2020 - banish the clutter

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?

Sunday was a fairly dry day - washing basket emptied. Dinner was pork steaks, mash, green beans, mushrooms & tomatoes - yummy 🤤 

Monday has been a lovely sunny day if rather cold. Sorted two cubbyholes in my wall unit & condensed DSis’s meds from 3 bags to one bag. Dinner was chicken fried in butter with boiled potatoes, carrots & green beans - 😋 

465 - 469 Uu washing gel bottle, 2 bags of kitchen recycling, old phone book, bag of recycling from wall unit - Recycled
470 - 473 Uu hand cream, 0.5” shredding, 2 bags of kitchen detritus - Binned
474 Paperback - CS bag
475 Old Walkman - Tip bag

Sorry to hear that life is getting you down EnergyShifter 🙁 but pleased that you are now planning to look after yourself 🙂 You have obviously been decluttering without even realising 👏 - almost 200 👏 

Thank you for sharing Nicnak - you are so right that decluttering (& cleaning) do help in taking your mind off worrying. Sorry to hear about your troubles 🙁

Well done villagelife 👏 little & often is definitely working for you 👏 

Great work TC77 👏 treating yourself to the pictures rather than decluttering gets my vote 😆 Over 400 - you are doing really well 👏 

Thanks for that oceanspirit 👏 made a start with the most annoying bits - see above 😉 
Hope the new diet helps even if it is a bit time consuming initially. Well done on still managing to declutter 👏  OH is definitely sensible then 😉 

Great work Foofoopuppy 👏 

Still good work retiredinfrance 👏 I am awarding you a merit award 🥇 for not beating yourself up 😉 After all it would stop you decluttering 😆 The top sounds beautiful 🙂 Well done on your first bag for March 👏 

Good work newlywed 👏 I love the term “clutter blind” but it sounds like your OH is ‘declutter blind’ 😂 Ooh sparkly bits 🤣 

Great work tboo 👏 do you have replacement DVDs?

Well done on feeding your decluttering addiction ziggy2407 👏 

Good work short_bird 👏 

Still keeping up the momentum shangaijimmy 👏 Shame on MrsSJ ☹️

Good work ailz95 👏 Aprons eh 😁 seems ‘armless enough 😂 

Good work never_too_old 👏 you are doing well as you are noticing the difference 👏 

Brilliant work Wednesday2000 👏 powering ahead 👏 

Excellent work Nathalia 👏 I am awarding you a Gold Star ⭐️ for reaching & passing 500 👏 

Well Done stellata 👏 

Good work Michelleh 👏 

see you later 

MrsSD
475/2020

villagelife

477 a bottle of squash that DH brought has finally been used up and bottles recycled. Nobody was keen on it so had been there for a whike.
478-487 some of the many cd's we have.

Holmefarm

Hi all!
I've been a keen reader of your updates and progress in the past 2 months - it has kept me entertained during the late night / early morning feeds.
It's been a busy few weeks (baby arrived safely but I've been recovering from my c-section so been a bit slow on my feet) hence my lack of updates.
So this post incorporates January and February favourite updates.

January - total 129 / 168
-39 overall isn't too bad considering arrival of baby but room for improvement.
Mainly my son's outgrown clothes and old baby clothes that wouldn't fit my daughter (she's a little chunky monkey) to the charity shop and sorting out kitchen cupboards (unwanted and unneeded items binned or recycled).

February - total 189 / 168
-18 overall is an improvement which I hope to catch up on in the coming months.
Decided to rearrange drawers and boxes in bedroom so found (and sorted) lots of odd socks and clothes which needed to be put in rag bag or charity bag. My husband has decided he wants to support my efforts and so has started to make a start on huge pile of scanning (we want to go paperless this year) he has developed.
Plastic recycling finally gone as well as several mixed loads to the tip have also made a dint in our clutter pile.

Best wishes to you all for the coming decluttering month 😀 

Marpau

196/198 3 birthday cards posted
199/200 tankini sold and packaging
201/203 3 magazines recycled
204/207 4 magazines passed to neighbour
208/209 2magazines recycled
210/211 pair trousers sold and packaging
212 file to CS 
213 chest of drawers sold
Two bedrooms have been cleaned and furniture rearranged alas this means 3rd bedroom is now ROD for now until I sort out what is to stay and what will be going. I do know nothing will be going back that is not truly wanted!

retiredinfrance

many thanks Mrs SD for my merit award. You are so  encouraging, so much so that I've got another March bag to  go . A small one full of bits and pieces of embroidery thread. All remaining threads  now in separate little bundles or skeins and enough space in the box for my reels of cotton. Which means more space in the sewing drawer from which I moved lots of fluff, odd bits of thread etc. A very tidy sewing drawer now. Rather immodest to boast, but I am really really pleased with my wee thread bundles and the tidy drawer. A wee lift with all the bad weather and virus gloom. Keep safe everyone.That's 3 March bags now.

Nathalia

Thank you Mrs_Salad_Dodger   for my gold star!  I have done a happy dance and told the cat.

shangaijimmy

Day 63
- 22 childrens book in the car ready for CS delivery in the morning
- 1 lego set (missing loads of bits) to bin
- 1 trading card game (again missing loads) to bin

newlywed

Here are some decluttering motivation quotes 
https://bemorewithless.com/declutter-your-life-quotes/?utm_sq=gau1imt3jl&fbclid=IwAR2R6xSAlZ1l-715UZOoE1Gi9FG4zJTvocPK2nlugrsbDUizGkxeTFmjdLo

pixtotts

newlywed said:

Ooh a tea subscription...  I did one of those but every individual teabag sample was plastic wrapped then the main box was plastic wrapped... so I decided to switch to loose leaf more often...

but I drink PG whenever OH makes the tea 😊 

That's a lot of plastic! Luckily mine's a loose leaf subsctiption from Bird and Blend so it's 3 lots of tea in 25g pouches then they come in a card envelope, they have a cute post card with the tea descriptions on one side and a cute themed picture on the front designed by a different artist each month. This months has easter bunnies on it and the teas were creme egg, easter nests, and simnel cake, I've had the easter nests before but not tried the others yet, their previous cake teas have been really good though!
 
 I recently bought some self fill biodegradable bags that are helping me drink more loose leaf (I'm on a mission to get my stash down before it all goes out of date >.<), I have a load of the metal / silicone infusers but they are such a faff to clean out I find I just can't be bothered with them, so the tea bags are working out much easier and I'm drinking a lot more of it! 


26 - 36 - sold on a bundle of harry potter lego mini figures
37 - dvd - charity shop 
38 - sorted some stuff for my supplies shop and threw the unsalveageable bits 
39 - bodysuits that the clasps have gone on - bin 
40 - scrapbook supplies passed on to my sister 

I REALLY need to battle the boxes in my studio but they make me feel down just looking at them  

Happy_Kitties

*55          broken water bottle-recycling
*56         christmas cards found-recycling
*57        pet advent calender -recycling
*58        crumpled envelopes from RM surveys-recycling
*59        slimming world magazine (never did use the recipes) -recycling
*60-65  clothes items-recycling
*66        ink cartridge-recycling
*67-68   last bit of shower gels DD left-used up then recycled

30 neutral items now sent to organiser (target is 100 items for charity this year)
Getting there slowly!