2019 - A Clutter Free Life

Picklepot

Hi

Truly getting overwhelmed with the stuff that has been pulled out whilst decorating and we now realise we dont want to put back:eek: Feel like i have taken it out of one room and put it in another

239-241 - 2 large table lamps with shades to CS bag in car
242-294 - 52 books, CD's and DVD's to second hand charity book shop

choille

195 - 197. 3 things posted.

I do notice a difference upstairs but still have masses to do.

Rootle

29/52 - top to 'share and ware' box at Church. Not much but I've now got a new option for passing on unwanted clothes

oceanspirit

Just 13 pieces of paperwork today.

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

Monday was another mixed day - started cloudy & eventually blue skies, some sunshine & some warmth
DH did some work in the garage & packed an overnight bag as he is doing Round Britain Rally Tuesday & Wednesday. Another lazy day for me - knitting & clearing more programmes from my planner. Cooked fish’n’chips & peas for dinner. Saw Jupiter & the full moon :T

2260 - 2264 Four drinks cans, glass jar & metal lid - Recycled
2265 Bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

WellDone :- Picklepot; Wednesday2000; choille; Rootle; oceanspirit - :T:T:T:T:T

See you later

MrsSD
2265/4038

villagelife

737-741 DH work diaries.
742- 744 another 3 years of DH accounts. All had been kept til recently from when he started being self employed over 20 years ago.
745-746 bits of barbed wire and chicken wire in next doors skip.
747-748 magazines to DH work.

Hopefully more will follow this week.

[Deleted User]

Helping young 17yr old to start knitting again so several balls of odd wools de-cluttered and 1 set knitting needles lent out. Yellowing potato plants taken out and leaves thrown away so now several new home grown potatoes to use, ditto with some radish plants which grew lots of leaves and no radishes !!! so will cut and use leaves like spinach later along with some home grown salad leaves. More potato plants strting to yellow, others still fresh. Have 1 of my tomatoes turning pale orange, plenty of green ones on plant, and actually got some pea pods so will pick them today to put with other items for dinner.

parsniphead

This morning I have dug out the carpet cleaner which has never worked to well. After much fiddling and cursing I have finally got it going. Carpet cleaning for me this afternoon. I've also got some grout whitener.

This thread is started to make me houseproud.:rotfl: I never thought that would happen.

I'm going for a quick trip to the tip tomorrow and more decluttering before treatment in the afternoon.

Have a fab day all.

greenbee

Wow PH - you've come a long way... you can get to enough carpet to make it worthwhile cleaning them! Enjoy the tip trip tomorrow, and hopefully treatment won't be too unpleasant.

I've done a CS drop off. It annoys me that although they give you a unique donor ID, there is one guy there who always asks for additional information, including whether the donation is mine or my husband's (I don't have a husband, and anyway the donor ID tells them who it is) and whether I'm Mrs or Miss - despite that fact that I say 'neither' ever time. Tempted to say 'Professor' next time

I have, however, got rid of a bootload of stuff.

Cherryfudge

I've just caught up on the latest 70-or-so posts on this thread: you are an inspiring lot! I especially relate to the posts be people who are wading through a sea of toiletries. That's me too. I am determined to use up and not waste them, though I did throw out some razors that always got more skin than hair.

In the past ten days we've had two people move out, but I'm not counting them as being decluttered even though we now have more space. I'm glad they are going to be living locally, and at the moment are still at the stage of popping in for things they've yet to collect. I've also had DS2 pick up some things from Mum's old house that were too big to take on the train, so I have far too much coffee (I ordered it when it was on offer and I wanted to make up the cost of the grocery delivery to avoid paying a surcharge) and a nest of hanging baskets. I also have three bottles of very soft tap water that won't damage my iron - why pay a pound every time I buy a bottle of ironing water when I can have it for free?!

I'm sure I've forgotten some of the things that have gone and some are lessened but still present (like baking ingredients). Here's the list though:
piece of fabric to my sister
reed diffuser bottle
bag of chocolate buttons now empty
umpteen emails
a jelly
two boxes of tea bags
finished a bottle of vitamins
2 lids
a plastic bottle
3 empty shower gel bottles
a medicine packet
6 OOD medicines to chemist
14 clean empty containers to the eco shop
a longlife milk (became rice pudding)
2 bits of paper.

My new total is 1,009.