True for me as well--but often done with a sense of panic or desperation (grin)!

Another (more positive feeling) situation with similar results for me is when I'm waiting for someone to arrive to pick me up--if they are delayed and let me know, I start doing some chores and it's amazing how much can get done so quickly. I sort of wish people would be late more often? Just kidding! Maria often recommends we set a timer for a short amount of time and work quickly--worked great for us.

MzBroome wrote:

Slightly OT, but i've noticed how much more de-cluttering etc. I can get through when I know someone is coming to the flat. Have you found a way to get this energy going for the everyday decluttering we do??
My main goal for January is still garden-related,hopefully without the attention of last years Giant Spanish Slugs!!  Cheers 

Yes, I've found that a plan breaking jobs into smaller tasks helps me focus on the goal. It also helps me to keep a journal to keep track of what I'm doing and where I left off. So many times I get way-laid by life, and have to stop for weeks or months before returning. Keeping a journal or log helps with that. Yesterday I tackled a pile of papers and tossed many. Today I was side-tracked and scanned my old baby book. You are right, scanning and posting to Ancestry is an excellent way to share photos and documents to "cousins" we've never heard of or will likely never meet.

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Ali.gray wrote:

After 22 months I am getting a kitchen, so will be taking the dishes from the entertainment center, the food from the bookcase, the dog food from containers on the floor, the coffee maker & rice cooker from the table, the cleaning supplies from next to the fridge on the floor & organizing my lower cabinet & upper floating shelves when they are installed later this month. Also will be building, painting & putting shelving (2j into my wash house to get my laundry stuff, painting, pest control & gardening stuff out of piles on the floor from around the washing machine. Wish me luck that my contractors come through for the month!

UPDATE: wallpaper & floating shelves are up, lower cabinet built & delivered. Waiting on counter top & sink to arrive. Designed & bought lumber for 2 shelving units for wash house - hoping this week to measure, cut, build & start painting. Rain has hampered project, I don’t have a garage. 

I've been slowly plugging away at those unorganized family tree computer files, going through each of our surnames, and I'm up to the "F's"!. Someone asked you recently about tossing her old paper photos since she doesn't have close family to pass them along to. The family tree websites, where people build their tree is a great solution as people post their old photos there with the person's "page". It is such a joy to find photos of family, close and distant from the past that I've never seen before. Once I posted an old photo of a young girl from my mom's album, and it turned out that a daughter of that girl today was so excited as it was one she had never seen before. It made the bit of work worthwhile.