It feels like a jigsaw with too many pieces!
Still unpacking and decluttering as I go. The donation box is filling up and so is the bin! The building work has given me so much motivation because I've had to see what was squirrelled away, that I didn't use or need.
I'm very close now but I'm working to a hard deadline. We have visitors arriving in less than a week. If I haven't sorted, they have no beds as everything from downstairs went upstairs during the work 🤣 I'm determined not to just shove stuff back in the cupboards just because I have room for it, so today I've decided to try something different, purely for speed.
If stuff has an obvious use or place - it goes away. If it's rubbish - bin. No use for it - donate box. But there are extra jigsaw pieces that aren't part of the current puzzle and I will go through them....but not over the next few days. So they're getting a designated To Sort box. As soon as my visitors have gone, I can go through the box at my leisure (maybe half hour at a time while I'm having a coffee) and it won't take long to deal with.
I'm feeling very motivated but I have to prioritise right now to get to the point where the house is visitor ready (not perfect, but ready) and this feels like a good way to do it. Wish me luck.
Hope you're all having a good day too.
Posted Jul 29, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC