house cleaning -- part 16 of 487

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I haven't mentioned house cleaning in a while, but that's not because nothing has happened.

More and more bags of stuff have been sorted for recycle or donation, and have been hauled out of the basement.

The most significant thing that has happened is that the electrician has been here. She put more outlets (before we had one [1] outlet) and more lights in the basement, and, even more astonishingly, she brought the kitchen up to code. We now have properly grounded circuits (apparently the way the dishwasher was wired was just plain scary.....), and, most incredibly of all, we now have outlets over the counters on the wall with the fridge (before we only had outlets on the other side of the kitchen).

Ta da!!!!!! (Do enjoy the tasteful formica counter and backsplash we inherited when we bought the house.....)





The electrician is coming back, soon, to put the living-room outlet which we actually use for lighting on the switch which operates an outlet that you really can't use for lighting as it is right where you walk to get into the living room. It will be a real improvement to turn on those lights with a switch rather than plugging and unplugging them! The living room will still be seriously under-lit, but this is a big step forward.

She is also going to give us a properly-grounded circuit upstairs for the best computer. She's going to take the wires up through the closet right inside our front door, so we had to empty the closet (for the first time since we bought the house in 1985).

That was today's task.

Whew.

Most of the stuff we threw out, or set aside to recycle, was easy to bid "good bye!"

Some of it, not so easy. The mouton coat I wore in college (bought used, I replaced the lining and it needs it again). I really liked that coat. But it is HEAVY. It made my back and shoulders ache the last time I tried to wear it. Sigh. Ok, it's out in the minivan, waiting to go to the thrift store.



We swept out the closet (and I did the basement stairs, too, while we were at it), and carried stuff out to the car, and more stuff (empty shoe boxes, mostly) out to the garage to go to the not-a-dump to be recycled.

Then we deserved a reward.





We don't really want to put the stuff we are keeping back into the closet until after the electrician has finished her work.

I'm sure it will be good to look at a much-emptier closet.

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