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Tag Archives: Cleaning
Day 284: I Can’t Put Things Away in Their Places Right Now… But That’s Fine
I’ve waited years to be able to put everything in its place and this is the year that I’m going to be able to do that; however, not right now as we have work being done in a few key … Continue reading →
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Day 283: More Plastering, More Cleaning and Lots of Dust!
As I sat down to write this at 10.30pm, I realised that I hadn’t relaxed all day. It was a full day of work including a long zoom call. The plasterer was also here for over 9 hours. Firstly he … Continue reading →
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Day 276: Putting Old Bookshelves to Good Use
It has rained all day today (all to do with Storm Alex apparently) and I had to do two trips to the school and back – the second one was because my daughter couldn’t find her bus pass. Anyway, I … Continue reading →
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Day 275: What’s Behind the Door?
I’m not quite sure why I have left the task of ‘clearing behind doors’ for so long. The one I wanted to focus on today was the bookshelf in the spare room. As my husband is working in there at … Continue reading →
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Day 269: Moving My Desk, Fish and Chips and a Family Evening
I spent ages in the car doing the school run this morning due to traffic jams and rain, and then I had a full day at work. Late morning the sun came out and warmed up the conservatory which meant … Continue reading →
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Day 260: Busy Doing Nothing Before a Few Hours of Housework and Maintenance
This morning after taking the girls to school, I settled down for some me time. I lit a candle, got myself a cup of hot water with a slice of lemon, and set my alarm for 24 minutes. During my … Continue reading →
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Tagged Cleaning, clutter, decluttering, organising, routines, tidying, worklife balance
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Day 240: Sketching, Clearing Space and Working on Habits
My daughter joined me in the conservatory this morning during my quiet time. I had spa music playing and she said that the atmosphere was really nice. She seemed to want to chat about this and that so I went … Continue reading →
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Tagged Cleaning, clutter, decluttering, organised, recycling, sketching, tidying, worklife balance
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Day 238: Focusing on Decluttering the Wardrobes One Step at a Time
After carving out the usual time to myself this morning, I carried on listening to Mel Robbins audible book Take Control of Your Life. She has a no nonsense approach and I needed that today. I just had to jot … Continue reading →
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Tagged Cleaning, clutter, decluttering, Mel Robbinsorganising, recycling, tidying, worklife balance
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Day 232: It Took Me Less Than 3 Minutes to Clean a Vacuum Cleaner Roller Brush
Being my morning off, I caught up with some housework. As I was vacuuming the lounge, I noticed that the cleaner wasn’t picking up very well. On checking the brush roll today it had soooo much long hair wrapped around … Continue reading →
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Day 225: Making a Plan to Get Things Done and Sticking to it, and a Muti-coloured Manicure
Today I have created a decluttering project list that will move me forward a few notches on my 2020 challenge. I mean, I’ve only got 141 days to go so I need to make sure that I stay focused! I … Continue reading →
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Tagged beauty, Cleaning, clutter, decluttering, manicure, organised, planning, recycling, tidying, worklife balance
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