Failing to declutter ... Wednesday 23rd Oct

The eldest goes out with a friend for the day, and the youngest goes out with his friends to play football. This leaves Mrs P and me at home. Fortunately Mrs P has a plan, which is that we empty the cupboard under the stairs.

Now to be fair to Mrs P it does need doing, and probably gets done every six months. However, what usually happens is we take everything out. Give the cupboard a dust and a vacuum, and then put everything back. Today I decide we need to be a bit more ruthless, and actually get rid of some of the things that have been in there for years, and have never been used. We have three Thermos Flasks, and so I get rid of one. We have three torches, we keep them all. We have a cocktail shaker - never used in nearly ten years – we keep it. A bag of old wallpaper, off-cuts, we keep them. Kids craft kit, we keep it, and so on.

Eventually I find a cut glass dish/bowl we have never used in nearly twenty years. I think “this we can give to a charity shop”, only to be told be Mrs P that it’s a family heirloom! I never knew we had any, and if we have why are they in the cupboard under the stairs. I give up and put nearly everything back in the cupboard, thinking I can try again in six months time.

Yours just moving dust around.

Jay