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Post by jan on Mar 6, 2013 8:55:36 GMT
;D aaaah you going soft L.B. de-cluttering I can do think thats the answer kathymel - live in a small space - I used to be well tidy in my tent when we went camping. darling daughter seems to be turning over a new leaf at mo there may be a (slight chance) she's becoming a fly baby she sorted her room last night and has dumped huge pile of clothes that she doesn't want on the landing - and made the excuse that she's just trying to help by giving me 27 things to dump (she's ace on technicalities!) I've let her off as she's got her first day work experience at a nursery today and got herself up and ready (on time) this morning got her a cab to make sure - then forgot the address, lost the letter with address so while driver searching up and down very long road i'm busy trying find place on net and then he had come back as forgot to give her the money and thats us when we're organized the joys of living with a.d.h.d ;D off to 27/27 can't lose my dame title as well
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 6, 2013 13:05:58 GMT
Sorry kathymel only just saw ur last post. If you can still do 27 27 (ahem-stones ) then you don't need to do anything else. If not then its about 6 comments back. X
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 6, 2013 21:09:05 GMT
Done! Partly cause already decluttered the cupboard when 27/27 ing but nevertheless 2 pts ;-)
Kathymel, have you vanished from the challenge now you are in a respectable abode?
Janev was it just a symptom of your illness that you did so well last week? Ahhh dear don't you worry your cluttered head about it. You don't really need a living room anyway ;D xxx
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Post by claudhopper on Mar 6, 2013 21:24:21 GMT
What a great and positive idea for a thread. What are your scores? Can I join in?
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 6, 2013 23:26:51 GMT
Claudhopper - more the merrier, will have to work out scores tomorrow cause lost count but you start off by decluttering, which means every day you have to bin 27 things and charity shop or give away another 27 getting the give away stuff out of you home within 7 days ( dont look in the bags or you'll end up taking stuff back out ). You just stick to this bit until you can no longer find 27/27. 1pt everyday for 27 binned and another point everyday for 27 given away and you start off with whatever janev, kathymel and me have added together and divided by 3 if everyone (including you), is happy with that. The whole thing is basically stolen from the flylady website
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Post by jan on Mar 7, 2013 8:07:33 GMT
welcome on board C hopper there's lovely little (add friendly) quote on the bottom of the fly lady web site says; 'You are not behind i don't want you to catch up; i just want you to jump in where you are. o.k.' --- sweet in it - but their not competing on there - we are ;D so bring it on ;D -------saying that i'm slowly losing my supremacy 0 points yesterday - - - but if the task master will allow it ? in true add form i plan to do 54/54 today ;D and make up for yesterday!! (my add was rampant yesterday after the debarcle (can't spell it) of getting darling daughter off to work experience ened up running late for an appointment myself! got a cab - in the cab realised had forgotten letter with address had to ring 118118 for number of place ( £1.60 something a minute as had to be put through cos couldn't remember the number when they told me it!) - got bloody answering machine!! - then met a post man who directed me but forgot what he said and ended up walking about mile down the right road - in the wrong direction I can literaly get lost in a phone box - - - and realised the weird gait i had developed was because i had ODD boots on - (one with a heel, one flat!!) -- - - should of read my own post on the 5 essential - - - (note to self add check feet before leaving house to my list! ) lets see what joys today brings ;D eventually found the place
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Post by Kathymel on Mar 7, 2013 9:17:31 GMT
Hi CH. Welcome to the challenge.
LB, you're becoming fixated on my stones! ;D
Have decided the stones can neither be thrown out nor given to charity. Therefore, I will have to make a ceremonial journey back to the beach they came from and release them back into the wild. However, not going to do this until I have to, i.e. when I decide to move. Ha!
The scary/sad thing about the plan to eventually move onto the boat is that most of my belongings will have to go. If I loaded everything dear to me onto the boat, it would simply settle onto the bottom of the canal. I have over a thousand books that I love and can't imagine parting with. This 27/27 business is fabulous practice for that, but I keep looking round the house and thinking, what am I going to do?! Then I think, but they're just possessions! Yes, but they're my possessions!
Anyway, today I shall do worktops here, containers AND peek into scary cupboard under stairs and see what can be parted with. I think I might find I am able to focus quite well on all this today because I am avoiding doing 3 other things which I really should be doing.
Not quite the point, I know.
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 7, 2013 9:42:29 GMT
yes i am obsessing about your stones, have already decided if they were mine I'd get some kind of cement/glue type thing and make big plant pot type things out of them but liberating them sounds good. Janev - the only way you are getting those 2 pts back is when you have called the scrap man and he has taken all your broken appliances AND you've ebayed your exercise bike!
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Post by jan on Mar 7, 2013 10:22:14 GMT
(for real this time ) - - -thats not fair!! Otherwise kathymel has to get rid of her stones before any more points - - - back me up here someone??? only saying that cos your running scared that i'm back on form ;D which i am 54 items binned ;D 54 items given away ;D Well in trusted trolley by the door (which needs new name as is starting to collapse! ------- and its only 10.18 am god i'm good filthy kitchen here i come p,s. its not an exercise bike - its a treadmill Have you got memory problems or something?? ;D ;D
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Post by jan on Mar 7, 2013 10:26:15 GMT
;D kathymel if i was you i'd have a few bevvie's and nick a dumper truck from the nearest building site on way home from pub - that'l sort the stones ;D ;D (i can't do that with my heavy item as am an alki so don't drink)
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 7, 2013 13:24:06 GMT
Janev - sod the kitchen, sell the kitchen and call the scrap an for your dead appliances! As I am such a lovely person you can have double points for each one of the above you do today but if they are not done by sat eve you loose 2/4 points. xxx ha ha ha ;D
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 7, 2013 15:06:18 GMT
Damn it, am feeling guilty about twisting your arm about above, so the things I have been quietly putting off are, ebay ing some foul sowerby glass thing, a pool table and cues and some shitty radio controlled camera thing There's something else but at mo I honestly can't remember what it is. Sooo I will apply above rule to myself and 4ebay things Grrrrrr. 0.5pts either way.
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Post by Kathymel on Mar 7, 2013 16:37:01 GMT
I've had a productive day and I still have all my stones!
Hurrah!
I managed 54 in the bin and 27 to charity + a bag that has been sat in the hall for months waiting to go. All are now in my car. Unfortunately, it's getting a bit crowded in there now, because all of last week's stuff is still there, too, along with all of the recycling that I managed to sort out last week.
Have decided to create a garden feature with my stones when it gets warmer.
How's everyone else done? CH, did you start?
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Post by claudhopper on Mar 7, 2013 18:38:12 GMT
so what's a 'thing'?
I threw out over 30 old bits of correspondence today when I went through an old folder of paper
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Post by jan on Mar 7, 2013 21:49:46 GMT
a 'thing' is a single item ie piece of rubbish, paper, someting that goes in the recycling bin or basically anything you don't need thats not in good enough condition to give away but if like bunch sweet wrappers then that counts as 1 thing but piece of paper could be 1 thing - get it? L.B. - Who told you you're a lovely person?? ;D ;D I think we need the moderator in here !! - - - i'm being discriminated against !! (note to moderator : she knows i can't do maths ) ----- and can't get my double points cos scrap man not open by time i came in and saw post - - - - that only leaves tomorrow cos saturday is rugby day (for real this week) and i'm out working all day tomorrow How can i secure my supremacy under these unfair conditions?? P.S. kitchen nearly finished with (very) little help from darling daughter who by the way has been in a coma all day after 1 shift in the world of work!!! and didn't make it to college today or even out of bed till 5(pm) !!! and in the (constant words) of darling daughter - Que whiney voice) ------iv'e got adhd your supposed to use a carrot not a stick !!! p.s AND I'VE ALREADY DONE TOMORROWS 27/27 AS WELL AS THE 54/54 DONE THIS MORNING!!! i know i'm welsh - but what more can a merched do in one day!!! ;D
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 7, 2013 22:00:14 GMT
God ebayed two of them :-( done kitchen cupboards :-( :-(.
Sorry knackered, will be more communicative tomorrow.
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 7, 2013 22:01:06 GMT
Should have a comma there, it wasn't god it was me that did it!
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Post by jan on Mar 7, 2013 22:36:46 GMT
thats a relief !!! thought you was getting 'divine intervention' then and thats not fair!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Kathymel on Mar 7, 2013 23:32:08 GMT
Should have a comma there, it wasn't god it was me that did it! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by jan on Mar 8, 2013 6:19:12 GMT
kathymel (love the picture of ' your stones' have you been together long? ;D
(how do you get a picture onto the post?)
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Post by Kathymel on Mar 8, 2013 8:33:16 GMT
Ha ha. Not so long that we'll be announcing our engagement in the press any time soon, Janev. This is how I did it. You upload a photo onto an online hosting service (that pic was already on Photobucket, can't for the life of me remember why). Under each pic on there they give you several codes. You copy the second one, 'Direct link'. Then, on here, open your profile page, click 'Modify profile' and paste the link into the box 'Avatar URL'. If it looks too small, you can adjust the size in the two boxes underneath up to 100 x 100. What are you tackling today? x
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Post by jan on Mar 8, 2013 15:02:43 GMT
oh forget it , that's much too technical and complex for me - couldn't even finish reading it! thanks anyway xx i have done todays 27/27 yesterday and tomorrows 27/27 today {if you see what i mean ;D today went to work and then took like a million bags to the charity shop - about 2 more sink fulls of dishes to do (and one sink full of mouldy cups that nearly walked downstairs on their own) from darling daughters room!! which am keeping as present for her when she gets in ;D then think got another 2 trips to the launderette - and that'l be me caught up with every thing --- OR might just have little afternoon kip maths is so bad can't work out if i'm still winning oh and have rung the scrap man : L.B. HE'S COMING ON TUESDAY so hands off my points just got work out how to unplumb the washing machine and dish washer now shame you don't live nearer kathy mel - i bet you know how to do it
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Post by claudhopper on Mar 8, 2013 18:53:49 GMT
I haven't thrown out anything today. But I did go through another pile and threw out some papers I didn't need (about 5).
Well done you lot. Have you really got so much stuff that you can keep on chucking stuff out? I got rid of loads of books a year or so ago - a minor miracle so there's less to get rid of.
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Post by jan on Mar 8, 2013 19:14:26 GMT
your obviously not a hoarder then - lucky you i'l be getting deperate on sunday for things to give away (unless darling daughter comes up with some goods!) but still got approx 2 maybe 300 news papers to bin (its so hard chucking papers out - all the knowledge i will never remember/know) god i need a life eh! --- but want to keep 27/27 ing because after that L.B will be giving me cleaning duties
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Post by jan on Mar 8, 2013 19:17:24 GMT
P.S. he don't like mondays (even when i explained its important for my double points!!! ) some people eh! what they like
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Post by Kathymel on Mar 8, 2013 22:56:33 GMT
Evening all! Done my 27/27 and finally got all the charity bags to the shop. My car is riding about 2" higher on it's suspension, now. Also cleaned the boot shelves. Do I get extra points for doing more tasks? I actually remembered to buy ink for my printer today, so I've run out of excuses for avoiding the paperwork that this has proved such a great distraction from. Well done for ringing the scrapman, Janev. I'm sure he'll be happy to disconnect the machines for you. I think we should reduce the value of your newspapers so you have to throw out 270 to get 1 point. ;D
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Post by li0nberries on Mar 9, 2013 9:13:47 GMT
Oh my god. I get the newspapers as much as the stones! You lot chucking stuff is killing me! Claudhopper - how crammed is your place? Are there piles everywhere etc? Have you been through your clothes and shoes? ;D Have you checked that you have no overflowing cupboards in any room? If you don't, then you get to join me on cleaning duties you lucky, lucky man ! Pick one from this list and another tomorrow www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missionsAnd one today and tomorrow from these www.flylady.net/d/zones/detailed-cleaning-zone-3/And have just realised I've been doing wrong room all wheel bollocks, must have skipped back to far or something , either way if janev's getting those double points I'm keeping mine for doing my kitchen :-) Kathymel you can have more points, if you do the cleaning things on the list :-) but only for a week, because you have stones and a boat . Being seriously though was thinking your tasks might be better more tailored to where you are at the moment? Or at least find something more positive for you about decluttering and cleaning, cause we're doing it to make where we live a more stress free place, and your doing it cause you want to leave the place, which won't give you as much satisfaction . If you think of a better way for you or anyone else has any ideas for kathymel. Can they post them please. Just so you know kathymel, don't bother posting your first three ideas for points cause the answer will be NO!!! You r not getting points for sleeping, thinking about doing stuff or anything similar ;D xxx
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Post by Kathymel on Mar 9, 2013 9:31:45 GMT
I'm not leaving here for at least another four years because Genghis still has that long at school here, so I am going for stress-free, rather than moving. Also, the moving idea is still only an idea. I may stay in this house until I die, for all I know. However, thinking about moving does make me realise how much surplus stuff I have that I don't need. The stones are off the menu. They are my ornaments so, unless you are going to throw out all your ornaments before you can earn more points, I'd put them out of your mind, LB. Not sure what I shall do today, yet. The cupboard under the stairs still stands uninvestigated and there's a shed out the back that I haven't seen the back of (or indeed, the floor, sides and middle of) for many years. Decision, decisions ...
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Post by jan on Mar 9, 2013 10:54:08 GMT
( 'ornaments' - you are joking aren't you? i have no free shelves surfaces for 'ornaments' !!! - piles of papers - yes picture frames have never got round to putting up - yes screws, hooks, etc - don't know where they come off - yes untold little various pots and containers full of little minute things that i WILL REMEMBER ONE DAY what they belong to/fit in/need for pens (that seem to disappear every time i need one!! candles of all shapes and sizes - that i never light!!! candles that i have lit - and are now stuck to surface ---- sounds like you girls got it easy to me c hopper where are you? you out there busy? or you gone for trip down de'nial ?? ;D ooooh we doing well though people eh!! group hug and pats on the back sorry if you hate me for mentioning this kathym - should we be including essay writing on our list of tasks for you I wanna re read all my papers today (as i did my 27/27 yesterday - (so organized i am)) as i've been having nightmares about the 60 or so i dumped without checking earlier this week!!and have just found another few hundred in a box in my bedroom L.B. when you dishing out the points then? aaah i know its hard - just remember the serenity prayer ;D
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Post by Kathymel on Mar 9, 2013 11:36:28 GMT
Janev, I just build new shelves when I run out of space on the ones I've got, well, usually a couple of years after I run out of space. ;D I'm sort of running out of walls now. I find it does make the rooms smaller and easier to heat, though. I find the Pots of Useful Things, grimy, half-used candles and pens that don't work are useful items for filling out the quota of things to throw out every day. I may not be able to release my stones yet, but I did manage to part with a dozen large fishing floats from the floor of my bathroom yesterday, so I am trying! There are at least another dozen in the net that covers the ceiling so still a ways to go, yet. Perhaps you could start reading your news online and cancel the paper version? And, yes, essay writing is something I should be doing from next week and is the thing I find hardest to apply myself to. In the next 7 weeks I have three sign language assignments, one 10 minute presentation and one 3,500 word essay. The things I've been avoiding though are doing my accounts for the housing benefit re-assessment (due Tues) and a job application (due Thurs).
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