2019 - A Clutter Free Life

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

887-888. Two tea chests given to friend to upcycle
889-913. 25 caster wheels given to friend
914. Wooden twine box to friend
915. Wooden medal frame given to friend

916. Travel hanger binned.
917. Cardboard box recycled
918-920. Three tins of old paint from previous home owners binned.

IrishRose12

nannywindow wrote: »

Hello all :wave:
Been quite busy with the DGC, my Dad and RL the last few days, but wanted to pop in to wish IrishRose good luck for tomorrow.

Aww thank you nanny. Hope you have a lovely holiday!!

Nothing done at all today here, except for decluttering a tooth:rotfl:
I'll be honest, not the best experience, definitely different to when I had my last wisdom tooth out, but its done, so hopefully I heal quickly. Slept for 2 hours earlier on, think it was the trauma of today that wiped me out, but the less said about that the better.
No stitches in my gum this time, so I'm really paranoid atm. The hole is still bleeding a bit but not enough to warrant gauze put in again. I'd love something proper to eat. I had some soup earlier on but I'm hungry again already:rotfl:

Going to go now and try to take a cool cup of tea and ho to bed. Hopefully I'm ok to go into work tomorrow, but I'll see what I wake up to 1st before making that decision.

Hope everyone has had a lovely day and had a more productive day than me:rotfl:

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Evening everyone
I've sold some stuff on the Bay of E and posted 6 items yesterday
Got 4 packets to take to PO tomorrow.
Still going (slowly) in the right direction.....
Deni x

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

Tuesday has been a lot nicer - sunshine, blue skies with lots of fluffy white clouds until about 2 p.m. so did a couple of wash-loads & hung out on the whirligig However the big black clouds started rolling in - threatening rain Good news for me though - the rain never materialised :T

Sadly my decluttering has completely stalled but rather than be downhearted I have decided to use a different approach. Now bear with me, I have written a cleaning rota There is method behind the madness - the cleaning will be thorough so I am hoping that I will find things to declutter or relocate as I go along . Today I started in the kitchen - emptied a double cupboard, cleaned all the shelves thoroughly & then rearranged & tidied the contents. I now have 2 shelves out of 3 with a small amount of space - 3 items relocated & a chipped glass binned :j I also washed, rinsed, dried & polished all the kitchen cupboard fronts (white gloss finish - seemed like such a good idea at the time :eek: & they do look nice but they do show every smear/mark ) + cleaned the oven fronts. Also washed, dried & polished all the wall tiles & work surfaces. DSis was ensconced in her room all day watching TV & DH went off for an NHS lung function test & will be taking part in 3 year survey so also had a CT scan & bloods taken. As it was all so painless & no cycling or running involved I will accept my invitation :rotfl: DH & DSis had Chinese takeaway which neither of them really enjoyed (our usual Chinese seems to have been on holiday for 2 months :mad:) & I finished off the hm soup & hm croutons - I enjoyed my dinner :rotfl:

3190 Chipped glass - Binned
3191 - 3214 Glass bottle & metal lid, 4 drinks cans, glass jar & metal lid, 8 lots of cardboard packaging, paper packaging, plastic bottle, 3 magazines, plastic pot, cardboard box, foil tray, egg carton, cardboard inner - Recycled
3215 - 3216 Bag of kitchen detritus, broken peg (every little helps :rotfl:) - Binned

Well Done:- TamsinC - is hubby a hoarder or a declutterer? 🤞 he is the latter :rotfl: then your numbers will jump up :rotfl:; Barny1979 - you must be getting excited 😜 you will soon be in quadruple digits :T

Tomorrow DH is driving me to Kent to deliver the baby packages (will have to check back & see if I have already counted them :rotfl:) so no cleaning or decluttering

Keep up the good work everyone :j

MrsSD
3216/4038

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Empties jar of cooking sauce but keeping as I want to have a try at growing sprouts in it (Note to self - stop looking at UTube). Have ordered some dried peas to have a go, I do like pea shoots and the ones I grew in garden gave peas but I wanted the shoots for salads. Have done a de-clutter of recipes on PC, not a lot, still plenty to go (thousands I think), but its a start.

TamsinC

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Well Done:- TamsinC - is hubby a hoarder or a declutterer? 🤞 he is the latter :rotfl: then your numbers will jump up :rotfl:

Luckily he is not a hoarder, just untidy. He’s not really a declutterer either though, so needs steering in the right direction. It’s still all needing sorting out from when we moved in. But it will get there. Not sure there is too much to get rid of, more it just needs putting away.

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

916. Travel hanger binned.
917. Cardboard box recycled
918-920. Three tins of old paint from previous home owners binned.

921-923. Three recipe books given to friends

short_bird

short_bird wrote: »

424: jam jar to work for the jam and pickle makers!

Due to other people's holidays, I've roughly 18 hours overtime over the next 10 days So I'll do what I can when I can.

425: DVD to charity shop
426: Copy of Pr!vate Eye to work to pass on
427-430: items from fridge

choille

choille wrote: »

469 - 3 things posted.

473 - another 4 things posted.

474 - big bed cover dumped. Cat had pulled loads of the threads out.

475 - trousers dumped = worn out.

476 - bubble bath decanted into hand wash dispenser - empty bottle recycled - trying to use up all the stuff in the bathroom before buying anything else - really got loads used up as I had shelves of stuff sitting gathering dust. So that is good. Feels good.

TC77

Hi all,

I'm feeling overwhelmed by all the paper. I've so much going on with insurance claims/court/ health stuff for kids and usual stuff and mountains of paper not to throw out. I'm counting as a declutter when I manage to do an email and throw out all my notes for that stage of each 'project'

Progress after last few days
Wigs picked up - shouldn't count them til out of the house
and boxes of tiles waiting to be picked up
197 - 200 electronic clutter
201 - posted form
202-203 broken crockety (accidental)
204- 207 garden bags of waste
208 broken pegs
209 felt pen
210 old food from fridge
211 old train tickets
212 recycling box

Really hoping if I keep going will feel less overwhelmed and esp with paper but also have too much of everything! I can spend time moving things from one part of the house to another and back again - wasting time and energy! Any ideas how to deal with this?

I can see that there are ups and downs with this for most people and great to see how people persevere. The lady who picked up wigs brought me some tomatoes from her allotments which was so kind of her.