2019 - A Clutter Free Life

bargainhunterss

choille wrote: »

Very sad de-cluttering today as had to have my cat PTS yesterday in an emergency situation. So today am packing up his stuff, unopened food etc to hand in to Cat's Protection lady as that's where he came from several years back.
House seems quite empty with out him rubbing around my ankles.

So sorry to hear about that hope you’re all ok.

bit_by_bit

You would be welcome anytime Mrs SD. Custard. Mmmmmmmm

Wednesday2000 and everyone still working. I had a retirement day a few weeks ago. They wre saying that If there is a problem when you retire about how much you should get, changes in contracts are not always recorded properly so you need proof. I do have copies of P60s and letters from any changes since I started work 34 years ago. I have my payslips from the last few years saved on memory stick now (wish I had one I could plug into my head).

Mrs SD. I have a pillar drill project. I was so excited to be gifted it this year after a friends mum died. Her dad had died about 7 years ago and so it has been sitting unused since then. It is amazingly heavy but lovely and old. Not sure when I will get to it, aiming for the spring.:T

Hugs on the passing of your cat Choille

I have had a great few days.Thursday night MiL took the carpet from DD room to Sil house in Manchester. They have no hall carpet. We pre cut it and off it went along with underlay and gripper rods.

Friday was the MacMillan Coffee Morning at work. It went very well with our team raising £358.44. Even better I got rid of a bag of goodies for the tombola and a second bag of ribbon and cellophane that I had been keeping. The cellophane had been around flowers I recieved when I had Cancer. I had flowers in the house continuously for a year so you can imagine the amount. I only have three sheets left. The display was excellent. I used cake stands and metal trays someone gave me from their cake sale a while ago and I have wiped and kept them for the next one. Happily I knew where all this stuff was so easy to find.

Nothing done over the weekend as yet as I have been away since Friday in a caravan with friends. I slept in the awning but not so well last night with all the rain. I had a great time and spent very little apart from to pay my bit for the caravbans site, coffee and cake when it was my turn. I did tea on Sat night for which I bourght pasta and served with a home made sauce all made from allotment ingredients.

Today we are putting a sewing table into the new sewing room. that will be the final big piece of furniture. After that it will the moving of things to keep and getting rid of the last of the stuff or rehoming it. Most of it needs to be done by next Frtiday when DD comes home form Uni for the weekend.

The current project is turning DD room

TC77

Choille, so sorry about you cat, I'm not naturally a big cat fan but have become very attached to ours.

Chipping away slowly, and also been listening to some Ted talks on having too much stuff...

325 freecycled old blind
326 - 335 CS CD, boots, cables, etc
336 electronic clutter
337 email and attachments re insurance ( missed post office so hard copy stuff tomorrow)
338 old glue stick
339 unsubscribing from emails.

Looked at all my crockery and decided I can't face it but know I don't need 20 side plates and probably 40 dinner plates (excluding those from my grandmother which are too precious to use) when its only me and my two girls and oldest (21) going to leave and doubt will take plates (have box of other things ). She has selected 4 of the containers/make up bags from selection I put out so 340 - 343.

Still aiming for 1000 by the new year!

leelad

Evening MrsSD and fellow declutterers,
First of all sorry to read about what happened to your cat Choille.
Well went to a car boot sale today, had a good few months break from selling but ended up going after our 7 year old daughter convinced me of the merits of going, even though the weather was awful up here in East Lancashire.
Am sure most people attending car boot sales go now with specific things in mind which they want to buy, there was a lot of that around today.
With that in mind, sold a couple of Halloween outfits our daughter's has grown out of, some children's tops and a dress. Along with a peppa pig book. So £7 in sales, nothing major, and I did question this when I could have taken these items to the charity shop, but then our daughter purchased the DVD Matilda by Roald Dahl (circa. 1996) and a fluffy multi-coloured photo frame for the grand total of 50p, so she watched the DVD this afternoon and then the photo frame is now pride of place with a family photo in there on her bedside table. So in that sense it was time well spent. But it's always hard bringing the stuff back that you have not sold. Hey ho. Keep chipping away bit by bit at the stuff in the attic...

Catcrazy

Choille
Very sorry about your cat. We love ours and it is so hard to have to PTS.

Catcrazy

Slow but sure progress.
351-352 pencil case and unused rubber into charity bag (collection due Wednesday)
353-356- books in c bag
354-.355-costume jewelry items c.bag.

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 another rainy day - Boo 😒 Managed a 40 minute stint, an hour long stint & a 15 minute stint of beautifying our Close - all the the remaining 54 slabs have been weeded plus a section of kerbside in front of next door but one’s drive.
DH was busy in the garage again - the pillar drill project, finishing the restoration of the coffee grinder & putting the finishing touches to the garden hose box/planter :rotfl: + he did a small shop at sm. DSis did a couple of 10 minute stints tidying up after me :rotfl:
Chat with just 2 sets of neighbours today Both of whom are quite pleased about my beautifying project & one couple even tongue in cheek offered to let me do their back garden I graciously declined :rotfl:
Dinner was pork steak, mash, green beans & lo boiled potatoes in mushroom Marsala sauce for DH & DSis - I had lo veal in herbed breadcrumbs instead of a pork steak. Scrumptious 🤤

3492 - 3498 Three drinks cans, 2 glass bottles & metal caps, plastic tray, plastic bottle - Recycled
3499 - 3501 Bag of kitchen detritus, 2 plastic bags - Binned

You have been busy gilly1964 :T no wonder you are exhausted 😩. it is not cheating to count packaging generated by your new kitchen

Well Done: Catcrazy :T; villagelife :T; Happy Kitties - I know you will hit 500 :T; Wednesday2000 :T;

You have been very busy bit by bit :T - decluttering, baking, raising monies for charity, moving furniture, working on your allotment and taking some time for yourself to recharge your decluttering batteries :rotfl:
Sewing room, new room for DD & the pillar drill project - you really do believe in keeping busy

Excellent work TC77 :T. If you have the space to keep your tea plates & dinner plates then there is no reason to make any decisions You need to save something just in case you are a few short of your 1000 :rotfl:

See you all tomorrow when I hope the weather improves

MrsSD
3501/4038

villagelife

Choille so sorry to hear about your cat.

1119-1121 more plants taken to MIL old house which were planted there ready for when it's eventually rented out.
1122-1123 broken takeaway container and lid recycled. I do reuse these until they break.

Cherryfudge

I see from the last week or so's posts that I'm not the only one clearing up from other people's lifetimes of possessions. It's such a huge job, but in a way quite helpful for me as I can reconnect with my parents as I just remember them from my early years instead of the last years which were fraught and difficult due to illness.

I see my last post was largely nonsense! Predictive text, huh? :rotfl:

Cherryfudge wrote: »

yesterday I weeded a garden run containing my little bay tree, sadly threw out a bucket of cyclone corms...
New total 1664.

That was supposed to be a garden tub and cyclamen corms. .

My decluttering over the last ten days included a trip to work on my parents' house so here are my lists:
23rd: Tidied a planter and a few feet of border in the garden. Five pieces of paper and one ginormous spider gone; I suspect it's the one I threw out a week ago but it's found its way back
24th: 1 piece of paper
25-27th: The decluttering list from the time spent at Mum's is extensive, bearing in mind that I went through a lot of books pulling out the papers that had been used as book marks:
134 paper decisions, birthday card from store to birthday person, 21 booklets/catalogues/magazines, 2 cardboard boxes, 3 books, 4 out of date wound dressings, pen, lolly stick, 2 handfuls litter from the garden, 5 pieces worn out cutlery, 3 sheets obsolete stickers, 6 lines of weeds from between paving stones, 3 ornaments that went to someone who likes them more than I do.
28th: 6 bits of paper.
Total for the above 201.

New overall total 1865.

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Well, my PC still not well so sorry for any spellng mistakes - not good with laptop keyboard. Now I have killed my landline phone, well the base unit actually, managed to throw contents of my lunch soup over it whilst rushing t go to dd for w/e. Hoped it would dry out (I has cleaned up mess) but it has not. It has 2 extentions but without the base unit no good. Have a bid in for one but in the meantime, I have told about the emergency box which an elec co gave to Mum in about the 70's, when elec blackouts etc were rife, and I still had (what clutter?) so I opened one up and have connected the phone, basic so have lost allmy phone numbers and short dials but never mind. Also someone is interested in some of the items I had nearly given up hope of selling but have been off my legs recently so not been to cs. Living in hope!!!!!!!!