....im still having test after test on my new phone, but at least all the squares show up & they arent blinking like before, so its much easier!
Tatoulia, im so glad your place is steadily progressing! Im also glad there havent been any family drama problems! 😀
The peroxide worked wonders on the porch rot smell! I love peroxide!
Ive been reading about how to let go & immersing myself in that idea & prayers towards it & using it as my 'tapping' theme phrase & i think it might be starting to shift & sink in for me. My Mom responded to my email in a way that made no sense at all, and i need to accept that i will never be heard, understood, believed, or accepted. Period. Let it go & know she loves me anyway, Theres a play i saw on DVD called, 'Passing Strange' of the life story of a musician that could not accept his Mom didnt understand him. Once she died he had regrets that he stayed angry at her for that. A person can love, without understanding or agreeing with a person, especially their child~♡~

~☆~Ice coffee clinks!~☆~
Tillie, does that SCRAM PATROL make a high pitch noise, that only certain critters can hear? Cuz my cats would hear it too, if i set it on 'cats'. Even the one for mice sent one of my cats fleeing, years ago, even tho she wasnt supposed to be able to hear it. Im also gonna get big rat traps for the skunks & put them under the sink, after i undo the duct tape over the plumbing hole. Im glad you got things done & can enjoy the day, guilt free! You soooo deserve that!
When i had money, i went on extreme shopping binges. Much of that stuff was like a savings account to sell & barter, when i was desperate poor. Now i dont have much, but cant afford much, so im not really a 'hoarder' in the classic sense, but between economic concerns & sentimental value, im afraid to just toss most thjngs..
SubC, Congratulations on the pottery being appreciated & valued like that! I hope today is fantastic! 😀
I love mosaic & have thought of using my old broken things, as well as 'dust collecting, table & shelf taking up trinkets', into some sort of mosaic wall or something. Even buying thrift shop dishes, etc. to create some beauty for cheap & incorporate my old things, too~
....im gonna post this & then continue...

Tatoulia, what are you trying to finish? You finished the table with the lamps, didn't you?

Tillie, enjoy your resting day.

I took two boxes of samples to the store today, and instead of choosing, they asked to just keep all the samples and see which ones sell! PLUS they picked out three things they definitely want me to bring more of.

I stopped at a new thrift store while I was out and found 3 games for my classes and 5 pairs of jeans- total $23 and I am set for jeans for the next school year. (I was going to have to buy some new. Now I just need shoes.) the jeans are in the wash.

Good Morning Everybody 🙂
Iced tea "Clink!"

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
The lack of money is a big factor for a lot of people who's homes are deteriorating.
Steven got me one of these things
SCRAM PATROL
and it really works to make ALL critters run away quickly.
Maybe this would make the mean cat learn to stay away and it might possibly work on the skunks too.

Hi Mar 🙂

Good luck finding a way to get recyclables out.
Since the big bag is too big maybe take a smaller amount out of the big bag when you know you will be going near a drop off spot?

Lots of the time when decluttering, the place doesn't look like much progress has been made but in reality things are starting to improve and it takes a little while before you see the good results. 🙂

Hi Subclinical 🙂
Wishing you a fantastic day today!
No matter what you are doing (((hugs)))

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
WAY TO GO!!! YOOHOO!!!
You got the bathroom done!!! ;D
Great that you like the function of the new trash can.
Hope it makes life in your kitchen much more enjoyable and easier.
WTG! for keeping up with the floor challenge.
Learning new habits takes time and practice. 😉

All this work & cleaning the last several days has me feeling wrung out.
Happy today I am all caught up and can take it easy.

Bathroom sink, vanity & toilet clean. It's something, but doesn't qualify as finishing something. But it's something and for that I am glad.

Keeping up with kitchen. I'm feeling pretty pleased with the new trash/recycling combo.

I need to do some floor work. Sweeping the cleared areas. Leaving ning a new habit.

Good morning! Iced tea clinks! I have weight loss/nutritionist appt today.

Good to hear from everyone! Mar keep moving forward! And I always think an extra glass of water helps! I'm glad you are posting and I am glad you are here. Good work getting your things recycled at university! I am lucky in that my city has a robust recycling program so I can mix and match things in the bins.

SubC so good to hear from you! We will get through these terrible days together. . Anony, I do wish you had the funds to get your place fixed! I know that getting it to a more habitable condition would naturally lead to a better life for you.

For me, the money cuts both ways. The money got me in this position of owning too much, then the monetary value kept me from getting rid of it, and now it takes time and money to get rid of it and clean. That said, with everyone's help and Tillie's consistent and wise guidance, I have no compunction when getting rid of things. None. The money is wasted money. So I donate or try to sell. But I don't try to sell by keeping it here. The one piece I've listed on Craig's list is out in the common area hallway. (And no one here minds and in fact, it's beautiful. One of the people here thought long and hard when I offered it to him. Now if he wanted it, he could take it. No $ need be exchanged). So I've gotten over my wasted money in large part. I try not to ruminate. But then I live on the flip side: I have a tired, broken down kitchen and I don't have the funds to repair. Every time I buy something, I hold my breath if I'm using a credit card, that sort of stuff.

So money got me into this. But I (I should say we) will get me out if this.

Tillie all that fresh laundry! Hard work but worth it!

I just need to finish something. I just need to finish something.

Oh dear, the "yesterday was bad" comment was about me, the packing comment was for mar! I don't know how I got them out of order.

Anony, i'm Glad your kitty doesn't have a tumor! Cat bites are the worst. Mine had an abscess on his head from a cat bite once and it was awful. He had to be anesthetized and have a drain put in. I'm glad yours just needs abx.

I think money is a big one. If you can afford to buy stuff, you don't worry so much about holding on to things that might be useful. If you can afford to make things in good condition, it is less overwhelming to clean them. If you can afford a larger space, you have to make fewer hard decisions about what to keep. (If you could afford to hire someone to come build you a cute little house, I bet you could clean out the trailer lickety-spit.

Mar, can you get those bags into the recycling containers today? Can you make a plan to eat mostly unpackaged food for one day to help more go out than in? (You can buy fruits and vegetables without putting them in plastic produce bags - I do it all the time.)

Yesterday was bad. Today will be better.

You have packed things up! Progress!

~Ice water clinks!~
Mar, its good to hear you sounding in good spirits! Even if you havent made any headway on your room, at least it hasnt gotten any worse? 😀
I just managed to get my kitty's antibiotic medicine in him by further betrayal. I hope he will let me near him again...twice a day...?!?
Im feeling better. Knowing my cat is basically ok is a big help!
Im worried about money & i realize how big of a factor money is in every part of my situation concerning my place. I noticed it wasnt a category in the Buried In Treasures workbook & i wonder how much of a part it is in other people's situations? I feel its more than 50% of mine? ~☆~♡~☆~

Hello everyone!

I feel so sleepy, must go to the bed ... Good night!

~☆~Good evening!~☆~
Tillie, YEA, for getting all that landry done! Its funny, cuz i had an ipad that almost became a frisbee over the river And i detest computers just as much! Most of us older folks seem to do better with them than cell phones, but im a rare exception?! My kitty is amazingly not mad at me, hes actually being very clingy, after my betrayal earlier today. Im surprised he doesnt have kitty larengitis(sp?) Hes already come tell me the bad guy neighbor cat was out there again! Its going to be very difficult to get that cat to leave. I still have scars from his bully dad cat when attacked him for this same thing years ago.
My screen porch smells horrid from rot in all the rain. I poured a bottle of peroxide on it. The overall deterioration is overwhelming...another panel fell off the front today....there are at least 2 ceiling skunks....but i do have a roof over my head & basic comforts~

Good Evening Everyone 🙂

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
So the kitty has a bad injury that is abscessing?
Has it been drained and cleaned, did he get medicine?
((((HUGS)))) Poor Kitty 🙁
I'm glad that you can now worry a little less about your cat (((HUGS)))
I have never used a cell phone so I have no idea how to work them.
I hate telephones with a red hot passion so I refuse to have one.
This message board works fine on my laptop PC and tiny Android tablet.

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
YEA!!! for low humidity!!! 😀
Wishing you all of whatever you need to push on through and finish something! (((HUGS)))

Hi Subclinical 🙂

Hi CriticalMass 🙂

Hi Porter 🙂

Been busy ALL day today.
Did 5 loads of laundry.
Two loads of regularly washed stuff and 3 loads of stuff only washed sometimes.
Did a bunch of other this & that too.
Also watered a lot outside. Supposed to be HOT tomorrow.
It's after 8:00pm and I need to get to bed.
Good night 🙂

~Thank you, Tatoulia!~
My cat was badly bitten, likely, by the neighbor cat. Im so releived its not a tumor! ~♡~

Hi Anony. Sending you strength. Some days I'm like that, where I can't stop crying and all my worries have piled up. Please know that you are not alone.

I will email Cory now about the website. It's still not mobile for me, either.

I am home from work. Today is humidity free! I once again was nice and early for work so I left by 4:45. I walked to our halfway point and BF picked me up from there.

My to do list includes Finish Something. All I want to do is finish. I am so close.

~♡~Good morning & coffee clinks!~♡~
I was hoping the format on here would be better on this new phone, but its not. There may be some way to change the setting for mobile. The phone store has a service where i can pay them to teach me how to use it. Im so neurotic about this new technology. I dont like the world being like it is now. Just being in that high tech store really freaks me out. I cant stop crying. Im worried about money. Im worried about my cat. I cant eat or sleep. Im a wreck. I can usually make myself feel better, but i cant seem to stop crying...

~♡~Greetings, with my new phone~♡~
The letter to my sister is on paper somewhere in a big baggie. Its very strange that its not in the plastic bin id've sworn on my life it was in! It came up missing that bizarre week i got so sick, missed the earthbag building workshop, pulled muscles in my back & had that bad reaction to the curcumim. It coming up missing fit right into that week! The effort & obstacles involving that letter were quite extreme! I feel like after all that, i definitely wanted to send it?!
Its typical of how things have always been with my birth family. Things always look worse than they are, like im lying, they never hear me, understand me, believe me or accept me.
Im worried about my cat. Hes had something going on with his tail & it could be a tumor. Im hoping for an appointment tomorrow, if they can fit me in. Its so strange how cats get suspicous with no knowledge, like they can read our minds?!!
....well, here goes the anti-spam test....

Hi Subclinical 🙂
Happy to see you doing better (((HUGS)))
Good luck and best wishes for the possible pottery outlet.
WAY TO GO! for laundry & dishes and inviting a friend over!
I hope they accept the invite and you both have a relaxing and enjoyable time. 😉

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
About the lost letter...
Could it possibly be a Freudian slip?
Meaning that you wanted to write the letter to get it all out and said
but not send it because it was just something you needed to do just for you.
Like that line in the Moody Blues "Knights In White Satin".

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
You may not have done the bathroom, yet
but you did do so much this last month!

I still haven't cleaned the pantry.
It's not messy or cluttered, just dusty.
Very dusty.
But tomorrow I have other things that I must do.
Laundry, water stuff in the yard and wash my hair.

Hello SubC! I've been thinking about you!!! That is a bit scary to take your wares to be shown! I'm proud of you and pleased that your talents are appreciated!

Tillie you did so much! And I've done so little! But forge ahead!

Anony congrats for getting your cans off the floor! Good work! I figured the mask idea wasn't a solution yet was hoping it would offer some help.

I can hear the boxer and thank you Tillie for your interpretation. It is a favorite song.

Ok Anony If you were writing a letter to your sister on your phone, did you check your "drafts" folder in your email app? If you were writing it someplace else, do you know where? Meaning where were you writing it? Perhaps I can help.

I did not accomplish the bathroom. But I still had a good day.

~♡~SubC, YEA!!!~♡~The pottery store offer sounds so exciting!~♡~You are so multi-talented!~♡~
~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~

Hi all.

Doing much better today.

Load of laundry, load of dishes, bought and put away groceries, and invited a friend over for next week. No reply yet and am trying not to obsess. It will be the first time I have gotten together with this friend outside work if she comes.

I also followed up on a possible opportunity to sell pottery at a new shop. Someone Dd kind of knows received one of my pieces as a gift, and when she heard that this store is looking for a potter, she sent Dd a note, and Dd said it was a compliment and I had to follow up, so I made the call, and I have an appointment to show my stuff on Wednesday, which is very scary to me.

And I didn't sleep well tonight, so now I am exhausted.

But I am cheering for Tillie's clean house, and tatoulia - enjoying your successes, and Anony, also happy to hear your progress, but putting energy into wishing you better and better things! - clean air and no skunks!

I hope porter had a good Father's Day.

OOPS
Bathroom
you are thinking of doing the bathroom. ;P

~Ice coffee clinks & good afternoon to all!~
Tatoulia, yes, cats laying on their backs ive seen. I didnt know thats what you meant! Wearing a mask will help a certain amount, but not enough, unless i live with it on while inside. The amount of stuff thatd get stirred up is not gonna just settle back down after working on it every time. Im not saying a mask would not help, but its a bit like a bandaid on a major wound...except the wound doesnt necessarily need to even be opened up...
I just finally got the boxes of canned foods on the kitchen floor put away. Things have been easier lately to find space for & make decisions on where & how to store, etc....im still very confused about that letter to my sister. It makes no sense its gone....unless i just shouldnt even send it, anyway....?

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
We cross posted!
YEA! for new double kitchen can!!!
Good luck doing the kitchen & WTG! for litter box doing. ;D

Good afternoon 🙂
Just 12:30 here and I just finished lunch.
Cleaned the heck out of the bathroom
even washed the cupboard under the bathroom sink and did under the kitchen sink too.
The floors are all washed to perfection even though the floors themselves are far from being perfect.
Washed off all remote controls, light switches, door knobs, top and sides of fridge, window sills and every other surface that I could use my scrub water with Pine sol disinfectant cleaner.
Washed kitchen trash can too.
Still have more vacuuming and dusting to do but right now I am taking a break before I continue. 😀

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
To me it means someone who has been all alone, on their own with no support of family or friends all of their life.
They have been severely abused verbally, emotionally and physically.
They do whatever they can to support themselves but never been lucky enough or educated well enough to earn a proper living wage.
One of those shabbily dressed people you often see walking along the side of the highway and wonder what their story is.
They want to die but they also do NOT want to die.
"I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains".
Because their spirit is a fighter and will continue living their life the best as they can.
Even though people will still continue to hurt them and poverty is a hard life
there is something in their character that keeps them trying to make a go of it.

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
WTG! for keeping on with it all! 😀

Hi Subclinical 🙂
Thinking of you (((HUG)))

My new dual recycle/garbage can is here it's looking okay. It's about the size I pictured it. I'm going to break down box it came in and take to outdoor recycling. My goodness it is hot and sticky out.

I cleaned kitty's litter box and I have my garbage waiting for 5 o'clock. My friend loves my new hallway table/lamp set up. I sent her the picture today. I'm glad she likes the lamps as much as I do. I'll get photo link put up at some point. I have to remember how I did it.

I haven't yet cleaned the bathroom sink and toilet. But I must.

Tillie that is a long list! Keep us posted on how you are doing.

Anony, when cats get hot, they lay on their backs, spread eagle. It's hysterical.

Anony I think you should consider wearing a mask. I have some here that I purchased at the pharmacy. I wear them in extreme circumstances.

So far all I've done is run the dishwasher and did a few small loads of laundry. I've shredded a paper or two. I'm closer.

Need to keep up with doing things.

~♡~Good morning!~♡~Coffee clinks!~♡~
Tillie, i cried when i read the lyrics to 'The Boxer'. To me, it meant he had held on to the pain, anger & defensiveness, then i read what it is supposed to mean & there were all different interpretations, but none like what id thought?!?
What do you think it means?
Tatoulia, your house must be simply spectacular with all youre doing?! You are on such a wonderful roll! I didnt understand the kitty airing out her privates, which is odd, cuz i generally understand all kitty jokes & behavior?
I had a great day yesterday! I got clearer on many things! The monsoon season does always 'highlight' how ragged & disgusting my trailer is, with rain leaks, bugs, musty smells & more deterioration from the scorching sun season. My 'letting go' issues with family need to extend to my place, too. One thing ive noticed recently is most times i move stuff around, i feel my throat being irritaed. Im concerned a full out sorting, tossing & cleaning of this place, would not only take a good bit of what time is left of my life, but very possibly make me ill, too~

Good Morning Everybody 🙂
"Iced Tea Clinks!"

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
WAY TO GO! for keeping up with Maintenance and for continuing to decrease the pile of clutter!

Today I will be cleaning the bathroom, washing the kitchen & bathroom floors & vacuuming the carpet.
Also plan to wipe, wash & dust surfaces, as needed.
It's another cool day today but will be heating up by tomorrow.

Iced tea clinks!

Will do a few small loads of laundry today. I am keeping up with kitchen and dining room. I think I should do bathroom sink, vanity and toilet today.

The pile of clutter has decreased. I will continue to move forward with it. Tonight is trash night, so I'll try to use that as a motivator.

Heading into bed. Made more room in a different closet and got more things put away. Made a pitcher of freshly brewed ice tea. Should be tasty in the AM.

Goodnight dear friends.