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But it's a GOOD pain...
Mar. 27th, 2021 10:28 pmMy body is still mad at me. I have given it some painkillers by way of apology, and we shall see if it forgives me tomorrow.
I got up early again and did some cleaning before the remaining organiser arrived. I cleared out the clutter in the front entrance and hallway, and mopped the floors, and mopped the floor in one of the upstairs bathrooms as well. I also moved all the furniture in my bedroom around in what I hope will prove to be a better/more efficient configuration going forward. Time will tell. For now it feels a bit weird and disorienting to have my bed at a 90 degree angle from its usual orientation, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. I also vacuumed all the accessible carpeting,
Today felt less productive than yesterday, but that's only because the pace was a lot less frenetic and was focused more on organising and putting things together rather than the massive amounts of decluttering that got done yesterday. In reality, today was also super productive. Only one of the organisers came back, but as it turned out that was a good thing, because two of them would have been serious overkill.
We got the guest room 95% cleared out (soon to be KK's room). All that's left in there right now is a folding table, and the box with the papers I need to shred and my shredder. We then moved the furniture and computer peripherals out of what is now the Cat Room (I had already moved the computer itself earlier this morning), and went through the last of the books. In total I think I got rid of about 35% of my books, and I now have enough shelf space to accommodate my entire library, which is awesome. The organiser also helped me rejuvenate my filing system, and I put away the handful of papers I actually kept after yesterday's blitz. There was still an hour left "on the clock" by the time we were done, and so on the spur of the moment we decided to tackle the front closet. I had been sort of avoiding it because it seemed like a huge job, but it was way less terrible than I had assumed: we finished in under 40 minutes and it looks fantastic.
The cats are extremely mad at me, needless to say. I changed things and moved things around without their permission. Everything is terrible, and I am a monster.
I still have a lot of work to do, but the progress is undeniable, and I am feeling very accomplished. Next on the list is actually putting all my books in order, and putting the final touches on my new "home office" set-up. Once I have cleared the garage of all the recycling and garbage bags I generated this week, I will focus on clearing out the garage. Ideally I'd like to clear out 60% of it, possibly up to 75% if I can manage it. I won't be able to clear anything until after this Tuesday, though, and even then I will still have a ton of paper recycling to put to the curb the Tuesday after. So I'm looking at about 10 days before I can really get in there, and if I'm realistic about it, it will be more like two weeks because that feels like a weekend project than an "after work" project. In the meantime, I'm going to focus on reorganising the kitchen. I have already done a small bit of de-cluttering in there, and I want to keep going with that until I have it looking and working the way I want.
What I will have to do in the next week or so is acquire storage solutions in the form of shelves and possibly some bins. I resisted the urge to splurge on organisation porn until such time as I had de-cluttered, because it would have been a waste of money. You can't organise clutter, after all. Now that said clutter is coming under control, though, it's time to put together a system that will work for me. I will update as events warrant, as I haven't completely decided on what I want that system to look like yet.
I'm kind of amused that I'm tackling this massive de-clutter in 2021, a full year after everyone else on the planet did it because they were locked down during a pandemic. I'm not sure what sort of contrarian that makes me, but I am enjoying the dramatic irony. Phnee resists de-cluttering while all the cool kids are doing it, but promptly gets to work as soon as people aren't talking about it anymore.
All right. Tomorrow morning is another early day, as I want to take Peggy out for a frolic before Quaker Meeting, and after that I am heading over to KK's house to help her with more cleaning/de-cluttering as well. Therefore, it is time for bed.
I got up early again and did some cleaning before the remaining organiser arrived. I cleared out the clutter in the front entrance and hallway, and mopped the floors, and mopped the floor in one of the upstairs bathrooms as well. I also moved all the furniture in my bedroom around in what I hope will prove to be a better/more efficient configuration going forward. Time will tell. For now it feels a bit weird and disorienting to have my bed at a 90 degree angle from its usual orientation, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. I also vacuumed all the accessible carpeting,
Today felt less productive than yesterday, but that's only because the pace was a lot less frenetic and was focused more on organising and putting things together rather than the massive amounts of decluttering that got done yesterday. In reality, today was also super productive. Only one of the organisers came back, but as it turned out that was a good thing, because two of them would have been serious overkill.
We got the guest room 95% cleared out (soon to be KK's room). All that's left in there right now is a folding table, and the box with the papers I need to shred and my shredder. We then moved the furniture and computer peripherals out of what is now the Cat Room (I had already moved the computer itself earlier this morning), and went through the last of the books. In total I think I got rid of about 35% of my books, and I now have enough shelf space to accommodate my entire library, which is awesome. The organiser also helped me rejuvenate my filing system, and I put away the handful of papers I actually kept after yesterday's blitz. There was still an hour left "on the clock" by the time we were done, and so on the spur of the moment we decided to tackle the front closet. I had been sort of avoiding it because it seemed like a huge job, but it was way less terrible than I had assumed: we finished in under 40 minutes and it looks fantastic.
The cats are extremely mad at me, needless to say. I changed things and moved things around without their permission. Everything is terrible, and I am a monster.
I still have a lot of work to do, but the progress is undeniable, and I am feeling very accomplished. Next on the list is actually putting all my books in order, and putting the final touches on my new "home office" set-up. Once I have cleared the garage of all the recycling and garbage bags I generated this week, I will focus on clearing out the garage. Ideally I'd like to clear out 60% of it, possibly up to 75% if I can manage it. I won't be able to clear anything until after this Tuesday, though, and even then I will still have a ton of paper recycling to put to the curb the Tuesday after. So I'm looking at about 10 days before I can really get in there, and if I'm realistic about it, it will be more like two weeks because that feels like a weekend project than an "after work" project. In the meantime, I'm going to focus on reorganising the kitchen. I have already done a small bit of de-cluttering in there, and I want to keep going with that until I have it looking and working the way I want.
What I will have to do in the next week or so is acquire storage solutions in the form of shelves and possibly some bins. I resisted the urge to splurge on organisation porn until such time as I had de-cluttered, because it would have been a waste of money. You can't organise clutter, after all. Now that said clutter is coming under control, though, it's time to put together a system that will work for me. I will update as events warrant, as I haven't completely decided on what I want that system to look like yet.
I'm kind of amused that I'm tackling this massive de-clutter in 2021, a full year after everyone else on the planet did it because they were locked down during a pandemic. I'm not sure what sort of contrarian that makes me, but I am enjoying the dramatic irony. Phnee resists de-cluttering while all the cool kids are doing it, but promptly gets to work as soon as people aren't talking about it anymore.
All right. Tomorrow morning is another early day, as I want to take Peggy out for a frolic before Quaker Meeting, and after that I am heading over to KK's house to help her with more cleaning/de-cluttering as well. Therefore, it is time for bed.
