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July(ish) Challenge – Day 13

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Actual items out of the house/premise today = 0

But we accomplished so much!

Barb spent the day organizing and purging her work portable hard drive. ย Today she started with about 46 GB worth of files (this is when she decided to look about noon). ย No idea how many actual files, probably over 30,000. ย By the end of the day, there were 25.1 GB and 14,356 files. ย Many of those were duplicates.

John spent the day fixing the sprinkler system. ย About a month ago, kiddo #2 was home alone and heard a weird clunking noise in the bathroom. ย When she walked around the house to investigate, there was water all over the patio. ย John thought he fixed is a couple of weeks ago, but when he turned on the water, it obviously wasn’t. ย We must have had a pressure surge because 3 pipes had cracked/burst at the same time. ย Today was spent finding and fixing the other 2.

Total for the challenge = 240 items + a bunch of digital files!

Daily Average = 18.46 items per day. ย We definitely need to remove some items tomorrow!

7 responses to “July(ish) Challenge – Day 13”

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  1. Jen Avatar

    18 is a great number to work with!!

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    1. declutteringthestuff Avatar

      18 has been a great number. It also helps that we are off work right now. Thanks for the challenge idea!

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  2. purpleslobinrecovery Avatar

    Great going Barb! digital clutter is still clutter!
    John, your job was extremely important! You decluttered some broken pipes, I’m sure!

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    1. declutteringthestuff Avatar

      Our lawn can get watered! You should see his plumbing “piles” in the garage. It will be nice when he gets a chance to declutter that stuff.

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      1. purpleslobinrecovery Avatar

        Yay for green grass! He’ll get “around to it”!! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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        1. declutteringthestuff Avatar

          It is very not green right now. It will bounce back in a few weeks.

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        2. purpleslobinrecovery Avatar

          With all the rain we’re having, our grass should be evergreen by now!!

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