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The (Flylady inspired) Anniversary Declutter Mission

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  • toottifrootti
    toottifrootti Posts: 6,427 Forumite
    Hi Dusty honey - yes i know its a ridiculous list but its made me realise the jobs that are needing doing - the cleaner helps keep the flat respectable but its all the extra jobs that get missed - anyway i have edited my post and deleted a couple of duplicates and things that I maybe dont need to do so it looks better-ish!!!!!
    paper is going to be my bugbear for a while so i think I might alwys try to do paper on a monday on my flylady list and it might become a better habit - here's hoping!
    thanks for your concern angel
    toots xx
    Peace will be mine
    could do better - must try harder
    Live each day as if its your last
    DFW Nerd #1000 Proud to be dealing with my debts

  • Dustykitten
    Dustykitten Posts: 16,507 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Done a few more bits off my list - going to sharpen the knives next.

    Like you Toots paperwork is the biggest job. Whilst I've almost done the bits I selected it is an ongoing thing. I'm going to follow you lead and try to do an hour of paperwork every Monday.

    Also need to put some more bits in the car boot pile in the loft; hoping to do a sale at the end of April.
    The birds of sadness may fly overhead but don't let them nest in your hair
  • toottifrootti
    toottifrootti Posts: 6,427 Forumite
    Toots' List


    This is where I still am - havent achieved much! Work in progress:rotfl:
    1st Paper Monday
    instruction booklets and guarantees
    bank stuff
    do filing
    photos
    sort through box of cards for re-using in card making etc
    kids pictures
    books
    magazines etc (2 gone only another 200+ to go:p)

    2nd Cotton Tuesday
    [STRIKE] ebay leather trousers, 2 velvet dresses, navy skirt, brown skirt
    try on cropped trousers, fat face top, pink skirt, green skirt,
    check t-shirts and shorts[/STRIKE] not ebayed - put to charity shop
    mend navy blue cardigan

    3rd Leather Wednesday
    polish brown boots
    polish black boots
    polish black shoes
    ebay jane norman belt and brown woven belt
    ebay navy shoes
    ebay cowboy boots

    4th Linen Thursday
    Deal with striped curtains - ebay/ freegle or charity bag
    Iron with starch my white tablecloths

    5th Wood Friday
    Sorting sheds - this will need a week!!!!
    2 x Desk drawers sort out

    6th Iron Saturday
    Dig out bike from shed and clean to give to C
    Garden tools/lawnmowers again get them ready for spring - if I can reach them if I havent done the shed!!!!
    baking tins need a home

    7th Wool Monday
    Knitting wools/fabric box - give them a sort, how about HH working on a project you have left for a while
    Sort your sewing box

    8th Bronze Tuesday
    Bronze to me is coins so today is anything money related
    find my bronze dog

    9th Pottery/china Wednesday
    Sort out any china that you don't use, do you need it

    10th Tin/Aluminium Thursday

    11th Steel Friday

    12th Silk Saturday

    11th Lace Sunday

    its only a little less but it all helps!!!
    toots xx
    Peace will be mine
    could do better - must try harder
    Live each day as if its your last
    DFW Nerd #1000 Proud to be dealing with my debts

  • kezlou
    kezlou Posts: 3,283 Forumite
    Week 4
    Paper Monday
    [STRIKE]put bills away[/STRIKE]
    do filing - one box left
    [STRIKE]photos[/STRIKE] - decided to use card instead, hand made and cheaper
    kids pictures - buy frames to go on walls
    books - sort out for charity shop

    Cotton Tuesday
    [STRIKE]sort out my wardrobes[/STRIKE]
    sort out socks ready for bin/rags etc
    Any woolen garments to sort, jumpers, coats, hats, gloves, scarves - after the winter we have had if you have not worn them then you won't so get rid!-still using them brrr
    [STRIKE]Knitting wools/fabric box - give them a sort, how about HH working on a project you have left for a while i started, but still yet to finish
    Sort your sewing box and do that mending i started, but still yet to finish[/STRIKE]
    mending oh's trousers again:mad:

    Iron Wednesday
    sort all shoes out
    [STRIKE]sort belts out[/STRIKE]

    Linen Thursday
    [STRIKE]sort bed clothes out[/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]give away on freegle[/STRIKE]
    sort towels out

    Wood Friday
    sort toys out again - does it ever end :(
    [STRIKE]2 x Desk drawers sort out[/STRIKE]

    Iron Saturday
    pump bike tyres up
    [STRIKE]clean out car[/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Any other financial bits you have been putting of -[/STRIKE]
    Or take yourself into the garden and get some sunlight on your skin - me too :)
    [STRIKE]Tins - sort out your pantry and meal plan around what you have[/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Sort out your box of candles and holders.[/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Tins of buttons/odds and ends have a rummage[/STRIKE]

    Steel Friday
    [STRIKE]Cutlery drawer, do you need everything that is in there[/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]If you are in charge of the toolbox give it a sort and make a list of anything that needs restocking - fuses/picture pins etc[/STRIKE]
    Steal an hour to yourself - you all must do this and do something just for you; the idea of all this hardwork is to give us more time and space to be us.

    Silk Saturday
    look for worktops

    lace Sunday
    sort kitchen out

    bleeding i've made way :T still have one last box of paperwork, then done all done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    thanks dusty your making work and get decluttered at the same time yay thanks !!!!!!!!!
  • poohbear59
    poohbear59 Posts: 4,866 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    I am still working on the paperwork. I will not be beaten by it!
    Also listed loads more clothes on ebay.
    business mortgage £0))''(+ Barclay's business kitchen loan £0=Total paid off was £96105 PPI claimed and received £13527
    'I had a black dog, his name was depression".
  • hex2
    hex2 Posts: 4,736 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I too am working through the paperwork mountain, not least because I need to find my decree absolute before I can renew my passport :o. Nothing like needing something to inspire you to get on.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need' Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • grunnie
    grunnie Posts: 1,795 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Making inroads in a chest of drawers full of papers. Most now filed & sorted and the rest binned. Don't have the old photos to sort as my DIL borrowed all these about a year ago and brought them all back filed and tidied:D Have still the bureax to sort as it is full of everything that doesn't have a home so may sort a bit a day for the next week while I watch TV. I didn't know that I had such a pile of cards so will sort them out and put them into 1 box.
  • toottifrootti
    toottifrootti Posts: 6,427 Forumite
    we all seem to have the same problem - paper!!! I have sorted a lot of mine into piles on the sitting room floor and I am going to file and sort today.
    toots xx
    Peace will be mine
    could do better - must try harder
    Live each day as if its your last
    DFW Nerd #1000 Proud to be dealing with my debts

  • Triker
    Triker Posts: 7,247 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Paper is my biggie too, be it paperwork or book/magazine.

    Will declutter another box of paper stuff.
    DFW Nerd 267. DEBT FREE 11.06.08
    Stick to It by R.B. Stanfield
    It matters not if you try and fail,
    And fail, and try again; But it matters much if you try and fail, And fail to try again.
  • grunnie
    grunnie Posts: 1,795 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I decluttered my spice collection this week and some were last century hehe:o But Asda today had 3 for £3 of the schwartz jars so they have all been replaced with nice new ones.
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