2020 - banish the clutter

shangaijimmy

Day 61
13hr day in work yesterday so no time to do anything truly meaningful. However:
- 1 old kids rucksack to CS bag

ailz95

Not much decluttering done here - except for a blender which when I unscrewed it to remove, the bottom unscrewed not the top and my sauce went everywhere.  I'd only just bought it, but it was only £8!  I'm still feeling my way around the vegan cooking - loving it - all these new recipes.  No full day's fasting either.  I'm losing a little weight without.
Well done everyone on the decluttering.  I have about 6 aprons on the back of the kitchen door - and keep adding to them - I just love aprons.
My s-i-l decluttered 3 mobile phones onto me - apparently old technology is something no-one else is able to deal with.  2 matching phones sent to stepdaughter and one I'll send off to a charity.
Every time we start drying out here it rains again.  The owner of the horses in our fields keeps bringing them hay, but I don't know how they're managing in the sodden earth.  The daffodils which seem to be out everywhere are beautiful though.
Keep on keeping on.
Ailz

never_too_old

afternoon all
managed to squeeze in a trip to the tip yesterday.It has everything separated so i can donate to charity .Light bulbs disposed of and batteries.I am starting to notice the difference in doors with less clutter long way to go yet but definitely an improvement.

Wednesday2000

I am down to 10 moisturisers now, down from 25, I think it was at the start?!

I am using some shampoo I don't like as washing up liquid. I read something the other day that shampoo is superior to using washing up liquid anyway. I'm not sure if that is true or not!

I have been working my way around my house and have decluttered and rearranged lots of things. I have got rid of lots of random paperwork and packaging and reorganised every drawer. I would say I am about 80% of the way done as I have a small house. The house feels a lot better and more orderly.

retiredinfrance

I love newlywed's term clutter blind and the thought triggered by her reference to "hanging on the door" means I have my first of 6 March bags ready to go. It is a bag of plastic bags that I found hanging my the back door , ready to go to the CS.I already have my stash of bags in a fetching basket in the spare room and I had totally forgotten or been clutter blind to the back door ones. Keep safe everyone.

Nathalia

Checking in for the end of February:

307 at the end of January.  In February the kitchen started to declutter itself: DH opened a drawer and it came away in his hand.  We've been here almost twenty years and it was old then, so we can't really complain.  Started decluttering the kitchen as we are clearly going to need some new units. 

308-328: Mugs to local homeless mission (after checking with them first.)

329-334: Sachets of coffee from hotels used up

335-347: Toiletries and perfumes used up

348-449: Kitchen stuff including cutlery to a local CS which takes them, an impressive collection of bottle tops from DH and the cutlery tray

450-535: Miscellaneous, inclding a USB to my nephew and some books to a friend.  Mostly, however, paper lurkng in drawers.

536-539: Magazines.  I asked DH to sort through a pile of his old magazines and was very taken aback when eight of them turned out to be mine.  Still, it was nice curling up with a July 2018 edition of Kitchen Garden Magazine while the stoms howled outsde!

Now on 539/2020

stellata

Ok a box of umm... stuff... to the chaz. About 25 random items including 2 mops, a hand soap dispenser, 3 rolls of wallpaper, an apron, etc etc. I've been cleaning out my kitchen cupboards!

shangaijimmy

Day 62
Ended up nipping home at lunch for an hour to mind a poorly DS1. So I siezed upon the moment to do my days decluttlering tasks, and made DS1 tidy his room:
- 2 old hoodies of DS1 to CS bag
- 6 books to CS bag (about 25 passed down from DS1 to DS2, so next job is to move DS2's books for littlies to CS)
- 4 empty DVD cases to bin (DVD's long gone)
- 3 DVD's to CS bag

** Then Mrs SJ ruins it all by announcing she's bought 8 books from CS, to add to the 300 already on the shelf!

Michellelh

I have now caught up on everyone’s posts!
I was busy over the weekend but put the charity shop bags in the car anyway. With them in the car it was then easy to do a little detour and drop them off on route to my Nans. I dropped off 4 bags plus a wine rack to a charity shop that in the past I have only brought from. One of the bags included a couple of lightweight jackets that I can’t remember the last time I wore, this has prompted me to think that outerwear should be the next item I tackle.

6/20 bags donated to charity

TC77

Very little from me - tidied draw of pens and pencils and a pot holding more - 5 into the craft give a away bag - going to count each of them (usually do by type but short on anything else403 - 407

408 - difficult email sent and drafts binned!

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