Decluttering

Plus I removed the 2 zeylanica groups earlier

I`m just back on to say that I have done another 4 pots, they were tough especially when I saw the baby plants about to pop up. I have put the lovely plant pots to one side until tomorrow but in reality I need to get rid of them. I grew those 4 groups all from leaf cuttings but I am facing age-related facts now and all of those grow quite big over a long time

This is worse than culling my wardrobe

Oh yes it really is bloomin hard to get this de-cluttering done, I don`t really think there is an end to it all

I have taken 4 plants off the dresser top and just kept one, so now there are only 3 items up there and all basically in red eg a precious photo in a red frame. I have even removed a sony radio that has not been turned on for months

I did not notice this clutter until yesterday and suddenly, that wall looks fresher. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, removing those plants is focusing my eyes on two more plant pots in my living room, just basic zeylanica sansevierias

I will still be keeping sansevieria plants but in smaller, neater clusters and as focal points not as comforts, I started collecting them after my husband died

I told some new people moving to the area to take away some stuff yesterday which they did but just before they left they showed me everything, mostly pots pans, kitchen ware but then showed me a little 3 legged stool they had spotted and I said oh no not the wee stool. My DD used to sit on it and her DDs. Oh dear. It's hard isn't it.

The van from Shelter is coming again next week for more books and some other non book stuff too.

Yay!! 😅

Calendargirl

^It’s drawing a line under a part of life that’ll never return^

Wise words.

Our childhood, courtships, getting married, having our own children and seeing them grow, our youth…..

I find things like old pay slips fascinating. How much we used to earn. Old magazines or newspapers with adverts in; how much things cost back then, how styles have changed. We put our next door neighbours bin out yesterday and there was a copy of the Guardian in it so I took it. We have a daily paper online now and I wanted to read a real newspaper.

I am churning some Marie Kondo-type effort in my mind. It really is churning for me because I do like my many sansevieria plants but I have too many and just now am thinking of removing the 5 pots on top of a tall kitchen dresser

Two hold tough lady and they are now tall and `just there` the other three are leftovers from other pots. I will have to get rid of the pots too, I cannot cope with any more of these nice pots in my storage. They are Lechuza pots but I have many. I think I will take them down now, for me to feel the space, for a day or two Dds really cannot take any more of my stuff

This is a hard decision, again but it will make a difference

Do you know what, a bonfire seems rather a good idea for decluttering papers stuff.
Voom! .. a bright flare, and gone.

Wise words indeed MissA.
I'm glad I didn't do this soon after DH died. Nearly 6 years later it feels different and like the time has come.
Mind you I am still culling books . I've not started on the photos yet or the children's artwork and school jotters!

Perhaps I will have an Autumn bonfire 🔥..

It’s drawing a line under a part of life that’ll never return

Wise words.

Our childhood, courtships, getting married, having our own children and seeing them grow, our youth…..

Its so clear to see, reading through this thread, that decluttering is so much more than gerting rid of unwanted stuff.

It's drawing a line under a part of life that'll never return.

To clarity of mind that having a clear out brings. Is priceless 🌻

What a pain MayBee . I suppose you could deal with anything you don't need or take a storage box - all the rage around here- I think they cost about £150 per month.

I've waited for hours but the removal company haven't arrived to give me a quote.
I won't be using them!!

I shall try to find some recommendations before I book.
It's neverending.

A df (a gransnetter) came for a visit this morning. After coffee at the café we walked up to my new house and she approved. ❤️

I’ve got to clear my garage so I can have the asbestos removed. Haven’t got the faintest idea where to put everything as it will be a long time before it can be put back. There’s furniture and allsorts in there.

Grammaretto

The wedding present bone china dinner service.
What happens to this? 😕

It used to come out only at Christmas.
I don't believe anyone would want it would they?

We have a ‘Give For Free’ site on our local Community page.

Try that, with a photo, suggesting Christmas dinner table.

If it’s free, surprising how things can ‘go’.

Somebody might love it, amd get it out at Christmas.
It's worth trying to see if anyone might buy it (?) or even just take it, if they got some joy from it.

It's sacrilege, really, isn't it?

The wedding present bone china dinner service.
What happens to this? 😕

It used to come out only at Christmas.
I don't believe anyone would want it would they?

I'm waiting for the removals people to come to give me a quote but I am beginning to wonder if I imagined the appointment.
I need a minder.😟

Meanwhile I am trying to part with books as I can only fit a selection at my new house.
There are so many interesting looking ones which I'll probably never read again if I ever read them before.

Lots of gardening books and mushroom, tree and bird identification books. No point in keeping really.

Lol, exercise with clearing, couldn`t be better

Ive blimmin had enough of yarn sorting, hammer and tongs for me before I became disheartened, Fluff also called tops, arghh good job I did this, I was going to go to the mill open day in 2027, I dare not go now. I have enough fluff to spin for the whole of my lifetime, I kid you not.

Many beautiful combinations from the days when world of wool was the old enterprise in the year dot eg cashmere/silk/merino. I think I paid around £40 for a kilo then, it would cost multiples more now, better than money I suppose. Also loads of pure wool fluff from the mill including alpaca combinations. It was exhilarating and depressing at the same time and no I will not be de-stashing any of it

I have enough ready yarn for more than 12 garments, no problem with that as long as I can keep knitting, plus I have loads of Rowan moordale, if only I had not been sucked into the JL sale about 15 years ago. Nice colours too and everything is protected from moths, who would have a field day

So I, at least, know what is where now and have labelled shelves. I have got rid of another huge lakeland vac bag and have made about 1cubic foot of space. In process I turned two other rooms into tips but at least my bed is now cleared for tonight

I like spinning and am not ready to give that up, I have a small herd of wheels and it all started with a buy from st Margarets hospice shop in Yeovil or Taunton. I still have that wheel, a vintage Rappard wee peggy and I learnt to spin on her

Shake shake shake!
Shake shake shake!
Shake your booty! Shake your booty!!!!

Good luck!
I'm decluttering under my kitchen sink; its quite amazing, the state it's in. .
Listening to Ebeneezer Goode, to help me along...
E's are good, E's are good! It's Ebeneezer Goode!!!Naughty, naughty, verrrry naughty...

It is 3pm and my eyes are getting dozy, I cant be doing with a nap to spoil my sleep, so sorting it is and sorting leads to de-cluttering even if it is in the future

I can get engrossed in sorting hobby stash and I have never made a list of yarns and fluffs (for spinning) all made from yummy natural stuff and I am not going to be giving any away, until made up into garments of course

So, I am hoping that can keep me occupied, I want to be properly awake, this half-sleepy feeling and watching a film (Malachi`s cove} is doing me no good at all.

I am going to start with a list, in a knitting-craft notebook from eons ago. Wish me luck, I have been avoiding this for a very long time

What a lovely, and sad, momento to have.
I can understand how these things have been held onto, hearing that.
They really are a little piece of treasure (as opposed to the piles of old crap I've built up)

MissAdventure My dad was killed in an air crash when I was 5. The blankets had been his. One of them had his name embroidered on the corner. I have cut the corner out and will put it in the freezer.

Thanks for asking.

Can you remember why you kept them, just out of curiosity?
That's a huge load out of your way, now.
I know you've still plenty to deal with, but that much every day isn't to be sniffed at.

I tackled trunks in the attic today. I'd been storing WW2 blankets in cream and grey, as you do.

The moths had taken hold so I spent an hour bagging up blankets, and cushions and taking them to the recycling centre aka the tip.