2020 - banish the clutter

Gem-gem

Last night I finished my book. 

Decluttered the hair off hubby's head today. 

Recycled:
Big cardboard box
post that had been finished with 
book
DVD x 2
Binned:
Teddy bear that I was given when I was 6 months old. 

Off to the RSPCA when it opens:
autumn duvet
summer duvet

TC77

697 - recycled cardboard and packaging lying around for some time.

698 - 699 - 2 x tubberware with no lids

Had 2 half used fresh coffee packs (giving up coffee) 1 now finished which takes me to 700.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 30 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY AT LEAST TWICE EVERY DAY

2. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT

3. I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO BE NICE TO EVERYONE & TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY OR PECULIAR SIDE TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
4. DAY TO DAY DECLUTTERING WILL CONTINUE

Wednesday was another gloriously sunny day & warm. I finished scarf no.36 & started scarf no.37 (I now have 8 scarves ready to go to the homeless but of course no way to deliver them ☹️ + I can’t count as they are still cluttering the house ☹️ 

The last portion of the ropey beef joint was slow cooked with onion, potatoes, tomatoes, wrinkled carrots, stock pots, mixed herbs, Worcestershire sauce & a dollop of tomato purée - 🤤 with cauliflower, mashed potato for DSis & mashed sweet potato, carrot & parsnip for DH & I. The rest of the wrinkled vegetables - carrots, onion, garlic, tomatoes + cauliflower stalks & leaves - were chopped, bagged & frozen ready for my next hm soup. 

DH did our weekly shop - milk, meat, vegetables & a few cans. In fact everything on my list 👏 plus he treated me to some Belgian choc chip cookies 💕 A big bonus of course is that my bank balance is not reducing 😉 as DH is paying for everything 🤣 

Thursday is another dry, sunny & warm day 😁 First good news of the day is that the Recycling bins were emptied - 1st time in 3 weeks 👏 so no excuse not to to declutter 😱 
I have phoned my bank & transferred monies to my DNeph in France - he had phoned his mum (DSis) yesterday - unable to afford food 😱 Fortunately DSis & I took the decision to hold back the money our DMum had left him (12 years ago). My DNeph is exceedingly bad with money - if he has it, he spends it - with nothing put by for a rainy day 😔 He is 29 years old & should know better 😔 The money has been eked out over the years & there is still a quarter of the original amount left - I have been exceedingly frugal with his money 🤣 obviously I had a premonition 😂 

701 - 702 Kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging - Recycled
703 Bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

Well done boultdj 👏 especially the flea tablet 😉

🤞 for a quick sale Nicnak 🤞 Yippee 🥳 target reached in 100 days - a Gold Star ⭐️ for you 👏 

Oh heck Marpau 😠 The sc*mb*gs of the world never let up do they 😡 I hope you get this sorted tout suite 🤞 

Good luck with paperwork decluttering Abbafan1972 🙂 Do you have a staple remover? If not, I would just tear the corners off 😉

Congrats on getting your fresh vegetables ailz95 👏 Weird items missing - maybe Jamie Oliver has been using the ingredients for his recipes 🤣 

Well done stellata applause. I THINK you have done quite a bit and you are so right that the sunshine helps 😆 

Brilliant work greent 👏 One Gold Star ⭐️ coming your way & as I am so impressed with all your hard work in the garden I am awarding you a 2nd Gold Star ⭐️ I will call in next summer for strawberries & cream 😉 - I’ll bring the cream 😆 

One Gold Star ⭐️ for you nannywindow 👏 such hard work in your garden & you Ned some encouragement

Great work Gem-gem 👏 However I did shed a tear 😢 when I read about the teddy bear ☹️

🥳  TC77 - great work to reach 700 in 100 days 👏 

Stay safe everyone

MrsSD ⭐️ 
703/2020

Willowtree222

Thank  you!!

I've carried on today. 
Under stairs cupboard sorted and cleaned.
3 boxes

1 old lunch box (sure they breed)
1 bit of the dishwasher that broke
1 bit of packaging
6 items in total. 2046 new total x

newlywed

Not much from me this week, decluttered the fridge but wasn’t too bad as I’m trying very hard not to waste any food at all.

shredded a pile of receipts from pre-lockdown laziness.  Oh has been decontaminating and allocating to shedding every new bit of post, mostly before I even read it  

decluttered some chilli powder and vinegar to the raised bed after the fox has got under the netting and dug all my seeds up! Warned my somewhat ocd oh that we will get whatever veg grows where and it will no longer be in straight lines!

decluttered lots of washing to the washing line this week. Blankets will be next, then net curtains. 

Bank holiday weekend off work so plan to sort the wardrobe and see what summer clothes fit or not and which are no longer loved.  Will create a charity pile ready for if normality ever resumes.

short_bird

218: a cereal box of paperwork to recycling
219: contents of large IKE@ bag homed.
220: P60 related enquiry received response which was basically "er yeah, it's in the pipeline..."  
Hope all are well, at the moment if I can do anything useful, it's a bonus.

boultdj

With the nice weather has seen OH and I doing some outside work, so car has been washed, paths have been pressure washed, windows cleaned.
I've also been painting the stone ornaments left in the garden, 2 down, a lot more to do, but it's more colour in the garden, plus side, the blackbird is getting very close to me, like just out of arms reach.

Chocolatedrinker

I have managed to get some decluttering done whilst working from home:

1579 - 1599 toilet roll insides recycled

1600 - toiletries sample pot recycled

1601 - cardboard box recycled

1602 - another toilet roll inside recycled

1603 - cardboard box recycled

1604 - shower gel used up, bottle recycled

1605 - yet anotherr toilet roll inside recycled

1606 - packaging recycled

1607 - 09 - 3 shower bombs used up, packaging recycled

1610 - jar recycled

1611 - 1615 tubes of body wash used up, tubes recycled

1616 - mgazine recycled

1617 - bath bomb packaging recycled

1618 - face mask used up, packaging binned

1619 - conditioner used up, container recycled

1620 - handcream used up, package recycled

1621 - packaging for perfume recycled

1622 -23 old make up sponges binned

1624 - 25 old nail varnish binned

1626 - old lip scrub binned, pot recycled

1627 - sachet of night cream used up,

1628 - 29 2 bottes micellar water decanted into another bottle, bottles recycled

1630 - bottle o fshampoo used up, bottle recycled

1631 - gone off body lotion binned, tin recycled

1632 - pore strip used

1633 - gone off face cream binned, pot recycled

1634 - 39 - toilet roll inserts recycled

1640 - body scrub used up, container recycled

1641 - part roll useless bubble wrap binned (all bubbles popped)

1642 - magazine recycled

1643 -bubble bath used up, bottle recycled

1644 - old rucksack binned

1645 - old handbag binned

1646 - 47 broken keyrings binned

1648 - 50 ink toners recyled, padded envelope used to send them off

1651 - cotton wool used up, bag binned

1652 - make up sample pot recycled

1653 - 56 - 3 inches of papers recycled

1657 - 1744 - cards/postcards recycled

1745 - old toiletry pot emptied, recycled

1746 - moisturiser sample used

1747 - 51 socks to ragbag

1752 - 5 old pens/pencils binned

1756 - 63 - old envelopes recycled

That's it for now, hoping to get a bit more done over the bank holiday as OH is not working the weekend.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 30 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY AT LEAST TWICE EVERY DAY

2. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT

3. I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO BE NICE TO EVERYONE & TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY OR PECULIAR SIDE TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
4. DAY TO DAY DECLUTTERING WILL CONTINUE

Thursday stayed gloriously sunny & warm but I decided on a duvet day 😆 I spent most of the day up to 4 p.m. in my dressing gown. Then retired to the bathroom for a long hot soak - so long that I looked like a prune when I got out 😂 Soon remedied by lashings of body lotion 😉 Hair is now tangle free, squeaky clean & shiny. I smell luvverly 😉
DSis cooked her own bacon sarnie 😉 for lunch. Whilst I was turning myself into a prune, DH & DSis were sorting out the front garden. 

Dinner was the slow cooked beef with mashed potatoes (DSis), mashed root vegetables for DH & I plus fresh carrots.

704 - 706 Bag of office recycling, newspaper, Uu mini shower gel - Recycled
707 Bag of kitchen detritus

Great work Nicnak 👏 

Excellent work newlywed 👏 Remember it is “when” not “if” normality returns 😉 I was heartened by the ‘message from Wuhan’  👏

Ticking along nicely short_bird 👏 

Great work boultdj 👏 especially making friends with the blackbird 🙂

wow chocolatedrinker 👏 you have been busy 👏 

Stay safe everyone & enjoy your  Holiday weekend

MrsSD ⭐️ 

707/2020

Willowtree222

Thanks MSD,
You too. x