| Tillie | Posted: 06 June 2015 - 01:43 PM |
Remember how the board would get bogged down and very slow to load and scroll after we had posted so many posts in the thread? So, please continue posting what you are doing today here. (((HUGS))) 😀 | |
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| Tillie | Posted: 31 October 2015 - 12:24 PM |
back up post HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 😀 Remember this is when we do the time thing. Hi Anonymoniker 🙂 Hi LR2014 🙂 Hi AbiYah 🙂 Woke up today with a headache, took an ibuprofen. Remember the kids will be out running around the streets. Drive slowly. | |
| Tillie | Posted: 31 October 2015 - 12:23 PM |
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 😀 Remember this is when we do the time thing. Hi Anonymoniker 🙂 Hi LR2014 🙂 Hi AbiYah 🙂 Woke up today with a headache, took an ibuprofen. Remember the kids will be out running around the streets. Drive slowly. | |
| AbiYah | Posted: 31 October 2015 - 10:25 AM |
During the later years of the continued hoarding (meaning up to later-mid June this year), I started organizing my hoarded stuff. I bought plastic boxes I could see through but labeled them anyway. For example, I have a box of games, another of Chanukah stuff, another of Passover stuff, another of jigsaw puzzles, etc. These are all stored in the basement, brought upstairs then they are needed, and returned in their boxes to the basement when we are through with them. We've lived in this house since 2001, and we've had one water leak. These boxes are 18" tall, so they will withstand most leaks/floods we may have. We hope! 😀 Sheets and pillow cases: The sheets are matched and folded, then they are stored, with the other matching pillowcase, in the second pillowcase. These are in cabinets in the room where they will be needed. Makes it easy to make a bed! Much of the items needed in the guest rooms are also stored in those plastic bags I can use the vacuum cleaner to suck the air out of before they are placed in the cabinets. All the blankets are stored like this in both the guest rooms and the camper. The camper's dishes, flatware, and other items are washed and stored in this type of plastic bags, too, so that when they are needed, they are ready. Just be VERY, Very sure they are absolutely dry. After believing they are all dry, I still let them sit in the bags, in the house, open, for a few days, just to be sure. I keep them out of the sun so that no condensation has any chance to collect. | |
| AbiYah | Posted: 31 October 2015 - 10:24 AM |
I am strongly recovering from my hoarding, so since later-mid June, when I retired, I have been getting rid of stuff. Over this week, I have been cleaning out a large closet where stuff just kept being stored -- much of it paper -- some loose papers, much in notebooks, much organized, much disorganized. As of this afternoon, many of the notebooks were alphabetized and put in place in their cabinets in the closet. I need to work on this more, but I am well on my way. There is a soft, pillowed place there for me to sit and peruse the information in the notebooks or just read a book, or I can lie down there and read. The lighting is great. I also did a little extra, because my stepson and his family arrived tonight for a weekend stay. They loved the renovations in the two guest rooms, because all the hoarded stuff up there was sent to Goodwill over the last few months. Gone! Outa here! I can confidently write that I accomplished a lot. It's a good feeling. There is much more to do, but I am encouraged. 🙂 | |
| LR2014 | Posted: 31 October 2015 - 10:20 AM |
Hi to all. (Happy Nevada Day, Tillie.) I'd mentioned last week that I'd been under the weather. I tried to do a tiny bit of outdoor work on Wednesday, intentionally keeping it light in order to gradually get back into the swing of things physically. Well, Thursday I tried doing a lot of outdoor work before weekend rains hit. I enjoyed the work I did, but I realized soon afterwards that I really overdid it. Not only am I sore, but I also seem to have significantly overused my right wrist. Going to be alternately icing it and putting heat on it today and making only very limited use of it. Because of that, I suppose I won't be doing a big anti-clutter challenge with you this weekend, Tatoulia, but I'll be happy to cheer you on in case you decide to do one yourself. My tentative plans for today are to take it easy physically, to do a little paperwork, and perhaps to read. Karl, I hope you found your papers you were looking for! Anonymoniker, congrats on making such huge progress on getting rid of things! Whoo-hoo!! Hugs to everyone! | |
| Anonymoniker | Posted: 30 October 2015 - 10:30 PM |
Happy almost Hallowen to all!!! | |
| Tillie | Posted: 30 October 2015 - 11:11 AM |
second post Good Morning Everybody 🙂 Hi Karl 🙂 October 31st is "Nevada Day". The day the state joined the union. Please check in here when you all can. TTYS 🙂 | |
| Tillie | Posted: 30 October 2015 - 11:10 AM |
Good Morning Everybody 🙂 Hi Karl 🙂 October 31st is "Nevada Day". The day the state joined the union. Please check in here when you all can. TTYS 🙂 | |
| Karl | Posted: 30 October 2015 - 12:25 AM |
I have tentative plans for Saturday, so if that works out, I won't be here when the kids come by. I don't know if my housemate will have anything for them. Last year I used the opportunity to get rid of some candy that I decided I didn't like after all. In years before that, it was very rare for me to get any Trick-or-Treaters at all, probably because my house was at the end of a cul-de-sac and set back a ways from the street. | |
| Tillie | Posted: 29 October 2015 - 01:22 PM |
back up post Hi 🙂 Anybody doing anything fun for Halloween? | |
| Tillie | Posted: 29 October 2015 - 01:20 PM |
Hi 🙂 Anybody doing anything fun for Halloween? | |
| Tillie | Posted: 28 October 2015 - 12:58 PM |
back up post Good Morning! 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Lazy day here today. Next week I would like to challenge myself to complete some things around here that were started but never completed. TTYS 🙂 | |
| Tillie | Posted: 28 October 2015 - 12:57 PM |
Good Morning! 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Lazy day here today. Next week I would like to challenge myself to complete some things around here that were started but never completed. TTYS 🙂 | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 27 October 2015 - 06:41 PM |
Hello everyone! My post from yesterday didn't appear, but that's okay, I know how hard Cory is working to keep us together! Karl, I hope you find the papers. I spend my life hunting for stuff. My missing post gave you the final tally, which was 29 out of a challenge of 60. I am pleased and felt very good about getting rid of 29 things. My counting method was far from accurate-- for example, all the papers I shredded counted as one item (one big trash bag) but the pill bottles in the kitchen were counted separately. The bottom line is I got rid of 29 items, I enjoyed doing it and I feel satisfied. Next weekend will issue another challenge to myself--maybe put away X number of items? Let me know if anyone wants to join in! I do feel good with a challenge other than "clean house" or "get rid of stuff" Much love to all. Good work, Tillie. Always love to read your progress! | |
| Tillie | Posted: 27 October 2015 - 10:58 AM |
Back up post Good Morning Everybody 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi Karl 🙂 Yesterday I got a lot of cleaning done in here and three loads of laundry. TTYS 🙂 | |
| Tillie | Posted: 27 October 2015 - 10:57 AM |
Good Morning Everybody 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi Karl 🙂 Yesterday I got a lot of cleaning done in here and three loads of laundry. TTYS 🙂 | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 26 October 2015 - 07:21 PM |
Hello! Sorry you are hunting for something Karl. I hope you find the paperwork. I spend half my life hunting for things, it seems. Be sure to keep us updated! I know what you mean, Tillie. The cats are just too cute not to forgive instantly. It's getting colder here in the Northeast so naturally my little buddy is getting more and more cuddly! The challenge went well--I disposed of 29 items total. Short of the goal, just shy of halfway, but that is 29 things I wouldn't have done anyway. So for that I am grateful. I didn't have a method to count--for example, I counted the shredded papers by the garbage bag, but counted the two empty pill bottles as two things. My challenge, my rules. So I am pleased even though my goal was 60 items. The point is, I did something. And tonight it has motivated me further. And next weekend I will issue that challenge or another one. I thought another goodie would be to put away X number of items per room. In the meantime, I am thinking of you all. Many thanks to Cory for his tireless efforts to keep us together. | |
| Karl | Posted: 26 October 2015 - 12:51 AM |
I've somehow managed to lose a stack of papers that would be hard to replace. I hope it's still somewhere here in my room, and that it'll turn up soon. | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 25 October 2015 - 02:46 PM |
Good to see your post, LR! Glad you are making progress on the vehicle! So far my challenge is going well. I'm so pleased with myself. I'm not done by any means but shredded a lot of papers, which equals one bag of trash. I will do more tonight. Some of the items are larger than others, but I am getting rid of ten per room. Haven't taken anything out of bedroom yet but so far: kitchen-7, hall-5, living room-9, bath-1. Pretty pleased. Remember I'm counting living room as two rooms do I need to rid myself of 20 items. I am throwing out, giving away, shredding and recycling. It's not a matter if putting things away--in this challenge, it is disposal. I'll write again with final results and would love another challenge next weekend. It can be the same or different-- throw out an idea and I'll join in!!!! | |
| Tillie | Posted: 25 October 2015 - 11:38 AM |
Back up post Good Morning Everybody! 😀 Hi Roxie 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi LR2014 🙂 Yesterday I accomplished all I could without any help. Wonderful to read all your posts this morning! 😀 | |
| Tillie | Posted: 25 October 2015 - 11:37 AM |
Good Morning Everybody! 😀 Hi Roxie 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi LR2014 🙂 Yesterday I accomplished all I could without any help. Wonderful to read all your posts this morning! 😀 | |
| LR2014 | Posted: 25 October 2015 - 01:07 AM |
Wow! This past week seemed like a long week to me. Not a bad week . . . just a long one. I made some good progress about a week ago on my vehicle cleanout project. (I still have a long way to go on that.) I have spent a lot of my time this past week working outdoors, and I haven't gotten much cleaning/decluttering done. I did get some paperwork organizing done yesterday. I realized a few hours ago that I hadn't even checked the message board during most of the last week or so, and now I'm really behind on posts. Just in skimming what I've missed, I noticed your weekend challenge, Tatoulia. I came down sick Friday and probably won't get much of anything done this weekend besides paperwork. If you decide to do another one of these challenges on a future weekend, though, perhaps I will join you! Wishing you well as you continue to work on it! Glad to hear that the spamming rate is going down. Yea! Thank you, Cory. | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 24 October 2015 - 08:41 PM |
Hello everyone. Good to read your posts. Dear Tillie, you accomplish so much and you are such a support for me. I admire your strength and perseverance. Your dollhouse sounds lovely and on behalf of all cats who have eaten/chewed/played with your things, please accept ou r apologies. We're cats. Cannot help it. Hello Roxie. Good progress on the bills. So sorry to hear about the weight loss--you certainly cannot afford to lose any weight and I hope you can get your weight going in the right direction. As for me, I am accepting my own challenge and see that I have lots and lots to do. Difficult to find ten things in each room, even though there are lots of excesses everywhere. So far I can count about ten things in the entire place that I have disposed of. I counted all the paperwork and Mail on top of the washer/dryer as one thing, and I've shredded it and not just churned it. I started another bag to goodwill and I took out four bags of recyclables. I will continue on my quest tonight. Hello to Anony, CM, LR, Diane, Bitsy, Karl, and all others--whether named or not, I read your posts and am standing by your side | |
| Roxie | Posted: 24 October 2015 - 05:49 PM |
Yes, to some extent the problems on this site have kept me from posting as often as I read. But I've also been losing too much weight and am very tired most of the time. I'm working on it. Karl, that's a wonderful job you did! How are other things going for you? Anony, I'm so enjoying your posts. It's great that your electrician friend has been so delighted to haul away so much of what you don't need and he can make use of or scrap. Also, I am so happy to hear of your volunteering. That keeps us "out there" rather than retreating. If I leave someone out, sorry. I have some brain fog at the moment. But I'm reading your posts and enjoying them. Tillie, wish I were at my house in Arkansas as I could send a couple miniature things your way. I have several dollhouses and boxes of Victorian things (furniture, etc.) that I'd planned on displaying and playing with. I need to go see my doc and also need to eat a heck of a lot more than I'm managing because I'm now under 90 lbs, which is at least 10 pounds too small. There is food here but I'm often too tired or winded to fix even the simplest things. Bro brought me a small bag of small apples, which is good for me for a snack, and manageable so long as I can get to the sink to wash one. There is Ensure and yogurt and sometimes tv dinners. Bro brings me home things like burgers or carry-outs sometimes, too. I'm working slowly on getting bills paid off, or sorted, or hammered out. I finally paid off my Arkansas pulmonologist but there are some bills yet in collection to address. Still, feels good to have paid him off plus the ambulances plus I'm almost done paying off the pharmacy from my last time in skilled nursing. Sorry this is so long. Coffee clinks. :::clink::: | |
| Tillie | Posted: 24 October 2015 - 11:28 AM |
secondary back up post Good Morning Everyone 🙂 Hi Anonymoniker 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 I have a list of things I want to accomplish outside today. I have been posting and then copying my post and posting it again and it seems to be working getting through. 🙂 | |
| Tillie | Posted: 24 October 2015 - 11:27 AM |
Good Morning Everyone 🙂 Hi Anonymoniker 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 I have a list of things I want to accomplish outside today. I have been posting and then copying my post and posting it again and it seems to be working getting through. 🙂 | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 24 October 2015 - 09:50 AM |
Hello everyone! I am disgusted with my self and my house so I've issued a challenge. I need to get rid of 10 items in each room by the end of the weekend. Living room counts as two rooms and hallway counts as one. Wish me luck! And let me know if you want to join--any increment will do--10 items whole house, 2 items each room etc. | |
| Anonymoniker | Posted: 23 October 2015 - 06:23 PM |
....oh, my weekend plans are im volunteering all day tomorrow at the mesquite bean milling! We mill the beans into flour that is super healthy! Sweet & nutty flavor and actually reverses diabetes! Ill have to get up at 3am! Fun fun! ha ha 😀 | |
| Anonymoniker | Posted: 23 October 2015 - 06:19 PM |
Wow, Tillie? You have a Pink Floyd lunch box?! Cool!!! Im glad you are feeling better and have a fun project. That is great advice about finding something you can control when you feel out of control! I have loads of string lights, like the kind for Christmas decorating. I wonder if they would work? I wish i could give you a nice clean set of them for your doll house? | |
| Tillie | Posted: 23 October 2015 - 10:47 AM |
Emergency back up post 😉 Good Morning Everyone 🙂 Hi Anonymoniker 🙂 Hi Karl 🙂 Yesterday morning while I was vacuuming I was thinking about what was bothering me and if there was anything that I could do to fix it. When we find ourselves stressing about things we can't change it's time to look for something that we can change. Friday already! | |