weekend check-in

[rmc28]

Hi all, it's the weekend and it's time for me to declutter. One of my current challenges is that the two rooms I most want to work on (living room, study) are also the two rooms where other people in my household like to hang out, and decluttering can get in the way of what they're trying to do. So I am seizing the moment while no-one else is in the living room, putting on some women's ice hockey from earlier today to keep me company, and seeing how far I can get.

Share your challenges, successes, tactics and strategies in the comments!

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progress

[rmc28]

Finished DKW-ing one bookcase in the living room with about 7 minutes left on the clock in the first period, and it looks great but I was definitely feeling tired by the end of that. I sat down and watched the rest of the period, and then got up again at the interval (yes, I could have skipped through, as it's a finished stream, but it motivated me to move a bit). I got set up for the next bookcase, made some progress, then something took me to the kitchen and I got distracted by making some food. So I think I'm going to take the middle period as an extended rest & food break, and carry on afterward. The advantage of DKW is that I haven't left a big mess, so it's fine to just stop when I'm tired.

[wychwood]

I have:

• Admitted that I wasn't going to finish searching through the big box of Lego for the pieces to make the set I was working on, and put it all away
• While I was at it, dismantled the big set I had sitting on the table
• Filed a couple of the things piling up on my desk
• Folded up the dry bedding I took down earlier and put it all away

The table is still overly crowded, and the desk isn't great, but progress is progress.

I do have an accumulation of Christmas presents on the table, and I'm not sure where to put them that's going to be safe and tidy and also less in the way; might be one to think about.

I'm also going to post separately on the comm about something else I'm trying!

[adafrog]

Good luck.

[illariy]

Last week, I did indeed do 15 min of traditional decluttering as I had hoped to do! I put out the over door mirror for bulky waste collection and it was removed, yay. The rest of my decluttering time was spent on tidying up my desk. There is still more to do on my desk, hopefully this week!

Unfortunately, I did not do anything on the penpal crafting project. Maybe this week but I don't have high hopes because I am working overtime this week, ugh.

But overall, I am satisfied with my progress. I am also working on not bringing so much new stuff in, which is more than half the battle of decluttering, I feel.

[kaberett]

This last week I have:

• sorted through the pile by the back door
• taken the things from it that want to go to the allotment to the allotment (we are not currently talking about the state of the greenhouse)
• established that I do have discard net curtain with which to patch the cherry stockings, rather than that being a blocker on any attempt to deal with the big box of 'em needing repairs

Which is not nothing! Hurrah me.

Goals for this week: Actually Make Some Progress On Some Of These Projects...

Taking care of issues.

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

Just brought a magazine rack down to the living room so Mom can sort through the catalogs and figure out which ones she wishes to keep.

I also went through what was originally in there and placed some of my health insurance information in one of my magazine holders in the bookshelf next to my bed. The other holder now has the few magazines I still read.

The cooking magazines that were previously in there were ones we’ve never made anything from those recipes, so I recycled the ones that were falling apart and will put the rest in little libraries around us.