June Appointments for Declutter and Organization, 2013

[Ivy]

I decluttered 11 "Paper Crafts" magazines. I used to do paper crafts ALL the time- before 2004-- and before becoming a writer. The magazines are in the recycle bag to go out once it's filled up. I was sad to let "go" of them, but the happy part was how when I found scrap booking magazines in the same magazine holder, all-of-a-sudden my frown turned upside-down into a smile. I was thinking of new dgd who is turning 6 months old on July 6. It makes the urge to scrap book (for her) strong.

[Harriet]

HRH did a big declutter of his office area, plus deep cleaning. He's like that. He lets it get away from him. Then has a big purge and clean.
Sometimes I think it's brought on by a purchase. He had to replace one of his monitors and it's rather large and I think it just hit him that it looked better than any of its surroundings!

I have avoided taking on the responsibility of cleaning and decluttering his office. Really, that has served us well, I think.

Good point about not waiting for a full bag. If it's convenient to drop off a half-filled bag, Get 'er Done.

[Nancy]

Decluttered a couple of stacks of empty boxes out of the basement this morning and I'm doing a toy rotation.

[Ivy]

I decluttered the dining room table and DH decluttered the DW.

[Nancy]

Worked on the table need to do another round on that!
I have rounded up some toys videos and things to go to the basement today.
After yesterday hauling out egg cartons &empty boxes; today my calves are sore today sewing zone sure does look better! Yea for that!

[Ivy]

I decluttered the junk drawer, which is below my medications, fluids & food journals, which are steno pads. I put my file with medications, doctor, medication info in the junk drawer, with my peak flow meter and peak flow chart, so they're out of the way of "curious" hands. Grandsons are coming for summer visits. Then I decluttered the mids area, and made the counter tidier.
I decluttered my end table top, too. I have things to read, journals to date ahead, etc... So it's best to have a tidy place where I will be working from my chair there.

[Nancy]

The VCR upstairs is kaput so I took the videos down stairs.
Dropped of the donations I had loaded in the car today.

[Ivy]

I have two declutter jobs to do this week:
#1- empty 2 end table drawers out, on both sides of my chair in the great room, put the items into a box, sort them, and put order back into the drawers. With grandsons visiting, I don't want things, such as my head lamps, etc... messed around with, for fear they'd get broken. So I'll put things in the drawers, such as list pads, books, stationery, etc..

#2- one of our grandsons is a fantastic writer. He spends a lot of time on DH's computer, he writes and saves things in a cloud. I noticed today, how so many old writing things of mine, when I was really young and so green, are in the filing cabinet in the main office where DH's computer is. My other job this week is to take the handwritten items, old contracts with my S. S. # on them, etc.. and find room for them in my private small office, where I have files, and writing.

I want to be prepared ahead of time, so I'm not paranoid about anything. I don't want to be suspicious, but I was a VERY curious teen once, myself. I trust my grand-he's a lot, but I want to have a relaxed mind, not worry, and need to declutter and tidy up anyway. Their coming is the catalyst for my getting my act together, so this is a very good thing, too. I want them and me to enjoy their stay. There are places in the filing cabinet in the main office, which will be great for extra patterns floating around. I keep computer printouts, pattern leaflets, etc. in there, too. It's time to just round stuff up and get organized. P.S. I would be HORRIFIED if my grandsons read my EARLY writing. It's so BAD! This is another reason why I want to hide it. It's so awful. :lol:

[Nancy]

De-cluttered old sod trailer is loaded and ready to go!

[Ivy]

WTG, Nancy! That sounds like a really great muscle-building job, too!

On the art table desk in our main office (where DH has his computer/games), I folded Woman's World comics, articles, recipes, inspirational things, etc.. laid them neatly in a floral empty (full now! ) stationery box about 14" x 10". It fits flat on the shelf in the office there. I put the phone book holders on the dusted art table with our "important numbers" list, which is in a page protector, & put it on the top phone book.

I put pen pals' address labels, for addressing their envelopes, which is easier and easy-to-read, in a greeting card envelope, labeled it, put it into my angle cardboard chest with pen pal letters. I put my personal address labels in the art table desk drawer, with calendar comic pages, stickers, and Bible verse pages from my little desk calendar, which I use in the great room, where I pray, journal, etc... I put away a lot of things, dusted the main office, and worked about 40 minutes. Now my feet are tired. My med for asthma I inhale swells up the ankles, feet, and lower legs, in some patients, so I'm off to elevate my feel and work on a story by hand.

Oh, I got a 7" stack of old writing OUT of the main office filing cabinet because grson-14.5 is a writer. My writing was very old, dating back about 30 years, and I'd be horrified if my dgrsons read such awful things, from when I was an amateur. I have the stack on the shelf in my small office, to slowly go through. While I declutter the stack, who knows? I might find a "treasure", which can be re-written and used.

I enjoyed my decluttering, but I'm so tired now.