Winter Mice?

So much for a do nothing day. Too cold to go down to the skating rink and watch hockey so I puttered around the house. We needed towels to set on the seat of the truck when delivering ribs & pierogis to the crew for supper, so after digging around for some old ones, I said what the heck. Thanks to seeing mouse dropping on the floor I scrubbed & stuck down 4 adhesive tiles & set a trap. Tell me why I have cats again? 

Oops

Today I am working on turning the 2 left drawers into a door & creating a hole on the side for the litter cabinet. Jigsaw is in woodworking shop ... outside ...-15 C. Brrrrr

Aaaaand done.... the closet anyway. So is my back since I rearranged things as it was not conducive to the cats and that’s really what it is. The cat room. Lol. 6 boxes & baskets stacked so I can sit & go through one at a time. 5 boxes of cassettes & CD’s to go through & donate to a music therapy foundation. Company tomorrow. Have a great weekend!

Oops. Dripped paint on the chair and didn’t notice. How do I get it off now?

Decluttering Never Ends

I’m backtracking to the office. I decluttered once when I repainted. I decluttered again when I put up the tool shelf. Now I need to declutter the boxes on the top shelf. I’m pretty sure they are all full of cassettes. I’m tempted to empty it completely and repaint it but that’s my mind talking before asking my back how it feels. Another day. Lol

Bonus Declutter

Got another set of kitchen drawers decluttered, cleaned & organized while waiting for paint to dry. Lol

I think I’m done decluttering!

DAY #22 - Do some advance prep. (Leftovers for supper) ✔️
DAY #23 - Count your blessings. Happy Thanksgiving! (Every day is a thankful day) ✔️
DAY #24 - Celebrate Buy Nothing Day. (Will for the rest of the year other than necessities)✔️
DAY #25 - Declutter your bedroom closet ✔️
DAY #26 - Declutter the floor & shelves in your closet. ✔️
DAY #27 - Declutter hanging clothes. ✔️
DAY 28 - Clean out your closet - final day ✔️
DAY 29 - Clean out your dresser drawers. ✔️
DAY 30 - Declutter your nightstand. ✔️

Other than a few kitchen drawers and clear out all the bins & boxes in the guest suite (hubby will do that) I just need to load up everything by the front door that’s going into town with me tomorrow. Recycling & donations will get done and I can focus on daily cleaning and upkeep. And Pinterest projects. Painting with Purrl continues

DAY #21 - Clean the guest bathroom

 Last night, I got the guest suite in better order. At least you can get into it and everything is boxed up and ready to go out the back door. Today I was supposed to head to the airport but hubby went instead and while he got some quality time with his daughter, I slept in and then started on the bathroom. Last weekend I was debating on repainting it and did some test strips so today I thought, what the heck. Let’s Do It!

Hubby doesn’t like it. Says it makes the room seem smaller. I know. But it’s like hair colour. I can change it any time. It just needed some pizzazz.

DAY #20 - Get your guest room ready for guests

Nooooooo. I doewanna. K. I will later today only because there are 2 and 1 is the guest room and the other is the guest suite. Room I can do because yesterday some of the clothes from my closet purge were thrown on the bed. Easy tidy up. The suite however, is back to being a dumping ground. Will deal with that another day as I have to deal with the mess of clothes & hangars & junk on the master bedroom floor without overdoing it.

My ankle is tender. My back is too. My day is starting. How about you?

Well I decided to tackle the guest room after all. Since I had to hang up the clothes on the bed I started with the closet. I had purged it a while ago but it needed more (and still needs more.) Half way through I realized I have to pick up my stepdaughter at the airport tomorrow (3 1/2 hours away) and she is spending the night. I think Purrl approves and it’s time for lunch.

Break time! Mess on the floor in master bedroom almost done. Oh look! I can see the top of the dresser!

Bag for donation. Bag to sell. Pile of old t-shirts for rags for the woodworking shop. Hanging clothes to donate WITH Hangars (will wrinkle less rather than in bags until I can take to town)

Blue bin. All the odds and ends that I will go through later. Is that cheating? I know, I know but I’ll find my “Round Tuit” later.

DAY #19 - Clean up the family/living room

Nope. I tackled the bedroom closet & armoire. Oh, & put all the groceries away, (thankful hubby does grocery shopping) ate supper standing at the counter while cleaning the freezer.

Is it just me and my ADHD or does each task seem to have a trickle down effect? I am still struggling to stop cleaning & rearranging and focus on decluttering and leaving it. I guess if I am never satisfied with the final outcome, there is no FINAL outcome? Does having too much stuff offer me too many options?

Yesterday’s “cleaning” the entryway led to “cleaning” the front room led to “cleaning” the living room. (Cleaning=rearranging) I swapped the end tables from the 2 rooms, moved the sofa table into the dining room, dining room table into the front room, guest suite table into dining room, turned the kitchen table  into an island, etc. Yeah. It’s exhausting. My stuff is exhausting me. It’s filling up space but not filling up ME! It’s taking away. Taking up my time, energy & attention on “cleaning” rather than on living. Doing. Being.

Aha moment. Thank goodness I found that promoted post on Twitter or I would just continue the cycle & circle.

DAY #18 - Clean & organize your hall closet

So much for a do nothing day. My back is still sore but not as bad as last night. You get used to living with chronic pain so I got several things done.

First, not that it’s in a hall but it didn’t take long to clean and organize the closet by the side deck. I used to keep the chair pads from the deck there but since cleaning out the guest suite, I was able to hang them in there.

The front door has 2 sets of hooks on either side. One is made from horseshoes but is taken down as that wall is getting painted by stepson next and I want the 2 switched because it’s larger and there is more room on the right. The other was a gift to hubby from his youngest son. I’ll need to find a new place for it. Hmmmm

DAY #17 - Clean & declutter your entryway

I’m sure it’s just the front door but with 4 doors to enter or exit the house, I took note of each one, did what I could.

The entry from the front deck is shovelled & cleaned (inside) but not decluttered. I have more piles set there to take to Salvation Army when we go into town next week

The entry from the side deck is decluttered but not cleaned. I will be repainting the area in the near future. Saving it til then.

The French Doors in the bedroom to the side deck are decluttered but not cleaned. It’s gotten too cold out and it’s blocked by a huge snowdrift. Hot tub doesn’t run in the winter so we don’t use it except to let the cats in or out and they certainly aren’t interested in going out in this cold.

The back door from the guest suite is seldom used but was cleaned, repainted & decluttered before Xmas. It needs to be decluttered again as every day I put more items in that room for the garage sale. Hubby will take them out to the grain bin with the tractor next time he is using it.

I spent most of my day rearranging furniture, which is not good for my back so helping push the Canada Post Mail Lady’s van when she got stuck making a 3 point turn on our gravel road did not help. Note to self - keep a shovel in every vehicle. Although the hockey stick worked, I’m sure it would have been more productive with the proper tool.