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SandraR
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welsh veg grower
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judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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bring me sunshine wrote: |
Chez wrote: |
A box at a time, ladies. You know you want to!
Get the box out.
Go and make a cup of tea, coffee, etc.
Take beverage in to room and put down beside box.
Sit on floor.
Open box.
Take drink of tea.
Go through box and divide in to things that you will use in the next twelve months and things you won't.
Put first section away somewhere.
Put second section back in box, ready for the tip or the charity shop - whichever seems best. |
Or ...........
Reach for a box
Fall over the OH's bike, bang leg on coffee table, knock over opened box of books, swear profusely as they all fall on head
Clear up mess, pick up the first box that comes to hand
Take to bedroom as there's no room in living room
Make coffee, put down next to box
Open box
Gasp at the contents (so that's where that is!)
Make a 'to keep pile'.
Shoo cat off said pile
Cat knocks over coffee
Jump up, swear at cat, run to get cloth
Come back to find cat missing, dog's run off with something important
Close box, take back to room
Still can't find cat
Return to living room, open box, rescue cat |
Or my own personal technique, which is to efficiently sort box, corner or whatever, putting everything into the relevant Chuck, Donate, Keep boxes. Then to get tired, shove ALL the boxes into the other half of the Room of Doom where I can't see them and then forget all about them for another 6 months. |
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chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35934 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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judith wrote: |
Or my own personal technique, which is to efficiently sort box, corner or whatever, putting everything into the relevant Chuck, Donate, Keep boxes. Then to get tired, shove ALL the boxes into the other half of the Room of Doom where I can't see them and then forget all about them for another 6 months. |
We are addressing that on Friday afternoon, aren't we? I have wine as a reward when you are finished. And maybe cake.
If I can do it, anyone can. Honestly. It's just a case of being sensible about it.
GSHP, can you give your dolls cot to someone who will appreciate it, rather than letting it languish? |
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judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
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alison Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 12918 Location: North Devon
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SandraR
Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 2346 Location: Devon
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marigold
Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 12458 Location: West Sussex
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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 15922 Location: Earth
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Ooh, I like this, my decluttering has subsided lately, I was doing so well in the summer.
My main priority is that we're going to move my office into the larger spare room so we can create more of a library rather than piles of books everywhere, so with that in mind...
1. Computer books (we really don't have the need to keep a Windows 3.1 manual other than for prosperity )
2. Filing cabinet (I'm scared of that one, and it only has 2 drawers!)
But, before we can move them, we need to:
3. Clear out wardrobe in spare room #1 (which mostly contains things that were put in there when we moved here 6 years ago)...which can be broken down further by:
4. Empty/sort cupboards inside wardrobe which appears to be full of cables that were so needed 6 years ago that they weren't chucked, yet haven't been touched since
And I suppose we need to sort out the understairs storage issue, might pick something up in IKEA on thursday for that. |
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joanne
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 7100 Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
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chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35934 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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SandraR
Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 2346 Location: Devon
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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 15922 Location: Earth
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chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35934 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 15922 Location: Earth
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