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A demo bead by Diana East, dots on dots
Well I can't avoid it any more. I've been playing a game of cat and mouse with the cleaning here for about 2 months now, with various things getting in the way of sprucing up the place, like workmen and the obvious fact that I have in fact spent very little time at home for quite some time now. But today I put on my big girl panties (as a good friend would say) and got down and dirty with cleaning the house top to bottom.
It took all day, but the reason for that is 2 fold. A) the house was a pig sty and B) I did a bit of decluttering whilst I was at it. See, whilst I was at my parents I realised that I don't want to accumulate as much shit as they have year after year, so if I tackle our mounds of "stuff" sooner rather than later it will be much better should we ever have to move or just run out of room to store anything else.
I make good head way sorting out draws of stuff here and there and making mental notes of what needs to be done (for example, the airing cupboard, the shed, the wardrobe in the guest room) but will probably need Phil here to help lift the heavy stuff and export it to the landfill site. By 5 pm I'm just about finished with only the lounge and kitchen to clean up, but I've plenty of time since Phil is going to be late tonight as he heads out for a few beers with colleagues after work.
It's quite late when Phil walks through the door, so we get fish and chips for tea, watch a bit of TV and that my dear friends summarises my day today.
Oh, yeah one last thing, I get around to ringing the people who fixed my car after it's crash, who confirm that they've got the part in that they need to fix the parking sensors which are now broken because the didn't seal the light unit properly (thanks BMW for pointing that out to me after making me wait for 2 hours). So now I've just got to take the car at my convenience to the work shop to get it fixed.
Posted by Abi on the May 22, 2006 9:26 PM
Clearing out stuff is positive. But ...
If you don't clear it out your house gets stuffed by stuff. Which means there is less space for new stuff. After a couple of years the accumulation of new stuff slows down because all the old stuff prevents the new stuff from comming in.
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