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Post by desposito on Jul 1, 2024 6:36:39 GMT -5
Let's beat the heat by ending July with a cleaner, decluttered home!
Think of some projects that you can get done in a month and post them, then report how you're doing.
Won't it feel great to check things off your list?
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Post by mylittlescholar on Jul 1, 2024 18:45:57 GMT -5
I'm not sure what to post here. Have a lot of urgent stuff, plus some stuff that has dropped off the radar. I think focusing on getting to bed earlier and getting up and out before it gets too hot would serve me well. So far the nights are still cool.
DVD would like us to bike to the gym in the morning. that might be the way to go with this, as I got good news re: shoulder injury today. I am cleared to ride!
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Post by phoenixcat on Jul 2, 2024 9:26:41 GMT -5
Still have hope that I can work on my closet and bathroom (from June list). Hoping to actually do the closet before the purge-a-thon ends. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/GuBQQkiwyXxnHbJKesLq.gif) . We'll see - may be best laid plans. We are hoping for some travel end of July into August so not putting too much on my list. Anything else will be a bonus. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/p3gKGV2hl_4rqf_iASER.gif)
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Post by desposito on Jul 2, 2024 10:47:41 GMT -5
Hello scholar and phoenixcat!
Here are my July goals. The plant room is a mess again so I want to do a total clean, which is a big goal. The cabinets under the kitchen sinks have been a dumping ground so they need reorganizing, and I added stationery organization for 60 minutes--that includes greeting cards, note cards, and stickers, all of which I have many.
1. Getting back to baseline as many days as possible 2. Total clean of plant room
3. Reorganize cabinet under kitchen sink
4. Reorganize cabinet under work room sink
5. Bird supply shelves--clean off & organize 6. Basement - 60 minutes 7. Book data entry - 60 minutes 8. Old paper - 60 minutes 9. Password project - 60 minutes 10. Stationery organization - 60 minutes
11. Plant goal--repot 4 plants or cuttings 12. Seedlings--consolidate remaining, evaluate still needed for yard, start new 13. Houseplants--decide on some to put on enclosed front porch or outside
Diane
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Post by puppybox on Jul 3, 2024 10:22:47 GMT -5
Projects of the month:
Get all plant things decluttered and set up. Figure out clothing and bedding storage. Get living room looking sane. Track money.
May add more. Can’t think about too many things at same time.
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Post by desposito on Jul 3, 2024 18:34:35 GMT -5
Puppybox, what plant things are you working on? ![](http://storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/FrupXdFWbETUBSGkxzsZ.gif)
Diane
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Post by puppybox on Jul 3, 2024 21:36:15 GMT -5
Puppybox, what plant things are you working on? ![](http://storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/FrupXdFWbETUBSGkxzsZ.gif) Diane
So, I had a huge (indoor, this is an apartment with no real balcony) plant phase craze, when my dogs were very old/dying for maybe a year and a half. Since I wasn’t doing so much walking with them and wanted to spend time with them it was a good indoor interest for me. I bought tons of house plants and learned all the names and relations and watched planttube (YouTube people whose channels are about houseplants) and Instagram about plants, and bought shelving and a light and and and etc. Then, they got bugs. a few had had bugs before, that I’d manage to kill. But now most were infected and the only way to kill this kind was poison spray. I even bought poison spray. But then i remembered I have asthma and chronic sinuitis and every part of my body for breathing is totally sensitive to any air additives at all, even burnt toast is a huge problem, fabric softer makes me super Ill, etc, and I couldn’t possibly do it in the house. So I waited for spring so I could do it outside. Spring came around. I did not have the energy or will. I was carrying each half incontinent dog up and down 2 flights of stairs 3 or 5 times a day. And then they died that summer but I had lost interest. I was so happy to just stay still and not think about and take care of anything but myself. I stopped even watering. Anyway so a lot of plants died. And I got really into my musical instrument I’d picked up again a few years before covid, and didn’t go back to plants. I have forgotten all the names. And I have lots of dead plants and pots and bags of soil and stuff that I just have ignored for like 2 years. That hoarder thjng where you just start a new life over the old.
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Post by desposito on Jul 4, 2024 18:36:40 GMT -5
Puppybox, this is fascinating to me, the fact that you started on plants when your dogs were failing. I did the exact same thing with my two cats, who finally died at ages 21 and 18. I didn't realize what I was doing until later, but it eventually dawned on me that I knew they would be gone soon and I was incorporating other living things that would need my care into my home. Unlike you, after they died I kept going with the plants, but I was crazy about them when I was a teen and only stopped having them in the house when I started adopting cats in my 20s--cats and plants did not mix at my house. Plus, you're still doing pet care jobs so you still have animals to care for. Maybe your motivation was different, but it just really struck me that both of us threw ourselves into plants when our animals were in their last year.
Also, I know how upsetting it is to get plant bugs--were they mealybugs? They are the worst. And if you don't notice them right away they're very hard to get rid of. I've lost a few plants to mealybugs and honestly felt so defeated and sad.
I'm still throwing myself into my houseplants and my garden, even though I do still have 2 parakeets to care for--very different from the amount of effort it takes to care for elderly, sick cats or dogs. I know I'll never be able to adopt another cat or dog, hence, the pollinator garden--another way to help animals (tiny ones).
I would have asked you what kind of plants you used to have, but you said your forgot the names!
Diane
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Post by secretdiva on Jul 4, 2024 21:33:33 GMT -5
Hello All! Wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July. It’s been a while since I’ve been on here. One thing that was extremely helpful to me were the accountability cleaning chats. Is that feature still available?
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Jul 4, 2024 22:13:12 GMT -5
Hello All! Wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July. It’s been a while since I’ve been on here. One thing that was extremely helpful to me were the accountability cleaning chats. Is that feature still available? Not the same as before. There are some places to connect if you scroll up inside this link: takeonestepatatime.proboards.com/page/Shoutbox
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Post by puppybox on Jul 4, 2024 22:50:30 GMT -5
Hello All! Wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July. It’s been a while since I’ve been on here. One thing that was extremely helpful to me were the accountability cleaning chats. Is that feature still available? The weekday work along thread or The working in threes thread are similar. It’s sad about the chat though.
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Post by puppybox on Jul 4, 2024 22:58:39 GMT -5
Diane I can tell you which ones lived. Maybe they’ll all come back to me, but not if I was put on the spot, I would lose at a game show (why is that my criteria? ![lol](//storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/70gKR226h9rBn4CaD0Tc.gif) ). Remind me later. Snake plants and monkey tail cactus come to mind (get one it’s indestructible and you can pet it, it’s soft. I believe mealy bugs were the ones I managed to kill before it was too late. me too I didn’t realize was doing it at the time but I was sort of weaning myself off dogs into plants. And I didn’t stop plants because the dogs died but because of the bug spray which played into my task paralysis and then later I’d lost momentum and then I had a new thing. I’d like to get back into taking great care of plants, less ambitiously. Oh and I had also had to give up plants previously when good dog was a puppy, she took the few I had then by the leaves and shook them out of their pots. What a great fun for her. When she was old old she attacked a few for fun again. Like my friends dog attacked the couch when he was 11. Old is puppy like.
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Post by desposito on Jul 8, 2024 12:30:19 GMT -5
Puppybox, can you really touch monkey tail cactus? I'm used to cactus plants that have "soft-looking" glochids, but when you touch them, you're very sorry you did. In fact, yesterday while cleaning the plant room I had to stop several times to tweeze tiny spikes out of my hands. Snake plant, yes, that's hard to kill--I have a couple of them and some cuttings in a jar at the moment.
This week I finished both under cabinet cleanouts, one was fairly easy but the other took a long time. I also did 40 minutes cleaning the plant room, 40 minutes on book data, 40 on stationery and 10 on old paper. My "back to baseline" efforts have been the same, the upstairs is generally decluttered, but the work room/kitchen downstairs is always a huge mess. The rest of the first floor is usually okay at at least one time during the day. So, if it wasn't for the work room downstairs I would be doing pretty good on that goal.
1. Getting back to baseline as many days as possible -- All rooms in house except work room look good one most days
2. Total clean of plant room -- 40 minutes done
3. Reorganize cabinet under kitchen sink -- this project is DONE!
4. Reorganize cabinet under work room sink -- this project is DONE!
5. Bird supply shelves--clean off & organize 6. Basement - 60 minutes 7. Book data entry - 60 minutes - 40 minutes done
8. Old paper - 60 minutes -- 10 minutes done
9. Password project - 60 minutes 10. Stationery organization - 60 minutes -- 40 minutes done
11. Plant goal--repot 4 plants or cuttings 12. Seedlings--consolidate remaining, evaluate still needed for yard, start new 13. Houseplants--decide on some to put on enclosed front porch or outside
Diane
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Post by puppybox on Jul 10, 2024 9:09:43 GMT -5
You can. You could rub your cheek on it.
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Post by puppybox on Jul 11, 2024 20:43:38 GMT -5
Projects of the month: Get all plant things decluttered and set up. Figure out clothing and bedding storage. Get living room looking sane. Track money. May add more. Can’t think about too many things at same time. All of these projects are progressing. Tracking money just by paying for everything with a card. Oops 2 things I didn’t. This just reminded me. More certainly will NOT be added, completing the 3 household tasks is actually more ambitious than I thought.
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