Clearing clutter and clatter in your life

[meercat]

Have you noticed clutter and clatter around your place?

*is your house like a typhoon hit it and full of clutter?

*is Your mind full of clatter.. problems, media clatter, family clatter telling you how you should do things, be, say, act.

Yes, i know google can tell us what to do.. but you might like to take a moment and look around your home, your head.

Its meercat den cleaning month here at the moment, my home is breeding notebooks..notes everywhere..what to do, what to say,where to go.

You know the kind of stuff, neat piles of it.. but lots of it, articles from the 80's.

Magazines, recipes, things to do..i could not use them in a lifetime.

The clatter.. no one needs to tell me what to do..i already have an army of meercats chattering in my head.

How to remedy this situation..you tell me!!

Cheers

meercat xx

[meercat]

Hi. I hear what ur saying re filing ..with bp and minimal brain cells left i cant remember where i put things.

The pics iv been sorting thru were very therapeutic..as i sorted them my life flashed before my eyes good and bad years. ..happy family, bday parties, lots of luv and fun, broken marriage, painful years of loneliness and desperation. i sat on the rug and poured my eyes out and when i stood up drying my tears i realised memories cant harm me anymore.

So as these thoughts have visited me im trying to put them in the "clutter clatter bin".

I still have a prob..what do i do with the scarey boxes..the ones that hold the past..full of gremlins?

meercat xx

[meercat]

Hi. I think ur on the right track. Pull out 10 plastic boxes chock full of memorabilia and gremlins. Mark boxes "1 to 10". Throw out the last 6.

As my meerkat rellies would say...

"Simples"

meercat xx

[meercat]

Hi v. Yes my brain is a bit cluttered. My home is tiny and minimalistic with a garage housing 10 plastic boxes that give me the creeps.

Id like to think if i make my life simpler, my thoughts will follow. But my life doesnt happen like that..after packing for hols i cleared the self doubt and past ghosts thinking id return a new person but within 24 hrs my life went from smooth and stressless to chaotic in 5 easy steps. Still trying to unravel the new probs that have replaced the old ones. Its never dull in this little meercat brain!

🤔 meercat xx

[meercat]

Hi. Im getting better with condensing the clutter..My long stitch days are over. Getting old and blind.id need to look so close id poke my eye with the needle.

Ah! What a good idea gum tree. Iv a beautiful Great Barrier Reef tapestry kit with frame and wools..i might list it..thanks for the hint.

I also have boxes of lovely beads and jewellery making stuff..do you think someone on gum tree would buy them? Ps i used to play keyboard..now i just sing karaoke. Have u ever heard a meercat sing? Run ......

meercat xx

[meercat]

Hi Dory, how r u? Everywhere i go, you appear. Are you multiplying? I found you the other day in a jewellers shop, yesterday you were in a little clear bubble on top of a sunscreen bottle at priceline. I must be loosing it..

meercat xx

[meercat]

Hi Tony. I can imagine sitting in a room full of stuff with nowhere to sit. A long time friend used to have her home like a cyclone but it didnt worry me. She was happy to see me and i cleaned up while she marked papers amongst the stuff. iv heard lately she now holds a highly organisational position.

I was cured of my antique collecting years ago. I received a lovely very valuable teapot. So wanting to impress mum-in-law i served our tea party using her teapot. Crackling noises as i poured the hot tea. i rushed the pot to the sink and it cracked into tiny pieces. So today antiques do not give me joy.

My mum gave me a full set of about 40 pieces of Royal Doulton crockery..very rare.When i moved into a new house i was trying to put the dinner set in a special place but there was no back on the shelf and it smashed on the ground.that was hard to explain when mum wanted it back.

meercat xx

[meercat]

Hi Paul. Mmm what did i do with my clothes when i sorted them. In a mad bp slump n frenzy recently i bagged all my clothes and tossed them in the garage ready to go to the op shop.Imagine my dismay when next day i went to w.i.r. to find all my clothes gone. A naked meercat is not a pretty site..nor is a 60+ lady.

meercat xx

[meercat]

Paul..maybe we cd have a "clear ur clutter day". If we r all doing it maybe it would make it easier.. like a virtual cleanup time.

Yeah iv posted in 6 lines. Not 20. This clear clutter n clatter seems to be working.

Cheers

meercat xx

[blondguy]

Hi Meercat

I really think this a great thread. I know you are talking about 'Clearing Clutter'.... is it okay if I can talk about 'hoarding' ? If not...no worries

I understand there is a huge difference but I thought Id check first 🙂

My Kind thoughts

Paul

[meercat]

Paul. I used to be a hoarder, are you one. after moving many times im thinking i only need a few special things.

Iv started choosing some items to keep which make me smile, and putting the things which make me sad on gumtree. These things have been hiding in the garage and conjure up bad memories.

Someone once told me "Touch an item once and let it go"

meercat xx