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Moving Forward With Minimalism

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MinimalistMommi · 18/08/2013 17:23

This is a new thread following on from the previous 'm' thread on Good Housekeeping!

All Minimalists or aspiring minimalists welcome!

OP posts:
buildingmycorestrength · 04/09/2013 09:31

Sort of hurrah. I did double square brackets followed by the URL followed by closed square brackets that time, but where do I put the text that I want to show?

ArtemisatBrauron · 04/09/2013 09:47

Name Labels

ArtemisatBrauron · 04/09/2013 09:48

It's website url Name Labels

ArtemisatBrauron · 04/09/2013 09:49

First day at new job today - starting with an INSET at 10.30-5.30!! Nervous! I'm sure more black coffee will help.... Grin

Have cleared out three handbags today (I rotate between a navy one, black one and canvas shopper) and the amount of receipts, tissues etc was Blush

LimeLeaafLizard · 04/09/2013 09:59

Good luck in your new job Artemis!

I use the sticky name labels and they are fab.

Yes, I'm with you fuzzpig on keeping school uniform to 3 of each item (well, jumpers, trousers etc - they need more pants socks and polo shirts). Good luck to your little one for next week. I have two summer borns but my nerves were last year and will be next year!

Now I need to stop faffing around and start the tidying!

iWillDoItInAMinute · 04/09/2013 10:41

eBay question - we have an ELC wooden island kitchen that takes up a lot of space -and drives me crazy as DSs like to use it as a barricade and spread the food/cutlery around- should I wait until closer to Christmas and then list it? we also have a child's bike.

buildingmycorestrength · 04/09/2013 12:56

Thanks Artemis for the Linky tutorial. Thanks Hope new job okay.

Some bags to the chazzer today - hurrah!

fuzzpig · 04/09/2013 17:22

Good luck at work Artemis :)

IWill - they would probably make more nearer to Xmas but I do think lots of people start looking for gifts around now so you may still get a good price. Depends how much you need the cash really! I have some duplo that I am holding onto for a little longer but I might try local facebook groups as it would save the hassle of posting.

I am chuffed today as Dad took a carful of stuff to the tip - bookcase, exercise bike, mattress, old car seats, scooter and trike! And when I was digging stuff out of the cupboard I found a play tunnel I had totally forgotten about so the DCs have been playing with it all afternoon.

delasi · 04/09/2013 17:49

All of your successes and big days are motivating me! Thank you all!

Just dawned on me today that I have 3 weeks until I go back to study Confused I went back to work a couple of months ago after mat. leave and all the big 'returns' have been conveniently staggered (wasn't planned! I do a mish mash of things). However the enormity of next year has just dawned on me. It's a more intense year than the last, and I was on mat. leave for the majority of last year so I had more flexibility. Otoh, I had a newborn and the accompanying tiredness... Oh I just can't tell how much harder it might be!

So, anyway, that gives me 3 weeks to get as much done as humanly possible as I think that this year is going to eat at my time in a big way. And I could really do with a super organised home to both maintain more easily and be more conducive to study. Fewer baby steps, massive leaps for me now. Maybe it's the espresso speaking, but I am now very motivated. Always have worked better when time's run out under pressure Grin

buildingmycorestrength · 05/09/2013 09:17

Did sick today. Soooo many unrealistic plans will have to wait another day. Sad.

buildingmycorestrength · 05/09/2013 09:18

Sorry dd not did. Blush

educatingarti · 05/09/2013 17:44

Hi everyone - just popping in briefly. Dad sadly died late on Tuesday night so having problems de-cluttering my brain atm - probabl

educatingarti · 05/09/2013 17:45

Opps - not sure what went on there - just to say I'm not sure I'll be around so much for the next couple of weeks and decluttering put on hold rather!

fuzzpig · 05/09/2013 18:13

Oh no arti :( I'm so sorry Thanks

See you back here when you're ready, and in the meantime take care and go easy on yourself ((hug)) xx

BirdingWidow · 05/09/2013 18:55

Oh no Arti, I'm really sorry to hear of your loss.

iWillDoItInAMinute · 05/09/2013 19:00

Oh Arti, so very sorry Flowers

As Fuzz said, do take care of yourself xxx

buildingmycorestrength · 05/09/2013 19:25

So sorry, Article. What a sad time. Thanks

ArtemisatBrauron · 05/09/2013 20:10

sorry to hear your sad news Arti Flowers take care. We're all thinking of you x

inthetide · 05/09/2013 20:21

Oh no, Arti. Did your mum get back in time? Thinking if you.

I've just read a fabulous blog post about minimising and realising what is important in life here

TheYamiOfYawn · 05/09/2013 21:18

I'm so sorry, Arti.

delasi · 06/09/2013 00:59

Thanks Arti

JimmyCorkhill · 06/09/2013 09:57

I'm so sorry for your loss Arti Flowers

starfishmummy · 06/09/2013 10:20

Getting back into the swing after the long summer hols. Ds has sn so I don't get much done when he is here and the house is chaos. But had a doorstep chazza collection (and this is a proper one who use it to fill their shop) today and a huge bafull has gone as a start.

I have also made a decision to really cull the number of clothes ds has - he has had a growth spurt which should help. I will just not buy as many replacements!

fuzzpig · 06/09/2013 14:35

Just wanted to report that the teacher visit went brilliantly today :) nice clear living room with some of DS' favourite toys out to show them. Living room is by no means perfect (lots of mess behind closed cupboard doors...) but I'm glad we have achieved this much and can now work on a little bit at a time all over the house without a looming deadline (unless you count Xmas, but that's 110 days away :o)

delasi · 06/09/2013 14:55

fuzzpig Yay!

inthetide I just read the article you linked, it was nice, I think a lot of us have our own 'margarita glasses' and I lol'd when I read about her 'what ifs' for needing them Smile It was also interesting how she then decided more stuff was not needed - I'm hoping to get here, I look around sometimes at the things that have already been decluttered and think, "Surely, this is still too much".

Children's things are a problem Blush I am happy to live a stripped back life but the thought of throwing away baby clothes or toys is too much! Tbh DS doesn't have loads, but he does have more clothes than necessary for the 0-6mo category (which we are now past), which makes me think it's too much for our next DC whenever they come along, so why hang on to everything?, but then I think, "It's just a tiny vest!". That one might take some work Wink MIL also likes to arrive regularly with toys she's picked up, and to be fair she gets some nice stuff, but there just seems to be a bit more than he can realistically play with! We'll see.

Haven't done much here in terms of big changes, but I traded in lots of old DVDs and a couple of games and got £10 so that felt like a success. Also got some boxes for the bathroom to organise our toiletries better. Now I need some vacuum storage bags for the aforementioned baby clothes...

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