Cindy's Weekly Wisdom In Honor of Tuesday's Mini Mission Imagine your freezer, nice and tidy, not too empty and not too full. Now imagine dumping it all out on the floor, scrambling it around, and shoving the frozen food back in willy-nilly. Whew! That's a mess. Now double the amount of food and really cram it in there. That's what my freezer looked like last year. I decided to do something about it. Just like with any other major decluttering and organizing project, before I began, I got boxes and my label maker. I was ready. I did this cleaning in winter in the garage, so there was no … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
Natural progression decluttering
For those of you who haven't read my earlier posts or have forgotten, natural progression decluttering is where instead of reducing the number of certain items by giving them away you use them until they outlive their usefulness. Once gone do not replace them. There are several ways this can happen depending on the kind of clutter. Wearing out - Things like an over-abundance of socks, underwear, shoes, towels etc are prime targets for this type of decluttering. The key to making this work is to move the items that you are wanting to declutter to the front position in their storage … [Read more...]
Mini Mission Monday 17 Jan 2011
It is that time again - Mini Mission Monday - and I have come up with a new set of mission for this week with a little help from you, my friends in the 365lessthings community. Thank you all for the great feedback you have been sending about you mini mission successes. It spurs me on to know that what I do here is helping others. If you have a good idea for a mini mission like Calico ginger did this week please don't hesitate to tell me about it through my Contact Form Monday -The glove compartment in your car can be a junk collection point. Go now and give it a clean out. Tuesday - … [Read more...]
A complete waste of the worlds natural resources
The product featured here is - in my opinion - a complete waste of natural resources and manpower. Please do not buy one or any other worthless product of this nature. All you really require to crack or separate an egg is an egg! This item is better known as Kitchen Clutter … [Read more...]
Friday’s Favourite Five
It was another big week for comments this week which makes it hard to narrow it down to just five but these are the ones I chose. Sorry if yours didn't make it but it was probably on the short list. Patricia on Letters and Greeting Cards - As I try to clear the clutter in my house and try to live a more minimalist lifestyle...Read more Calico ginger on Mini Mission Monday - Wow, what a great response to the mini missions!...Read more Cindy on 10Jan2011 - A husband story from the Bogard household... Read more Annabelle on Letters and Greeting Cards - Years ago, at a local historical … [Read more...]
The 100 Thing Challenge by Dave Bruno (Review)
"Is prosperity only a material condition? Is there not prosperity of the soul? Outward riches without inward peace, I think we can all agree is a tentative state of wealth." -Dave Bruno Having never actually been a follower of Dave Bruno's Blog, I only had a vague idea what the 100 thing challenge was all about, and in my ignorance I was very sceptical about the concept of paring down to only 100 things. The odd snippets I did come across while reading minimalist blogs gave me the impression that a lot of people were jumping on the band wagon like it was some kind of competition as to how few … [Read more...]
I Can’t Part with It – By Cindy
Cindy’s Weekly Wisdom True confessions time: I can't get rid of part of something. I can get rid of all of it, but not part. What in the heck do I mean? For years, I had a matching coffee and side table set. At some point, I stopped using the side table, but I couldn't part with it. After all, I still had the other piece and was using it. What if I changed things around again and wanted to use it again? Even after years? It could happen. Well maybe a piece of furniture does seem reasonable to keep. After all, I would not have been able to replace the table should I have want it again. But … [Read more...]
Letters and greeting cards
I received this comment from Anne last week... I’ve been following your blog since September which was when I started to declutter my apartment. It’s a slow process with lots of decisions. I have several boxes of letters and greeting cards from friends and family dating back to 1970′s and I have no idea if I should keep them or not. Have you made a post of what to do with letters and greeting cards? My reply was... Hi Anne, letters and greeting cards are a tricky thing for some people. The short answer for me is keep the letters but weed through the greeting cards and only keep … [Read more...]
Mini Mission Monday 10 Jan 2011
It's Monday again and time for another set of mini missions. How did you go with the missions from Saturday and Monday last week? I know that Calico ginger, Susan S and Janetta were having some great success with their attempts to follow all seven and Mrs Green from Myzerowaste.com was also getting in on the act, Lady In a Small Town is even blogging about it and quite a number of you wrote in to say how much you liked the mini missions and are giving them your best shot. Did you do all seven or were there some things you didn't have to do on the list because you have already taken care … [Read more...]
weblog awards 2011
I know I said I wouldn't be posting on the weekends but I just wanted to draw your attention to the 2011 weblog awards. I know my humble little blog with its small number of followers has no hope of winning but it would be nice to be nominated. So if you feel inclined just click on the weblog awards logo above and it will take you to the nomination page. Scroll down and you will find a variety of categories that would be suitable to nominate my blog under. I planned ahead for you and chose the following categories that I thought might suit. Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog Best … [Read more...]