2019 - A Clutter Free Life

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. SMALL TASKS WILL BE DONE ASAP
2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I ENTERED
3. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT
4. WHEN DEALING WITH CLUTTER I WILL USE ‘Daisy1571’s idea of ‘WHAT WOULD I DO WITH THIS ITEM IF IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE’S ?’
5. IF I WAS STARTING FROM SCRATCH, WOULD I BUY THIS?
6. BE LIKE A POSTAGE STAMP - STICK TO ONE THING UNTIL YOU GET THERE

Really must get back into the habit of posting daily Saturday started dry & sunny but then rained on & off all day. DH stayed up all night as he had an early hospital appointment - 2 bus journeys away. Scan was fairly quick & he was home by 10:15. Cup of coffee then an 4 hour nap. I managed to be up in time to pay milkman Did some pottering, magazine comps completed & magazine read & recycled, started on the Nov to Jan. birthday cards, made dinner - Fish, chips & peas

1451 - 1461 Plastic bottle, 3 lots of cardboard packaging, drinks can, empty beer can, magazine, 2 cardboard boxes, plastic packaging, plastic washing ball - Recycled
1462 Small bag of general rubbish - Binned

Parsniphead - hope you managed to fix the toilet. I am very impressed - handy person, tailor & gardener :T:T

Well Done villagelife :T keeping up the momentum :T

Well Done with the photo albums Cherryfudge :T You are braver than me :rotfl:


See you all later today :rotfl:

MrsSD
1462/2019

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Oh good mrsd I have been sorting some seedlings out, ready to transplant if they get over the ministrations today. Now not sure if I have done right but.. had put soil in more plant pots but I have put torn up cardboard in the bottom of the pots, surley that will rot down??? well, done now so we shall see, I thought it better than the dustbin. Brought some potatoes back in doggy bag from a carvery yesterday so have de-cluttered the roast ones into hm veggie soup and the boiled ones into a potatot salad which I will dispose of tonight.

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

366. Paperwork into recycling
367. Receipts into recycling
368. Cotton bag to charity

369. Aerial into charity bag
370-372. Cardboard into recycling

Gem-gem

Been up in the loft again.
Emptied four lever arch folders full of paper (all recycled). Any undamaged plastic wallets have been rolled and stored for next boot fair. Damaged folders binned. non recyclable items binned. Have about another eight folders to still process.
Also recycled old letters from a school friend (from the eighties!)

I kept back some stamps on envelopes from 1983 / 1984. I wander if there is a market for them?

Recluttered: bought four books in a charity shop yesterday;

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

369. Aerial into charity bag
370-372. Cardboard into recycling

373-374. Cardboard into recycling
375-376. Two old calendars into recycling

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. SMALL TASKS WILL BE DONE ASAP
2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I ENTERED
3. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT
4. WHEN DEALING WITH CLUTTER I WILL USE ‘Daisy1571’s idea of ‘WHAT WOULD I DO WITH THIS ITEM IF IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE’S ?’
5. IF I WAS STARTING FROM SCRATCH, WOULD I BUY THIS?
6. BE LIKE A POSTAGE STAMP - STICK TO ONE THING UNTIL YOU GET THERE

Sunday has been a lovely sunny day & very warm in the sun I sent DH to sm. Bacon sandwich for DSis. Nice chat with Chinese neighbour & I gave her a small jar of my home grown & pickled olives. Apparently she has had an allotment for 15 years - her mil (who lives with them) works it - so a big bag of spinach was donated to us :T So dinner was fried pork steaks, mash & spinach. Completely different taste to shop bought - DH & I are not that fond of spinach but fresh picked was delicious. DSis loves spinach so she was in 7th heaven :rotfl: I also made a pot of soup, which had been zizzed & will be lunches for DH & I for a few days. By the way - no sweetcorn :rotfl:
DH & I spent an hour or so in the garden moving flowers from the table top bed into the ground & transplanting lettuces, spring onions, tomatoes & a solitary red pepper plant from the grow bag to the table top bed. Also planted up a miniature rose into its own pot. DH also treated me to a plant climbing frame & the sweet pea plants are now trained up it Very happy with our handiwork
I am now convinced I have OCD :eek: Did the washing up & am missing not just one but two teaspoons Enlisted DH & DSis in the hunt but no joy. I have even gone out with a torch to check the compost bin & the shed :eek: Embarrassed to admit that I will now have a sleepless night Oh well

1463 - 1468 Two cardboard boxes, 2 lots of cardboard packaging, drinks can, empty beer can - Recycled
1469 - 1473 Small bag of general rubbish, 3 large plastic bags (compost, vermiculite etc), plastic plant tray - Binned

Don’t see why the cardboard wouldn’t work whmf00001 I am impressed with the doggy bag of potatoes :T

Well Done Barny1979 - keep up the good work :T

Are you sure you haven’t moved into the loft Gem-gem :rotfl:

See you all tomorrow

MrsSD
1473/2019

Cherryfudge

A few more items to report: it's a shame blades of grass are not generally counted individually, because if they were I'd be a lot nearer my target. As it is I've neatened up some scruffy bits of garden by weeding, clearing bits of path of leaf mould or clipping the undergrowth. I'm counting that as three items because it was quite energetic (and I won't mention that you can hardly see any difference).

I've also rehomed a grate and fireplace accessories from our old fireplace, and chucked out a plant pot holder that mysteriously broke.

So another 5 items which brings me to 613.

villagelife

Only a small amount done but went away for a night so something is better than nothing.

468- magazine recycled.
469- bleach bottle used up and binned. I have for some reason about 4 partly used bottles in the bathroom.

oceanspirit

Had a go at some more paper clearance yesterday:-

1 book old postcards to CS
9 old used notebooks recycled
1 leaflet recycled
8 files of papers shredded/recycled

I think I was feeling disheartened Mrs SD because even having cleared out so much my little home was even more cluttered than before and I could hardly move around.

Some of the empty boxes will be reused this week and another will go in the loft once repacked so it will feel a great deal better.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. SMALL TASKS WILL BE DONE ASAP
2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I ENTERED
3. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT
4. WHEN DEALING WITH CLUTTER I WILL USE ‘Daisy1571’s idea of ‘WHAT WOULD I DO WITH THIS ITEM IF IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE’S ?’
5. IF I WAS STARTING FROM SCRATCH, WOULD I BUY THIS?
6. BE LIKE A POSTAGE STAMP - STICK TO ONE THING UNTIL YOU GET THERE

Good afternoon from a gloriously sunny & warm IoD The mystery of the missing teaspoons is solved :T DH & I have gone through the recycling Wheelie bin, the rubbish Wheelie bin, the 2 compost bins I used yesterday, the bag of general rubbish that is in the back garden which I empty when full - absolutely no joy Then I thought I might as well look in the wormery as we had looked everywhere else :eek: & yes you’ve guessed - TWO teaspoons caught up in the spinach trimmings Now the next time I ‘misplace’ some cutlery I know to check the wormery & then the rubbish bin (where the missing paring knife was found :eek:) first :rotfl: or I could wash up immediately :rotfl: DH has watered the garden, punched 3 extra holes in my belt :T (maybe my trousers will stay up now :rotfl:) & has now taken my DSis to the hospital for a Respiratory Clinic appointment. I am taking the opportunity to descale the kettle (my DSis can drink tea for Europe :rotfl:) DH has just phoned - traffic was appalling so only just made it in time for DSis’s appointment :eek: He is now having a cappuccino whilst waiting.

1474 - 1475 Cardboard box, uu plastic bottle - Recycled

Cherryfudge, Perhaps count 10 minutes of gardening as 1 - will that bump up the number The cumulative effect of weeding, tidying etc WILL show eventually you just need to keep your spirits up until that day arrives More than one accessory? you can bump up your number again :rotfl:

Well Done on keeping up the momentum villagelife :T

Please do NOT get disheartened oceanspirit What is that old saying “darkest before the dawn” - Decluttering is rather like that especially if you follow the MK route However if you continue with 5 minutes here & there, it is surprising how quickly you will start to notice a difference It bears repeating - it took years to clutter unconsciously so it will probably take months to declutter conciously Try not to forget that we are all here to cheer each other on :T

See you later

MrsSD
1475/2019