2019 - A Clutter Free Life

TamsinC

TamsinC wrote: »

1667 - 1766 there was at least one hundred sheets of paper
1767 a very large old dried and mainly dead hebe bush burnt
1768 - 1790 various other parts of trees and fallen branches, buckets of dried weeds also tossed onto the fire.

1791 - 1833 recycling done, mainly more paper decluttering

Catcrazy

Here goes.
1-2 2 pairs of worn out leggings.recycle
3-5 3 pairs of shoes to charity shop
6-candles to CS
7 -17 magazines to GP surgery
18 teapot CS
19-26 glasses to CS.
27-31 old tins of paint binned.
32 large piece of bubble wrap- charity shop.

oceanspirit

Lost the day to fatigue yesterday. Friday's decluttering:-

3 x elastic bands - binned
1 x piece plastic - binned
1 x used xmas paper napkin (!) - binned

Total 5

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Tomorrow's main job will be to join the queue of people phoning the local fence man!

[Deleted User]

Feeling disappointed. I have kept some large plastic milk bottles for use in garden, plant labels/watering cans etc and used some for storing lentils/pasta etc but now cannot use any more so have 3 JIC and now, I will have to de-clutter some more, along with marg tubs kept for portion freezing - got lots now. I know its not good to get rid of plastic but what else can I do. Also, when I top up my weekly meds, all those plastic and metal pill strips, had a look at ideas but do not want to make picture surrounds, nice tho they are. Re-cycling - tried my best.

Wednesday2000

I used up the last of a facial oil and an air freshener today.

I got a new shoe rack delivered yesterday so we had lots of packaging to go into the recycling bin along with our normal stuff.

I added a cardigan and another top to the donation bag as well.

I threw away a brush from a dustpan and brush set.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

I do need to start thinking about writing C******** cards :rotfl:

:eek: What?!:D:p

leelad

Hello MrsSD & fellow declutterers, arrived back at home last night from 6 days holiday yesterday in the North East (Newcastle). Had a good time, nice part of the world and good people as well. While we were away, the ceiling in our daughter's bedroom was deemed unsafe by the decorator and plasterer. So she has had a new ceiling, boarded and plastered. The contents of the previous ceiling were waiting for us when we got back last night. So all in all 14 bags of rubble, rotten wood boards, and old carpets which had been used for packing & insulation purposes. Spent 2 hours today shuttling backwards and forwards between home and the tip and back to dispose of said waste. I know that it's not decluttering (strictly speaking), but a lot of effort was required to get rid of this waste. Daughter's room is now an empty shell until decorator starts work this week hopefully. She is now sleeping downstairs for next two weeks. I'm sure that more proper decluttering of the attic where all her belongings are currently will take place this week. Let's see how the week pans out.

gilly1964

Lacking motivation today, so just minimal decluttering done

1393 - Plastic bottle to recycling
1394 - 1398 Toilet roll inners to recycling
1399 - Can to recycling
1400 - 1402 Magazines to recycling
1403 - 1404 Glass jars to recycling
1405 - 1406 Shoe boxes to recycling

Bin bags out for the morning

All washing and ironing up to date and put away
Dust bunnies removed in the lounge, hall and landing

Hubby and son on their way back from a surfing weekend, they finally got into the water today so the wash basket will soon be refilled :eek:

FlyingDonkeys

Joining this

Here's to a bag a day
clear books August
Clear papers August

Good luck everyone

short_bird

to charity shop bag:
373-375 3 DVD's
376-377 2 cd's
378-380 3 miscellaneous items

381 receipts and odd bits of paper recycled
382 one food item chucked.

Tea time... :coffee:

Oh and I believe it's a bit early for :xmassmile although I know one of my former colleagues will have bought all presents by now...

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

Woke up before 8:00 a.m. & decided to get up straight away :D Played AB2 whilst drinking my 1st cuppa & then woke DH about 9:00 a.m. so he could start watching the Austrian MotoGP races. I decided to have another go at the wall unit managed to condense 5 cubbyholes into 4 by boxing photos & filling a bag for the CS. I now finally have a completely empty cubbyhole :j which I will try to keep empty DH watched his races & is now in the garage continuing his project & DSis has been in her room all day watching Netfl*x apart from a few trips downstairs to make hot drinks or go outside & have a ciggie

2595 - 2630 Two drinks cans, empty beer bottle, 2 small cardboard boxes, large cardboard box, booklet, paper packaging, 4 magazines, 24 paper photo packets, - Recycled
2631 - 2648 One & a half inches of shredding, plastic folder, plastic bag, 5 plastic photo wallets, 2 sets of negatives, 4 lots of 20 photos shredded, 1 lot of 20 photos, small bag of kitchen detritus - Binned
2649 - 2671 Four sets of postcards (from foreign climes:)), pack of 5 small magnetic photo frames, box file, 8 photo frames of varying sizes & styles, 5 clear plastic wallets, cardboard folder, large photo album, mini photo album, box of 6 delicate brass Christmas decorations - CS

Feeling quite chuffed with myself

Now into cheerleading, as quite a few of you are doing rather well

short_bird, finding money always a thrill - especially if it is prior to needing it :rotfl:

gilly1964, you only waited 2 hours before trying again :T - I sulked for a day Excellent work on the decluttering :T

Well Done :- Barny1979; TamsinC; oceanspirit; Wednesday2000 (if I start early & do a few a day there is no panic nearer the time - don’t forget all my birthday cards to the end of January 2020 are all written, addressed, weighed & marked with a posting date :rotfl: )

Gem-gem, I quite agree & really nice that found out that the jewellery items were reunited with their owners :T Keep up the good work on the decluttering :T

Luciecat63, keep up the good work :T Hopefully you will find that the more you declutter, the mood re you want to declutter it can become quite addictive :rotfl: Also well Done on thinking about time for yourself by decluttering a Committee role

You are off Catcrazy :T I bet it feels good to have started on your Decluttering journey

whmf00001, at least you have tried :T which is more than I have apart from trying to buy fruit & vegetables loose

Nice to hear from you leelad Really pleased that you had a nice holiday Shame about the ceiling :mad: but you can count the bags to the Tip as decluttering & you should count double as it was such hard work - so PLUS 28 :rotfl: I bet your daughter is really looking forward to her new bedroom


See you all tomorrow my decluttering buddies :T

MrsSD
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