Declutter Totals

 It was a fairly dismal day today. Husband and I did get out for a bit, but we were home fairly quickly. No great photos. It's rather blah out there right now. 

Here are the totals on the decluttering efforts this last week. Not as good as the previous week but as long as there is stuff leaving the home I'm not going to complain. 

    * 22 DVDS

    * 12 Books

    * 5 magazines

    * 2 notebooks

    * 2 crafting items

    * 5 mugs

    * 7 miscellaneous items

TOTAL of 55 items

Not bad. Hopefully they'll be more next week! 

Photo is of a tee shirt that made me smile this week

Start of the Week - no, it's Tuesday!

Ugh, the last couple of days that we've been back have been so hot. I'm not ready for it yet. I'm sweltering when I go to bed at night and sweltering in the morning. It certainly doesn't help that I'm of that menopausal age. It also doesn't help that we don't have the window air conditioners in yet. We don't have central air conditioning, just two window air conditioners - one for the downstairs and one for the upstairs. They aren't huge units, so it never gets really chilly, just even to stave off being truly unbearable. However, we take them out in winter and don't usually put them in until the beginning of June. We are supposed to get storms tonight and maybe, just maybe, the humidity will break, and things will be a bit more tolerable tomorrow. 

For now, most of the windows are open, but I don't like leaving them all open at night or when I'm away in the daytime. 

Our trip last weekend was to Ludington State Park. It's a beautiful state park set on the shores of Lake Michigan. It's a really popular place to camp. There are 355 camping sites at park - in three separate camping areas (including just 3 mini cabins). It's booked pretty solid during the summertime. There are lots of trails to walk including one to Big Sable Lighthouse. 

My favourite trail there to walk is the Lost Lake Trail. Perhaps it's just because of the name, but the scenery is really beautiful. Parts of it are quite deserted. 

These are all phone photos because - as usual - I'm behind with the camera pics lol. It was a great walk, between 4.5 and 5 miles all-in-all. We didn't rush around though. There is a shelter and seats to sit on along the trail. 

Today, I tried getting back in the swing of things. I cleaned out some bits that had been languishing on the top of the fridge. Baking items that I had good intentions of using. Sigh. They are cleaned and in the donate boxes. Three boxes ready to go again! Tomorrow I'm going to work on the coat closet again. I'm pretty sure there are things in there that were the 'kids' and they haven't used in years. I'm not even going to bother asking about them. I am just donating. We do still have one that lives with us but the other two haven't lived here for years. It's time for those things to go! 

Is anyone still decluttering? Do you find it an ongoing process? 

Almost another week...

Wow, it's almost another week done. I think this one has gone quite quickly! As I said in my last post, I had good intentions at the beginning of the week - including blogging each day - but they didn't quite come to realisation. Isn't that the way?

We had a couple of sunny days at the beginning of the week and then I'm not quite sure what happened! Yesterday there was even some snow - big, fat snowflakes that (I  must admit) made me a little grumpy. I have managed a walk each day, but they haven't been that pleasant, wet and muddy mainly. Sigh. I keep looking for anything growing but no signs yet. The lake where I walk is still mostly frozen over. I think the poor geese are getting more than a little impatient as there isn't a lot of open water for them to swim in or land on.

I am pleased to report that I have picked up both the knitting and stitching this week as well as getting in my craft room and doing a little bit of this and that. I have also managed to get rid of over 40 books in the last couple of weeks! I'm really proud of that one although there are many more to go. That number there just gives you a hint at the amount of books in the house. Sigh. I do have another bag ready to go to the library bookshop for donation when I next go down and some more to list. I watched a couple of the latest Hoarders episodes and I have to say a) I'm so grateful my house doesn't look like that and b) watching the episodes makes me want to clean/declutter more!