Spring cleaning at too high a price. TW: Death
Edit if I haven't mentioned it: We sold the Buick. :)
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
ps. I'm going to be a bit sporadic for at least the next month; please cheer along others in the comments!
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
ps. I'm going to be a bit sporadic for at least the next month; please cheer along others in the comments!
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
Optional extra, for those who did the low key January challenge: was there anything you want to comment on? Shall we look to do it again next year? I very much appreciated that there were people willing to get involved, and it helped me with focusing my uncluttering. I have a whole area in the main room that is now clear of junk!
In case you need to hear it: if you have a challenge you want to run, or you need a buddy for something, this is an open community. It is absolutely fine for you to decide to run something! No permissions are needed. I only checked in for this one because I needed the motivation of knowing other people were going to be involved.
January is nearly done! For some, that means the weather is heading out of being quite so awful, while for others the worst is yet to come. For all of those heading into dreadful weather, may it not last long (and if we have anyone here from South Australia or Victoria, may I say Oh! My! about the temperatures you've been having. I'm aware that lots of other places have also been having interesting weather, but there have been some truly improbable numbers reported in those states in the last week.)
Last week's challenge was making your space welcoming to visitors by dealing with clutter in shared spaces. How did that go?
To finish up the last few days of the month, the final challenge is to get something out of the house. If, like me, you've been stockpiling things as you work through other spaces, there are lots of choices! If you have been the responsible adult in the room, and been dealing with getting identified items out of the house as you've been going along decluttering spaces, I suggest picking the area you felt least happy with at the end of its focus week, and seeing if there are some easy wins.
The next checkin will be the regular weekend one, but I might try and post on Saturday for the end of the month to round the challenge off neatly.
a day late, because we have a long weekend, and I lost track of the days
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
Optional extra, for those doing the low key January challenge: how go the visitor spaces?
How did the decluttering of the work space(s) go? Did you spend time looking for things that could go, move a thing or two, or have a wildly successful week? Or did you work on a different space instead?
For week four we are moving from decluttering spaces in order to make them more welcoming to us, to making our space more welcoming to others. What this might look like
Remember, this is a gentle challenge, and if you get one thing progressed, that is a big win even when you can't give yourself the credit.
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
Optional extra, for those doing the low key January challenge: how go the work spaces?
How did the decluttering of the hobby spaces go? Did you spend time looking for things that could go, move a thing or two, or have a wildly successful week? Or did you work on a different space instead?
For the third week, we are moving on to a work space -- just the one. Unless you have all the energy and all the time, in which case don't let me hold you back. But this was meant to be a gentle challenge to get started on the year. What decluttering a work space might look like
Alternatively: keep going with the rest and / or hobby spaces. Get things out of the house!
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
Optional extra, for those doing the low key January challenge: how go the hobby spaces?
How did you go with decluttering your rest space? Did you have thoughts about what you might do, did you deal with one tiny thing, or did you have a startlingly productive week?
For the second week, we are moving from rest space to hobby space. Can you find something to declutter? What this might look like:
Alternatively: keep going with the resting space! Get something out of the house!
* no, i don't know what a gumblesprocket is either. It was one of the list of silly words for tools I learned in a poem as a kid
I got a positive response on doing a low key January challenge! My intention is to post weekly on Wednesdays, which will cause there to be five weekly challenges.
For the first week, we are looking at making day time resting spots more restful. What this might look like:
* for a value of chair that is where you rest when you aren't resting in bed. If you don't have one of these, then the challenge is to make one. Can you clear a space near a window so you can look outside? Standing and watching the traffic/clouds/birds/local wildlife counts as resting!
On easy mode, Stuff! gets added to a pile on the floor / chucked in a cupboard or box / made a problem for Future You. For each bit of extra energy you have, work through the list of: Rubbish in the bin. Put things that have homes away. Identify things that need returning or rehoming and put them in the 'return' and 'rehome' piles respectively. Find homes for things that don't have them.
Whether you do one thing once, or aim to do a little bit everyday, is entirely dependent on what you have time, energy, motivation and cope for. Reporting in can be done whenever you want, or on the (semi-)regular checkin, or the challenge checkin. If you have a thought about what you want to aim for, tell us in the comments!
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week! I haven't had the oomph to come and post replies to celebrate you, but I cheer each comment notification when I read it.
ps: would anyone like a lowkey challenge for January? I have some ideas...
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Congratulations to everyone who has found and/or disposed on any clutter in the last week!
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
Continued thanks to those who did the cheering after the last posts - life continues to be a little full on.
How goes the decluttering? Have you shifted anything out of the house? Found something to sort through? Had thoughts on things you can let go of?
Comments open to locals, lurkers, drive by sticky beaks, and anyone I've forgotten to mention.
And thanks to those who did the cheering after the last post, when my week completely vanished from under me and I forgot that dreamwidth is a place to spend time.