Late Spring Cleaning
Aug. 10th, 2021 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glitch25So something else bringing some level of joy and satisfaction has been a renewed interest to finish the unpacking and organization of some of the household spaces.
In a section closest to my bedroom and S' bedroom is an open space that has a small piano that we inherited with the house. It is not in tune, and not particularly nice or interesting to play, so we got permission from the house-owner to see it out the door. But the space has been a stack of boxes since we moved in, so the goal in the last few weeks has been to un-earth the piano so that we can get a hauler to remove it, and then to reclaim the space. It is a great space to make a reading/relaxing space with a chaise and a reading lamp. We got a couple of shelves and have finally unpacked most of the books, so those are there in the space for us as well. We made good progress in the last week or so, and are now at a point we can start pricing furniture. :-)
Our housemate L has also been afflicted by the same bug and has been going through the kitchen boxes that had not yet been unpacked and sorting through and in some cases building boxes to send out to Goodwill. Her progress has been marvelous and the space looks fantastic and much more functional.
I am not a neat person by nature, and I find myself in a spot where while clutter affects me emotionally, I don't always have the motivation or the habit-building to do the things in my life to minimize the clutter. So it is a daily battle and sometimes an overwhelming one. We do our best to keep spaces usable, though corners and horizontal surfaces are ripe for being taken over. So it feels very good to expend energy towards making things look better and taking care of stuff that has piled up or is otherwise impeding our ability to do more with our spaces. Always worth the effort and the rewards are tangible and visible.
In a section closest to my bedroom and S' bedroom is an open space that has a small piano that we inherited with the house. It is not in tune, and not particularly nice or interesting to play, so we got permission from the house-owner to see it out the door. But the space has been a stack of boxes since we moved in, so the goal in the last few weeks has been to un-earth the piano so that we can get a hauler to remove it, and then to reclaim the space. It is a great space to make a reading/relaxing space with a chaise and a reading lamp. We got a couple of shelves and have finally unpacked most of the books, so those are there in the space for us as well. We made good progress in the last week or so, and are now at a point we can start pricing furniture. :-)
Our housemate L has also been afflicted by the same bug and has been going through the kitchen boxes that had not yet been unpacked and sorting through and in some cases building boxes to send out to Goodwill. Her progress has been marvelous and the space looks fantastic and much more functional.
I am not a neat person by nature, and I find myself in a spot where while clutter affects me emotionally, I don't always have the motivation or the habit-building to do the things in my life to minimize the clutter. So it is a daily battle and sometimes an overwhelming one. We do our best to keep spaces usable, though corners and horizontal surfaces are ripe for being taken over. So it feels very good to expend energy towards making things look better and taking care of stuff that has piled up or is otherwise impeding our ability to do more with our spaces. Always worth the effort and the rewards are tangible and visible.
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Date: 2021-08-10 10:54 pm (UTC)And it becomes easier to maintain when you get there.
Unfortunately, for me, it was a process of decades. *wince* I am not tidy by nature, either.
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Date: 2021-08-13 03:18 am (UTC)