- Plant the pansies. They've been in the front hallway for two weeks (Rich, when I bought them: let's plant these and not have it be weeks before we get to it), and have to go in the ground. Of course this also means weeding the front yard, and then it would be nice if we also mulched the front, too. Oh, and last year, before I got sick, I bought some bulbs and they've been stored in the basement for a year. They might not still be viable, but some might, so it would be good to either plant or trash what's lurking around, reminding me of the failure to plant.
- Take down all the Halloween decorations, and switch to Thanksgiving. There's some outside that require a bit of work, and a bunch scattered throughout the house. It would be good to pack them all neatly in their tubs and store them neatly too, which gets difficult when we've acquired more and they don't actually fit neatly into the space allocated in the basement.
- Do laundry, which is more of a regular chore than decluttering, but it can go on the list, too.
- And now I have to pick one of the big three areas to tackle, and I can't decide. It'll have to be whichever strikes our fancy. The big three, right now, are: the front hallway - there's a ton of paperwork to organize, bleah; the kitchen - a lot of organizing and cleaning to be done, along with moving some pictures and hanging some other new stuff, and I have GOT to organize my recipes, but that is a project in and of itself; and the ever present looming black hole of the basement - toy sorting, cleaning, organization. Since we have to cram the Halloween stuff back down there, it might be a good weekend for the basement, but there's only so much basement stuff I can handle at one time, so we'll see.
- And a fun one, my favorite store is having double dollar coupons, so I have to organize all my coupons and plan for a shopping trip. Yes, as unbelievable as this sounds, grocery shopping is actually kind of fun for me. But my coupons are a mess right now so I need some sorting time.
Check back Sunday for a full report!
2 comments:
Whew, quite the list you have there!
Definitely plant the pansies. And definitely declutter the hallway before your other 2 big projects. I'm not a cleaner, but I try to keep the first room I see when I walk in the house as clean as possible - makes me smile and gives the impression the rest of the house might be as clean! My basement (the last room I tend to get to), is always last on my list and therefore never gets done!
Then definitely go shopping and use all those coupons.
How does shopping correspond with decluttering? Unless you have to declutter/remove one thing for every one thing you bring in or something similar?
I totally agree with Fiona's approach. Pansies first.
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