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BarbCh

@nannygladys.... get that coach trip booked and enjoy it! Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones 🙂

BarbCh

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

How are you BarbCh? and all our other posters? The decluttering is not going particularly well but not stressing too much 😉 We had guests - DH’s sister & her husband + their daughter & her DH. First time we have had anyone visit in over 3 years 😱 Lots of cleaning & hiding stuff 😉😉 but it did highlight the need to decorate 😔

Hopefully now the thread is back on the first page we can get going again 🤞

Hi , sorry but I've not been on here months.... got logged out and then couldn't  log in again....don't even know how I've got on here now! 
ATM my mind is a bit cluttered with all sorts of stuff.... so the house is getting a bit that way too! So back to sorting the mind out 1st! 
It is definitely  connected to mind clutter and motivation x

BarbCh

Wednesday2000 said:

I just read a book called Chatter by Ethan Kross. It has tools on how to manage your internal (often negative) chatter in your mind. There is a podcast with Dr Rangan Chatterjee on YouTube too with the author. I just listened to it on my walk.

I have written out the main tools and I might put it somewhere in my house where I can see it to use when I notice my ruminations are getting control of me.

I did do some decluttering today and threw some unwanted and useless stuff away. We are going to repaint our living room this week so I'm looking at what we can rid of when I am thinking about moving the furniture around to paint.

This is great and I've quoted the post to get it onto the current page for others to see x

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

So many threads that we got bumped off the 1st page again 😱 DH & I have just spent a week touring around Scotland on the motorbike. We have been exceedingly lucky with the weather for the 2nd year in a row 👏🙂 The highlight has been that we saw a live Red Squirrel 🥳🤣🥳
We will be home tomorrow so I suppose I will have to get a move on with decluttering & getting DH to decorate 😉😉

TC77

@BarbCh hope you're well. Thought I would pop in and see if people are still posting. The link between mental and physical clutter is so strong - at least for me. My chaotic DD1 today told me that I live in chaos (worse since she came her for a few months) and that I spend my life sorting or moving the clutter rather than living. If I face it last 10- 12 years since my mum died and DD1 has been ill, and feeling of guilt and not being good enough has been the time my home became more cluttered. Wouldn't describe it as hoarding but DD2 said I am a high functioning hoarder and there are things I find it hard to part with, or only if it goes to a good home. Really trying to change this as my dad goes into a home and we have to sort out his house!

I hope everyone is ok, and being kind to themselves. x

-taff

I'm going to recommend this book again, Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana White. I had problems seeing the clutter was actually clutter, I'd not want to get rid of things in case they came in useful, in case I never found another one, in case I used it again in the future, I had clothes bursting out of everywhere, books up to my eyeballs, fabric stashes galore, trinkets, bedclothes etc. You name it, whatever it was, I had far too much of it. Reading that book and following those steps really helped me divorce emotion from the items I got rid of. The more I got rid of, the better I felt. She does say that you might change your view on clutter and starts with something easy and non emotional, progressing to things you may feel a strong emotion for. Honestly though, it was a big breath of fresh air and I've chucked out [ recycled, donated or binned] an amazing amount of stuff we just didn't need or hadn't used or worn or read in years. Now I don't see wonderful potential items, I see things in the way that need to go...It was a living life changer.

TC77

Thanks  @-taff I remember you saying you had a big clearcut and just had a look at the reviews and will get hold of the book . I think I've read some of her blog etc and found it good. Will report back.

Wednesday2000

I can't remember what I said on here last.

I've been stressing about the house move and my dog having to be put to sleep. The people we are buying from haven't even found a house yet! I have had a fibromyalgia flare as the emotional stress can cause a relapse. I had to go back on anticonvulsants again and I have been trying to rest at home more.

I have been decluttering a bit and taken a few bags to the charity shop. My husband has unfortunately added to the clutter by bringing boxes of his comics over from his brother's house as he wants to take them when we move.

I had a massage today but I felt so stiff from fibromyalgia that I didn't really enjoy it. The temperature has really dropped here. I am going to have to go through my boxed up stuff and look for my jumpers as I thought I might not have worn them before we move but now it looks like I will need them as we will be here for a few months more, I'm guessing!

Floss

@Wednesday2000 your solicitor needs to speak to theirs and suggest they find somewhere to rent...

Wednesday2000

Floss said:

@Wednesday2000 your solicitor needs to speak to theirs and suggest they find somewhere to rent...

You are probably right. My husband is calling our estate agent in a minute to see if there has been any progress.