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Post by drsarah on May 9, 2020 11:45:39 GMT
#23: Bottom two dresser drawers. Done all my dresser drawers already, so another one down.
#24: Inside of nightstand. My nightstand has three small drawers; I use one for the socks I wear in bed, one for assorted junk, and the third was empty until the other day when I put two spare hairbrushes in it while clearing off the chest-of-drawers top. So only the middle drawer needed clearing out. I moved the hairbands to the drawer with the hairbrushes in, stuck various things my daughter had made to my door where they could be on display instead of stuck in a drawer, threw away or found other places for assorted other things, and grouped the remaining items by category so that the drawer wasn't such a muddle. Much better.
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Post by drsarah on May 13, 2020 18:56:53 GMT
Hey, and that was all the bedroom missions from the list! Another one down.
The Zone 4 missions from this list also included missions for the closet and for the en suite bathroom, which I didn't do because my clothes cupboard was fairly well decluttered and I don't have an en suite, and I'd thoroughly decluttered the main bathroom two months before originally doing these missions so I had no need to substitute that in. Well, in the intervening four years I've decluttered even *more* stuff from my closet and I'm happy with the state of that, but one thing that had got a lot worse instead of better was the counter top in our main bathroom. I knew that really needed doing, so I decided now would be a good time to do it, before moving onto the last zone on the list. Been spending sessions over the last few days working on it; throwing out rubbish, moving things to their correct places, sorting what was left, and giving the whole thing a very thorough clean. Vacuumed some major cobwebs, as well. Absolutely massive improvement and I'm very pleased with it.
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Post by drsarah on May 17, 2020 16:24:12 GMT
Coming down the home stretch, here...
Small problem; don't know what Mission #25 was. I must have deleted the e-mail, and since I've changed computers since then I can't even get the deleted ones back. If anyone is reading this and does happen to have them saved, I'd appreciate knowing what it was just out of curiosity, but for purposes of getting the list done I figured it was best just to do something that needed doing in the living room and call that #25, and I didn't need Flylady to tell me that the tops of the shelving units badly needed doing. So I did those. One of the things on them was a broken laptop from which I'd removed the back so that I could take out the hard disk and copy the stuff on it, and, as I never got round to screwing the back back into place again, it had been sitting there for more than a year being a low-level guilt-emitter. I'm very pleased to have finally got that done and stored it somewhere else until I can take it to the computer shop and get it fixed. Decluttered the other stuff on there and it looks a lot better.
Now, just going to list the last five missions on the list:
#26: DVDs/video games #27: Coffee table #28: Books/magazines/other reading materials #29: TV stand #30: End tables
DVDs: nearly all of them belong to other people in the house. Video games: all of them belong to other people in the house. Books: have decluttered them massively over past five years. Still have more to go, but they're all ones I want to read before they go, and, since I can't do anything with them right now other than pile them up in my room ready to go to the charity shop, I'll leave this one for now. Magazines: place currently clear of medical journals after some ongoing work on my part, and back issues of Radio Times were chucked when I decluttered the tops of the shelving units. TV stand: already impeccable. CDs on the CD shelves, DVDs on the DVD shelves, a place for everything and everything in its place. End table: is the same thing as my coffee table.
Which means I only have one more mission to go (my coffee table/end table) and I'll be done with the list! Yay!
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Post by drsarah on May 31, 2020 19:12:16 GMT
#27: coffee table/#30: end table
Which are, as I said, the same thing in our living room, so this was the last mission. I actually did it a few days ago, but the 'magazines' mission is always a moving target in this house and I wanted to make sure I stayed on top of the incoming ones. Also, some of the pages from the table needed stapling together so that I could put them away, and that meant buying a new stapler since I'd chucked out the broken one. Always something, isn't there?
Well... all done now! I dealt with the things such as bank statements that needed dealing with, threw out the stuff that needed throwing out, put away things that had a place to go, and stapled and filed the pages that needed stapling and filing. Instead of a big messy pile of assorted paperwork, a computer case, and a half-empty box of crackers, that table now contains a grand total of two coasters. A much better look, I think most of us would agree.
So... there we are! Four years after Flylady first posted the missions, and a massive load of related and unrelated decluttering later, I can officially say that I've made it through the list. And that several of the things I did have actually stuck, and even been improved on; my bedroom is unrecognisable from the junk room it was before, the children's room (which is now just my son's room) is also vastly improved, and so is the front porch. It's been a good four years for decluttering.
Missions completed; over and out!
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