Declutterathon Daze

• Declaration
• Day
• Day Dos
• Day Dos Doubled
• Donate
• Desk
• Dafloor
• Da-shred
• Divided
• Dumped
• Downunder
• Dash
• Daze- you are caught up in it with me.

 

This is gonna be W A Y different today!    So brace yourself.

I’m decluttering not physical things today, but habits, actions, thoughts….

Bad habits are automatic, and I just do them without even realizing it.    For example, I get 2 ice cream bars at once.   When I’m done, I blink, look down, and they’re both gone.     What just happened??    I usually have no memory of even eating but 1, sometimes neither, to tell the truth.   So, I need to only get 1 at the time, from the freezer.   That way, I have to walk back to the kitchen for the second, and that will give me enough time to recall eating the last one.

How about none??      [ignoring]

Also, walking to the kitchen in between treats, will declutter a tiny bit of laziness too.   Double score!!

And just maybe, I’ll choose something other than ice cream.

Yeah, right!     This I gotta see!

Okay, smarty pants!    Look here!!     See that??    

     It’s an apple!!    {In a pig’s mouth!!}

Update:  Gilly made me promise to never refer to myself as a pig again.   Degrading myself is a habit I need to declutter right now!

 

Well, color me surprised!     Surprised     {Is that the color of surprised??}

And I really did eat it all!!    See??      As a matter of fact, I ate 2!!    Go me!     Scored 2 tiny points for health!

 

 

Today!     And only because you were outta ice cream bars.

 

 

 

 

That’s all that counts, today.     And I coulda gone to the store, but right now I chose wisely. Now all I need to do is keep it up!     Reminder to self:  One day, one apple at a time.

Out of the daze maze, and ready to go forth and declutter some more stuff!       Onward, clutter warriors!

 

 

 

Queen Anne’s Day 12: https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/16/21-12-car-time

 

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

 

Declutterathon Dash

• Declaration
• Day
• Day Dos
• Day Dos Doubled
• Donate
• Desk
• Dafloor
• Da-shred
• Divided
• Dumped
• Downunder
• Dash

Today I’m gonna dash right thru this little session.     I’m decluttering the rat’s nest beside my bed.

     The compulsory roll of tp,    In case you don’t make it to the potty????     NO!!     ICK!!    It’s for my nose!!     I guess I could do without the used wads.     That would be nice!

The trash is a no-brainer, and possibly I don’t need 3 deodorants, at once anyway!!      The pills are necessary, and the back scratcher, and the book.     But the book doesn’t need to be there, you never read in bed anymore.     And you do have such a lovely not crammed bookshelf, right over there!     {helpfully points}

The necklace can be banished, probably the fabric scrap too.      But what about the french fry??     Won’t PP notice that’s missing??     Probably not till she makes burgers!

Okay, I’ve documented the mess, time {See what I did there??} for the decluttering to begin!!

Timer set: 15 minutes.      GO!

And she’s off to the races!

Huff, puff, blow down the clutter!

Almost done!    When is that timer gonna ding??     This is the longest 15 minutes of my life, without any fame, even!

*Looks at timer.*         Let me guess.     {crossly}   You don’t have to guess, you know what I did!    Moving on!

     Good thing I did this!     I had 2 sets of duplicate bottles!!      Clutter be gone!             3 expired supplements.     Not good, Melinda.    I know, I know.     Well, I won’t be taking those anymore.     Wonder if that’s why your tongue turned green??

     Aha!    I wondered where the key to my heart went.      Cute.

 

 

2 more pairs of scissors??    When you already have 2 pairs in your office, not 6 feet away??      But the big ones are sewing scissors!   Very necessary!!     And you couldn’t put them in your sewing room, not even 3 feet away, because??????      Never mind, back to their respective places now.

 

 

      Wow, this Declutterathon is certainly turning out to be lucrative!!  Thanks, Queen Anne!!    It really does pay to clean your house!      

      Just exactly how many finger, and toe nails do you have anyway?    This is the fourth pair we’ve found!     To the bathroom cabinet they go.

 

 

So slobby sewing supplies.    Sent to sewing supply space.

 

 

 

 

      The third phone we’ve found!      Maybe you need to add hoarder somewhere in your name??

Yummy!    Chocolate scented dog Sister sent me!      Not clutter at all!!       I agree!    Chocolate is one of the basic food groups!     Ya NEVER get rid of chocolate!

      Since when do TV trays have 8 legs??      Ya know, I never even noticed that 2nd one was there!       *eye roll*     Why am I not surprised??

 

 

 

To be sent to the shed shortly.

{Update:  it’s been banished.}

 

 

Look what else I found.             What??    Doesn’t everyone use their pill organizer as a safe deposit box??

Time for the big reveal!     Feast your eyes on this!

      So, so pretty!              There, doesn’t that look so much better?

Yes, I admit it does.    And look!            I even upgraded to real tissues!

My, my!     We are going all out!!

And the Declutterathon dash is done for this day.

 

 

Queen Anne’s Day 11: https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/15/21-11-random-stuff

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

Declutterathon Downunder

• Declaration
• Day
• Day Dos
• Day Dos Doubled
• Donate
• Desk
• Dafloor
• Da-shred
• Divided
• Dumped
• Downunder- Ta da!   U iz here!

 

Down under- the crib- that is!     It’s a mess all over the place up in here!!    

Haha!   I squeezed  1 more day outta decluttering from my chair!

*GASP*    No way!!

Yup!    XH came over to bring me the tp…

WHAT??    You ran outta tp??     Oh, I’m so sorry!!    I didn’t realize how bad things were!!     Are you okay??

Yeah, I’m fine.     God has delivered me from the spirit of fear.     It’s from the devil, not God!     2 Timothy 1:7  “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”    KJV

Wow, ok!     That’s great!!

Anyway, he brought in the tp, so I asked him to “Hand me that, push over the crib, hand me that please?? ”   “Could you put the suitcase in the closet, since you’re right there?”      Hee hee, sneaky me, he handed everything to me, and I didn’t have to get up!     (For those of you that are worried I’m now grown into the fabric of the chair, I do get up for potty breaks, and food.    So, I’m good, ok?!)     {Bonus- I gave him back his book, and his pack of pix!!}

Here’s how it started out.

Hey bud, eyes down.   Down under the crib.    Don’t be looking up there on the dresser.   Today is Downunder, not Dresser Day.    {Also, don’t look IN the crib- that’s my staging area for all the clutter leaving this room.}

Contents of 1 shopping bag:

     Good stuff- party goods, just clutter in its present location.    Yes, I actually took it to its place in the kitchen!!    

*GASP!*

I know!!     Walking ALL the way down the hall!!

Oh, you did it on your way to the kitchen for an ice cream bar, didn’t you??

Maybe…    Whatever, I did it!   That’s all that counts!

     This bag held surprises.   1 happy, 1 sad.

YAY!     Oh no!      What??    What??

I’ll show ya.          I’m guessing this is the happy??     Oh yeah!          Uh, oh!     Is that what I think it is??     Sadly, yes.    And I don’t think that 32 cents is gonna cover the fine.       

Now I really wanna cry!

 

 

I’m thinking I best start lo-jacking my library books!!

 

 

 

     Decluttered one of these post cards immediately, by writing it, and addressing it.     And how’s this for serendipity- the postcards stamps were with!     Down right delightful!

    Cushion from PP’s newest car seat.    Eeh, she’s gotten along with out it this long, see ya!!

 

 

Aww, looky there!    PP is lending me a helping hand!

 

 

 

 

      Now that is just completely wild!!    How in this world do I still have that from my original wedding 32 years ago???     That won’t happen again, unless trash develops the ability to teleport…..

     A sweet lil castle for PP.   Still not sure what to do with it, but I’m keeping it!

     Ah! I’ve been wondering where this was!     Sis-in-love, Shirley, gave it to me!     And now that it’s been unearthed, I’m gonna make sure I use it!

 

 

 

I love it, really!!     I just didn’t know where it was!

 

 

 

     No words.    smh      But the measuring spoons won’t be back to puzzle me again.    Sayonara!     The tool isn’t mine, so I best keep it!

 

It was a mess all over the place up in here!!    But less mess now, thanks to the Declutterathon!!     Taking out the messes 15 minutes at a time!

 

 

 

Queen Anne’s Day  10: https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/14/21-10-cards-galore/

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

Declutterathon Dumped

• Declaration
• Day
• Day Dos
• Day Dos Doubled
• Donate
• Desk
• Dafloor
• Da-shred
• Divided
• Dumped– You are here.

No!   The Declutterathon was NOT dumped!    I dumped the drawer out on the floor!     The bottom drawer of the filing cabinet, to be exact.    

My erstwhile “card” drawer.    And indeed, there were many, many cards in there!

But also this!         Yup, the same dead llama.    I guess it chose its final resting place a BIT unwisely.    

Who choose it??   {archly}

[crossly]    Oh, alright, I did it.    I dumped it in there yesterday, so I wouldn’t have to deal with it.

And now?

Now, I have to really decide where to put it.   <sigh>     I don’t really wanna get rid of it….   so memory box it is.    As long as it fits, I’m still good!

Oh no!   What is this?    More animals??

A whole cascade of Christmas, gifts, ornaments, cards, and the tags from the other day, that I also tossed in there, to avoid!

Can’t show the gifts!    Some of the people might read this!    Sshh!!

A scarf, for playing dress up, candy sprinkles, 1 tiny ornament, and a cardboard box- ended up dumped in the trash.

     I can’t believe I actually threw something purple away!    But, it’s more trouble than its worth, to try to remember to take it out to the bins in the workshop!

Other finds; a trio of tiny bins, a music cd, which I promptly popped into the player, and fell in love with!!   

A tag surrender affidavit, which I filed in my newly decluttered important paper filing drawer!!

I used one of the tiny bins, and then put the remaining 2, and the now empty white one in the donate pile.         Look Mom- no llama!

I kept all these cards:     And the 8 that were to me, ended up in the memory box.

*Ding!*

And I kept going!    Only long enough to do this:

     Put it back on track!!    And close it.

I just wanna say…    

What now??   What is wrong this time??      

Chill!!    I just wanna say, Great job!    I’m proud of you!

[mollified]     Wow, okay.   Thank you for noticing!

Thus endeth the tale of today’s Declutterathon .

 

 

Queen Anne’s Day   9  : https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/13/21-9-throwing-the-rules-out-the-window/

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

 

Mixed Memes

Another Monday already??     They sure do seem to come quite regularly!      Yep, nearly every 7 days!!

Today’s Meme Theme is A, B, C, D.

The A’s.

Yes, please!!!

All the winkys!

The B’s.

Bedtime

Best friends don’t let friends bare their bums!

This is a B and a C.

 

The C’s.

 

Casserole

Cupcake- key to all happiness?

Crazy lady- hey! I do NOT live in her house!

 

Da D.

Deadlifts- yeah, ME!!

 

Not out right laughed out loud, but eh, I chuckled.

Mixed emotions about my memes, Monday.

 

Declutterathon Divided

• Declaration
• Day
• Day Dos
• Day Dos Doubled
• Donate
• Desk
• Dafloor
• Da-shred
• Divided- you are here.

 

And away we go!!    Since someone complained about me making up words, I decided to use a “real” one today.     I’m doing the filing cabinet, but instead of searching for a word, I just went the lazy easy route, and used a related word.   So, are we all good to go?

All good.

Thanks, here we go!

The top of the filing cabinet.

     Threw away the open cracker box, and candy .  

Cuz you were afraid they were stale??    {sarcastically}

No, cuz I remembered I have creepy crawly friends, and I don’t wanna eat their leftovers.

Good thinking!!    Maybe next time you could remember that BEFORE you leave out open food???

[sniff, ignore]

Kept the coloring pages for PP, but put them inside the drawer, for neatness.

     Great!

 

Okay, here’s the top drawer, in all its shame.

      See how its divided?    From whence came today’s title.

   Another animal??   Are ya kiddin??     But this one’s not mine!!    I have no idea how one of Mama’s giraffes got here in my filing drawer!   It probably followed the llama from 3 days ago, and got lost.    So, it’ll be returned shortly??     ASAP!!     I can’t afford the care and feeding of a giraffe!!     Update:  It has been trucked back to its owner.

This is pretty!!       Yup, a Christmas present that never was given.    

This is my not happy face.

 There’s always another December coming!      Speaking of that, here’s a graduation present from last December as well.                   Reckon she’ll get it by THIS December?                   Hope springs eternal.

         

YES!!   [fist pump]   A massage certificate!!

    NOOOO!!!!    How can it be expired????      {wailing and gnashing of teeth}

But here’s some good news!          At least the coupon isn’t expired.          yay     whoop di do       who cares

More un-given presents:   

Magazines, thumb drives, medical papers by the metric ton….

and this.      Finally!!    Something that belongs in a filing cabinet, not the ark!

Ya know, I spent 45 minutes on de-cluttering, and guess what I ended up with?

A cleaner, emptier divided filing cabinet, I’m guessing??

    Look Mama, no more clutter!!      Besides that.

    Another shred pile!!     <sigh>    But at least, I only have a very small action stack!          To do list, or whatever ya call it.    YAY.

And this gave me a smile.         A bill where they owed ME money!!   How often does THAT happen??    I wrote “Thank You, Jesus!”    Maybe you should frame that one!

Then, I looked down, and saw this.    

Oh no!!    Not going there today!!    I did not just do overtime, I did triple time!!    Stick a fork in me, I am DONE!!

It’ll still be there tomorrow!     Mwuahahaha!

 

 

Queen Anne’s Day   8  : https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/12/21-8-im-frustrated/

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

 

 

Declutterathon Da-shred?

 

• Declaration
• Day
• Day Dos
• Day Dos Doubled
• Donate
• Desk
• Dafloor

 

Da

  pile.   

Here we begin to be weary of the dumb “D” words, that are not really words, Melinda!!

But I tried wracking my brain, but that was just too painful!

Another thought?

Yeah?

Try this.

Thanks!!  You saved all the strain on my gray matter!     Okay, how’s “disunite’??

Too late now, you already hit publish!   Everyone’s already read it, and think you’re kooky for making up words.

I think they were already well aware before today!

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, [clears throat, gives severe look], today we’re gonna tackle the shred pile, under the desk.    AND, since we have no shredder, it has to be done by hand.    So, we are for realz gonna set the timer, AND start it this time!!

Rip, shred, disunite, tear…….

*Ding!*

Wow!  At least I reduced it to this smaller heap.

    Good going!!                  Thanks!!                      Welcome.   Now, get going!

Resets timer.    Resumes tearing.

Wonder why I had a note to myself in the shred pile??

Good question!!

All done!   With 8 minutes left on the timer!!    

Do you mean to tell me I HAND shredded that whole pile in only 21 minutes??

Yep.

Then WHY did I wait so long????

{Opens mouth to answer…}

Never mind!

Now the bottom two shelves of the desk are empty!!   YAY!!    Thank you Queen Anne for the challenge!

 

Queen Anne’s Day   7  : https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/11/21-7-christmas-stash/

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

 

Declutterathon- Dafloor

1. Declaration
2. Declutterathon Day
3. Day Dos
4. Dos Doubled
5. Donate
6. Desk
7. Day 6- You are here.

 

I know, I know.    I’ve reached a new low, as low as I can go.    But how else could I alliterate “Floor“??

Here are the befores:

And this time, I’m getting to it before noon!    Not waiting till quarter to midnight!!    Go, me!

Oh no!   This is gonna be harder than I thought!

Why?   What’s the matter??

I have to bend over!!    Waaaaahhh!            

Now I really wanna cry!

   

   

 

Get over it you big, lazy baby!  

 

 

First item out the door!   I didn’t even know what it was till Stella, from Purfylle told me!  

   Neither do I know where it came from.    Who is dropping off all this stuff in the middle of the night??    And HOW do they get in??

Oops!    I forgot to set the timer!    Well, I KNOW it’s gonna take more than 15 minutes.   (Counting the blogging, and photography, and editing, about 2 hours!!)     I think we’re good!

I was debating whether to donate, or trash.  (You know these things are like Twinkies, full of enough preservatives to last till I have great-great grandchildren!!)     So, probably trash is the safest option?

Uh, yeah, I’d say.

All manner of craft, sewing, and quilting supplies.     Wait!!   That’s a curtain there!     Since it was a blackout one, I didn’t see it!     (And why do I see so much green????)     The wired ribbon bit the dust, and the box of little giblets too.    The material and the curtain survived this tribal council.

    No wonder PP has no new clothes!!    They’re all playing hide -n- go – seek in the clutter piles!!

 

Paper!!    Purple paper!!    (Well, purple cover of paper.)               Purple paper put in place!!

     Believe it or not, these are only the ones I have left.    I bought 10!   Why? Because they were only 19 cents of course!!    What a bah-gain!    Was gonna trash- after all, who’s gonna use them in 6 months??     Then I remembered- hmmm  DD2 just graduated, and I’m still working on her quilt.….

   Whoa!    That’s one huge needle!!
Am I gonna be sewing a dress for the Statue of Liberty, or something???

 

All I can say is :   Ugh, ugh, U G L Y!!!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ta-da!!  All decluttered??

Nope! Not yet!

What’s the matter now?

Don’t you even SEE that roll of RED wrapping paper?

Oh yeah, duh, slob-o-vision.    Away it goes, into the closet.

Ta-da!!    All decluttered!!    

     

Another quality decluttering job by PurpleSlobInRecovery.

 

 

 

Queen Anne’s Day   6  : https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/10/21-6-some-of-my-grandmothers-stuff/

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

 

 

 

Declutterathon- Desk

 

• Declutterathon Declaration.  
•  Day.    
• Day Dos.      
• Day Dos Doubled.  
• Donate .    
• Desk- This is Day 5.

Oh no!   I just looked at the clock, and it’s 11:45 pm!!    On Day 5!   What is it with me??    Do I just think I have all day to get stuff done?? 

Uh, yeah!   Apparently, ya do!

Ok, Ok, {looks around frantically for a quick project to do.   Preferably one to be done from the chair, without moving.   At all.}

{Eyes light up!}   Aha!    It’s been right in front of me the whole time!!   The computer desk!!  It’s bad!    Very bad!

Here’s proof.

    A dead llama, y’all.   A. Dead. Llama!!   Well, ok, it was the pen that was dead, but whatever.   I think I proved my point.

If that’s another muerto mouse, I think I’ll lose my lunch ice cream bars!

    Very bottom shelf.   Hey, at least I give my pet roaches plenty to eat!    Speaking of roaches, did you know they get very active after a de-clutter session?    I’ve killed 4 in the last hour.    Who knew they wouldn’t like their nests messed??

Oh, that’s right.   We’re supposed to be de-cluttering!!    It’s a Declutterathon, duh!

    How bout this then??    I have 2, only need one.    Buh, bye one or the other!!   Try to guess which one I kept!    (I’ll tell ya later.)    

Or this??

       Another sad, unnecessary item.

  

Look!   A book!   And, I just happen to have discovered the perfect place for them, the other day!!

      I knew I had one of these!!    Just could not figure out where!!    Thank you Declutterathon!!

                                                              proper place

Quite a mess I have here!   Recycled the box, and manuals.    Made a home for the printer paper.   Moved the Christmas tags to the filing cabinet, in the card drawer.   (Made sense to me.    Remember the not-moving-out-of-the-chair-at-all part??)

Even cleaned (dusted I guess would be a better word) the top!

     All clean!!   Nice!!

    This was up there too.   What is it?   You may ask.    Homemade soap, from DD1.    That never has been used.    Since she gave it to me for Christmas.   9 months ago.    So, yeah, regretfully, I let it go.   (I just can’t do slimy.)

    Random piece of VIT  (Very Important Tape).    Want to know the best thing?   As I was typing this, I looked up and it’s still there!     I photographed it, then forgot it!    Gone now.

    I’ve been looking for these!     Rats!!    They’re so dried out and stiff, I think I scratched my monitor!

     Assorted Cds.    But I should probably keep these 2!    The one with no writing turned out to be a country western mix tape (what do they call them now that they’re no longer tapes??).    Since I don’t listen to that anymore, it’s trash.

Alright, enough on this.    I did double my 15 mins.    And the results are wonderful!!    I’m thrilled to be sitting here, looking at my newly de-cluttered desk!     It even makes me feel more….. what’s the word I’m looking for??    More….. motivated to keep de-cluttering!!

Now, what to do tomorrow??    Guess I’ll actually have to get up outta this chair.    

Wait!!     There’s this:

To my right, within arm’s reach.   Yup, at LEAST another 15 minutes worth.    EASY!!    You’re going down, clutter.    But not today, time’s up!!

 

 

 

Queen Anne’s Day 5: https://minimalistsometimes.com/2016/09/09/21-5-its-all-about-that-bose/

 

Queen Anne’s other Ladies-in-Waiting:

 

Grace, at The CFO MOM Blog

Jen, at The Hidden Hoarder

Barb, at Decluttering The Stuff

 

Oh yeah!   I said I’d tell ya which pencil holder I got rid of.   Let’s see if ya guessed right!

Why ever did I have a necklace??    I haven’t worn one in years!     (Facepalm)

 

Melinda’s Memes

Welcome to another edition of Monday Memes.    Melinda’s meme theme this week is:

Adulting, maybe??    Getting older??    Something along those lines, I can’t remember.

The first one isn’t a meme, but I don’t know how to upload a pix to someone else’s blog, so Queen Anne, this one’s for you!

 

Queen Anne, that is!

Queen Anne can be found on her throne at www.minimalistsometimes.com

I totally need these for my chore chart!!

    Yup!    And no pictures, cuz you’re an adult now.    Bah, humbug!

     In a nutshell.

      Anybody else??    Oh, just me??    Uh, huh, right.

 

 

Me too, kitteh.

 

 

 

 

YAY!! And start knitting the sweater out of my leg hair!

It’s not a hot flash, it’s a power surge!!

 

 

I just love this girl!!    Socially awkward, anyone??

Or just pyscho stalker??

 

 

So, there’s your dose of adulting humor for the day.    Hope it started off your week with a belly laugh!!