2018 - No Clutter To Be Seen

marmiterulesok

A few more books and dvds to go out but I haven't counted them.About 10-15 items.

bit_by_bit

Saver-upper, if you find the secret of getting the others to put their stuff away, please let me know..

Started using my wool stash to crochet a blanket. Some time ago I bought a load of wool off a crafter friend with good intentions. Its all bright orange, green, yellow and red. I had an idea to make all sorts of things but I couldn't find the enthusiasm. This blanket is for me for my knees in winter (I know I sound old but I get cold easily when I am not having a 'tropical moment' ). It consists of just single rows of each colour and looks joyously bright.

I have also started on my Mil's Christmas present. I have got her this years gift so if I don't complete it it will be for Christmas 2019. I am crocheting her a granny blanket but all the squares will be different. It is in white and various shades of blue and should cover her double bed.

On a decluttering note, this week we cleared out the porch. There are 5 of us living here including Sons No 2 and 3. Son No2 has an enormous amount of clothes but not much else. He must have at least 15 coats and half of them were in the porch. We got him to take them up to his room and I need to find hanging space for them. A couple went to the charity shop. DH also got rid of two coats and I got rid of one. I have actually saved two scruffy waterproofs for the car. My emergency bag needed sorting out so that got done.

Back to the clearout. Both 'boys' had loads of shoes. Some of theose were chucked. I threw some nasty trainers. They just about jumped into the wheelie bin :rotfl:

DD has exactly what she needs. I started training her to chuck or donate when she was very small. Nothing of hers needed to go.

The place looks a lot better now. Becasue of sorting my car bag I also cleared out the car.

The best decluttering this week was the freezer though. I haven't done a freezer audit for some time. We have a lot of courgette, fruit, frozen leftover veg and sweet stuff. I have done a menu and all of the food will take us over a week to eat and some will be transferred out. Once cleared the freezer is going out of the house. We have not decided whether to keep it in the garage or just get rid and start with a new under surface freeezer.

Thankys to you Mrs SD I am doing very well with the get it done as you see it thing. Washing is going away faster, spots are being decluttered and piles sorted through. Fab Fab Fab.:beer:

DundeeDoll

11 books CS
4 tin openers (don't ask!) CS
1 bottle RC
2 ice cube trays CS

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

You are entirely welcome bit by bit (not sure where I appropriated that particular mantra :rotfl: but I have found it very useful ) and well done - you have been a busy bee today :T
By doing a job as I see it, I can keep the living room, kitchen & my bedroom tidy & it is so much easier to keep the rooms clean :rotfl:

Tomorrow I will chase up the CS again as the large items are now like a cloud hanging over me - I just want them gone :rotfl:

Happy decluttering everyone

MrsSD

Saver-upper

bit_by_bit wrote: »

Saver-upper, if you find the secret of getting the others to put their stuff away, please let me know..

bit by bit,I don't think science has made that discovery yet :rotfl:.


I mentioned over a month ago that I sorted out my children's school books in the loft.(I have kept them all for 4 children ).But when I finished that job,there I turned around and there were a few loose books,and a couple of bags of kipple left over.So I have been sorting through those.I also found a £20 never used,but expired gift card ,and £20 worth of Hobbycraft vouchers :j:j.
So,out of the loft today (even though they have been sitting on my lounge-room floor,waiting to be sorted,for over a month :rotfl:):




Binned:
79:bottle of glitter glue
80:Christmassy hair tie
81:toy mobile phone
82-84:bottles of kid's nail polish
all these were found in a little pencil case in my now-11yo daughter's bag of drawings,books and worksheets from 2011 :eek:


85:pencil case
86:cloth advent calender that had gone mouldy in storage.
87:painted christmas decoration
88:another random Christmas decoration
89:party bag of stuff


Recycled:

90-93:4 birthday cards to me from 2012 (it was two of these that contained the gift vouchers)
94:a copy of Australian Women's Weekly Children's arts and Craft book....I am pretty sure I bought the book at a charity shop,and the only thing I ever used it for,was the recipe to make playdough.That was about 15 years ago!

marmiterulesok

Decluttered and for the cs:
3 books
8 tops
3 jackets
1 dress

Happy_Kitties

More decluttering today but also some more things back from my mum's that were my DDs that I thought had just gone awol. Some of the items I will keep in the space made so far from decluttering and other bits are going into a charity box.

Today I have

*163 returned a plate to my mum-only had it a year but did return it with a meal on it
*164 cake box returned to friend
*165-168 brand new cookery book/pens/dog chews( the cats had attacked, they were for charity
but now for her dogs) given to friend
*169 gift given to friend
*170 packaging used up for parcel
*171-173 items into the parcel
*174 recyclables out

Many thanks Mrs SD re:my award. I think it was fate telling me that the original sellotaped award was mine to keep and best get decluttering the display cabinet so I can get it in!!!!

bit_by_bit

Happy Kitties, I love giving stuff back to people. I don't even have to think about where it is going.

Did a small amount of sorting and decluttering in Son No2s room. He was downstairs and it was 1am so I took my opportunity. The room is full of work paperwork, writng stuff, craft stuff, books and now his mountain of clothes. I am doing a bit at a time and it is getting there.

May as well do something when I can't sleep.

Today I am clearing some shelves of boxes of pictures no one ever looks at. Most will go but I will frame a few too. Got a large pile of frames that have just been waiting for agaes.

A huge pat on the back for everyone. Its a minor miracle to be able to keep going in this heat.:T:T:T

Saver-upper

This week,in between working anywhere from 3-7 hours each day,having the 4 kids home on holidays,and a bit of decluttering,I have been cleaning a couple of rooms of the house each day.This weekend we are going on hols for a week,and I want to come back to a lovely clean house.When we came back from hols last August,the house was absolutely spotless,and I loved it.Aiming for the same again this year:
-On Sunday I spent a few hours deep-cleaning the kitchen
-on Monday and Tuesday the kids decluttered,tidied,dusted,polished and vacuumed their rooms.Mostly. (16yo daughter had not quite finished her room:it needed a very big sort out,because I have not nagged her too much over the last few months,with her doing GSCEs.)
-Today I deep cleaned 16yo daughter's room: pulled out furniture,dust,polish,vacuum,skirting boards,mirrored wardrobe,window cill,radiator....The other day when she was starting to sort her room,she put a whole lot of revision papers in a bag for recycling.When I bundled it all up to put in the recycling bin,the pile of paper was 7 inches tall :eek:.And that is just the stuff she was letting go of,from the last couple of months revision.She has about 20 thousand school books :eek::eek:
-Also deep cleaned 2 bathrooms this afternoon.


Out of the house today:


Binned:
1128:plastic toy ring
1129:broken itty bitty book light
1130:pair of cardboard 3D glasses


Out for recycling:
1131-1134:3 pairs of shoes and 2 odd shoes
1135-1141:7 inches deep pile of papers


Binned,from the loft (though found in daughter's bedroom):
95:Christmas bauble

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. IF I NOTICE SOME SMALL TASK NEEDS DOING - I WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY

2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I WENT IN - WITHOUT HIDING THE CLUTTER EXCEPT for the wardrobe room which is currently the storage room (sr)

3. THE LAST WASHING UP OF THE DAY WILL BE PUT AWAY BEFORE I GO TO BED

Saver-upper, marmiterules, Happy Kitties & bit by bit - well done all of you :T nice to keep things ticking over :rotfl:

Wednesday was a lot cooler after Tuesday night’s rain - there was some sunshine & plenty of breeze so managed to get three loads of washing dried :T

DH did some more work on the shed base - using sand to make sure the base is completely level - half done today & the other half to be done tomorrow - I do love watching my DH working :rotfl: He also put up my new whirligig & will finish hammering into the ground tomorrow as I have decided that I am happy with the position :rotfl:

My decluttering mojo is currently only extending to reading the ‘Alien’ trilogy which once read will be donated to cs :rotfl:

So just my three mantras - aired & made bed, washed up, dried up & put away as I went along; washed down kitchen work surfaces; birdies & squirrels water bowls refilled & wormery towel doused; vacuumed downstairs incl kitchen floor; general tidying;

The day to day decluttering has generated

B2001 - B2002 Non recyclable - 2 plastic bags - binned
B2003 - B2012 Milk carton, glass jar, 3 tins, 5 takeaway foil trays with cardboard lids - rinsed & recycled
B2013 - B2018 Toilet roll tube, 2 large plastic bags, 3 lots of cardboard packaging - Recycled

:j:j Yippee, now I can start on the ‘C’s :rotfl:

Re the items I returned to DSis yesterday

C1 - C2 Pair of jeans & pair of pyjama bottoms into cs bag
C3 Ruined fleece binned - it was 22 years old :rotfl:

C4 Book read & put in cs bag

MrsSD
C4/C2018