Purge yearbooks?? Isn’t that like illegal or something??
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Such Situations
Oldie but goodie from September 2014. Are y’all that have been here a while tired of the reruns?? I promise, I’m trying hard as I can to get my new site ready!!
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This was while we lived in our 4/2 biiiiiiig apartment!
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Goodbye, Goodness!!
Well, finally working on moving outta 8 house some more. I made the first goodbye video. Then a few days went by, and I forgot I’d made the first one, so I made the 2nd one! Yeah, senior moments are so fun!! Enjoy!!
See if you can spot the differences in the two!
I should make this a contest!! But what would be the prize??? A genuine piece of clutter?? A wooden nickel?? A bad piece of advice??? Maybe a prize isn’t necessary, after all.
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PP’s Playroom
Well, it’s time to face the lion’s den: PP’s playroom. I’m scared, Mommy!! Hold me!
The outlook, going in. Or should that be the inlook????
Nope, no sound, I forgot! Sorry! I will get better at this, I promise!!
You’re right, if you think not all of that is PP’s!! A lot of the closet turned out to be mine, and DD1’s.
DD1’s memory box, and some clothes.
Rubbermaid tote.
My purple suitcase. But not empty, as DD thought!! Surprise!! Smart fabric stash!
Plus 2 books.
My Grandma book, to fill with info about me, for PP, and CC to read later! And my small wedding album, from marrying Bobby. My lost love, who’s in heaven.
And now, more room, for more fabric!! Don’t even think about it!!
Fold ’em up!
I knew I had more of those fabric squares!! Found ’em finally!! I couldn’t proceed with the twin’s quilts till I did!!
The big blue bag, was mixed clothes, girls’ and DD’s.
So since they’re never used, the toddler beds can go, as well as the pool. They are both so tall, both couldn’t sit in there at one time!! And I’m not gonna try to make them take turns for that!!
Not sure what we’re gonna do with her buttons, and marbles yet. I know we’re keeping ALL her rocks!! She’s been collecting those for 3 years now!
Probably won’t remember to take a video of her clean room, or a pic either. Because by that time, we’ll be gone! 😉
Another 8 house post, brought to you by the letter “P” and a 4 yo.
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
#11 #12 #13 #14 # 15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20
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After effects
The after effects of Irma.
Side yard:
Help! They’ve fallen, and they can’t get up!!
Poor flowers.
Front yard:
Devastation? None as far as the eye can see.
Not even enough damage to write home about! Thank you God for sparing us!!
Inside was a whole different story tho!
Our front door blew off!!
Okay, so it was only a tiny little strip of door Veneer that blew off. But that’s not dramatic!!
We did have a ceiling leak, tho! For realz!!
See??
Ceiling leak in living room.
Okay, yeah, it was only the black speckled part at the bottom. The huge patch was from a previous leak. But still, we had to use 2 whole towels to sop up the deluge!!
TWO! Beach sized towels!
The little plant table on the porch got wet.
The porch doormat was soaked.
Waaaahhhh! My feet got wet!!
(I’m making fun of myself: NOT people who had REAL damage!!)
Back yard:
Looks good, looks good, looks okay.
Just some twigs.
UH OH!!!!
That doesn’t look so good!!
Big limb down
This is the apt. right out our back door. The neighbor hasn’t returned home yet, so not sure of the extent of the damage. But from the ground, it doesn’t look like it went thru the roof. I hope not!
Serious damage???? To be determined.
An Irma post.
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June Jottings
Another 8 house post.
I’ve worked in my room several hours, now. Days even!!
But, I still haven’t written all, about all the times, I’ve worked in here. Today, I’m gonna go back in time, and reconstruct the job, hopefully!
First, I need to go fetch some pix, to remind me of what it looked like, and what I did, exactly!! Back in a flash!
(I want him to move!!)
There, didn’t even miss me, did ya??
What I did: Uploaded my June 10th files. Yes, file”S”. I had 2. Then deleted off my hard drive. So, I’ll just mosey on thru the pix, and say what’s happenin’, (IF I can remember!)
First of all tho, know what’s 1 good thing about me?? I never do anything by halves!! When I’m blogographing (Photographing for my blog; you’re welcome to use this word, btw) I either obsessively document every.little.thing. OR I forget altogether! June 10th was an obsessive day.
These are all from Sweeter Sweatin, so no need to talk about them again.
Another annoying cord, that I just want gone, but Sweet Friend won’t oblige me. {pout, pout} It hurt when I’d accidentally step on it!
So, I just pushed it back behind the filing cabinet, I think. [Checking] Nope, under the bottom left black shelf.
Obviously I was determined to eat healthy that day!! Behold the salad!!
I was emptying that random box, partly onto my bedside table. The old, probably more than 5 years old, party horns left the building. Accompanied by the linen napkin. We aren’t linen napkin people, much as I want us to be. Just not. Disposed of the candles, because I haven’t needed them in the past 4 years. And was too scared to burn them in the trailers, even if I had!
I don’t think I had previously written about any of that.
Kept all 3 pix, cuz my girls. Threw away the hideous frame, that I’ve always hated.
Threw away the Allen wrenches. Ikea has plenty more, right?? Put the other tools in the laundry room, the knife in the kitchen, duh! Comb went to the bathroom, not that anybody in this house needs it! But, never know, one of us ladies might get a wild hair, and grow some!
Pure trash!
This is probably where I need to talk about the one I let get away. When I was going thru old pix, and cards, etc, I came across a little card. It was house shaped!! And was a cute cottage, with roses, etc. I thought, “Awww! That’s really cute!” Then cavalierly tossed it aside. But I can’t remember if I tossed it the #13 file, or back into the keep box. Later, when I was still struggling to find an icon for the 8 house, it hit me- I had had the perfect icon in my hand!! ARGH!! And I haven’t had time, ok, the will to live, to go back and try to find it. Because if I DID throw it away, I’m gonna beat myself up some more!!
But what if I DIDN’T throw it away, you ask?? Then, I’ll be thrilled, go back and add it to all the 8 house posts, and STILL beat myself up, cuz I waited sooo long! So, either way, I’m gonna get a beating, so I’m trying to delay that as long as possible! Do ya blame me????
The 8 house posts:
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
#11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20
Whew! This is my longest series yet!! And still not done!
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Busted Bags
We have sooo many bags in this house!! I thought I’d de-cluttered bags before I moved here. But, all I can find is references to shopping bags, not purging them. So, we still have a ton of bags. Well, they’re light, so maybe not a ton, a half a ton???
Anyway, I don’t even know if I can find all the shopping bags, and other assorted bags we own. But today, I finally decided enough on 2 bags, that were busted.
ENOUGH! I say!
They’re not even shopping bags, but definitely busted.
First one had PP’s blankie, and sheet from day care in it. PPJr oh so helpfully unpacked it, then put it on her shoulder, and toted it around.
So very pretty at first glance!!
But when I actually focused on it…
- Not a good sign!!
She was not gonna be carrying it around very long!
So, I did the compassionate thing, and laid it to rest. (After a long pitched battle, to wrest it from the baby’s hands!! She was determined to love it to the end!! No pix, or video, thankfully!! It got really ugly there at the last!)
Since one bag was scheduled for burial, I decided to go ahead and grab the diaper bag, that was busted, and make it a two-fer.
(We were already using the newer one…. just letting the old one hang around for….????)
Yeah, that left a mark.
Definitely past its prime!!
The mass grave.
Moment of silence please, for all their years of service.
2 more items down!! This house will be empty in no time, at this rate!! 😉
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Rolls’ Roles
I mean teepee rolls, of course! And the many roles they can play in our lives.
Pig pen:
Unhappily, the rest of the pig didn’t survive the raid of the 2 little Indian girls.
Now I can de-clutter the poor little pig’s head. OR- I can make hog’s head cheese! Anybody up for that one?? Of course, it might taste a little rubbery…..
Giraffe hobble:
- Now he ain’t going nowhere any time soon!! I’ve got him hobbled good!!
(At least we will pretend so!)
Animal Corral:
Boy, Goggling "animal corral made from tp roll" sure saved me a lot of time! It brought up this, and the heart Stamper, AND the Doll crowns!!
This is not exactly what I had in mind, but it’s so cute, I’m going with it!! Pinterest
Doll crown:
Bracelet:
Bracelets that might fit PPJr!! LearnCreateLove
Ring for me:
I have very plain taste in jewelry.
Stamper- heart shape on paper:
Not my baby. Why bother going to all the work of making something, when you can just look on Pinterest for an image??
Lazy woman’s way to craft!!
Cord keeper: Tame Cords
“Keep extension cords, Christmas lights and electronic adapters tidy and tangle-free when there not in use by winding them up and slipping them inside of a toilet paper roll. You can even make a note on the roll to remind you what the wire is for.”
This site will give you a wealth of other uses. I’m only listing the ones I thought of myself!
I was hoping for a visual here…. Found one!! (You can find literally anything you want to on Google, right??)
OurThriftyIdeas.com These are even pretty!
Christmas craft angel:
Not mine!! This is from : LearnCreateLove.com
I had all these grand plans, of staging these pix, with the girls…. But I’m tired!! And Google and Pinterest just sing their siren calls constantly!!
3 outta 9 ain’t bad! To mis-quote Meatloaf.
Update: My friend Patience, of Pressing Patience, sent me this:
Thanks, P!
And of course, I HAD to add it!!
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Failed Filing
The 8 house series:
Well, after weeding for an hour- ish, okay, half an hour, I was tired!! No more weeding for me! The next day, after lunch, I thought (very briefly!) about doing more, but my back was still aching, so an inside, sitting down job it is!
Today’s dreaded chore eagerly awaited pleasure: the failed filing cabinet.
Hmmmmm, sure does feel like deja-vue, with this filing thing. Do you feel it too, or is it just me??
At first glance:
Drawer full o’ junk.
All pulled out, after already hand shredding a lot of old receipts, because I was looking for my Beall’s account number. So, of course I had to pull out nearly every paper way back there, cuz it was almost on the bottom, at the very back. While they were all out, I just ruthlessly began ripping into ’em.
And 1 tossed insurance formulary. Such an important unnecessary book!!
I need this so much! NOT!!
This is also not needed:
Rules from my last place. Haha, I don’t have to listen to you anymore!!
On the other hand, I need this one VERY much!!
2 years ago taxes. Yep, need those!
Lookee here, I DO have a camera!! This surprises me every time I see it! I always forget!
A camera!
Now, I gotta get down to the nitty- gritty, dig in, and get this failed filing system straightened out, for the 95th time. sigh. Is it too much to ask of myself to actually file stuff, instead of just shove it in the drawer??
Apparently so!
Here we go…..
Christmas cards to Mama, rip up old receipts, papers I no longer need, pile stuff I need to file over here, coloring pages for PP do NOT need to be in my filing cabinet!! Removed! Pix don’t belong here….
Man, I sure had a lotta junk crammed in there! And that’s just the top drawer! For right now, I’m pretending the bottom drawer doesn’t even exist!
It’s 6:43 pm, and I’m starving!! Dinner time!!
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Sweeter Sweatin’
The 8 house series:
De-Clutter, De-claim, De-cline
De-clutter, De-claim, De-cline, De-clusion
Sweeter Sweatin’
This is the second hand account of the second time, working in my sweatshop widdle woom. Where the sweatin’ is always sweeter, when it directly benefits me!!
Now, if I can only cast my mind back, to remember what I did! (More than 2 weeks have passed, and I’ve worked on other things. Why don’t I write things in the order I do them??? Because that would be too logical??)
Before Pic, for this go round.
Filing cabinet fiasco.
As Dana, (Nony), says, some clutter is “Procrasticlutter”, delayed decisions. The 2 black boxes, and the 2 cardboard boxes would be the illustration beside that word, in her dictionary!
The cardboard boxes are full of Verizon equipment, that I’ve been meaning to return. Since before I left XH. 4 years ago, on July 1st. So yeah, procrastination, at which I am a pro!
But, I can’t just get rid of it! I have to return it!! Cause they already put it into collections, and its on my credit report, and everything!! But, its been 4 years, and you haven’t done it yet. But, I’m gonna!! Are ya really?? Cuz I call bull hockey!
DD1 put it into perspective for me. “Mama, you already have the ding on your credit. Verizon has already written it off. They don’t want back 5 year old equipment. Dump it already!”
So I did. Finally freedom!! No more nagging sense of “Gotta do it”!! Whew! Really did give me some mental relief!!
Whittling it down to size!!
And the 2 black boxes??? They are Dish boxes, from the former owner, of my former trailer. Yeah, I moved 2 heavy pieces of electronic clutter, that weren’t even mine.
What in the world??
Yep, so I trashed ’em without a single qualm! Along with the sparkly purple (broken) gift bag, squooshed behind there.
So much empty space!! Nice!! Now to take care of the other piddlin junks up there.
The de-tangler spray and bristly brush went on top of the girls’ dresser, within easy reach of PP, for after her bath. Returned the little white drawers to DD1’s custody. And so on, and so on.
Ahhhh! Clean, empty space! So much easier to breathe! But, it does look kinda bare…
That looks better!!
But, I think it still needs something…..
Aha! That’s it!! Perfect!
The glass jar was a birthday gift, from Cindy D. Hey girl, hey!!
It look so gorgeous now!! I stare at it, just to enjoy a purdy piece of calm!!
But, it takes vigilance to maintain the clean look! I want it to stay pretty, and I’m the only one who lives in this room, and yet I’m constantly having to declutter the same little spot! What’s up with that?? But the effort required to keep it clutter free, is so worthwhile!!
Now, if I only I could do something about this….
This makes me blue!!
I asked Sweet Friend to just cut it off. He refused. The nerve! He said “I don’t know where it goes, and you’re just renting this house, in case you forgot.”
Oh, that makes a difference??? Who knew!
Maybe I can paint it white???? Try to shove it all the way back up thru the hole in the ceiling?? Cut it off myself??? Try to ignore it???
Sigh. There’s always something.
Anyway, the sweatin’ was all the sweeter, for the sense of serenity, and the piece of prettiness, that I ended up with.
I love my daughter!! As I was finishing writing this, she came in, and I complained about her daddy not removing it. She promptly climbed up on a stool, and….
Voila!! Cord be gone!! (Almost)
Blue bugger banished!!
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