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And this is where it gets hard. I know Goodwill isn't going to do anything with these, and the only place to put them is in the trash. But it is really hard to throw things like this away, even though they've been collecting dust for years.
I am desperately trying to declutter and tidy our house. Was having a go at the bathroom today and found this, so sent a picture to our family WhatsApp group to see if anyone used it or not so I could dispose of it. Both girls said no and then Lola said she thought that Dad might - he is bald, helpful. I am trying to get rid/recycle/charity bag at least one thing per day.
MIL is coming for five days. We have a tiny house, which means when company comes, I give my study up as a guest room (and I can't really complain about that b/c I am fortunate to even have a room of my own - dh uses part of our master bedroom as his study). My study has been in transition for about three months now, as I'm slowly redoing it. It is not done yet, and I've been living in chaos and mass disorganization (worse than usual) for awhile now. But I couldn't have it like that for MIL. So in addition to cleaning the house, planning menus, buying groceries, and just generally stressing about her visit, I attempted a major organizing and cleaning of my study (which is also my craft space).
I have learned the following:
1 - I have a lot of great projects either on the needles are ready for the needles that are going to be so awesome if I ever get to them.
2 - Judging from the amount of these projects, I'm guessing this will happen around 2011 at the earliest.
3 - I have a ridiculous amount of fabric for someone who currently sews almost none. Half of the fabric I'm not wild about, the other half I am mad for.
4 - Throwing things I don't know what to do with into my closet is a temporary solution at best.
5 - Moving all of that stuff from the closet into a big box that's now on my bedroom floor is probably only a temporary solution as well.
6 - It's possible my number one organization problem is indecision. I can't decide what to do with something, so I end up not dealing with it effectively or at all.
7 - for someone so disorganized and lazy, I can do a pretty bang-up job of cleaning up - once the pressure's really on
This is the main Workstation. It is an Ikea L shaped table. The plastic storage drawers are under the table.
At the far right corner, I have piled up the wire racks that can be hooked to any shelf.
Nashville Professional Organizers, provide home organizing services in order to simplify and declutter your life.
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You may not want to think about it, but bringing back bed bugs from your holiday travels could ruin an otherwise festive holiday season. Yes, I know, one more thing to do during this hectic time of year, but bed bugs in your home can be expensive and wear on your mind and body so deal with it now to keep your sanity later.
Plan on staying at a hotel or other commercial lodging? Keep luggage off the floor and if there is not a raised luggage rack, set your suitcase in the bathtub to keep it off carpeted areas. Before going to sleep, do a quick check along the bed seams for any signs of bed bugs themselves or their droppings or shed skin. Consider traveling with the extra large zip-close storage bags for storing your dirty laundy in your luggage. Wash soiled clothing soon after arriving home or if you will not be able to take care of this immediately, leave the luggage in the garage until you can get to it. If you have clothing that was not worn/clean, you can place in the dryer for 15 minutes on high. The heat will take care of any pests that might have hitched a ride home. Carefully inspect all other items your brought back from traveling before putting them away in your home.
Once you are home, here are some tips for discouraging bed bug infestations.
Do:
Declutter your home as much as possible
Protect your bed mattress and box spring with mattress encasement specific for bed bugs
Vacuum often
check all cracks and crevices around the rooms: mattress and box spring seams, baseboards, furniture and any other areas around the room where bugs can hide.
Wash clothing and linens in hot water and dry on a high setting.
Don’t:
store clothes, shoes and other items under beds unless enclosed in sealed storage bins
forget to check your purse and backpack as well after traveling
bring in second hand items with thoroughly inspecting and cleaning them
assume bed bugs are only in beds
assume one treatment will clear up all bed bug issues. Beg bugs may have been in your home a while and it is not uncommon for it to take more than one visit to find all areas they may be hiding and eliminate them.
Bed bugs are active mainly at night. They feed on exposed bare skin while you are sleeping. Most bed bug bites are relatively painless however one way to tell if they are bed bugs, is they will leave a linear trail of bites. This is due to the fact they do not jump or fly but crawl. You may or may not wake up with itchy welts on your skin and sometimes no marks at all but you will probably see the rusty or reddish spotting or staining they leave behind after feeding overnight.
Most people don’t know bed bugs can live for several months without a blood meal. Bed bugs can travel from mattresses to furniture to other areas around your home. Bed bugs can hide in furniture for a long time until they are near a human host again. This is why it is important to not just treat the mattress but the room as well. If you are removing and replacing the mattress entirely, be sure to encase the mattress before dragging it through the home to take it outside. This is to avoid bed bugs from scattering and infiltrating other areas of your home along the way.
In your mattress, you may see droppings, shed skin or the bed bugs themselves but remember, bed bugs can infest furniture with small dark crevices as well. If you are unsure of what pest you may have, you can save one of the pests you find using clear packing tape attached to an index card for easier identification by your pest control professional.
Remember, no need to throw everything out. Early identification and professional bed bug treatment can save the added cost of replacing beds or furniture.
If you think you may have a bed bug issue, call or contact Bio-Tech Pest Control at 281-296-6022.
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Thanks to Rona.h, she is at the helm of this Bowman 57. This ketch has sailed around the world, and through the Northwest Passage. Currently for sale in La Paz, Mexico for 219k
Some lines, sheets and some standing riggings were removed to simplify the painting and declutter the decks and to open up the skyline.
This Precious Moments colouring book... I've had it since before I was even a teenager yet. Though I didn't colour in it anymore, I managed to keep it and it survived a lot of moves. Now that I've been into colouring again and also trying to declutter a lot in my life, I decided to finally finish the book! It's very nostalgic to colour in it! I'm putting the coloured sheets up on my whiteboard to display for a while and then it'll be gone after. But I thought this was a better way to enjoy the childhood memory than to just store it for years!
For this sheet, I used Rowan's childhood vegan crayons from Melissa & Doug. But after this one I switched to pencil crayons as I like them a lot more.
5 things you should toss this week for quick, easy decluttering.
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Desk, post decluttering. Note that I didn't manage to declutter the cat (though he's done some crash decluttering himself from time to time).
This is a very thrifty/upcycled bag. The only new material used was some thread. The hedgehog was from a pattern that I found in a thrift store magazine. The doily it is stitched on was given to me by a friend, who got it from the thrift store they volunteer at. The buttons were from another friend. The yellow and red fabric was from a friend of a friend, who was moving and had to declutter their craft supplies. I'm very proud of how it turned out.
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With a move to a new building looming in work we've been encouraging people to declutter and shift as much crap as they can from out of their cupboards.
This has yielded some unexpected gems, particularly in the discovery of very old technology.
One such item was this beauty which looks barely used. It's a Sony Mavica FD series digital camera. Guess what the FD stands for? Yes, as well as using those new fangled Sony memory sticks it also accepted 3.5 inch HD floppies into its built in floppy disk drive.
Maybe this tech passed me by, but until I saw this I had no idea such beasts existed...
Lots and lots of it. This is not even all of it. I have so many more boxes to go through! I want to find loving homes for everything. And, yes, I am charging shipping and such. Some stuff here will be tossed in as freebies with other purchases. I'll have a full list and mini site for it all later.
feel free to email declutter@jenncutter.com if there's something you want to make an offer on right now.
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1. 2014_365335 - CP,
4. 2014_365338 - First Bottle of Winter,
5. 2014_365339 - Capsize of a Dream,
6. 2014_365340 - SxPF Championships,
7. 2014_365341 - Here But Not,
9. 2014_365343 - Falling Upwards,
10. 2014_365344 - Conversations in the Dark,
11. 2014_365345 - Must Be Something Going on,
12. 2014_365346 - Vees,
13. 2014_365347 - OBO,
14. 2014_365348 - Peeling Bark,
15. 2014_365349 - Extra Wide Fit,
16. 2014_365350 - Waves,
19. 2014_365353 - Three Shades of Grey,
21. 2014_365355 - Christmas Chilli Jam,
22. 2014_365356 - Get Yer Sprouts,
24. 2014_365358 - Lonely This Christmas,
25. 2014_365359 - To Be Filled,
26. 2014_365360 - Glass Dreams,
27. 2014_365361 - Ready for Battle,
28. 2014_365362 - Back to Chores,
29. 2014_365363 - Morning Call,
Picked up a couple lamps from IKEA. I'm finally startin' to slowly declutter this office. Picked up a Logitech VX Nano mouse as well.
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I bought this Sept 16, 1996. I am selling it on ebay.. to declutter.. I have owned this for a crazy long time.. as weird as crystal pepsi
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This is a very thrifty/upcycled bag. The only new material used was some thread. The hedgehog was from a pattern that I found in a thrift store magazine. The doily it is stitched on was given to me by a friend, who got it from the thrift store they volunteer at. The buttons were from another friend. The yellow and red fabric was from a friend of a friend, who was moving and had to declutter their craft supplies. I'm very proud of how it turned out.
Total throwaway photo -- I didn't use the tripod, didn't adjust lighting, didn't declutter or move tables, etc -- but what say you about including this type of shot in the MLS?
1) Yes, it shows those big-ass windows and makes the house seem roomy!
2) No, OMFG it looks like serial killers will murder you while you watch TV, plus scary red well, plus NO.
The new location for the table which serves as a desk and a dining table. It has leaves that pull out to make it twice the size. Also the bookcase I need to declutter and replace.
ADD & paper clutter seem to go hand in hand and I've been buried under it for a long time. Every time we sit down to eat at the dinner table, we have to push some papers off to one side, or take one pile and put it on top of another pile, or move a pile (or two) from the table to some other place that it will clutter up. No, I'm not proud of this. I hate it. It is very stressful. But every time I try to put some sort of organization in place, it seems to fail. I got cube organizers with fabric bins and that helped A LOT because a lot of the stuff that built up "To File" could just get slipped into a cubbie. It wasn't perfect, but it was a major improvement. The problem is that we just have so much paper coming into the house that really needed to be organized in some logical & safe way (like financial stuff) or the boy's schoolwork (I want to keep samples to document his progress) or artwork that I really want to keep.
I spent a LONG time going through piles today. Lots of scanning. Lots of throwing out. Lots of shredding. I'm not done. Once I've tackled all the visible paper clutter there are those fabric bins and desk drawers and file folders. But damn, it's almost like I can breath again. And that feels really good.
Revisiting one of the locations I scouted last night. One of the oddities of so regularly shooting in this style is that a lot of the clothes and such that are in the shots actually don't show up. The coat that Victoria is wearing in this is, frankly, awesome. Still, gotta love the end result.
Strobist: a 430 in 1/2" grid @ 1/8th camera right, near, about 5 feet away. A second 430 @ 1/16th, bare on the ground camera right, far, to provide some depth and ground texture. Triggered via a 580 set to nul.