole job, it scared the life out of me and made it all seem so impossible to do, hence why it got so out of hand..it was only when my analytical brain finally kicked in that I realised that just like with the boys when working on an aspect of their behaviour, that I needed to break it down into the smallest of components to finally overcome it.

PasturesNew

Mrs Furry comes in the morning for her 4th/last? visit. Not seen any for awhile, but I've not been looking.

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

I know that feeling well as that was my house for a very long time. The way it worked for me (and this is only me, we all have our own ways of dealing with things), was to pick one small area of a room, never the whole room, to sort and do that. Then I would move onto the next area, maybe not the same session of clearing but I would set aside a little bit of time and tackle that one bit.

Sorry for heavy edit Sue. On tablet so can't pick all the bits from a great and helpful post.

The above is my method too. The other thing I've done when I have a lot to do, is just clear a bit at a small room at a time so that there's a place that can be looked at that's completed. Even if it's a toilet or a spare bedroom, having it look finished is a big boost.

I wonder if it's like mushrooms... whether a maximalist approach to home styling is an NP norm. Though I've seen the pics of Casa Doozetti and the occasional pic of chez silver... they are stunning and clearly exempt.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also, if they're 4rsing about, they can end up chasing each other across your frontage.

Yes, nothing is not really an option. I'm sure I'd end up with people just standing on my garden instead. Also I like the 'extra boundary' a wall/ fence creates. I know it doesn't add any security or distance from the road but still. Plus it's in the covenants on the title deeds (though who would enforce them I don't know).

vivatifosi wrote: »

I wonder if it's like mushrooms... whether a maximalist approach to home styling is an NP norm. Though I've seen the pics of Casa Doozetti and the occasional pic of chez silver... they are stunning and clearly exempt.

My home is exempt from any styling except for 'student dive':