De-clutter

I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much more with it today - the "I can't be arsed" doldrums have dissipated nicely and so I get on and do stuff that I've neglected during me week of "depression" so to speak.

First on the list is to clean the house - it hasn't been done in a while and so there is quite a bit to catch up on. So I merrily start at the top and work my way down - and when I hit the lounge I decide now would be as good as time as any to do some decluttering.

We have two main areas in the lounge which could be considered as junk magnets - the first being under the stairs and the second being the sideboard, which accumulates "stuff" as easily as dust. I start off with the sideboard, arranging, re-organising and throwing out all sorts of odds and sods that would either be better placed somewhere near items of a similar nature or just put in the bin. I manage to clear enough space to put the compendium of games that we've managed to gather away and out of site and all of the things that had been merrily piled upon each other have also found a place in a draw or cupboard. It's much more tidier.

I then hit the black hole that is under the stairs. Whilst there isn't much stuff I can throw away here, after re-organising it, it is now much easier to find things when you want them. For example, all of Phil's spare car bits are now in one box, and all of the DIY stuff is in another. There are a couple of boxes of things that really need to go into the attic (left overs from the move that we just didn't know what to do with), but apart from that it's now far easier to get at what you want without turning out every box. I tell you what, I don't think we'll need to buy any car cleaning stuff for the next year or so, we have enough to clean a whole fleet let alone the 2 we have!

So with the cleaning and decluttering done, all that remains is for me to do tea, but JP's don't take too much effort, so with the spare time that I have I play a bit of Sim City - this time playing with the "create your own territory" bit, but judging from my results so far I need a bit more practice within "God Mode" as all of my efforts seem to be geologically impossible!

We do watch the first 2 episodes of Lost, and from what I can gather so far its a bit like Jurassic Park, in terms of people being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a monster in the woods which is probably the result of some kind of scientific experiment that went awry.

Who knows though, I may be completely wrong!

Posted by Abi on the August 11, 2005 10:32 PM

sjon at August 16, 2005 7:22 AM