2020 - banish the clutter

tboo

120 - 122, 3 jumpers in the CS bag

TC77

523 - 524 hoovering and general rubbish from rooms

took bag to CS and added a tray ( only had one tray 2 years ago and now have about 6 - I'd read they are a good way to corral items!) 525

526 -527 washed out empty storage boxes ready to put things in (have lots of empty boxes and piles of things so deciding to marry the two!

Michellelh

This weekend I did another pass of my wardrobe and filled another bag for the charity shop ( I’ve been watching capsule wardrobe/decluttering vlogs to YouTube). I had other errands to run on Sunday so it was dropped off straight away.
I did however find another item of clothing to go once I’d finished my laundry so another new bag has been started.

7/20 bags to charity

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

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

2. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 10 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY UNTIL THE DECLUTTERING MOJO RETURNS (Thanks oceanspirit 👏)
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?

Monday has been a lovely sunny day & reasonably warm - shame I didn’t have enough washing for a full load 🙁 DH & I spent some time in the back garden - weeding, tidying, moving pots etc & DH filled the bird feeders & cleaned & refilled the water bowls. DH also sorted out the wormery - now have a decent amount of worm cast for adding to compost. Lastly DH cut down & chopped up a rather large snapped branch from next door’s willow tree (we did have permission 😆) I also did a couple of jobs indoors - paid my cc bill, descaled the kettle & replaced the filter, cleaned the fridge & vacuumed downstairs. Also did some knitting. DH & I had square crumpets for lunch, DSis had a cheese sandwich. Dinner was lo chicken korma from the freezer for me + a fried egg sandwich. I cooked bacon, eggs, baked tomatoes, mushrooms & green pepper + a can of plum tomatoes for DSis & DH.

598 - 600 Kitchen recycling, cardboard box, various leaflets - Recycled
601 - 602 Bag of kitchen detritus, bag of garden detritus - Binned

Great work shangaijimmy 👏 

Hope the good day continued Chocolatedrinker 😉 

I did like your DH’s description of being in ‘the killing zone’ 😂 I nearly wet myself 🤣 Your cat is already doing her best to self isolate 😂 

Good work tboo 👏 

Good work TC77 👏 Don’t forget to label the storage boxes 😆 

Great work Michelleh 👏 especially delivering the bag to the CS so quickly 👏 By the way I have to apologise to you - I forgot your gold star for 5 bags out of 20 😞 So here it is One Gold Star ⭐️ 👏 

Will see you all tomorrow.
MrsSD 
597/2020   ⭐️ 

villagelife

Thank you for my gold star MrsSD
535 a cafetiere (don't know how to spell it) to a colleague. I still have two and rarely use them.
536-537 a couple of jars used up in recipes. Not quite what was asked for but close enough.
538 packaging recycled.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

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

2. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 10 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY UNTIL THE DECLUTTERING MOJO RETURNS (Thanks oceanspirit 👏)
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?

Couple of items from yesterday & updated my total correctly 😆 

603 - 604 Broken garden true, broken house - Tip bag

MrsSD 
604/2020   ⭐️ 

EssexHebridean

We're still going - I may have already posted this yesterday but I can't remember so feel free to just ignore me if so! 

The top of the other wardrobe was attacked on Sunday - some stuff amalgamated into boxes etc, and some other stuff binned. Nothing much from up there for CS'ing ,  but there's a pile of newspapers that I had saved with items about the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 that are heading to the recycling...in fairness I had no idea that they were there - they clearly got shoved up there when we moved in and I'd never got around to going back and reviewing them! 

Also tackled two shelves in the bedroom - again mostly stuff to be slung out but some stuff has also been relocated and those shelves are now totally empty. Probably not a bad thing allowing that they're not the most structurally sound, these days...

I now need to have a proper think through what to move on to next I think - my wardrobe probably needs a more brutal haul-through - and there is still a fair amount of stuff to be relocated allowing for space now created, too. 

Wanna_Bee_Free

A bit of a longshot but I wonder if the museum in Zanzibar might be interested enough to pay international postage?
http://www.freddiemercury.com/en/news/the-freddie-mercury-museum-zanzibar

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

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

2. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 10 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY UNTIL THE DECLUTTERING MOJO RETURNS (Thanks oceanspirit 👏)
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?

Dry day but lacking sunshine 🙁 No decluttering apart from money 😱 DH & I went to separate supermarkets in a bid to top up the store cupboards 🤣 Limited success but both managed to get mushrooms which was handy for the mushroom risotto I had planned 🤭 & DH managed to get some pasta 🥳  🥳  The risotto was 😋 & enough left for Wednesday night’s dinner.
I have had lovely chats with 4 of my neighbours - requisite 2m apart 😇 & so far none of us have sneezed or coughed during our conversations 😆 

605 - 609 Two newspapers, Empty wine bottle hic!, bag of kitchen recycling, bag of office recycling - Recycled
610 Bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

You are welcome villagelife & well done on continuing the decluttering 👏 

Great work EssexHebridean 👏 Can you make the shelving sturdier? Maybe a project if you have to self isolate 😉
 
See you all tomorrow - keep safe.

MrsSD
610/2020

villagelife

539 a sock with a hole in
540 a blouse being used for rags
541 magazine recycled
A slow day yesterday but at least something left the house.