2019 - A Clutter Free Life

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

The rain came about 1:00 a.m Sunday & appears to have rained solidly for several hours:( It is now very overcast & that damp chill in the air that just makes you want to wrap up & hide away. DH & DSis are still in their beds but DH has an excuse - he stayed up & watched the motorcycle races :rotfl: I am just fast forwarding through the races - watching the starts & the last 3 laps of each race whilst having my 2nd cuppa. You never know I might even do some cleaning/decluttering today I have just changed the water & trimmed out the flowers but that is it so far :rotfl:

3597 - 3598 Two empty compost bags - Binned

Well Done TC77 :T at least you are ‘chipping away’ at your clutter :T unlike me I appear to have stalled completely Please do not get disheartened with the chaos you are more likely to declutter when stuff is all over the place :rotfl: I tend to get complacent when the clutter is tidy or hidden perhaps I should throw the clutter around a bit :rotfl:

Well Done Catcrazy :T you are doing really well :T almost at 400 :j

Well Done villagelife :T decluttering plus NOT recluttering :T I admire your fortitude

Still teasing Barny1979 Hopefully 1000 by the end of the month :rotfl:

See you all later - need to prep the cottage pie for tonight & tomorrow night’s dinners

MrsSD
3598/4038

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

980. Rock salt emptied from bag into container in garage
981. Wood stacked in burner in garden
982. Old Lino in garage binned

982-984. Old tins recycled
985. T-shirt into charity bag
986. Pokemon cards to charity

IrishRose12

Good afternoon everyone.
Have been MIA again as I've had no laptop for 3 weeks and only got it back this morning. I had been logging in on my phone, but somehow managed to log out of it and forgot my password to get back on.
Laptop all repaired now...….. hopefully, so I'm back online.
While computerless I did get a lot of de-cluttering done TBH. It has taught me that I spend way too much time online these days, so I'm limiting myself to less than an hour a day, and intend to do more around the house instead.
4 black bags off clothes were sent off to my niece's school last week, they were collecting bags of clothes again this year to raise school funds, they took duvet sets, towels etc so it was a great opportunity to have a clear out and tidy up of all those:T

Have had a good clean and hoover and tidy up of my bedroom after I lost a massive spider in it 2 weeks ago:eek: Spider found (dead) and hoovered up. Lemon has now been wipe across all doorframes and windows in the hope it stops anymore monsters coming in.
A few more books read and sent to the 2nd hand shop, currently have another bag half filled ready to be sent too.
Have managed to dispose of a lot of paperwork I came across too which was great.:T
Now sitting here sorting my laptop out, have just purchased new anti-virus software off amazon, which even better discovery is that they now email you the code for it to be done straight away, so less rubbish to dispose of also:T
Hoping to get the garden de-weeded this week again as the bins go out at the end of the week, and with very little in it ATM I'm taking advantage of filling it with things that we never get round to do lol.

Plan for the rest of the day is to have dinner, then go through the cupboards, any food still in date - but we haven't used or don't intend to use, will be donated to the food bank this week also.
I also have managed to sell a few bits on eBay this weekend, and have a few returns to post back also, so will package those up and do that tomorrow.

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

982-984. Old tins recycled
985. T-shirt into charity bag
986. Pokemon cards to charity

987. Plastic hanger into recycling
988-995. Royal commemorative items to charity bag
996-1001. More commemorative items to charity

villagelife

A couple of things that I forgot earlier

1152-1153 a couple of cups returned to rugby for a returned deposit.
1154 conference name tag thrown away
1155 a bag of metal from the garden.

Gem-gem

Hi,
I am just popping in. Life is very hectic at the moment with wok and home life. Still decluttering when time allows it.
Recent decluttering includes:
make-up - eyeshadow and UU lip liner
broken - three glasses
battered lampshade and base
old sofa
fridge
old reclining chair
UU various jars from the fridge
gifts given: jar of jam, bottle of wine, after eight mints and apples from Mum's garden.
Binned: Tights

TC77

Oldest staying at boyfriends for a few days but hasn't taken any of this belongings (they had to move out of flat and I have all belongings) Have done some sorting in piles for them to go through
368-370 cardboard boxes and shoe boxes recyled
371- 374 rubbish from bathroom, and bedrooms (bags)
375 electronic clutter - 500 emails
376 Paper clutter binned/recycled
377 food back of fridge binned.

Things in car ready to go back to shop and CS bags ready to be dropped off.

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

987. Plastic hanger into recycling
988-995. Royal commemorative items to charity bag
996-1001. More commemorative items to charity

1002. Shorts into charity bag.
1003-1004. Commemorative ware into charity

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’s weather improved, stayed dry & sunny - the forecast heavy rainfall never materialised :T Eventually got around to making the cottage pie - took hours but it was well worth it My DSis doesn’t like celery so replaced with mushrooms & bulked out with red lentils, frozen peas, green beans, sweetcorn & carrots & a tin of butter beans. Enough for 2 large cottage pies plus a 3rd portion for the freezer to go with the cheesey mash already in the freezer :T It was absolutely delicious - so all 3 of us are looking forward to same again Monday night :rotfl: The only decluttering I did was programmes from my planner

3599 - 3614 Two drinks tins, glass bottle & metal cap, food can, small glass bottle, empty wine bottle (good wine used for cooking not drinking :rotfl:), paper packaging, 4 plastic trays, 3 lots of cardboard packaging, plastic pot & lid, empty chocolate box but 25 chocolates did last me 7 evenings :A - Recycled
3615 - 3619 Three plastic bags, worn out sponge scourer, bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

Yippee Barny1979 :T :j over 1000 :j:j:beer: Thank you for not teasing us anymore :rotfl:

Welcome back IrishRose12 :hello: Well Done on the decluttering - I admire your resolve to limit online time - it is obviously proving very successful :T:T Well Done on getting rid of your orca spider :T mine came out & was kind enough to wait for me to capture him in a glass & evict him :rotfl:

Well Done villagelife :T keeping the numbers moving :T

Excellent work Gem-gem :T Love that your mum grows after eight mints & apples in her garden :rotfl: sorry to be so silly :rotfl:

Well Done TC77 :T keep up the good work :T

See you all later - need to prep the cottage pie for tonight & tomorrow night’s dinners

MrsSD
3619/4038

Happy_Kitties

*410 pillow-into bin
*411 silver wooden flower dec-past it's days and chewed by the cats-binned

Tomorrow should be a good day-tip run alert!

192 neutral items sent already raising funds for charity