Since the process will take years, rather than months, he does not seem to hold anything up. BUT: it still makes me sad. However: I am not british and so I don't feel, that I can give any judgement. I am entitled to an oppinion and I voiced that.
Let's come to the "important" stuff therefore: my life. Of course, my life is mainly important to me and not to you, but since it is vice versa with your life, I'll survive and we all live on happily ever after.
Lately I have been doing some massive KonMari-Style decluttering and now I can almost say, that my flat at least - don't look into my cellar though - is free of stuff, that I don't need. Well, there are still three boxes, a bag and the headboard of my bed (that I screwed off, because it messed with the line of my bed-covering), that have to go to the cellar, but otherwise it is light and relieved. Light in the sense of weight off my soul and more sun in my flat. I love it.
On Tuesday my oldes nephew and his friend were kind enough to schlepp all the unneeded furniture to the curb to be picked up (by appointment) and when I got home from work on Wednesday, it really was all gone. I felt very free and easy.
Since I did my bit of schlepping as well, I was too tired to do much cleaning after the removal and so contented myself with sweeping my rooms. Today however I hoovered and did some wet cleaning as well and so now it looks very loveley everywhere.
So you have first my bed made (without headboard) and then my hall. There is just one piece of furniture now. The rack is for guest coats and such.
There was to the left opposite the small cupboard a bookshelf, to the right of the cupboard was a CD-cupboard, or however you call it. To the left of it where one small cupboard, a sideboard and some small closet for shoes, plus about 8 big sacks of discarded books.
This is my bookshelf now:
And you can see the boxes and part of the bag.
Anyway, as to my bed making, I did sort of stay with the habit-changing system suggested by Leo Babauto and that's how I came to making my bed every morning. Next up will be stretching myself from lying down to touch my tows.
Are those situps? I call them situps for now. Anyway, I will do them. One every morning, until I actually manage to reach my toes. Then I will up them to two.
I also try to get up really early, you already know, that I am not an early riser by nature, but I do sometimes manage to get up early, as I did today. And so I did yesterdays dishes and sorted the wasching, unscrewed the headboard, had breakfast and cleaned and dressed myself (duh) and then I went shopping at about 7 am, because one of the two shops not so far away that I can't walk there, started opening at 7.00 am. I love that. So I got some fruit and some other stuff.
When I was well and safely home, it started to rain very heavily, so I was glad, that I did go so early. It was surprisingly well frequented for such an early time.
The hoovering and other things I did do after 9.00 am, because I didn't want to rush my neighbours out of bed too early. I did however get the washing in by about 8.30 am. We do have a communal washing room in the cellar and there are people living right above that room, so I do not do any washing before 8.00 am.
Since they had their own machine running by then already, there was no worry to wake them up. Part of my washing I put in the washer, the rest I hung up on my balcony. As I did with my woolen socks, that I handwashed for the first time since I got them. I was aware, that it is better for the socks, but I was too lazy. But now that I am free of clutter, I even have time to handwash my woolen socks. Yeah.. :) (Clutter includes clothing)
About 12.00 am I made some pancakes and had an Espresso and an orange for dessert. I am currently re-reading the Madame Chic books by Jennifer L. Scott and she wrote, that at Madame Chic's the best wasn't kept for special moments, so I decided to use my best on a daily basis. This became easier, because I chucked out a lot of obsolete dishes and mostly kept the best.
One of those is an espresso-cup and today I actually used it and didn't just dust it.
Nice, huh?
So that's it for today, thanks for your patience, have a happy weekend!
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