Looking after ourselves
@Former-Member, a lot of what gets done at my Mum and Dad's house feels like nibbling around the edges. It's a big job and we can't get there very often. 
So we try to be Dorys and "just keep swimming, just keep swimming...". Clearing a countertop was a little job out of a huge task, but it was a job done.
Yay for bargains, @Former-Member! 
Not really any in-the-house decluttering happening at the moment, but that's because I'm concentrating on the out-in-the-yard jobs. Which are a mixture of decluttering and gardening.
It's so nice seeing bits and pieces of the yard coming into order. I'd love to see the same happen inside, but I think part of what makes inside harder is that the individual items are so much smaller and more numerous. If you make a neat stacked garden edge out of 100 or so bricks, it's made a big difference, both to the original storage site and the neatness of the garden. A "higgledy piggledy" stack of timber moved to a spot where it can be an "orderly and out of the way" stack of timber really frees up space.
A boxful of paperwork takes much longer to sort through, and doesn't free up anywhere near as much space.... But it is considerably lighter than either bricks or timber. 😛
Yup. Today I've been relocating some "building materials" a.k.a. bottles to make bottle walls out of, and started relocating flower pots. Found out that ants had made a multi level housing development out of one stack. 
I've seen some nice looking examples of bottle walls, and also some seriously ugly ones.... am hoping I can achieve the former type.
