2019 - A Clutter Free Life

vintageteainmywardrobe

Morning all,

Well I surprised myself yesterday and I actually started to clean the kitchen and sort it out. I haven't cooked a meal in there for well over a month and we actually had dishes :eek: shows how much attention I paid when I put stuff into the fridge after shopping. I'm happy to report these are now gone and I can actually see the floor once again! Which is absolutely amazing. It might not seem a big thing to most people but my kitchen is defiantly one of the most cluttered places in the whole place after the lounge.

I also went through my cook/ self sufficiency books as I added the new Jack Monroe one to my collection (trying to do one in one out), sadly think it wont be long before it goes to the library, it's not my favourite! I put 8 books into a pile to take to the library and I have made a pact to go through the ones I currently have and read one a month so I am actually looking at them and if I don't start using them, they are going. No matter how much I love just looking through them. I also realised I have a really big thing for River Cottage :rotfl: I thought I was already obsessed but I managed to actually have two of the same book!!! :rotfl:

I need to start going through my kitchen cupboards now and slowly finding out what I use and what I don't use. I seem to have a million and one Whittards Hot Chocolate and no idea how to use it up!!

Anyway as this is quite work heavy just wanted to say Thank you! It's defiantly reading this thread every day which had made me try and tackle my stuff!! Looking forward to more adventures of my kitchen as I'm back at it tonight :rotfl:

GreenQueen

Picklepot wrote: »

Anyone else suffering from stuff around them for their fantasy self?

My fantasy self is a very prolific knitter/water colourist/effective gardener (rather than "just keep on top of it" gardener).

In practice, I have lots of
- knitting patterns/magazines/wool and knitting needle giveaways from the magazines/projects in progress (measured in years)
- lots of paper/materials/again projects in progress
- plants that have been waiting to go into the garden for several weeks/lots of packets of unusual seeds that went into their tin and may never come out.

Don't even start me on the recipe books and unusual ingredients waiting for me to get the inventive cooking urge...

TamsinC

Picklepot wrote: »

Anyone else suffering from stuff around them for their fantasy self?

For. very long time I had a 'craft cupboard' stuffed to the gunnels, I weeded a LOT out over the years, sold on in the main but there are still elements left. The craft cupboard now no longer exists as a craft cupboard [it is an old pitch pine teachers cupboard and one of my favourite items of furniture] but is in our kitchen as a larder cupboard now.

I do still have various Tibetan charms and beads as I make and sell stitch markers on Etsy. I probably sell about one a month and have enough stock for a couple of centuries :rotfl: I need to declutter some of that. I've also started making mini potion bottles as well, more stock for that.

I also crochet/knit and have a large stock of Stylecraft yarn. I used to have more but I have forced myself to finish projects and pass them on. I now have a moratorium on new wool and will be using this stock up and then no more. I think people will be getting blankets for Xmas and birthdays for a good few years to come :rotfl:

My third thing is my Creative Memoires photo books. I have a lot of stock that I bought up when they left the UK, I have a lot of photos to go in that stock. This I WANT to do, but finding the time at the moment is hard. Once the blasted floor is finished and we've spent a few weeks getting rid of the dust I will attempt to do some more. I'm only a decade behind :eek:

So I've decluttered about twenty other fantasies selves and now only have these three left. Part of me thinks they should also go, but the other part actually enjoys these three and does actually do stuff with all three so for now they stay.

[Deleted User]

Decluttered 3 slices of chocolate bread, 1 into me, a tub of white rice, doing stir fry tonight with half, the other half tomorrow for a different type of stir fry thing, cooked 2 chicken thighs then stripped them, some in tonights stir fry a chicken salad tomorrow lunch, so when new freezer came I was able to fit all the food into it, it is a little smaller than old one. Had e.m. this a.m. and Yipee one of my items has sold on EB.. am waiting for more details from buyer who is going to collect. So very pleased, its a start.

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

578. Five dvds to friend
579. Plant pots to friend
580-584. Cardboard boxes to tip

585. Bubble wrap to charity bag
586. Paperwork into recycling
587. Cap into charity bag

nannywindow

Hello all
I have been a bit lax-a-daisical lately.... oops ! .
However today I have put 2 dbl sized duvet covers and a pair of curtains in a cs bag, along with a wet weather coat, which I prised out of DH's hands ( it no longer fit him, but as he dithered I pounced :rotfl: ). An empty bubble bath bottle is now in the recycling bin and later I shall declutter the last piece of my birthday cake and then recycle the packaging. I also bought a new pair of trainers this week, but I have binned the broken pair that they replaced.
Picklepot I too have a fantasy self who crafts cards and scrapbooks. Luckily I have a DGD ( age 7 ) who loves to craft, so slowly things are being used up.

Rootle

22/52 - 5 more CDs and a computer game to CS recycling bin (and a couple of freebie shower samples used up and recycled).

Picklepot

:T
Its not just me!!

Lots of fantasy buddies on here:rotfl:

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

585. Bubble wrap to charity bag
586. Paperwork into recycling
587. Cap into charity bag

588. More bubble wrap into charity
589. File to charity
590. Game to charity

villagelife

582 a stained handbag. I'm unable to remove the stain from it.

I have loads of wool but can't remember the last time I knitted! I seem to have no time for it anymore.