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

Wednesday has been another dry day but oh so cold 🥶 I have started knitting a scarf.

DSis has made her 3 chocolate coconut cakes - will be decorating them tomorrow & delivering to the neighbours.

DH went & bought some Czech Korunas for our trip to Prague.

I did an sm shop. Dinner was chicken fried in butter, boiled potatoes, rtc carrots & green beans.

3962 - 3972 Two drinks tins, cardboard box, 2 food cans, foil tray, 2 newspapers, 2 egg cartons, plastic box & lid - Recycled
3973 - 3974 Coffee tin of kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - Binned

Ha ha short_bird :rotfl: full of washing already

Happy decluttering

MrsSD
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Chocolatedrinker

Decluttered some cash today - got a ppi payout, and paid off the credit card and bed loan.... very happy day!

Happy_Kitties

*485 a selection of American sweets DD BF didn't like from a mini sweet hamper, decluttered with other goodies to trick or treaters tonight.

*486 DD was given a bean in a tin that she had to grow. Fatal in this house with the cats but we had 'Mr Bean' growing really well before he was destroyed by the cats. Soil into the garden and the tin into recycling.

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

Thursday has been yet another dry bright day but still cold 🥶

DSis decorated her 3 chocolate coconut cakes, 2 of which were delivered to the neighbours. One neighbour donated 6 cans of beer & the other made wontons which her children brought over - scrumptious 😋 DH went to sm on the bike for cold drinks & another pumpkin which he carved on his return. Dinner was sausages, mash & plum tomatoes.

Now for Halloween 🎃 we put tea lights in the carved pumpkins, had plenty of sweets available & DSis wore a hooded skull mask :eek: She frightened the beejesus out of the first child & the 2 adults with her. Mostly frightened the adults including one mum who ran away & hid behind the other adults & abandoned her little one on the doorstep :rotfl: A 2nd child was so spooked that he gave my DSis a sweetie from his bucket :rotfl:
The pumpkins looked great, my DSis had a whale of a time including frightening the next door neighbours (rented house) by going out into the back garden & shining a torch under her chin whilst wearing the mask & peering over the garden fence :rotfl:
Chocolate coconut cake is absolutely delicious 🤤

3975 - 3991 Two drinks tins, 2 food cans, glass bottle & metal cap, glass jar & metal lid, 3 lots of cardboard packaging, plastic bottle, 6 leaflets, brochure - Recycled
3992 - 3993 Bag of kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - Binned
3994 - 3996 Two memento booklets & a set of postcards from Canada - CS

Very MSE :money: Chocolatedrinker :T Congratulations on a happy day

Well Done Happy Kitties : shame about the bean in a tin

Happy decluttering

MrsSD
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villagelife

Some for this week

1356-1359 some socks with holes in
1360- 1365 some packaging of various things recycled
1366 a broken alarm clock
1367 case for headphones no longer used.
1368-1369 old pieces of costume jewellery
1370 a single earring
1371 more paperwork shredded

That's some for this week.
Should be back with more as need to sort out another kitchen cupboard later.

TC77

Would love to hear from those who've been decluttering and have now noticed a big difference in how their house and life are.....

I've always been taking things to CS but this is making me look for other things but know need to up my game
478 plate - cracked
479-480 two pieces of wood
481 -482 old soaps
483 sponge
484 sieve
485 coaster
486 electronic declutter
487 paper clutter
488 letter posted
489 old card reader

working on using up toiletries, hoping to take things brought back from my dad's to Salvation Army, and work through my things. Took clothes back to shop as realise I dom;t need them!

Picklepot

Please can i return?
Sorry i have not read to catch up with everyone , but i do think i need you all as this is going to be ongoing if even for maintenance.
Big life things happening here ...and i didnt know how to keep up.
A Family member has now moved in ( to help them with their current circumstances.- unemployment etc)This Involved a big move 275 mile round trip and their flat contents in my garage :eek:. However they have done fantastically and its nearly all cleared by means of selling, charity shopping, giving away.
Unfortunateley in helping them i have lost my own momentum, and realised i have also condensed my stuff into other rooms instead of dealing with it .
TC77 i have just spotted your post ... i would also like to hear from people about the effect of decluttering. My living room is done and gives me much pleasure it is like an oasis of calm since its been fully done.I want the whole of my house to be like that.

IrishRose12

Loads happeneing here this week. Attic is done, and no treasures hiding anywhere But it's done so I'm more than happy :THouse has been hoovered from top to bottom, we can now see the kitchen table again:eek: Lets see how long that lasts:rotfl: Bathrooms cleaned and de-cluttered, another bag ready to be sent to the charity shop
I went to Ikea during the week and got a few bits and pieces...... lets face it, you don't go to Ikea for one thing do you? Well I don't anyway, so I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else for that matter:rotfl:anyhoo, got 3 storage unit things and they have been assembled already:dance: so we're nice and tidy now in a bedroom and attic.

I wrote myself a to-do-list and most of it is ticked off, which has never happened before:eek: so It's definitley motivated me.
I've been having an argument with our fridge for a while now, well years actually:wall: trying to figure out the temperature settings I have finally mastered it:T Turns out the highest number is the lowest setting:doh:

I have read the manual, googled for eternity and fiddled about with the knob in the fridge for God knows how long, and I've finally mastered it.
Hopefully it sorts the problem we've been having this past few weeks with the fridge now, the water was overflowing into the fruit drawer so fingers crossed that's it done.

I've officially started for Christmas:xmastree:I actually started on Christmas Eve last year thanks to the Boots sale:money:and there was a Scentsy sale in May or June time that I got a lot of Christmas gifts in too, so I technically already started, but I started properly today.

Got some Christmas cards in for the kids in school, nice pretty Disney ones including Frozen 2 cards, which I know will be popular again in a few weeks.



Tomorrow will be a lazy day I think, I've managed to get more than I expected to get done this week alone, and I'm back to work on Monday, and that's us until Christmas now.

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Nothing done of late but am expecting friend to help with wrapping Xmas gifts, had arranged this and then got dates through for operation date so pre-op etc to do. Have started to use freezer and fresh veg to make soup for freezers ready for when I come home, got to check on the hm ready meals next, got stuff in freezers, just want to do some batch cooking and freezing. Will not be able to drive until afger Xmas so have to be orgsnised.

Rootle

41/52 - general clear out of a room ready for decorating and a couple of hotel freebies used up.