2020 - banish the clutter

newlywed

greent said:

Definitely get rid of the too big stuff - you're allowing yourself permission to go back there if you do! Maybe keep one outfit in the largest size so you can try it on at points and see just how far you've come x

Thanks greent and MrsSD. I think I’m scared I’ll go back there without permission! 

Well two skirts are now in the half way pile.

Sue14

Since I last posted, I finally sorted out the cupboard under the sink in the kitchen, which was in a real mess!  Took everything out, washed the cupboard and put things back in tidily.  I found 2 packs of kettle descaler sachets so took a sachet out to use and got the rest condensed into 1 box, got some other things out of their boxes (a magic sponge, a micro fibre cloth and some latex gloves), and put the boxes in recycling. I found 4 floral picks, 2 of which I binned, but kept the 2 with butterflies.

I have so many cleaning products in the cupboard, which I must use before buying anymore (I have a bit of an addiction to the cleaning aisle, lol), but at least they are now more organised, and I have a list of what’s in there.

A few months ago I cut down part of the bushes at the bottom of the garden, and they have been piled up to be gradually put in the garden waste bin for recycling, so I’ve managed to get rid of some of that.  I took some old envelopes in to work to be used for internal mail, and also (finally) took the used batteries in to put in recycling.

TC77

Not much done tonight -

338 - a few bits of paper

339 very large builder scale pot of paint collected - would have used eventually but needed the space

340 old food binned

failed on my paper projects which are now urgent so note to self to do tomorrow!

Willowtree222

Knee draining sounds painful. I think should count it towards your decluttering total seen as though it is something leaving. x

villagelife

Have been busy decluttering but not managed to post as life has been busy.
409 an old carbon monoxide alarm.
410 a spanner to its rightful place in the shed.
411-414 gadgets to help fit light fittings binned.
415-416 various screws and rawl plugs to shed
417-418 broken ornaments of MIL thrown out
419 chocolate coins binned
420-422 very old party poppers binned
423 a few old coins
424 out of date EHIC card binned
425 GB magnetic car sticker
426 an old passport shredded
427 breather which was out of date.
428 shredded paper
429 computer charger with frayed lead
430 a tv box thing
431 old perfume bottle
432 used up wrapping paper
433 used up card from stash
434 a gift bag used up.
435 various bits of packaging
436 candle remains

That is all for time being. Pleased to see others doing well.
I can't remember who said that going back to areas and doing a second Declutter will be harder surprisingly I've not found it to be worse and possibly easier as you are in the flow of decluttering.

shangaijimmy

Day 53
Mrs SJ sorted through DD's clothes  :
- Large carrier bag of clothes for friends donation

I then decluttered a storage cabinet from the kitchen into DD's wardrobe to allow for some more drawers in her room

Day 54
Fresh from DDs clothes I got together the huge pile of socks and tights that she seems to have multiplied:
- Large pile of socks to CS bag
- The games bundle sold on ebay, so are bagged up and ready to go the post office tomorrow (£47 profit, when I was hoping for £20, so a lovely surprise)
- Unsold item (I wasn't expecting a sale anyway) into CS bag

Marpau

Been doing more clearing and sorting than cluttering at the moment plus lots of life admin.
154 ball of wool used up from stash
155 shirt to textile bag
156/157 2 magazines recycled
158/159 pair of trousers sold and packaging
160 Pair of sox to textile bag
161/162 2 nighties to CS
163 fabric pieces to textile bag
164/176 12 hangers binned
177/180 4 lots of underwear to textile bag
181/184 4x ood sun lotion
185/187 3 magazines recycled
188  6" confidential papers burnt
 189 old receipts burnt
190 emails x200 deleted
191 20 emails unsubscribed
192/193 uu candles
194 jacket to CS bag
195 huge bag of rubbish
CS bag full ready for collection tomorrow we are lucky charities collect in this area.

TC77

Very little decluttering done today...just had emergency plumber due to leaking radiator and couldn't find stepladders for him to change pressure and had to climb over things to take a chair in the other room.... hoping I'm at the stage where it looks worse before it looks better....really want to get one or two rooms ok.... may try and set a daily target....

I have boxes and bags with things to sort but scattered throughout the house so going to try and put in one space - I did that with small storage boxes and DD1 took a few of these. She has too much on at the moment ..

Just paused to watch some of the hoarding programme and have put a radio, plastic tool box and GCSE revision book in the CS. 341- 343 into CS

344 moved small shelf unit which has little on it to a sensible place and putting small storage boxes etc so there are off the floor and can be used to tidy elsewhere or got rid of!

Have a good week everyone x

 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. DO NOT PUT OFF TO TOMORROW WHAT CAN/SHOULD BE DONE TODAY

2. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS”
3. LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I ENTERED
4. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT
5. WHEN DEALING WITH CLUTTER I WILL USE ‘Daisy1571’s idea of ‘WHAT WOULD I DO WITH THIS ITEM IF IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE’S?

Quite a bit of sunshine today - really lifts the spirits 😁 didn’t encourage me to tackle any decluttering though 😂 Did go to sm & got 2 stupendous ys deals - 8 lamb chops for £1 (saved £6.78 👏) & 8 cherry flavoured Act*v*a yogurts for 50p (saved £3.50) Not so good - the new £20 notes yuk 
Finished knitting scarf 27 & started on no.28.
Dinner was baked: lamb chops, mushrooms & tomatoes, with boiled: potatoes, broccoli & fresh carrots - delicious 🤤 

415 - 420 Glass bottle, cardboard packaging, 2 bags of kitchen recycling, 2 small glass bottles (DH’s rhubarb gin with rhubarb tonic) - Recycled
421 Seven plastic forks - CS bag
422 - 423 Two bags of kitchen detritus - Binned
424 Mug with cracked handle relocated to shed

Snowboarding savvy 😱 

Excellent decluttering greent 👏 

I had to laugh Gem-gem 😂 a shelf for your husband 👏 

Not a chance newlywed! So halfway pile & out 👏 

You have been busy Sue14 - well done 👏 

Still a successful weekend TC77 👏 Hope you didn’t have to declutter too many pennies ☹️ 

Quite agree Nicnak 😃 

Excellent work villagelife 👏 

Great work shangaijimmy 👏 & well done MrsSJ 👏 Also congrats on the sales 

Brilliant work Marpau 👏  You are lucky 🍀  that charities collect bags in your area. 

See you all tomorrow 

MrsSD
424/2020

ailz95

Had our monthly/2 monthly 3 nights away last week.  As it was half-term we went to my stepdaughter's to play with the grandkids.  She's decided to declutter her husband.  His family are useless so I'm being his main support - he had a heart attack a couple of years ago and is a recovering narcoting and alcohol addict.  I'm determined that he'll keep up the recovery - luckily so is he. Stepdaughter is scared that he'll go back on it and it'll kill him.  So it was a pretty hectic time.  She doesn't want him to move out - he works away a lot - but we tried to persuade her that he needs to for both their sanities.  They haven't told the children either.
Thought we might have had trouble getting vegan food while out and about, but everywhere seems to have it.  The hotel has a Bella Italia attached, they had a vegan menu (including pudding!), Pizza Hut, supermarkets, of course.  Really we could have ate most places and not needed to eat salad at all.  I'm determined though that we'll be Plant based whole food eaters and not eat much in the way of processed food.
Not much decluttering done - except money of course.  I don't know what the carer fed MIL, but most of the food I left was still here when we came back.  The veg were all roasted and most made into a Seitan stew with dumplings and roasted tomatoes into a risotto.  I've also just decluttered half a pack of vegan biscuits - just to check them out, of course.

Yes, Mrs S D, I think I am feeling better for being vegan.  We went to a supermarket last week and I walked round - I've not managed that for over 5 years.  I've cut back on my medication. especially the tramadol and codeine and I've not taken any paracetamol for about 10 days.  As of tomorrow I'll be cutting my blood pressure tablets in half.   All positive results for a long-term sicko.