{"id":11641,"date":"2024-02-10T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2024-02-11T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T21:21:21","slug":"home-de-cluttering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11641","title":{"rendered":"HOME: De-Cluttering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7091-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11638\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7091-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7091-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7091-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7091-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7091.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Moving these on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Teresa and I are, so it seems, hoarders. And in our tiny Victorian end-of-terrace, it just doesn\u2019t work. so it\u2019s time to get rid of more stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s trip to the dump sees us moving on a pair of chairs. I was going to strip and and paint them. But it turns out\u2026 I ain\u2019t! Just need to thin things down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7092-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7092-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7092-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7092-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7092-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7092.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A door for the dump.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also I finally got shot of a very nice Freecycle solid wood door. This was intended for our new front door. But it was too big. And in the end I just didn\u2019t get around to using it. So I chopped it up, and dumped it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I should\u2019ve kept it? Purely for the timber. But my sanity currently demands that I jettison stuff. A cluttered and chaotic home is not conducive to calmness, for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7090-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7090-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7090-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7090-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7090.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An unused outdoor light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, we got rid of this \u2018carriage lamp\u2019 style light. I\u2019ve put a few similar-ish lights up, around the place. But this one just lay around making the environs look \u2018orrid. So it\u2019s off to the knackers yard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise we bid adieu to a load of foam matting. I\u2019d used it for a while in the workshop. But then it\u2019d been taken out, and just left hanging around, adding to the \u2018hillbilly heap\u2019 vibe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s still <em>sooo much more<\/em> to be got rid of. But it\u2019s always good to chip away; little by little\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa and I are, so it seems, hoarders. And in our tiny Victorian end-of-terrace, it just doesn\u2019t work. so it\u2019s time to get rid of more stuff! Today\u2019s trip to the dump sees us moving on a pair of chairs. I was going to strip and and paint them. But it turns out\u2026 I ain\u2019t! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOME: De-Cluttering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-31L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11676,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}