Weekend brag post

[fred_mouse]

Still trying to get the habit back of weekly posts here. January has slipped past me, and here we are in February!

So, what have you cluttered this week? Something little? Something big? Something momentous?

What about January -- was it a good month for looking at clutter and making progress?

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Personally, I have spent a lot of time last weekend and this weekend helping a friend to move. Because the old house is being demolished, we left a staggeringly large amount of stuff behind.

This is motivating me to think about what I've been holding on to 'because I'll have time to fix it eventually'. This is especially true in the craft room -- I need to make sense of multiple shelves so I can find things, rather than having to put tasks aside because the tool or materials needed are somewhere.

Net for January -- more out than in. But a long way to go!

[vriddy]

Wow, leaving stuff behind because it'll get destroyed anyway is certainly... a feeling, and something to consider, huh.

I haven't done much decluttering this January, but I finally removed all of the stuff that was left on kitchen table since Christmas, so still a small pleasant win :)

[fred_mouse]

Well done on getting caught up on Xmas stuff!

As to the leaving things behind, difficult for me, and very difficult for them. They'd been there two decades and change, which is nearly unheard of in a rental here. A couple of pieces of furniture turned out to be unmovable, so they got left behind. Much of the rest that got left behind was old computers, empty boxes, magazines/newspapers, stale food (or stuff that it turned out the mice had got in), and the kind of rubbish that one finds in odd corners. I reckon there were nearly a dozen computer monitors that were being kept 'for parts'.

[tanaqui]

Thank you for making these posts -- they're really helpful and motivating!

I've been feeling rather "stuck" for quite a few months (weather, time, physical and mental energy all not co-operating) but am starting to get moving again. There was a bit of progress in January and a lot more this week.

Not a huge amount of physical clutter has gone out of the house this week (although very few things came in), but a lot of things have been tidied up/dealt with/put away properly, so things look much better.

I've also been making progress on my to-do list/media to be consumed list (where lack of mental energy was a big issue) and while there's still plenty to do, that's now feeling much less scary.

[fred_mouse]

Yay for getting unstuck and making bits of progress! Sounds like some important things getting done, with making your environment look better and the lists getting less scary.