One of the best pieces of advice I received from a friend that I didn't take notice of until much later is stop explaining yourself. People don't want to understand you. They ask stupid questions, because they want you to squim, feel uncomfortable, change what you think, so you fit into their little box. That's how they see the world, and they can't see you're point of view.
I've come across this in life many times. And each time stupidly on my part I've tried to explain myself to others. Now I don't. Oh, they think I do, I give them an answer, but I don't go further than that, no point really, they've already made up their minds about you. Let them. If someone doesn't understand you, it isn't your problem it's theirs. Just carry on doing/saying/believing what you want. Don't wait until you are my age to implement this. Just answer their stupid questions with something vague and leave it at that. Or, as I have done recently, change the subject and not answered at all.
Anyhow, back to the day, Kev did the washing yesterday when we got back from the city. So we didn't need to be up so early, we eventually got up around 9am. We had some plans to reorder the wardrobe and drawers, clearing out any clutter and excess clothing as we did so. We ended up with two black bin bags of clothing. I then got ready and we went to the recycling bins with the bags of clothes. Those dropped off we had lunch out at Streza, then we did some food shopping at Heron. We walked home as the buses were as usual all over the place. It was quicker to walk back than to wait for one. It certainly got my steps in for today.
Kev got some more tile adhesive as he put some tiles on the shelving that hold my Living Dead Dolls and the chest of drawers in the bedroom.
A little bit more done on the home improvement front, and a little bit more excess removed. Like Kev said, we don't clear out great amounts at a time, but slowly we are getting rid of the accumulated clutter a little at a time. If we can do this on a weekly basis by the end of the year it will be very noticeable.
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