weekend check-in

[rmc28]

Hi all and welcome to the weekend check-in. Last week I set myself an ambitious to-do list and er, managed three of them. But that's three more than none!

This week, in a flashback to January, I have tested positive from covid, am isolating from my family in my room, don't have any symptoms, and am considering applying the Dana K. White 5-step decluttering to the places I didn't get to in January. (For one room that I didn't think was that messy, I didn't get around all of it in January, and I pulled out a LOT of rubbish / recycling from the places I did tackle.)

One thing I have managed to keep up since January is keeping the places I decluttered free of new accumulating rubbish. I do a little pick up in here most days, usually when I get an hourly movement reminder from my fitbit. But there are plenty of shelves and stacks to go through still.

Share your challenges and successes in the comments!

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[tanaqui]

I'm mostly focusing on the garden at the moment. This week, I've done some heavy cutting back of shrubs and also been digging weeds out of an area where I want to plant out courgette seedlings. I've got rid of one large bag of garden rubbish but still have quite a bit to get rid of. But... because the garage is now much emptier, I have room to stick the stuff I cut down in there until I can get rid of it (while still being able to get to everything else).

[rmc28]

I am so impressed. My garden is a perpetual disaster area, and I'm mostly avoiding it to work on the inside of the house, but really it all needs tackling at some point.

Hurrah for the extra space you made in the garage!

[tanaqui]

Well, parts of my garden are also a disaster area, hence all the heavy pruning. (The problem with gardens is when they grow back faster than you can deal with them!) And the parts I did have under control went backwards a bit thanks to around six months of mostly unhelpful rubbish weather up until the end of April.

But as the house is now mostly under control, my main focus this year is on trying to get on top of all of the outside stuff. It won't end up perfect this year, but it might end up at a point where I can spend next year doing more than just rescue work.