Not quite a horder - decluttering

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  • hotandcold
    hotandcold Member Posts: 205
    edited August 2012

    Congrats Gingerbrew. I'm envious of your emptied closet. Thanks for the idea to buy my daughters unflattering jeans off her body.  I loved it!. And now to think that she is helping you with your closet.         Wonderful !

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited August 2012

    Nobody around here is decluttering?  I am thinking of having FDIL clean out my pantry while I sew bridesmaid dresses for her today.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited August 2012

    Well I had FDIL wash some crystal on Saturday.  I worked on cutting out one of the dresses and then I pushed the girls to get the Shower invitations printed, addressed and sent.  I feel I acomplished a lot!

    Yesterday I straightened up the messed which had been left from Saturday.  I am going to try hard to clean up after myself before I start another project so I can keep my house under control.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • vicky3blum
    vicky3blum Member Posts: 138
    edited August 2012

    I have declutttered my life by neccesity. and im glad.  my son is extremely ill and has been for nearly 6 years.  we spent hundreds of rhousands of dollarss trying to find a cure.  our net worth is currently negative 200,000 [no, we are not considering bankruptcy though i do not judge those who do]

    we could no longer afford our mortgage and now we [husband as of 2 days ago.  we have been together for nearly 18nyears. my son LJ, 3 dogs and myself are living in the mountains of colorado in a tiny camper trailer. 

    from our home we work an avon business, do all of the paperwork for the rapidly sinking automotive shop we own, homeschool my son, encourage him in his guitar lessons, and balloon art and have to find room for all his medicines.  it is so hard to keep decluttered bUT i'm not as worried about money.  it is quiet and peaceful here.  very healing. i have grown nearly phobic about 'stuff' and have lost pracctically all attachments to it.  over 85 percent of income goes for insurance and health care.  BUT by choosing this lifestyle [ choice? hell, we could be living under a bridge. this is a good choice] and as much as i now hate 'stuff' I find myself creating [making footless sandals.  i do live in a nudist ranch] collecting and selling stuff to others. getting rid of stuff, even houses, can be freeing. 

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited August 2012

    What's a footless sandal?

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  • vicky3blum
    vicky3blum Member Posts: 138
    edited August 2012

    sorry, i meant barefoot sandal. i make mine from all sorts of beads from simple glass to swaroski crystals. you can use anything but avoid metals as they can get hot.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 1,080
    edited September 2012

    i wish i could jump back in and clean up this mess. working one handed is so hard right now . i can't ask DH to do one more thing. he has been so wonderful.cast comes off in a couple of weeks snd maybe then i can start again.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 1,080
    edited September 2012
    teka,Laughing
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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited September 2012

    I need to do something! I have a notebook for important things including a list of clothing and bedding that is stored. I list the box and contents and where the box is. I'm missing an entire underbed box! It contains my fairly good winter clothes. I've looked everywhere for it and have opened all the other boxes to see what's inside. All of them were where they were supposed to be and contained what the list said was in them. We have a 1944 house that doesn't have large rooms, so this box was under our bed. I've checked the attic and basement as well as under all the beds and dressers. I doubt that someone broke into our house and took a box of clothes from under the bed, leaving all the computers and tv, but I can't imagine where it could be. Maybe it's hormonal brain?

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited September 2012

    I have ADD, so have lists of what I've given away. Perhaps I took it out of the box cause I've found 2 items in my closet that the list says are in the box. I'll do a closer look in the attic.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited September 2012

    Wren I do the same thing. Is it possible someone helped you by hanging up the items in the box?   

    I am still looking for a box that had old family jewelry in it. A few valuable pieces but many just bits of gold bands that were from my granmas generation. I value the pieces in that box over any jewely I own but haven't seen it in two moves and since 2007. I fear it was carried off by a worker during some renovations or the moves.   

     Good luck finding your clothing. I sort of feel like I have found my mind when I finally track down such things. 

    Laters Ginger 

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  • hotandcold
    hotandcold Member Posts: 205
    edited September 2012

    Wren: Good Luck finding your box.  If it's a whole box there is hope. I did find a box I had misplaced. It wan't where it was suppose to be and it was labeled wrong by somebody else. 

    Anybody working on cleaning out closets?  My house looks OK. Wouldn't die if neighbors came in unexpected. I'm dreading my closets.  It seems like everything has an emotional/sentimental tie to it. What should I do with my Aunt's real alliator purse from the l950's? My oldest daughters prom dress that I sewed? My youngest daughters pictures that she drew for me? My Red Rubber rain boots that I wore in England when we lived there for a year? I just seem to be having such a hard time with these closets and all the sentimental stuff.  

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  • hotandcold
    hotandcold Member Posts: 205
    edited September 2012

    OK, isn't anybody around here uncluttering?  I thought that now with fall coming, summer vacations over and kids back in school that we would all get busy again.! Is everybody all done ? ?

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  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 1,080
    edited September 2012

    hah,hah. waiting for cast to come off and inspiration to strike.

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  • teeballmom
    teeballmom Member Posts: 322
    edited September 2012

    HI everyone.  I'm new but I am trying to declutter.  Can't believe how much stuff we have.  I want the junk all gone!

    Take care.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Denise-G
    Denise-G Member Posts: 1,777
    edited September 2012

    Always clean closets in the Autumn, but last year didn't do it because of diagnosis.

    Thanks for this thread to get me started again.  After Rads, that's all I did was clean.

    Then I got over it!  LOL!  Time to get back at it!  Thanks!

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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited September 2012

    Hot and Cold, am I all done? Bwa hahahaha...... Ahhh, um, nope.   

    I'm always beginning again and that keep us all young, right? 

    Welcome newbie declutterers.

    Ginger 

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited September 2012

    I found my lost clothing in a box in the attic. Whew! I think I must haVe combined 2 b oxes at some time. It was marked 'winter', how helpful. There was no box marked winter on my list. I think it's the one that was originally marked sweaters and sweats. I also found a really cozy jacket I didn't remember buying last year.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • hotandcold
    hotandcold Member Posts: 205
    edited September 2012

    Welcome to teeballmom and Denise and any other newbies.  Glad you found your box Wren!  I donated a set of towels today from 1991.  I had washed the towels and they had faded, but not the handtowels or washcloths. Why did I keep a set of towels for over 20 years?  I really liked the floral print, I kept thinking I would use them ! and now they look so old fashioned.  Out with more old stuff.                                               "Life is a marathon, not a sprint." Sandra Felton in her book Messie No More

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