January Clutter Control

Share your decluttering activities and ideas.
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Harriet
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Re: January Clutter Control

Postby Harriet » Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:02 pm

blessed, do you think we need a new Papertamer's thread?
Good job on keeping each year's tax stuff "in its place", blessed!


~*~~ Closet week! ~~*~

Heavy Decluttering Day at my parents'.
1.5 hours,
2 big Lawn and Leaf Bags to trash,
1 smaller bag to my trunk for donation
about 12 square feet freed up in the guest bedroom.

Here at home I have probably made the master bedroom closet look messier. :roll: Not the goal, but there is method to my madness. This is called "the organizing phase". :D
If you don't believe in miracles, you're not being realistic.

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getting a plan formed

Postby Harriet » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:20 am

I'm going to have to let my parents' house decluttering take a back seat for a while and welcome houseguests, deal with some medical appointments for my dad, etc. So with today's work fresh in my mind I have been visualizing the next steps so I won't lose my place.

At this point, in my parents' once-and-future guest room: from door around dresser to whole side of bed, clear. Able to close the closet's sliding door. Surface of the double bed, clear. Surface of dresser still needs attention. At foot of bed, two 4x4x3 boxes block closet. (Top things I can see in front box are old magazines, but in second box I see some true collectibles, so these could be tough.)

Order for next declutter days
Use the bed surface to sort dresser-top items.
Pull anything from under the bed, too (doesn't look like much).
Use the bed surface to sort front-box items and toss box.
Now that closet is accessible, declutter/organize/clean it.
Use that space to store worthwhile items and clear bed surface again.
Tackle the second box in the same way with hope - it's a big closet!
Clean room, purchase new curtains.

Other thoughts occurring to me now -
Use my own hepa-filter vacuum to clean that room, closing the door to try to keep dust from bothering my parents.
Bring a couple underbed storage boxes from my house and claim underbed space.

If I hadn't reported in this thread I wouldn't have thought of those two ideas.
If you don't believe in miracles, you're not being realistic.

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Re: January Clutter Control

Postby blessedw2 » Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:53 pm

I really like the paper taming thread.
I have to figure out how to do it weekly though and continue on somethings so they don't get ahead of me. I can easily get buried in papers. I now have a temporary clear box for dd13 papers as she tends to need to go back to things. After a teacher said she didn't have her paper she wrote , we went back in the box and found the graded paper. easy mistake for the teacher but nice she could see what grade she had given dd13. no extra work for her or dd13.

I wonder if our dtwins, ddee could give us advice for taxes and papers

closet week... ah nothing done as my schedule has been turned upside down.

Harriet greatjob on decluttering at your dparents house. It is very hardto go through anyones collectibles especially parents. those are great ideas!

I like the thread as it gives me ideas and keeps me accountable too!
it is always a joy to be here with you!

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Re: January Clutter Control

Postby sherinjoy » Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:10 am

Hi, wanted to post on the last day. I have kept my commitment to decluttering every day in January. Mostly books and papers, but some closet and bedroom work too. One good shot at the bathroom cupboards, but could go back to do some more. Not sure if I have any particular project in mind for Feb., but will be doing paper decluttering in the process of doing taxes.
Good work by everyone this month. Looking forward to keeping it up in February.


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