Author Archives: john graham

Older People are CLUTTER

Posted on April 9, 2017 by john graham

For weeks now I have been writing about clutter and in the meantime politicians have been assailed from all sides by concerns about the perilous situation of funding for social care for older people.  Then it occurred to me that … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears and Cleaning Materials

Posted on April 6, 2017 by john graham

Way back on Step 22 of John’s de-cluttering journey he thought he had de-cluttered the clutter of  cleaning materials.    How wrong can you be? The clutter Bears have now taken over and are going to be much more thorough than … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears and Origami

Posted on April 4, 2017 by john graham

In our last Bear blog you may have noticed that Little Ted was not in the photograph.  Actually he doesn’t like cleaning toilets anymore than John does, but Little Ted thinks he knows rather more interesting Japanese tidying techniques than cleaver clogs John. So he sneeked … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears and Toilet Rolls

Posted on April 2, 2017 by john graham

This time John has a little help from his bear friends, because this de-cluttering is becoming unbearable.    We will continue to apply John’s Japanese management techniques and find a simple bear solution.    This should be interesting because we will use a quality improvement … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears Take Over

Posted on April 1, 2017 by john graham

George Simons started all this off with his great idea about a crash pad for teddy bears.   Then John suggested the crash pad might be in the garden shed, but we’re certainly not happy with that and before John … Continue reading →

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Clutter Teddies

Posted on March 30, 2017 by john graham

Following on from my last post.   Seems like these little guys rather like Georges’ idea of a cushion crash pad, although they definitely don’t want it to be in the garden shed. That would be cruelty to animals ! … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 29 Clutter Census

Posted on March 30, 2017 by john graham

I have had an idea that might help me with my decluttering and it is one that I haven’t seen in Walt and George’s book.    I have always liked numbers. — facts and figures — and my management experience … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 28 Stamps

Posted on March 28, 2017 by john graham

I have been de-cluttering books in the study for the last 5 hours, that is covered in my earlier blogs.   But I found one nice surprise at the end. Just when I was getting hungry, exhausted and fed up. … Continue reading →

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Welsh Housing Report 4

Posted on March 26, 2017 by john graham

“Older people at Home in Wales” This is the fourth of my series of comments on the report entitled “Our Housing Agenda:  Meeting the Aspirations of Older People in Wales”.  (You can see my earlier posts by clicking Welsh Housing … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 27- All Tied Up

Posted on March 21, 2017 by john graham

Back in October last year I started to write about de-cluttering and one of my first references was to my ties.  (Look up “Clutterhead” in the Archive for October 2010 to see the post ).     My attachment to my … Continue reading →

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