Hi again and Happy Friday 🙂

Well, it's raining and looks like it probably will most of the day. But I'd been thinking of tackling the paper clutter here at the house, so I'll do that today. I think I'll get a good sense of satisfaction from it, too.

Hello

My week's improving gradually - even if it's nearly over, LOL. I'm just glad it is. Had the clutter club meeting yesterday. Was so tired I was just going to sit and not say too much, but I did end up venting some. It helped. And another member spoke of Vitamin D deficiency, which made me think I have been inconsistent with all my supplements lately. So maybe some of my doldrums are attributable to that. It would be nice if it's something easily remedied.

In any case, the doldrums are kind of lifting of their own accord. I could still use more sleep, and I'm guilty of letting my inner night owl take over. I resist sleep because I fear the excessive dreaming. But some of this should sort itself out over the weekend if I can get in a good nap.

Joan, sorry to hear about your health issue - that sounds painful and extremely annoying. Glad you were able to go for a treatment; hope the results will help for as long as possible. I'll keep you in my prayers!

Porter, yeah, ADHD is what it is, then add sleep deprivation and it's like ADHD on steroids.

But today I got a bit of time - had to go to the pharmacy and that's halfwawy to my storage, so I popped out there. Found some needlework pictures I'm going to ask my cousin if she'd like to have, and some pictures of my dad and mom and me, just a few, to scan.

Using that magic of just focusing on getting rid of cardboard boxes, I filled a about 2/3 with them and some junky stuff. And found a box of craft magazines I'm no longer interested in, to go to the thrift store. Some of what I did allowed me to get stuff off the floor and onto shelves that have been empty and available all along, but that stuff got piled in front of during my hasty move of 2015.

Tomorrow if it doesn't rain, I'm thinking of going out and going through another couple of boxes of misc. papers which are probably mostly junk that can go bye-bye. Or if it rains, early next week I can go. There's always the clutter hear at the house, no danger yet of running out of projects!

Tatoulia and Tillie and Porter - I love to hear your kitty tales (tails). I hope I can volunteer with kitties someday. The rabbit rescue has been awesome to be a part of and will be a part of my life as long as I can do it. This Sunday I take my bunnies to an assisted living center for visits. They have been a hit with the residents.

Well, better get my night owl self to wind down now.

Joan, my heart aches for you. Sending warm, healing thoughts your way. Thank you for telling us about this--standing by your side and supporting you from afar.

Feeling better tonight. Had some healing work done today.

I have a really devastating movement disorder (life long) that is nearly impossible to get people to understand. I bite my cheeks and often cannot stop. It has improved with various treatments now over the past several years, but it acted up again suddenly this week. Tuesday night and yesterday were rough. Biting prevents sleep, so I only got a few hours of sleep at a time for about a 24 hour period.

Don't know how I managed for so many years with the biting. A few years back I had to see a good chiropractor, because the biting was literally twisting my head off of my neck, giving me vertigo and pain and all kinds of problems. For about 6 months I have been seeing him every week. I just cut back to every other week a few weeks ago. It's very tough to live with this disorder.

Anyway, tonight I am feeling much better with the healing, and looking forward to a good sleep. Enjoy hearing about your cat volunteer work, Tillie! Tat and Pain, you both seem to be managing pretty well. CM, you have ways of working around problems. Hope Anony checks in again.

I've managed to get used to the washer dial not working. I do three loads of laundry on Thursday.
Mother in law does everything's else including towels and sheets . As she Comes and goes.

It was a freak-out when we're over ran by mice.
So much mice feces winds up in drawers and the Co there functioning system, that I bought all new heavy duty bags. The vacuum bags were almost as cheap. $45 for regular bags or $65 for vacuum storage bags. I used my money I made from. LETGO

So my point is about the mice.
If I got em and I can't overcome them quickly enough.

#1 all food is in the kitchen.
#2 all food in the kitchen is in air tight shatter proof containers. I've been buying 6 containers a year and now all my cupboards are mouse proof food storage in the kitchen.
#3 all laundry washed all on same day.
#4 all laundry kept in vacuum sealed mouse proof bags.
#5 all flatware and Plates kept in tubs also.

If you have other ideas I'll be glad to hear them.
Of courses I've been trapping them, but I fear I won't be rid of them until I move away from this house..

What I've been doing is using poisons outside.
Inside . I bought a large tub of glue.
I reuse toilet paper rolls , the card board center.
I coat the inside of the rolls with glue and tape some together and place everywhere.
I catch about 3-4 a day at a cost of 5¢ per catch.

I know a cat would be purrrfect , but my wife won't have it.

I like dogs more than cats.
However when I had a home, and boat. Dogs and cats don't do well on a boat. But when I on the boat the dogs don't do well by theirselves.
However cats are purrrfect for weekend warriors.

So if I get another pet , it will be a cat hands down.

Tillie, your volunteer work on behalf of kitties is just another item on a very long list of reasons why I admire you.

I stopped by my shelter on the way home tonight--only four cats! That's good news that there are so few. I like to stop by just to visit.

I am home and in my pjs, with my kitty putting away and keeping me warm on this cool spring night.

Ttyl--have nothing to report but no backsliding either.

Good Morning Everyone 🙂

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
Wonderful that you have been getting some well needed sleep. (((HUGS)))
Hope your day is going smoothly and
WAY TO GO!!! with getting done all you have been. 😀

Hi Porter 🙂

Exactly! 😀
Also spend all the free time you will have made for yourself just enjoying yourself.

Pretty day today.
Have no solid plans as of yet.
Since I can not foster pregnant cats or kittens, I have volunteered my time Saturday to work at a "Home & Garden" show to promote the organization and try to educate people about what this organization does.
They mainly trap feral cats & kittens, give them inoculations, have them spayed/neutered, return them to a safe area where people will look after them, mostly as "barn cats".
They also foster & rehome cats who's owners die or otherwise can no longer keep them.
They also do random starving kittens that just show up on my front porch.
The adoption fee is only 25.00 per cat.
No cat is ever euthanized, except if it is dying/suffering/no hope and at the end of it's natural life.
The adoptive family must sign an agreement that if they no longer will keep their adopted cat, the cat must be returned to us.
The goal of this organization is to have no more homeless cats wandering around dumpsters or having litters of homeless kittens that will soon have their own litters of homeless kittens.

Have a wonderful Thursday 😀

One benefit of being the point where most of what do is from my lists. Is I see where I stall.
For the last three days I've barely gotten anything on the list done. So when I look at what I am actually doing . Sorting and resorting bins and tubs . New while some of the bigger goals are getting nowhere.

I can see. I sort of blind when it comes to completing things. I kind of start stuff then set it aside as the day ends . Unless it's the weekend I rarely spend more than two hours on anything.

So I feel I must start making project lists that are broken down Into 1 hour steps.

I benefit alot from listening to time management on YouTube. I do have a productive tube hour each day just before I leave for work. So my understanding is. I need to wake up earlier. And give myself an hour to do house work before going to work. This means going to sleep earlier.

Yep I've been snoozing past my most productive personal time. Further it said we often. Take to S during our productive hour/time. So we focus on job goals rather than own.

I realize I'm now spending too much time stacking and restacking the clutter my wife is dragging back out. It's the same old argument.
She hates stuff being put into bins and tubs. But she doesn't realize there isn't enough room in the house to have out . There isn't enough places to put it all without it becoming a pile of clutter..
So it speaks out into the common areas.

However I realize it makes perfect since to me to keep organized and categorized in tubs.

But to her it's like toys never getting out of the box they came in to her. I have to apply the adhd mantra. A little mess is OK, but alot of mess is unacceptable.

Many of our dumbest arguments have been over me waiting on her to do something , and she has no Intention to ever do anything with it. Keeping her options open forever.

If you read all that and are still with me . I condense it down to this.

Plan out a system. Find ways to make the system a routine. Clear living space, and don't spend all your time sorting and resorting it. Spend time managing it.

Hi Tillie! Your flowers sound beautiful!

Laundry laundry laundry today. That and work. I have a big day tomorrow so need to keep working through at please a portion of tonight.

CM, sleep deprivation is terrible. I've caught up on a bunch lately--I lost so much while worried about mom. I went to bed very early last night and got a very good sleep. I don't sleep very well as a rule, but recently I've been doing better.

Keep up the good work, everyone. I've done only maintenance stuff today--recycling out to bin, dishes, etc but it's something. I have a fairly large but manageable pile of paper that I would so love to get through today.

Good morning Everybody 🙂

Sunshine & blue skies this morning.
My Iris and Gladiolas are doing great putting up leaves.
Lilac hedge is heavenly all in bloom.
Rose bushes are getting flower buds.
But the best & fastest growers out there are all the weeds. ;0
With all the snow and rain we have been having, this summer will be a big time wildfire danger zone.

TTYS 🙂

CM
I CONSIDER having adhd like a normal persons sleep deprivation. So when I have sleep deprivation it like I'm sleep walking , half In A dream the other half trying to remember what I'm doing from room to room.

Tat
What can I say, you're a great sister!
I only have brothers , wish I had a sister like you.

Tillie , please take care.

And you others , check in and fill us in for better or worse.

Great to hear from you, Tillie! Glad your eye is better. Twinkles! You little devil!

It is so nice having mom home. I'm grateful she's on the mend and is able to enjoy being in her clean, clear home with her kitty. I stopped by last night to see her and pick up a little in her apartment. Her sheets had already been changed and her linens cleaned, so I put away the clean sheets and towels.

I'm home early today and am glad to be here. Very busy at work but I took a few hours off to run some errands. Bright day/surprisingly cool and windy. I didn't wear a coat today/big mistake. I have no idea what I was thinking.

Porter, my brother is mentally ill and I for the most part try to ignore the upheaval. I've been taking care of him all my life. There are times where it's worse than other times. I have learned a lot the past few decades and continue to learn new coping mechanisms. I always cook a holiday meal for him. He hasn't been able to join us for the last several holidays and quite frankly, it's been easier on my mom to not have him with us.

Hi, drive by

Got into a mood funk yesterday afternoon. Repair guy didn't show, but that was only part of it. Today I'm confident I know the answer - some more cumulative sleep deprivation. I was at my prayer hour and not only was I falling asleep during my prayers, I was not remembering the words of them. I've had other word-finding difficulties and that's definitely my brain on sleep deprivation.

I shall see what I can do to rectify the situation!

Tillie, I'm glad Twinkles didn't bring the mouse inside still alive! My former roommate's cat used to carry them in in her mouth then play with them. And then sometimes lose interest while mousie was still alive! :O

Hope to have some more upbeat news to post in a day or two if I can get some rest. I feel better though for starters just knowing what caused that weird mood.

Good Morning Everyone 🙂

Hi CriticalMass 🙂
WTG! for fixing your glasses! 😀
My fingers are still crossed that the repairman can get there and complete that project for you & your kitties.

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
Very happy that your Mom and her kitty are back together.
So sorry about your brother's behavior.
You are a wonderful daughter and sister (((HUGS)))

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂

Hi Porter 🙂
I think it is FANTASTIC! that you have found what really works for you.
Your long detailed lists has made it possible for you to declutter and clean your home in a way that really works.
And, finding exactly what works for each of us is sometimes almost impossible. 😀

Dark drizzly day. Gentle rain has been falling since last night.
My little garden area is loving this. 😀
Yesterday I got the house cleaned, had been too long and it was really grubby.
Yesterday morning Twinkles was outside and caught a mouse. Played with the poor dead thing for about an hour.
I was happy he did not want to eat it, just left it and came inside for some cat food.

TTYS 😉

OK
New day .
Trash day .
Heavy trash day.

On my porch. Enjoying the warm air. Eating potatoes to break my fast.

I put more time in on the mobile app for do list.
Basically moving my Info from the old o e to the new one.

I have a couple other lists I keep up on as much as possible and when I do it makes a difference.

I keep track of my paydays in advance, and tally the differences between estimated and actual.
This helps me to spend or save wisely.

And another list is my menu, and below it everything in my pantry.

This also valuable to me to eat things before they expire. My memory isn't good enough to just know what to eat first or last. So keeping up on the pantry does help . And also keep track of other people's favorites. And keep track of snacks .

It's easier to have a stock of twenty days of food.
And keep replacing it as its Consumed.
I save money by eating 2 boxes of ramen noodles every three months. Or more if I'm trying to save for a purchase.
I did have about $3,000 but I've gone through it. And some was to get rid of the hoard.
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There's a bunch of great software for all sorts of things , but all I really need is a fantastic to do list app. I'm always excited to start a new app.

But I rarely stick to them for very long.
But this one is like it was written just for me.

It's important that do lists consistently.
For example.
If I write down 10 bright ideas a day , maybe possibly over a lifetime one of them could be a million dollar idea.

How I apply that everyday on lunch break, I write twenty tasks , I try not to duplicate past tasks but it doesn't matter if I do. As I keep entering. There becomes less and less that forgotten about or am neglecting, so I pull tasks from the cloud of lists. Withing a month I'm usually right on top things . And able utilize time management, creative outlet, and work ahead of deadlines.
Getting out from a hoard life would seem a lot easier than it was for me. But I've only just emerged as a moth. Iykwim

OK truck is here

Tat
You got it worse than me, but I can relate.
I had to stop see and talk to my brother , because he was becoming abusive to my wife.
Saying her cancer was karma only 2 days after finding out it was terminal .

I tolerated his abuse all my life , but in this time of illness for my wife, not knowing what he'll say to my daughter, he's on his own till after she's gone. I'll not allow another sssssingle word to her from him.

Jeremiah 29:11
11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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These are what I try to plan, beyond my hoard life.
Plans of hope and future.

I hope to live on a boat, and give a prosperous future to my only child.

Hey everyone. I just got back from visiting mom and picking up her place. She is so grateful to be home. The cat was sitting in her lap, which was precious.

CM thank you for the nice words. My brother was really terrible/terrible insults and swearing and I had to keep pretending I didn't hear him. Then he'd use my silence against me, saying I wasn't fighting back because he's right. His language was really really foul. I did tahwvhim to and from pharmacy figuring that if he's out of meds, he needs to refill the scripts ASAP. Once I dropped him home he started to cry and I said, let me just get your turkey in the oven for you. And he cleaned up his house while I prepared the turkey and the stuffing. The squash was already done. I hope he's pulled it together. It was really rough going. It takes a toll on me.

I have my garbage out/clean sheets/taxes done/doing some laundry. I washed the duvet cover and put away and I dropped my comforter off to be cleaned. I'm doing laundry now and thinking about going to bed early tonight. Would be nice to be in office early tomorrow.

Critical mass
I am adhd. Non experts in my family think I'm bipolar. But after cbt training, and a diagnosis by a Dr. Medicated and 26 visits to therapist.
I know I'm adhd. Regardless of what my family believes. They are bipolar, so they relate to bipolar. And try to force that able on me.

But I adhd with tendencies to hoard.
The scheduling and over planning isn't compulsive, it's a response to nearly being sloth. I'm not sloth. For example . I can make a list of 100 things I need to do. If I look at the list on my lunch break. I'll get 2-3 things on list done per day. If I put the list in a drawer. And forget the list . A few years later I may find the list. And only have about ten things on That list completed.
It's not who I want to be, but I'm constantly seeing that person In The mirror.

24 years ago. My first wife cheated on me. I was hurt, she wouldn't admit she cheated , but I suspected, and caught them together in a car by chance. I didn't approach or make for a dramatic jealous scene. I was hurt. He ended it and she was hurt. We ability to see a therapist. And not a counselor. We were asked to make a plan .
She did not plan, but a few words like spend time together. But my plan was an over plan. Going into details about when , where and what.

Now. I didn't Come up with the idea to make a plan.
But they acted like my plan was absurd. Even though it included the all the things we were asked to do. I do listen. Once the therapy turned to me instead of my wife. At first the therapist said I was ocd. But by the end she ope ed a book , asked me about 300 questions. Called my Dr. And I was adhd medication. I hated being on them. And my hated me being on them.
See the medications. Make the paper plan like calender in my head. I was very focussed and very intent on achieving goals even if the people involved didn't want to be guided by my push to complete my frivolous goals.

But there were sexual side effects that I couldn't live with. I no longer take the meds unless I'm grieving or something for anxiety. But on temporary basis.

I came away from that with deep understanding that I can rely on list making to complete and expedite tasks.
Then in 1995. Windows computers came out.
And then a plethora of free ware in the following decade. I was so fascinated with freeware that I stopped watching TV and would spend my alone hours downloading freeware and seeing how to make it fit a niche I'm my computing time.

After my fascination, the one software that always makes an impact on my personal productivity is to do list software. So I've had about 40 apps that tried to use in the last 20 years.
PC apps I can't take into the field. Mobile apps Lacked development as freeware. And rarely can we transfers a cloud of lists from one app to another. And withing a year or two I need a new mobile.

So here I am one day last week.
Knowing if I just had a list I get miles ahead of where I am . So I looked on play store.
An after surfing about 9 apps.

I saw one that you can use as
Parent task
Sub task
Sub sub task

I can drag and drop the entries so I can reorder them at will very quickly.

They have alarms. Any task can turn my phone on like phone call ringer.

I keep a list of about 200 things in a cloud.

The drag and drop feature makes easy repeating tasks .

I have for separate lists

In no particular order.
The cloud list of everthing I need to do.
The chore list of my weekly routine.
My errand list that involves scheduling
And my next 20 things to do.

I pick twenty things to do a day because I usually can get about 10 thing done, but 20 helps me look ahead a put some thoughts into getting help or prioritizing things that can be done as a group of tasks. Or which can't be done till other tasks are complete.

This doesn't occur naturally in my head unless I'm on a specific medication, and at dose not recommended.

So thankfully I've had the experience of know how much I can do. How much I can do when I've planned, am focussing on the plan, and energized with caffeine or stimulates.

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So yea for me . Right .
However I live with another person that is an emotional Tiger. I need to be in the mood organize or clean. And she almost always kills my mood. When I press issues about what can go where.

So I quickly unravel. Not until she had to admit that she could no longer care for herself. That just ignored her mood killing behaviors.

The last piece was finding a support group , this one. Well , I vent my frustrations here, so I do t get tangled in a mood killing conversation with my wife. When all it is is venting frustrations of having to deal with HER responsibilities MYSELF.

Usually when she's gone . I have a plan to do things. But when I have an app . I can do 2-3 things a day instead of 20 when She's out.

I thinks this leads to a conversation about her keeping options open, and not allow too much change.
For example. She was venting in public ten years ago she wished a dumpster would just show up a she could just dump everything, or if someone could just do it for her. She went out of state to visit a her brother for a week. I got busy . I reorganized the entire house. Threw nothing away.
But reorganized it so it was functional.
For years she complained she couldn't find anything .but if she actually looked for it or asked me . It was not as lost as felt like it was.

So now I make the changes very subtle.
Yes I recently did RE arrange room assignments and the stuff taken out to a unit. But was do e I. A way that nothing was lost.

Just to add on a tip to all this.
When her grandpa passed , her stuff increased, when her grandma passed her stuff increased.
When her friends passed he stuff increased.

When she stopped managing her stuff I began living In Her hoard. When I stopped pushing her to do something and did it myself. I no longer live in a hoard. But it was a melodramatic nightmare.

I think if I weren't in such fear , of needing to move. The hierarchy to-do list mobile app could of made the transition less sudden.

Either way it's done now .
I don't ever want to go back to living within a hoard or living in a tangle of emotional dysfunctions.
I have memory issues , staying on track. Is a struggle. I can be paying attention , but get distracted.
I know I need to keep the app front and center from now on.

Happy Easter Monday to all. I haven't done much focused on decluttering at all.

Tatoulia, glad you didn't owe as much on the taxes after all. Sorry your brother had a bad day but that was nice of you to make him a turkey. Maybe the tryptophan in the turkey will also help him to relax. 😉 One never knows! Having something healthy to eat in any case can only be good.

Tillie, glad your eye is on the mend. I managed to wire my glasses back together, and it doesn't really show unless one is looking closely. So I don't have to be in a hurry to find new ones.

Porter I like reading about your app and lists and all the ways you motivate yourself and figure out how to stay focused and energized. Having ADD, I can see how several of your tricks would adapt to my circumstances. So keep on posting about them, it's not boring, trust me!

My weekend consisted of exercising, church services, rainstorms, fun time with friends, a nap (and I want more of those!), yummy food and treats, and attempting to take Easter photos of my rabbits (they were not amused).

Today, the repairman said he'd come this afternoon. I went ahead and got the cats shut in the back room. But it's 2:30 p.m. and he has had some kind of crisis week last week, and I'm beginning to wonder if he'll make it today. I feel bad for him and his family. I think they just have a lot on their plates.

I guess I did do a little decluttering this morning, of my bed. I hate having anything on my bed - papers, books, etc. but in limited space it seems to end up there despite my efforts. Didn't get it all gone but it's better. Yesterday I found a tick on my skin and I think it migrated onto clothes that got laid on the end of the bed then onto me. Ick, it was gross! Much yard work needs to be done to keep the grass short and all. The more the weather warms up, the more bugs are going to be a concern. Ugh.

I feel torn in a lot of different directions with trying to get my "what was I doing before the latest crisis interrupted?" back in mind, much less pursue those goals, whether decluttering or other goals. And then try to fit yard work and such around it. My brain hurts thinking of it all.

Hello everyone! I took the day off to work on taxes. And after a few heart-stopping moments I found all the correct documents and they are filed. I owed significantly less than I feared. So glad for that.

Now I can shower and enjoy my day. Garbage night so I'll be looking to get a lot out.

hi everyone.
Tillie I'm looking forward to you be well.
Get well soon.

I have finally gotten around to my next list of twenty big things to do.

Sorry bore y'all with my to-do app.
I'm living it because I can drag all my done tasks to tree of tasks . Then when I want them on my list for the day I simply drag them back in.

So I don't have to keep retyping. The same stuff.
Or deleting it either. Just drag to "today and when I'm done drag to "completed

I've never had my dwelling this organized or clean.
So I think I'm just going to see if I can keep on putting in the effort , and an app keeps me navigating to better situational outcomes.

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I've moved my spare small dinning table for four to the outside porch and locked it to railing.
We enjoy sitting at the porch and having snacks when it's perfect temperatures outside in the morning's and evenings.
Also I made functional the fire pit again.
I practice making Dakota fire hole , but that it vents it's heat under a raised bed of rocks , and is sealed over by a soil and ash mixture. Do it makes a heated place to sleep with very little wood . Like building a Dakota fire under a picnic table then a shelter over the the picnic table.
And tweaking the smoke. I believe only experience can make it a daily accumulation for a permanent cold weather shelter.
My neighbors used to question my digging and burning. But now that I've explained in want to be on the alone show. They don't care.
The property owner thinks I'm nuts. But I point out even if I were, its not illegal to be nuts. And burning the tree branches is how I manage the grounds. We just have a difference of standards.
If they want us out , say so. But don't tell us how to live.
The hoard is tamed now. As long as I stay on top of it. And not let it accumulate unorganized we can stay or go. But until we go. We're will go on as we normally do.

At the end of the day I got 8 of the next 20 tasks competed . They were big heavy tasks so I actually glad to gotten as far as I did.
Just light weight and simple tasks from here on.
Heavy trash tomorrow. So Monday will be only be heavy trash , I have nothing yet, but I'll find something.

hi everyone.
Tillie I'm looking forward to you be well.
Get well soon.

I have finally gotten around to my next list of twenty big things to do.

Sorry bore y'all with my to-do app.
I'm living it because I can drag all my done tasks to tree of tasks . Then when I want them on my list for the day I simply drag them back in.

So I don't have to keep retyping. The same stuff.
Or deleting it either. Just drag to "today and when I'm done drag to "completed

I've never had my dwelling this organized or clean.
So I think I'm just going to see if I can keep on putting in the effort , and an app keeps me navigating to better situational outcomes.

......
I've moved my spare small dinning table for four to the outside porch and locked it to railing.
We enjoy sitting at the porch and having snacks when it's perfect temperatures outside in the morning's and evenings.
Also I made functional the fire pit again.
I practice making Dakota fire hole , but that it vents it's heat under a raised bed of rocks , and is sealed over by a soil and ash mixture. Do it makes a heated place to sleep with very little wood . Like building a Dakota fire under a picnic table then a shelter over the the picnic table.
And tweaking the smoke. I believe only experience can make it a daily accumulation for a permanent cold weather shelter.
My neighbors used to question my digging and burning. But now that I've explained in want to be on the alone show. They don't care.
The property owner thinks I'm nuts. But I point out even if I were, its not illegal to be nuts. And burning the tree branches is how I manage the grounds. We just have a difference of standards.
If they want us out , say so. But don't tell us how to live.
The hoard is tamed now. As long as I stay on top of it. And not let it accumulate unorganized we can stay or go. But until we go. We're will go on as we normally do.

At the end of the day I got 8 of the next 20 tasks competed . They were big heavy tasks so I actually glad to gotten as far as I did.
Just light weight and simple tasks from here on.
Heavy trash tomorrow. So Monday will be only be heavy trash , I have nothing yet, but I'll find something.

Happy Easter, everyone! Good to hear from you, Tillie.

Getting ready to go for dinner. Harrowing experience with brother yesterday but I managed to make him a turkey so he'd have an Easter dinner for today.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Sunday. I have nothing to show for it. But I did manage to take mom some of the laundry I'd washed for her.

Good Morning Everybody 🙂

My scratched eye is feeling so much better, YEA!
Both my eyes are very tired out from that whole ordeal.
Few more days of rest should have them back to normal.

TTYS 😀

I put in my next twenty tasks.
I got 18 of them done.

What makes this app a keeper is each task can an alarm, I choose mine own voice mp3 notes.
So if I give 45 minutes per task.
I get 4 tasks In the 3 hours.

I've always said to my wife if I could just get someone to remind me to keep on task I'd get so much more done.

Here I'm prompting myself. So on day 1
I conquered my wife's hoard.

#1 open 15 tubs in row.
#2 put all valuables in tubs
#3 relable the tubs 1-15
#4 photograph the tubs
#5 open 15 more tubs
#6 put all sentimental items in tubs
#7 relable the tubs 16-30
#8 photograph the tubs
#9 open 15 more tubs
#10 put all on wife's keep list in tubs
#11 relable tubs 31-45
#12 photograph the tubs
#13 load tubs 23 tubs into car
#14 move wife's couch out to brothers van
#15 build two shelves for 15 tubs each
#16 put tubs into place
#17 return to storage and load remaining 22 tubs
#18 return home and put remaining tubs in order.
#19 call mother in law about remaining items
#20 load remaining items into rental van
#21 assemble wifes bed in the dinning room.
#22 drive the rental van to mother in laws.
#23 try not to get shot by mother in law or wife.
#24 hide in storage unit.

So I finally did it.
The entire hoard is all in tubs.
The hoard has been purged from 180 tubs down to 90.
My daughter still has 16 tubs
I still have 29 tubs.

But In those tubs are Xmas,tools, luggage,kitchen stuff, shoes, board games, and art supplies.
So about half of those tubs are what we use throughout the year.

I'm tempted to make a case scenario for moving without help. If all else fails and I alone have to move everybody's things. So yes I'm sorta in my zone . Playing with app and managing my time .

I know just how much caffeine I need to become jittery , and not sit still , open the app. Make a decision on which scenario is best. And see if I can strike them all out.

I feel empowered again!

Drive by.

Sometimes I go into planning overload.
I plan so much I get more planning done than any tasks started or finished.

From time to time I find an app. For my phone or computer.

What I look for .

A check box app.
That I use as a hierarchy.
With sub tasks
And ability to drag and drop and mix old tree onto new tree.
Plus extras.

Something I be simple or plan over the moon and or back.

I found this today while waiting in my car with nothing to do. Ita been two years on this smart phone since I had my last master list maker.

I was going to recommend it.
Bit when I tried . It's from Korea and has ads.

Soo
I'll keep the app and just say
Hi I'm porter.
Im A hoarder, but have an app that.

;℃

Happy Saturday, everyone!

I have brother duty today and it's going to be a doozy as he is very animated and out of touch these days. I will cook him a turkey dinner today so he'll have it for Easter. BF and I have decided to have a peaceful Easter by taking mom out for dinner. We cannot have mom exposed to the chaos of my brother right now. I am bracing myself to spend time with him today. He's terribly caught up in a state these days.

I have sent the "extra cat" home and boy is mom happy. My cat seems pleased too. Part of me is missing her but I found two cats to be too much for me.

CM so glad you have gotten some rest! Tillie I hope you are resting your eye. Porter, since I live in a congested urban area, I can't imagine just being able to find a new place to live so easily. You are certainly well-prepared for a big move.

Anony, if your comment button is missing just start a new part to this thread. Don't despair!

I just drank my chocolate coffee cashew and protein drink.
I pressed my wife let sort out her hoard.
I want to separate
valuables, sentimentals, and other.

She had 83 tubs of stuff that is not in the house, but in storage. When I put them in storage they were filled so all contents ate one layer deep, nothing overlapping.
Then photographed with the number on the tub.

I have now a a big list from her, her mother helped.
Some of it was given to her by her mother, so I pressed my mother in law. To help find other people to take things my wife is only holding because of her.
Finally they worked on it because I've kept hinting and prompting.

My goal is bring it home. Not anytime soon.
I have three parts.

#1. Buy the valuable stuff from her. So I may sell it away.
#2. The other stuff needs to be donated.
#3. The sentimental stuff needs to be condensed into less than 45 tubs.

What this does.
I am planning to convert the dinning room into my wife's bedroom . It's what's best. The small backroom needs to turned Into where we keep her stuff. My plan is to put two shelves that can hold 15 tubs in a row. That way she had 45 tubs non of them stacked.

All she talks with me now is how I stole her stuff.
I walk into where she is and it's a hatred towards me. Well I have hatred too. But I've forgiven her, however I'm not going to let the hoard come back the way it was.

So I gave her the ultimatum. She must condense it down to 45 tubs , then and then will I bring back, and put it in the backroom, and her in the new bedroom.

P.S.
Everything is basically packed to move.
We are having difficulties with the property owner and the property management. Neither wants to fix busted in ceilings or leaky plumbing , or basement walls.

I'm prepared to move. And my wife plans not move with me. However she wants me to move here stuff.
I'm set up to have help.
I can fit all her stuff in one truck.
My wife will have two movers
All my daughter stuff in one truck.
My daughter will have two helpers.

I don't need help.
When we move it should take less than four hours.
To load trucks.
And less than four hours to unload trucks.
Will be a ten hour day.

But I suggest pack one day and leave stuff in trucks.
Then unpack the next day.

That's my back up if any helpers cancels.

I can drink my energy drinks and will survive.

I dont have to retrieve my wife's hoard.
But I'm sick and tired of being harangue by her over her hoard. If she/we can keep it contained on the finished back porch basically. And have bed back in the dinning room . She will be easy to move when the time comes. But I'm not ever taking it anywhere myself. If she takes it OK , if she leaves it it's going in the dump. And I'll blame the landlords.

I may sound a bit hostile, but I just don't want to live in the hoard any longer. I didn't know I could get it to this point, but now that I have I'm going to defend my home and my space.

A blessed Easter weekend to all who celebrate, and to all a good weekend either way. 🙂

Tillie, hope your eye is improving. This must be the month for eye stuff. On Monday I'm calling to see if I qualify for replacement eyeglasses. I've also got an idea on jerry rigging the ones I broke. If it works, I may not need to call about new ones. Stay tuned.

I'm taking the weekend to focus on spiritual things. I didn't plan to, but I slept till 10 minutes to 11:00 this morning! All those early mornings catching the cats in hopes the repair guy would come caught up with me. I had a few nutty dreams but my body appreciated the rest nonetheless.

So I'll re-enter the decluttering fray on Monday!

Don't eat too many chocolate bunnies or Marshmallow Peeps, y'all! 😉

If I don't claim 0 on my taxes then I owe, and if owe I put it off, if I put off. Sometimes I don't file, if I don't file I might not file for2_3 years.
So now I just claim zero, if I do t NEED the refund money, I add it to my ira
If I do owe I borrow from my ira

It's not the optimal solution for me , but I no longer stress about my taxes. And do them the first week of February.

Tillie follow the rx instructions, I scratched my eye 35 years ago. Just follow the directions of your optometrist. You'll be fine. In a week or two.
But don't make it worse. Well still be here.