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Weekly(ish) check in

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.

Also: I've very much appreciated the posts people have been putting up through the week, I just haven't had the spoons to respond.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Upstairs
Current Music: Fan

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Playhouse 50 presents “Unclutter-fest”. (Bring and recycle your own bottles.)

I managed to clean out the main floor of our playhouse. The garden cart’s pieces, a tarp, and a plastic container are now in the screen house. I cut up the box the cart was shipped in. The rest of the items are currently in the raised planting box. I moved the play oven to underneath the rafter, if the Servpro staff need more room to put items from our basement, I’ll clean that out.

I think the screen house also has enough space for storage, but not our regular shed or garage.

Put a bunch of paperbacks with rather small font, Cliff Notes, and a coupon flyer for a supermarket we don’t shop into the neighborhood little library. Should put also that college flyer in there. Mentioned to person operating the Giving Tree that Ridwell is collecting textbooks this week. I donated a wooden basket and a can crusher. I doubt anyone still uses can crushers, but at least it’s no longer on our property. Hopefully she activates her Ridwell account in time.

Also ordered some twenty gallon trash bags, should also buy some 13 gallon ones.

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The Cave Unfucketh Pt. II

Milestones are marvelous.

In an attempt to live more efficiently for my own mental illness, I've taken to learning abt SMART goals, time boxing and task batching to help make this cleaning stuff go by smoothly.

I have managed to achieve about half of this week's milestones, getting me closer to my overall goals.

The place looks nicer, smells nicers, FEEEEEEELS nicer. I love it here!

I've got several trashbags to take out, a bit more than my trashcan can actually fit, wheh. But it'll be okay, even a little taken out is good.

Elephant in the kitchen is going to be the floor. Cleaning it, figuring out where to put everything blocking me from cleaning it to begin with... It's a mess.

Time to eat the frog then and add that to my milestones and daily cleaning rituals then. Enough with the excuses!

Anyway what did I want to achieve? To have most of my dishware clean and such. And it is! Now all I have to worry about are pots, pans and the jars I've got lying around (speaking of which, any ideas for those things? I eat a lot of peach preserves so now I've got a MILLION of them!)

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The cave unfucketh

I'm slowly doing a big clean up of my present cave. Then I have to pack but that's future Mint's trouble.

I have been following 2 rules so far:
1. UnfuckYourHabitat.com's 20 minute unfucking span. You pick up trash, wash dishes and then clean surfaces. I can consistently remember to at least throw things away.

2. I have begun incorporating doing the dishes into my nightly bedtime routine. It is surprisingly relaxing.

3. To combat having lots of dirty dishes and NO dishwasher, I am resolving to eat only out of 1 dish and keep that washed while not using the rest of my dishware or silverware. I'm also making dishes that do NOT require several pots, pans, bowls, etc. to make.

Progress so far: The living room is looking A LOT better. Like, almost ready for me to be able to go back to lifting and doing other exercises at home!

I'm slowly but surely washing everything up and it really cuts back on the amount of time I spend cleaning up before and after meals. Which only helps me with the amount of time I need to take out the trash (I have so much to throw away).

Most of my fridge has been cleaned out. Just needs a wiping down.

(idk if I'm allowed to give myself my own tag yet or not but hi! Been here for a while and this is my very first post! Seeing if this helps me accountable and measure my progress)

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It's been a bit of a damp day today, so my motivation is low, but I love hearing what you mob have achieved, so at least making this post is an easy thing to achieve!

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.