Minimalism Monday And More

At the homestead, my personal space : May 8,2017

Everyday I manage to wash a load of laundry because I am a full time caregiver and sheets get changed more and more bath towels and wash clothes/ hand towels gets used. Plus I am OCD about clean dish towels and dish washing clothes.

I have not made it to the master bedroom closet/ my closet but I made that a goal for May, so here is keeping my fingers crossed!

I did a big clean up on Saturday, I went out and cleaned off the deck. I had pitting soil and pots everywhere, I have baby plants that I was hardening off so I got the bench back for the houseplants when I moved those. I rearranged the tree`s and large plants. I washed off the glass table top and the chairs and opened the umbrella. I have a nice flow of chi now coming onto the deck and into the house.

I am now cooking outside as well.

I swept daily and vacuumed once last week. The dusting has been weekly as well.

I have been putting some things away for storage that is not needed out, not ready to get rid of it but its going slowly but surely.

How was your passed week of cleaning?

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I grew up seeing hoarders and how their homes looked and smelled, however, I never knew what to call it. When I had grown up I heard the label " hoarder" found out that was exactly what those people were doing.

I was raised minimal but did not know it, so the lifestyle followed me till I met someone who had hoarding tendencies and we began to share a home.

I am not sure if people know this or not, when someone is at the edge of being a full hoarder people seem to "give" to them and its never really anything worth getting and should have been sent to the county dump, but the person takes the stuff only to realize later its just trash and it will never be fixed or a new one if cheaper than fixing the junk.

Well...... 

Guess who is stuck cleaning out the junk that was collected up by the hoarder, me! But I will say that I am at fault too because I allowed it to stay there and pile up. 

But its not trash as in food containers and stuff like that, its dry rotted 8-track tapes, old tools that were already broken, dried up paint in gallon buckets, torn up radios etc..... just trash!

A basement that was filled with it, all moldy or mildewed. 

I have been working on this place more in the last year than ever, I have the top of the house cleared of this type of junk/trash and all that is left is a few good pieces of furniture.

I did clear a couple rooms down in the basement a couple months ago and began working on that again this past week. It is amazing how much stuff can get in a place after 23 years.

I noticed that someone kicked in a door in the back of the house to the basement, but they did not do me the favor of taking anything :)

While doing the trash removal I am also getting a few repairs done so that I can rent this place out, as it sits its not making any money but I am still paying property tax.

I still have a long way to go till it can be rented but slow is better than nothing at all.

What do you have in your basement? Or that closet that is not opened often?

By Andria Perry

Photo By Andria Perry