Decluttering today

How come I still have so much to get rid of! 3 bags to Scope today.

 

It feels never ending.  How will I know when I have finished this I wonder.  Can I ever look around my house and say, well, decluttering is done and dusted?

I guess it can only be up to a point.  As stuff creep somehow builds up.  I really do believe I am getting better and not bringing stuff into the house, and yet my little work room seems piled up with bags despite shipping this lot of to the charity shop, also a bag of books to oxfam and 2 boxes of art stuff for a thing I am doing in March sititng in the car waiting to be shipped out to somewhere else in wait for that date.

How does it happen?  And How to ever be 'tidy' (which is the aim for most of this decluttering to be honest)

It feels like wading through mud today.  The uphill battle.  But I shall persist.  I will reach that new level of clarity I will!! Next step is to look through the drawers of my work room and assess the art stuff situation.

This will most definitely be aided by the fact that this work room is shortly going to be transformed into a spare bed room.  Which means that EVERYTHING is coming out.  EVERYTHING.  The drawers the desk the shelves, the woodchip wall paper, the  carpet - everything.  And what goes back in.  That is going to be clean and clear.

I think I need to get brutal on my arse with the decluttering now.  There will not be enough room!  Bring it.

No.  Hang on.  I AM going to define the end of decluttering.

I will look around my house, and see only the useful or the beautiful.  It will be spacious and will be easy and quick to tidy.


I will feel clear and free.  Hang on.  Let me rephrase that.  I feel clear and free.  I feel clear and free.  I feel light.  Spacious.  free. 

xxxx

Today's items so far

A bag of really nice 5-7 yr old boy clothes.  I tried to eBay some but no takers. Am going to let a charity shop sell them. Lovely stuff.  Bye bye. I now have a big 9 yr old chap.  Am also ready to let go of some beautiful dresses.  I will never fit them again however stunning I used to be in them.  I am no longer that young woman!  Here's to the new me.  A cool old lady! Cos is my new friend.  :)  

Space Clearing

I love that today I  space clearing by getting rid of a book called space clearing!  I've read the diet book and found I made up my own 5:2 recipes anyway.  Icarus Deception was so so.  Not a keeper.  Off to Oxfam these will go.  

A friend invited me to a swish next week. So I have a large bag of clothes to take.  And am loving my 333 items Project   Not that I'm doing it super strictly.  Like I have. Punted the items out. But I'm def being super minimal in my outfits.  

Today's decluttering

I went through my drawers and a shelf.  I don't need these things.  They are in the swish bag / recycling or charity bag today.   

Decluttering like a boss.

Am taking part in a 365 days of decluttering project. It's a Facebook thing and a private group. Set up by the lovely Viv Lambert. But I am also trying to declutter the Facebook time from my life and want to blog about it.  I am trying out this app. To see if I can blog from my phone.  And then share to Facebook without me getting all caught up in it.  

Here is today's declutter. From the cutlery drawer.  

 

clearing some space

Its clearing time at Mondo Beyondo.  Its all about creating some space for the magic to happen. Chucking out the old, to make way for the new.  It doesn't matter what it is or how you do it. CLEARING.  feels good.

This morning I went along to the first training session for the People Who Do. It is very cool and very thorough.  Like going through ALL your crap and various to do lists and all the places you store stuff and lists and inboxes of various kinds (bags, car seats, by the phone, the calender in the kitchen, everything.....)

And I have to say I am fired up to sort out the backlog. True to the original title of this blog, I am going to Get Stuff Done. 


And decluttering is definately on my list.  I have a lot of it to do. 

Today a whole LOAD of old magazines went out into the Hanover recycling system.  Basically they are on the street.  People take stuff if you leave it out.  All sorts of things go like that. Yesterday an old iron went.  I actually picked up my new iron from a box on the street, and put my much crappier one out there and someone else obviously thought, hang on an iron I desperately need one of those.... its a good system.

moving it on....forward planning

I have been thinking about what the next steps are.  I have been thinking about my dreams and plans being as how I have been doing Amelia's Journal Your Dreams ecourse.  I am half way through producing some art work journal pages for it.  And its nice to be honing the Dream thing again further on from Mondo Beyondo.  I know I am not the only one who believes that by actively visualising and documenting dreams that you get closer to achieving them.  Hub and I had a 'Next Level' meeting.  Hub likes to name all our plans (e.g. Project Downstairs, ParticiPants, Team Go et al!!) It was majorly good to sit down and to discuss objectives with him.  We have a list of things to do by next Sunday.  Mine are:
1. I have done at least one drawing of H and O (a commission)
2. I have business cards done for my portraiture work (and facepainting)
3. I have bought some painters overalls and painted the wall in the sitting room
4. I have started on the xmas present list (and we have decided on the exact contents of the xmas hampers we are creating)

Me personally.  Because I love a list and there is a LOT of the week to go.
1. I have changed the bank account to lower the monthly fees appropriately
2. I have got the paperwork in order to swap the ISA to a better rate of interest.
3. I have done 5 mins of Yoga each day
4. I have done more work on my Journal my Dreams pages
5. kept a track of spending on food and personally
6. making space for MAGIC to HAPPEN by not eating sugar and spending 5 minutes a day on my own to 'meditate'.  And getting rid of some clutter.  At least one bit. 

This whole process has started me thinking of long term dreams again.  Like I have been thinking a lot about what gifts I want to give my son.  Not as in Christmas presents.  But things like, The Ability to Cook well.  Speaking a foreign language.  That sort of thing.  There are so many things you have to teach your children  -just so that they can survive well in the world.  How do you teach creative thinking, for example. How? exactly? I would love to give him that gift.  And to be able to budget and manage his own accounts.  And confidence.  I want him to have confidence, internal self confidence.... And to see MAGIC in the world.  To see its beauty. 

And then for my own dreams
A Studio. 
Go to ARt SChool
teach art (outside of the box)

stuff is not life

I have just spent the weekend with my good friends, who have just gone bankrupt. Or their business and house is being taken off them by the bank. Whatever that is called. They did a cash bar at their hotel on Saturday night to raise rent money as their bank accounts have been frozen. On Sunday they held a sale to sell as much of their stuff as they could before the house and hotel was taken off them. Again to raise cash for rent money. It was all a sorry sort of affair. I mean they had masses and masses of gorgeous stuff for sale. I bought a lovely Joseph coat (I don't need) and there were chandeliers, and bathroom fittings and vintage furniture, works of art, fridges, designer clothing, a piano..... And they did raise a good deal of the rent money they need to survive til May when they both start working again in Ibiza. It was just the way it was their life, being picked over and sold off, almost as if they had died. We all bought stuff and gave over the asking price so as to help them. But it was just weird. Like a lesson in how you just can't take it all with you. They have been having enormous sales for a while, trying to get rid of stuff and raise some much needed cash. But this was brutal. Today the remaining stuff was being farmed out to friends garages and attics as much as is possible. I helped pack up about 10 boxes of vinyl records. They don't have time to sort out what they want to keep or not...... and it really made me think that we just keep all this stuff we don't need or even want, when push comes to shove, what do you really want to keep in your life? Boxes of maps from places you have been? vinyl records you never play? Books you have read and will never read again? Clothes you wore when you were thin and young and a gal about town. A hat you wore to that wedding? They had to give so much of it to charity. WHich is not a bad thing in itself, there is a lucky charity shop out there today. But I am renewed in my purpose to sell off all the stuff I don't want or need any more. Not because it is likely that the bank will want to repossess my home. At least I hope not. But you know, you never know what might happen. And I am of the opinion that it is better to travel lighter on this earth. I think that my dear friends are now also of that opinion. They are off to live a frugal winter in a little finca in Ibiza. Reading and recuperating after the monstrous stress of the last few years of trying their damndest to save their hotel, house and livelihoods of others from the bank (who are calling in their debts because of the credit catastrophe).