Purge yearbooks?? Isn’t that like illegal or something??
http://www.purpleslobinrecovery.com/2017/11/yearbooks-yes/
Go see what I did!
Category Archives: Decluttering
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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Shame Shunned
Yep, you thought I was fresh outta shameful secrets, huh?
Nope!!
This decision has been a long- long- super long time in coming!!
And no, I did not scrabble thru the garbage to retrieve them! Aren’t we proud of me??
Yes, I am- quite!!
Thank you, really!! And I don’t even miss them! What rolls of film????? Shame shunned!! Another decades long weight off my shoulders!
(Haha! I outsmarted you, WP lack of memory storage!!)
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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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Wacky Weed Wacker
Weeds, so many weeds!! Our landlord told us he was only responsible for the lawn.
The flower beds are our responsibility. So, I’ve been trying.
(Plant Play # 8 below, Plotted Plants # 11 below, Delightful Dirt Digging #13 below)
Omie showing PP how to weed. “No sweetie, pull from the bottom! That’s called, picking flowers!”
But apparently, this last guy didn’t know the rules. He got out the weed wacker, and just went wacky, wacking up the weeds in the flower beds!
Weeds wacked out of flower bed.
This flower bed had an actual flowering plant in it- before he arrived!
Where’s my hibiscus?? He killed it!!
He decimated my hibiscus!! Back in July, here it was in full blossom:
So pretty!
(I hope you appreciate this pic!! It took me 30 minutes of searching thru pix on my computer to find it!! I know, I know, just be glad the computer works!! I am!)
Good thing I had photographed when I did!! Proof positive for posterity!
But at least now, I don’t have to worry about weeding anymore! Until the next heavy rain…. next Tuesday, if not before! Well, it turned out to be Irma, on Sunday. I told you it might be before!!
An 8 house post, brought to you by the letter “W”.
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
#11 #12 #13 #14 # 15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20
I promise, all the Irma prep, and aftermath are on their way. Ya know, my cranky new phone. Not complaining! Everything else works so much better on it! Can’t have perfection, now can we???
And John, and Barb: I haven’t forgotten the challenge either. It’s percolating!
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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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Past Purdy
Look at this:
Past Purdy spot
Pitiful. Just how long ago was it, that I posted about my spot ‘o purdy??
Aha! That’s it!! Perfect!
I know it can’t have been that long ago. Oh no, <groan> now I’m going to have to do research. <shudder> A word that is so close a cousin to math, that it gives me the heebie jeebies too.
Groan, it was only June 27. Yes, this year. Amazing how fast clutter accumulates!
So, once I recognized the problem, (That’s the first step, right Gary??), I determined to restore the spot’s former glory.
- Put garbage bag in the can. Naturally after taking out the full one. I even went all out, and took the kitchen trash too- all the way outside to the bin!!
- Replaced the filter in my Brita, put the rest of the box in the pantry. (Where hopefully I will remember to look for it, next time I need it!)
- Filed the blue, and purple polka dotted calendar, along with the bills, and the check! (How in the world did I end up buying an extra $69 money order for last month’s rent?? Well, you know how me and math don’t get along!!)
- Put the glitter glue away in the craft cabinet. I actually have a place for it now!! Yoo hoo!!!
- The little pink box in the back is baggies, so kitchen cabinet. They even have a designated spot, too! I’m on a roll!!
- Unpacked the cardboard package, and put stuff away in bathroom.
- Placed stapler in desk cubby.
- Stashed the 4 magic towels. Just don’t ask me where…..
- Put pink box of new earrings, in donate spot. And they’re already gone!!
- Trashed the $1 microfiber towel, since I’m selling Norwex now. (And then what happens just yesterday?? Barb, from De-cluttering the Stuff, challenged me to do a side by side comparison between a cheap microfiber cloth cleaning job, and a Norwex one! Herp derp! NEVER throw anything away!! No, wait! Wrong lesson! Do get rid of anything not useful, or beautiful. And it only costs a dollar to replace. And it’s only 1 item I’ve regretted getting rid of, out of about 1 million[??]. So, I think I’m on the good side, there!)
And then, Ta-Da!!
Here we are, back to Purdy!!
Yes, it’s the exact same picture. But it looks exactly the same, so why waste my time taking an identical pic??
Another 8 house post, brought to you by the letter P, and the number eleventy.
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Shirley’s Sheets
Well, not really Shirley’s sheets, but Shirley took them. And they’re not really sheets either, more like towels. Well, one of them is an old, raggedy baby blankie. But to a shelter dog, it’ll make their hard bed feel better, so we’re pretending they’re sheets. Got it?? Good, let’s go.
Sis Shirley and me.
Another towel?? Yep, this one was not included in the __31__ count, since I had forgotten it, till I saw this pic.
Shirley volunteers at a no-kill shelter, C.A.R.E. She has a huge heart!! So when I told her I had a towel, and a blankie to give her, she was thrilled!! And she drove all the way over to my house from Apollo Beach to get them! JK!!
Actually, she was coming to DD1’s Norwex party, and I happened to remember them before she left!! Yay!
She also cares for a feral cat colony, at her home. She tirelessly feeds them, then traps as many as she can. Out of her own pocket, she takes them to the vet, to get them healthy, then she spays or neuters them.
What a great idea!! Pinterest.com
Google images. Shirley’s cats would not pose for the camera!
If it sounds like I’m promoting Shirley to try to sell her, NO WAY!! She’s our sister in LOVE, and you can’t have her!! Go get your own!!
Another 8 house post.
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
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Party Prep
DD1 had a party-!
Party prep was on my mind! I didn’t do all the cleaning, just my share.
My contribution to the clean up.
I cleaned the kitchen, including de-cluttering the counter tops some.
Swept, spot mopped.
Look, Ma! Empty sinks!!
- Doubly done!
Swept living room after she cleaned up.
So clear! So clean! So classy!
Swept her room.
Swept my room.
Swept the porch, after she did some de-cluttering.
Dirty:
Clean:
I swept so hard on the porch, I literally snapped off the broom handle, inside the broom head!
Buh-bye broom!
Went thru some boxes.
Scrubbed toilet. No pix, you’re welcome!
Whew! So tired!! Brownie, and Coke time!! (Or mango soda, whatever’s in the fridge.)
More about the actual party later!!
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