well, the decluttering project is under way. day one and day two of the actual work and not just the list making i tackled the downstairs bathroom, the mudroom and the cupboards in the kitchen. the bathroom was fairly easy, but as you can see it has some cosmetic work to be done. tom and i renovated this bathroom - oh let's say 5 years ago now and it still isn't complete. we aren't very good at the completing of tasks. we always have great ideas and visions of things and start them but they rarely get finished. from here on out we either complete them in their entirety or have someone else do the work for us (probably the better option). tom is a good demolition man but if he can't drive a sledgehammer through it or burn it in the campfire once it is ripped apart, the job has come to an end :)
since i finished working on the bathroom rather quickly i started the mudroom. first step was the closet. since both tom and i have lost a fair amount of weight it was pretty easy to go through all the jackets and get rid of them because most of them didn't fit anymore. above the jackets i threw away almost everything because i haven't looked up there probably since we moved into the house 10 years ago. things just get put up there after being used or when we are cleaning the yard for winter. that would explain the 6 bottles of kid bubbles. and at the back there was a box with led crystal candle sticks, candles and a c.d. which I am pretty sure never belonged to us. I think it may have belonged to the people who lived in the house before us. but bad me, i put the led crystal candle sticks on the hutch cause they are nice - but really? maybe I should send them off in one of my second hand store bags.
day two of the project i took care of the shoe cubbies and what i call the pail - which you can't even see beneath the window-frame mirror for all the clutter. the pail is where seasonal things get thrown. in the winter it is full of hats, gloves and scarves. come summer it is usually flip flops, plastic shovels, bugspray and suntan lotion. and where is the pail now? you ask. well, guilty, i put it in the closet but in my own defense it is really old and i am pretty sure my mom will want it instead of me throwing it away
in the back of the shoe cubbies i found a fish filleting knife that my father in law bought for tom about 6 years ago. it was still in its original package. when i asked him if he wanted it first he said no, then he said yes and to put it with the fishing gear - so for now it sits in the basement with the fishing gear but the basement will be touched with my "cleaning with vengeance" soon enough. what also sits in the basement are tom's rollerblades that i found in the back of the top cubby. those two were originally a no to keeping but he quickly changed his mind to a yes. those will be revisited too
after lunch today (day two) gavin asked if we could do some more on the list. he is having a ball doing this. while cleaning out the shoe cubbies he and his brother both wore their sandals and bike helmets that we found in there.
and so, we put the little man down for his afternoon nap and gavin and i started to take everything out of the cupboards in the kitchen. so what i thought was going to be a relatively short project took almost 8 hours. and because of that i have to leave this post as it is. my body is achy, and i need to get to bed. tomorrow i will upload the before and after pictures from the tupperware cupboard (or plural), the glasses, the plates, the sippy cups and so forth.
good night, until tomorrow
~ simply (tired and worn out) me ~
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