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t’s suddenly February, and time to move on from all that festive fun and the usual post-festive lull. I don’t know about you? But I always start the year full of great ideas, a weight loss challenge, more exercise, less alcohol, less chocolate and lo and behold, by the end of the first week in January, I have reverted to my old ways. This year, I aim to do better (goodness that reminds me of my old school reports!) so, hang on to your hats. Spring cleaning and de-cluttering fill me with absolute dread, I start off in all good faith but after an hour, my spirit and energy flag, so I have decided that, as I cannot ‘eat the whole elephant in one go ‘, I will do it drawer by drawer, cupboard by cupboard and wardrobe by wardrobe.
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even if I could get them on, I definitely could not walk in them? No clue! Prince Charming, where are you to help when I need you? Deep breaths and into the recycling bag they go. I’m on a roll now. Next, it’s the boots that have broken zips which our wonderful cobbler sadly can’t mend, and quickly, into the bag they go too. It’s quite satisfying seeing what I no longer need be moved on, but the space at the bottom of the wardrobe seems no clearer although certainly cleaner, without fluff balls and spiders! A quick spritz with the polish and that’s one bit done. My next task is to empty the wardrobe of clothes, I read somewhere that it’s a good idea
I have just removed all the shoes from the bottom of my wardrobe, made friends with a spider and found lots of fluff balls, dragged the vacuum cleaner upstairs and just got started. Why do I still have stilettos that I can a) no longer squash my feet into and b)
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