Hello friends and fellow bloggers,
This is a continuation of my decluttering and reorganizing efforts.
I'm so happy that at long last I've been getting to little bits of clutter that doesn't seem to have a permanent home. I should throw it all out but that is not like me, ha ha. Instead, I stash it and hold on to it. Now at last I'm going through it, sorting, organizing and disposing of it as needed. I can't tell you how good this makes me feel because these little bits stashed in bags and containers of all kinds is so much visual clutter.
Visual clutter as opposed to hidden clutter, makes me uncomfortable and anxious every time I look it. I don't have hide away places where I can stash everything until I'm ready to deal with it. That's probably a good thing. I want things 'out' so it's easier to access them and organize whenever I have a few minutes here and there. That time is now.
Tuesday and Wednesday I dealt with clutter in the living room and organized the TV cabinet shelves. I've still got too much 'stuff' housed there but I did get rid of a large bag of books and CDs & I will be getting rid of more.
I've got a CD player or two and so I can still listen to them. I have a lot of study materials on them so I've kept those that I want to study soon. Mainly foreign languages and Bible studies.
Does anyone out there still listen to CDs?
I also continue making small decor changes. Although the changes are small they take so much time to research or consider products, order them, assess how they are working and package, return and reorder them as needed. Here are some of the recent changes.
This one is for paper recycling. |
Replaced shopping bags with covered bins for recycling containers and papers. I got the new to me Sterlite bin from a woman in the neighbourhood. Previously I thrifted a covered Ikea bin which I'm using for containers.
Replaced the blue scatter mats (as in the photo above). Every time I look at these mats in the entry way and kitchen I cringe a little because the edges are becoming quite frayed and the white-ish gray colour is looking 'dirty'. I'm loving the lighter, brighter colours in the new mat and I hope they last for a while.
Covered chairs with slipcovers to bring cohesion to 2 different coloured chairs in 2 different styles which I've now put close to one another. First I tried gray slipcovers. They were supposed to be a light gray colour but instead they were quite dark. I returned them for this beige colour which I prefer. The problem is the covers aren't quite long enough to cover the bottom of the chairs. I've ordered another style and I hope they will work better.
I've ordered a different type to see if it will work. |
Replacing old outlet covers with new ones. No amount of washing the grooves made the plate look clean. It's hard to wash the switches. They need to be changed or removed to be washed and dried properly. I figure if I am going to remove them or have them removed, they may as well be replaced. Only a few need the switch mechanism changed but this is actually quite a low priority in the long list of things to do.