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October 19, 2008

More spring cleaning? What's come over me?

Friday and Saturday I suddenly felt an urge to do some more rearranging, sorting and cleaning. So I took down our bedroom curtains and gave them a quick wash in bathtub (we've been in this house 5.5yrs and I've never thought to do that before lol). I repinned the blockout fabric on the back and our room is nice and dark now since it gets direct fullmoon light which I find really disturbs my sleep for a few days.

I then found more cobwebs to get rid of!

I decluttered one of my kitchen cupboards - how many platters does one need? Two have been moved on out and that leaves two.

Danielle's clothing has been gone through again and some has gone off for our playcentre garage sale and the stained stuff has gone into the recycling clothing bin for rags.

I weeded the garden alongside the path leading to the front door and my front herb garden.

I sorted out my bathroom cabinet and ditched a few old bottles of unused items.

Completely cleaned my grubby laundry!

Wiped off smear marks from the bedroom and hallway walls (whitish walls...) and the inside of the windows.

I advertised on Freecycle for anyone to come and collect the dozens of self-seeded pumpkin seedlings from my garden before they become compost!

OK, so that feels good. Maybe I'm compensating elsewhere because my garden doesn't need me at the moment (well, I do need to get some stakes in the ground still for the tomatoes and beans I guess which will be tomorrow's job) and I am in-between crafting or preserving.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think few things bring me as much satisfaction as decluttering. Good for you.

Sandra said...

Sure you're not pregnant Nikki?!! Bet your house feels especially lovely now.

I don't understand a garden not needing you. You mean not everyone just uses the time to start planning and/or making either more compost or more edible garden?

Nik said...

DA - yeah I find it becomes a bit addictive decluttering but find it so hard these days to get a good fix since I'm pretty much down to the bare bones!

Sandra, lol. I still think you must enjoy gardening a bit more than me. My grass area has been converted (approx 150m2) with about 80m2 made into useable garden and the rest in borders or unusable, so no more garden to plan and develop and I've pretty much got all that I want to have (but probably do need to think about raising the next lot of seedlings to pop in once this lot is ready for harvesting). compost, meh, my style of compost is just my two green bins on the go and very lazy with it hehe. I admire your additives and work that you put in. LOL, definitely not pregnant!

Sandra said...

80m2 is a pretty good size. How are you getting on with no borders to your beds? I guess that the chooks sort it out for you when you move the tractor? I've got logs around mine (and raised a bit) and this mostly keeps out lawn weeds but also requires hand cutting.

Nik said...

yep, would definitely be tidier and nicer if I had borders, but would make things trickier with the chicken tractor. I keep on top of the borders probably once a month and just handpull the strays from taking over too much. I do suspect over time the bed sizes have shrunk a bit though! lol

Johanna Knox said...

Sheesh you guys are amazing! (Here I am finding it hard enough work to garden about 10m2 !!!