It sounds easy - obvious even. But really knowing what you’ve got is a quick way to help you spend less. Through several hard-core bouts of decluttering I’ve discovered a lot of things that I had simply forgotten about. By putting them all together and storing them properly I can see exactly what I’ve got. Through the year things [...]
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‘Spend Less, Save More’ Part 3: Know what you have
Posted in Decluttering, Getting organised, Saving?Spending, Uncategorized on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Update on earlier post
Posted in Decluttering on December 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yup. I feel much better today than I did yesterday and also better this afternoon than I did this morning. Clearly keeping active and getting up earlier is doing something good! I’ll have to give it more than one day to see if this is really the solution to the headches and sickness but so far so [...]
Projects 4 & 5: Bathrooms and bottles
Posted in Decluttering, home improvements on September 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Husband occasionally makes sloe gin. While this is great (and it is), I find that the empty bottles get in the way. They have come to reside on the floor in the kitchen and have been driving me mad as the kitchen is small and space is very limited. We have a very long, deep windowsill in our [...]
Projects 1,2 & 3 of 50: Off to a good start!
Posted in Decluttering, home improvements on September 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I got started yesterday with the ‘50 Home Improvements’ project by organising a funny little corner we have…
…halfway up the stairs. This alcove is a magnet for dust and clutter. All kinds of odds and ends seem to end up here. I often seem to sling things in this corner that need to go upstairs and then [...]
50 Home Improvements
Posted in Decluttering, home improvements on September 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I said I’d set myself a few goals as and when needed. Well, I think it is needed right now. I feel like I am being buried alive by my house. Despite continual decluttering efforts this year (and believe me, there have been many, many sessions), complete crap keeps crawling out of the woodwork. It [...]
Plodding on
Posted in Decluttering, home improvements on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I really didn’t feel like continuing with the bedroom today but I eventually got around to having a go at it. Husband and I managed to put the curtain poles and the curtains back up (though not in the second bedroom – I developed a case of fingers-in-the-ears la la la). I then replaced the [...]
Making space
Posted in Decluttering, tagged Decluttering on July 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Had another go at a bit of decluttering last night in the much feared second bedroom (feared because the room is very small and very cluttered). I have had a couple of goes at it over the last few months; I’ve tidied up all of the paperwork and put it in folders on the bookcase, [...]
Making the most of what you already have
Posted in Decluttering, tagged Decluttering, mending, recycling, reusing on July 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One of my ‘categories’ in the 100 day challenge was ‘Making the most of what I already have’. Doing this plays a big part in the move towards spending less. My recent decluttering bender (still a work in progress) not only made me realise how much stuff I had that I didn’t need or want anymore but also made [...]
Why do we declutter?
Posted in Decluttering, tagged Decluttering on July 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Over the past couple of days I’ve been mulling over why I, and what seems to be a lot of other people, have caught the decluttering bug. Of course, people declutter all of the time. If you move house you are forced to sort through every possession you have as you pack it away (or throw it [...]
Day 97: Minor pension panic
Posted in Decluttering, Saving?Spending on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I remembered my diet today! I weighed myself this morning and it wasn’t quite as bad as I thought. I need to lose 4 pounds to be at a weight I am happy with and another 2 pounds for me to feel really pleased with myself. So 4 pounds is the minimum I’m aiming for but [...]
