more about decluttering…

Well, this weekend went quite well with my decluttering and purging.

3 bags of clothes and shoes went to the Recyclo-Centre and so did the bed base.

They didn’t take the mattress because of a small hole but it will be going into the garbage this week.

I cleaned and took away things in my closet and drawers and though I would like to make more stuff dissapear eventually and there are still two drawers in my room that need to be done it makes such a huge difference already. But I now no longer have sock with holes or sock that slide down. I no longer have underwear that I ashamed of and no longer have any bras that don’t fit or are from my teen years.
I also tackled the bathroom. Cleaning out old old makeup that I never use and would never use again, the hundreds of extra elastics, hair clips etc that are so old that they break if you use them… old meds, soaps, bath oils etc and even a few perfume bottles… 2 of them made me a bit sad since they were given to me by Miguel many years ago. But I would never use them and they have just been collecting dust for years…. besides I still have the tin box that they came in that holds a few pictures and a few other souvenirs from my childhood.

2-3 weeks ago I had also started in the kitchen. and though it is not finished yet, it is pretty much half done and already makes things so much easier…

With the MDC thread I am keeping a running tally of the number of items that have permenantly left my home. A few things have been rounded off to a smaller number because I just stopped counting at one point… but the numbers are great and I hope to get a lot more… so to share and keep thing going… I have added the running tally to the sidebar here too…

Tired of Clutter

I am really tired of clutter… I want to get rid of stuff and I think I am really ready to do it… mentally of course since energy is a bit lacking at the moment…

I have listed two items on Kijiji (like Craiglist)

A high chair that is way too bulky and I don’t want to deal with anymore and a Excersaucer that we don’t use…

I called the recyclo-centre, (a local community buisness that sells items that people donate (really cheap) and then hires adults that have never had a job and have not been in school for a few years to give them experience.) and asked them to come pick up a double bed that is just taking up space in the play room.

Now what I would love to do is go though each room and take everything away that we don’t and will not use. It is a bit of a daunting job but I really need to do this… it is so hard for us to keep the house clean because of the clutter. So many things don’t have a place of their own and just gather up on surfaces…

Two weekends ago I attacked a few Kitchen cubards and really cleaned them up… it feels great!!

I joined a challenge on MDC for the month of October… get rid of 500 items. It may be a lot but I think that it will be easy also…

I am just tired of having stuff… stuff that I never use. Stuf that I don’t think that we will ever use, or we can replace one day if we really need it again…

So my goal is to get rid of things, big and small. To have a place for everything. To be able to keep the house clean easily. To change my bad habits of leaving things hanging around.

So at the top of my head:

  • I have Linens that I no longer need… (we had quite a few sets of sheets for our old double bed that is in the guest room and since the bed is rarely used we don’t need as many anymore since we have a King)
  • a recumbant excersise bicycle that is never used
  • Put the remaining sheets etc (after I got rid of the extras) in the cubards in the laundry room
  • Put away all of the toddler size sheets and blankets that we will not be using until the next babe is a toddler (and we don’t need as many as we have)
  • Get rid of kids clothes that I don’t like and that I do not want to hand down.
  • Get rid of the ugly dresser that is in the guest room and that is housing the linens and wrapping stuff.
  • Try to repair of get rid of our old TV
  • Get rid of clothes that I no longer wear
  • Get rid of toys that I don’t like and that the kids do not play with
  • Clean up the bathroom cubards, throw out anything that is expired or that I don’t use anymore.
  • Get rid of a few cloth dipes that we never use…

There are so many more things… but at least that is a start…

wow… this kid is active!

My pregnancies with Xavier and Colin were quite simular.. they were both posterior, both in the same spot the whole pregnancy, you could hear the heart at the same place for both, the placenta was very low lying each time and though they were active it was not much and most of the movement was limited to one place on my tummy and right below my ribs on the far right side. My labours with them played out mostly the same way also…

This baby however, is all over the place… was tranverse for quite a while, has been breech and is now head down most of the time. It turns and punches and kicks and is having tons of fun in there it seems… a few times int he day and then for an hour or two in the evening there is non-stop movement… kicks, stretches and it often feel like it is trying to get out from the top of my uterus and right through the skin…

I really have a big feeling that labour this time will be completely different… maybe I will be lucky this time and have no back labour… It is hard for me to imagine though since I haven’t had “normal” labour before… All of the contractions I have experienced were in my lower back, though I could feel the contractions in front it was the back pain that stuck out and In each case they turned within minutes of coming out… so I really didn’t get to feel what a normal labour would be like…

At the moment this babe is LOA… a great position for a quick birth… I would love for it to stay like this… I would love to labour without back pain, or at least ALL back pain…

Anyways… this babe is always moving, the placenta is high and instead of being stuck in a low OP postition and not being able to move… this babe is having a ball…

Just a few more week left… I am starting to get nervous…

toe… better?

Ahh… the words of Colin each time he kisses my sore toe better… which happens to be quitea few times a day… or even a few times an hour…

But yes… it is finally getting better… I have been changing the bandage each night after the boys go to bed and though I tried a few times to leave it in the open air it hurt lik crazy to do so and it would start throbbing and really being painful… Yesterday morning when I woke up it was a lot less sensitive and then after I took a shower last night I was able to leave it air out for about an hour before it really started to hurt… then I bandaged it up again and it helped… (I am still too chicken to not have it bandaged while I sleep though… just the thought of the blankets touching it!!! Ughh!!)

Anyways… This is something that I wouldn’t wish on anyone… it still sends chills to my spine thinking about when it happened…

met with the doula…

Well… the doula came by yesterday and the boys were great and really let me talk with her… I found that we really hit it off but whole she was here my nose started to get stuffed up, my eyes were tearing and I started feeling off and even took a bit of my inhaler a bit later on…

This morning it hit me…she might be a smoker or live with a smoker and it was maybe an allergic reaction as I feel that I am getting more and more sensitive… I e-mailed her and was right. Both her and her DH are smokers… she asked if she could recommend me to other Doulas that she knows… I have a feeling that that might be best.

It is a bit sad because I really liked her… but it is something that I just can’t deal with… I don’t want to start tearing up, get stuffed up and have trouble breathing in labour…

I may meet with another Doula… and if not well I will just stick to my original plans of ust having Simon, the kids and maybe a friend or two depending on if they can make it or not…

Maybe I can talk to them a bit more and get them ready for what may or may not happen in birth and really talk to them about what I expect from them…

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