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The thoughts and observations of a 50 something woman.

how to have fun decluttering your house

How To Have Fun Decluttering Your House

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When I’m not busy singing with Pop Chorus or making films for my YouTube channel – I spend my days racing against time to get my house decluttered ready to have it altered so my mum can come and live comfortably with us.

I’m really not good at decluttering though! I’m terrible because I get so sidetracked by every tiny thing and so stuff goes backwards and forwards between the keep or get rid of boxes about a million times!

So I wrote this after my first real day of decluttering when I spent so long messing around with stuff I was finding, I really didn’t get very far. I wonder how many people can relate!

I’d love you to tell me but no matter what I do, I can’t get my comment section to work since I disabled it when I didn’t have time to deal with comments.

I’ll try again – but if it doesn’t work, you can always contact me via the contact form and I’ll try to find a way to publish your comments. Yay – it works!

I hadn’t checked the discussion box at the top of the page!

Shout out to Melinda of Purple Slob In Recovery who is the Queen of Clean and Jen at The Hidden Hoarder who also knows the decluttering struggle really well!

Fun Tip No 1

  • Even though you are on a mission to get rid of junk – make sure you find small insignificant things, such as those miniature screw drivers you bought in a charity shop 15 years ago (because they would ‘come in handy’), but never used and spend an hour obsessing over whether you should keep them for another 15 years…or not. Make a game of it! Keep moving them from the ‘Keep’ box to the ‘Charity’ box while singing the chorus of the Hokey Cokey – not forgetting to ‘shake it all about’ at the appropriate moment.
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Historic Burial Ground Decays Behind A Car Wash

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Historic Jewish Burial Ground Neglected and Lost In a Sea of Cars

As people scurry around Ipswich in their cars, many will come very close to a site of huge historic significance. A site that even has a connection to Suffolk’s celebrated, world-renowned artist, Sir John Constable.

However, many will be unaware of the sacred, historic burial ground where the remains of the town’s once thriving Jewish community were laid to rest.

Why? Because despite the deep and interesting history attached to the site, it appears to be neglected and largely ignored as part of the town’s rich and diverse heritage.

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Maple Leaves Forever

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Maple leaves

Always something there to remind me.

Maple leaves falling in Autumn always bring echoes from another life for me. A life that was cut short with no warning.

But I survived and came home to England with two beautiful little reminders of the life I’d had in their father’s country. There have been 31 Autumns since I returned and my sons have grown into fine, strong men with babies of their own. Canada is nothing more than a bitter sweet memory because I never went back.

But there is a third souvenir from my old life. When my parents came to see me in 1978, I lived on the leafy Rusholme Road in Toronto. One day my father picked up a ‘helicopter’ that had spun down from one of the beautiful Sugar Maples on my street.

He put it in his jacket pocket and forgot about it.

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