Wow SubC, you have been doing amazing while I was gone! Great work and very inspiring! I am back to join you.

Today I tossed out an old washcloth, a pair of underwear, and a nonstick pan that has the nonstick flaking off.

296/1000

Yesterday I worked on the garden and a little on the barn. Still making progress somewhere every day and pretty much "keeping up."

Garden - 4
Porch - 3
Studio - 1
Basement - 3
Barn - 1

I've been keeping a running list of things I "added to my plate" and trying to clear them off as part of "keeping up" (which also includes laundry, dishes, mail, email, rinsing the recycling, and occasional vacuuming)

So, for example, I picked some beets at school the other day. I added "beets" to my list and then took them off once I had washed them and stored both the tops and the roots separately and ready to use. I also put "summer reading program" on my list so I can keep an eye on places I have committed my time.

Updated from yesterday:

Garden - 3
Porch - 3
Studio - 1
Basement - 3

Garden - 2
Porch - 3
Studio - 1
Basement - 2

Basement - 2
Dining porch - 2
Garden - 1

(I forgot the basement under catch up on the other thread - I just straightened up a little.)

Ok, starting week two
Basement - 1
Dumping, I mean dining, porch - 1

After this week, I'm not planting anything else in the garden until later for a fall garden.

Yesterday garden.

Week one:

Garden 7
Studio 2
Yard 2
Barn 2
Basement 1
Garage 1

I made progress at least one place every day.

Yesterday was garden and barn, today was garden and garage.

Also, I added wrong, so now the corrected total is:
Garden 6
Studio 2
Yard 2
Barn 2
Basement 1
Garage 1

The tally is the number of days I did something to make the zone better. Some days it's only removing one item or putting some things away, and other days it might be a few hours.

I think the most important thing right now is that I am paying regular attention and not just letting things slide.

How did you do Lila?

Yay, SubC! You are doing great! I am glad you came back to Tally with me!

I have not started working on the Tally for today, but that's next, and I will come back and add to my tally!

Yesterday I worked on the garden and the studio again.
Garden 3
Studio 2
Yard 2
Barn 1
Basement 1

Today I worked on the garden and the yard, and the studio.

Garden 3
Yard 2
Studio 1
Barn 1
Basement 1

Today I only worked on the garden.
Garden 2
Basement 1
Barn 1
Yard 1

So I got about 10% of the way to my goal and lost interest again.

Lila, maybe you will teach me perseverance.

Meanwhile, something new - today I worked on:
The garden
The barn
The yard
The basement.

Probably next week I will start taking things places. Or Wednesday. This week I'm trying to stay home except for Wednesday, and home does not have trash, recycling, or charity pick up, so unless I burn it or compost it, it just stays here.

Adding for today: 45 pieces of clothing, gone from my house forever!

293/1000

So far today I donated a pencil art kit, a small toy, a little box of fake tattoos, a new 3 ring binder, and an iron-on patch.


248/1000

3 jars from kid's room.

243/1000

I sorted my VHS tapes (lame, I know) and donated 6 of them.

240/1000

So far today, I got rid of an old dog ball and threw out 2 glass things that got chipped.

234/1000

Today I donated 9 DVDs in cases, and dismantled/threw out a broken DVD shelf.

231/1000

Today I got rid of one pair of old underwear and one very large but flaking fake leather recliner.


221/1000

Good morning. I tossed and donated a few things today but didn't write them down. I will see what I can remember:

An old medication, a velvet necklace envelope, a pair of holey underwear, an old bottle of conditioner.

I also cut up a whole pile of old credit cards and tossed some old paperwork, but I am not counting that in my tally.

Will add more later today.

219/1000

5 more items gone. The scrawny house plant I threw out, and some stuff into the donate bin including a small glass, some kind of tape, a brand new hot/cold mit for injuries (I have another one exactly the same), and some other random thing.

215/1000

Happy Birthday hat, into the donate bin.

210/1000

Yesterday I donated two socks with small holes. The place I am donating to recycles fabric.

I really need to get a move on and get this tally going up again!

209/1000

Today I tossed a useless junky cup.

207/1000

This morning's tally from the storage unit = 2 to 3 cubic feet, mostly rubber stamps and books. A few religious ones I'm going to see if the teachers at the parish school would like for the kids to use. The rest will go to the garage sale to see if they sell. Leftovers will go in church rummage sale in June.

Out went a box of ex's junk that was hiding behind a chair, all useless crap. I'm just counting this as one item.

206/1000

I'm back at it.

Donated - set of foam letters, 2 candles, a bag of metal stakes of some kind. Threw out an old bag of candy I found in my room.

205/1000

At storage unit today, pulled out +/- 3 cubic feet of books and misc. for senior center garage sale next week. Including a big old lidless plastic tub that I loathe.

Planted peas. They were the wrong seeds, but I've decided to give myself credit anyway.

29/300

Got frustrated with the pullet pen. Completely disassembled and rebuilt it better. Moved the chicks in.

28/300

Moved the rabbit hutches, started cleaning out the old pullet pen so I can reset it for the new overgrown chicks.

27/300 9%

I went to the bank and finally got a thing resolved. It ended up only costing me $10.

26/300

Those question marks are supposed to be confetti cones!

?for 200 items!?

Yesterday I cleaned the chicken coop and worked on my pottery class homework.

25/300 I am 1/12 of the way there in about a month. I am not necessarily accomplishing discrete things each day I work on my non-routine/not just survival/daily maintenance things, but I am making progress on them each time.

I am letting the house slowly get messier again though. For now I am happy with the trade off.

Good job SubC!

Son carried my box to the car, WITH that plaque I wanted gone in it.

200/1000

Just keep moving CM,

Lila,I'm hope someone Carrie's your box out.

I Repotted more seedlings
And
Worked on homework for my pottery class (that should not be in the extra column, but in my current life, it is.)

24/300

one bra, new but too small, into the donate bin.

I need someone to take this donate box out to my car for me. I always feel uneasy when the box is still in my bedroom, like I might dig through it and take things back out. I want to start a fresh box.

199/1000

Box of teas I don't want, into the trash.

198/1000

Two of those diocesan newspapers that I was saying I need to move on out of here. It's a start. I'm not trying to read all of each paper, just doing a quick flip through.

Also one free agricultural newspaper that they distribute around here at grocery stores, and that I pick up for the Sudoku. Usually I'm good about getting them gone promptly after finishing the puzzle, but this one must've slid down out of sight. We keep a SMALL stack of newspapers for soaking up spills, so it's still technically here but not in my room and if that stack got too big we would reduce it.

Yesterday I signed up for the spring pottery sale and potted up some of my seedlings (unfortunately not all that need it, but some. Poco a poco.)

23/300

Yesterday I cleared the sale display off my class shelf and replaced the work in progress. I'm calling that a win.

22/300

Okay, technically not a hoard item, but I did jettison a hideous science experiment from the vegetable bin, which at first I couldn't identify. Then I recognized it as what, in a former life, was a couple of slices of Provolone cheese in an unmarked ziploc bag.

And then I removed the bin, which had some gross ick in the bottom, washed it thoroughly and wiped down the place where it goes, and put it back. I've been demotivated so this was an easy yet satisfying thing to do.

I dug out the shearing stand and swept it off so I could immobilize momma goat and start teaching Shamrock to nurse. He can't be a house pet.

It was an emergency, but it is also progress.

21/300 7%

Recycled the last of the magazines.
Darned the socks with holes in them I brought along so I can wear them tomorrow.

Worked on some school planning and prep to make the last ten weeks a little bit easier.

20/300

My goal is to hit 200 today.

Adding to the donation bin: 3 more small glasses and 3 shirts someone gave me that I really don't need to save.

197/1000

oh, I hope the baby makes it, SubC.

My tally for yesterday: I put 2 small glasses in the donation box, and used a third one to fill with wax and threw it away. Sorry to the recyclers; I gave myself a pass on some recycling while I am digging out from under.

I also washed a big candle jar and this morning decided it was nice, but I don't need it. So I out it in the donation bin this morning.

191/1000

CM,

Poco a poco! Just keep moving forward!

Lila, once upon a time I had alpacas. I shear, card, spin, and knit and I have all the equipment.

The goat is 4 years old. She's very sweet and placid. She was sold with the expectation of a single kid this spring. While I was picking dd up for surgery yesterday, I got a note from my farm sitter that during the night she had kidded with twin bucklings.

Unfortunately one of them had a rather gruesome fatal birth defect. He did provide valuable genetic information though. His brother has been struggling and we thought we would lose him, but - my farm sitter is an angel and took him home last night, put him in bed with her on a heating pad, and bottle fed him every few hours. This morning it looks like he has a chance, but no guarantees.

If he lives my plan is to just pet him all the time.

Back to the tally, I read through and recycled four magazines while I waited for DD's surgery yesterday.

19/300

ugh, I should proofread BEFORE I hit post. PET it all day!!

An angora goat!!!!!! Those are beautiful! What are your plans, to make things out of the wool/hair I am guessing? Or to sit and let it all day like I would do?? LOL! How old is it?

I have not added to my tally yet, but I will by the end of the day.