2020 - banish the clutter

Willowtree222

Cleaned out the craft cupboard. 33 items gone. 
Paints, glitters, glue, used paper, cut up things, everything I could. 
Now my carpet looks like Tinkerbell farted on it. 
Will update signature once I have worked out new total. x

elly68

Hi EV1 can I join please ,have rejoined the flylady thread too.

my motivation dives when my house is a mess .

can't redecorate the living room until dog dies but hey that shouldn't stop the rest being tidy .

ps the dog is an about to be 14 year old in july german shepherd very loved allowed on the couch so hence no point in aiming for that room to improve.

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

The days really are blurring into one another & my inner sloth 🦥 has become an outer sloth 🦥  🦥 I cannot summon up the enthusiasm to do anything 😞 My get up and go has got up and gone 😱 
Thursday was another sunny warm day & the wind was less chilly. TV, AB2, knitting. DH & I had hm soup for lunch - it is becoming very spicy. Individual distanced chats with 2 neighbours. Pottered about in the garden. Telephone banking - paid my cc bill & ordered new cheque book. Dinner was burgers, oven chips & baked beans.
Also had a dessert - the last of the apple & blackberry crumble with custard. Just to put the cap on my lazy day - my DSis did the washing up 👏 although I did dry & put away 😬 

Friday is another dry, very warm & sunny day & the wind appears to have gone away 🥳 Vegetables have been watered, quick chat to neighbour on his way to Day 5 of his radiotherapy treatment. DH showed me the recording of a fox marking its territory by pe**ng over the squirrel feeder 🤢 DH & I have finished off the hm soup - very spiced 🥵 - that will teach me to add 2 whole hg chillies 😥 

782 - 790 Large cardboard box, 2 lots of cardboard packaging, glass bottle, newspaper, stack of obsolete paperwork, kitchen recycling, 2 leaflets - Recycled
791 - 793 Plastic packaging, bag of kitchen detritus, 0.5” shredding - Binned
794 Leaking watering can - Tip bag

Well done nannywindow & MrNW 👏 Do you need any help decluttering the baked goodies? 😉 

Oh dear TC77 🙁 but  😁 to the empty shelves 🙂 Keep up the good work 👏 

Excellent work stellata 👏 and now that the lightbulb 💡 has come on & you are going to start using your fine china I am awarding you a Gold Star ⭐️ - using beautiful things is far better than hiding them away 👏 

Good work greenbee 👏 and what a great idea about your clothes 👏 

Great work Happy Kitties 👏 Well done on the neutral items 👏 and as you are over 50 items another Gold Star ⭐️ is on its way to you. 

Well done Rootle 👏 steady decluttering will win through 🙂

Excellent work EnergyShifter 👏 I especially like the desk - a perfect excuse not to do any ironing 😉

Wow newlywed you have been busy 👏 & your comment about shoes drew a wry grin 😁

Great work Foofoopuppy 👏 and in honour of you celebrating the small wins, I am awarding you a Gold Star ⭐️ - thank you 😊 for reminding us that little declutters should be celebrated 🙂

Good work villagelife 👏 I like that you are planning for end of lockdown 🙂

I almost choked Nicnak 🤣 Tinkerbell farting indeed 😊

Welcome aboard the Decluttering Bandwagon elly68 😁 Looking forward to reading your posts. Hopefully it will take you at least 5 years to sort all the other rooms 😉


BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

MrsSD ⭐️ 
794/2020

TC77

Advice please!  I have a large metal jam making bowl - around 50cm diameter with handles. I don't make jam but my dad did (and I may). It's been on a kitchen shelf taking up lots of room and I used to hide treats in it but my young people know they are there and we're trying to be healthier. I don't want to part with it if I can find a good use for it. Had thought of coal as have a real fire (I hardly use) and a coal holder belonging to ex that I can get rid of but the jam pan is attractive in its own way probably not next to my v smart fireplace.  Conscious that if someone trips over it might not be good so really welcome ideas. it's about 13/14cm tall.

Thanks fellow  declutters.....

Gem-gem

TC77 - a coal holder for the jam maker sounds good. Or of you put lots of stones at the bottom for drainage, you could make a herb planter. 
Mrs SD, what plants are you growing? Do you have a green house (I don't). My tomato plants are now a good 25cm (10 inches) tall. I am thinking that I want to start to harden them off and get them (declutter them out of the house).
I used my jam maker yesterday and within just over one hour had five new jars of raspberry jam (grew raspberries last year) and five new jars of blackcurrant jam (also grown last year) so that it three tubs from the freezer gone. Two jars will be extra Christmas present for my elderly aunt.
I gave three jars of different jam to my two old neighbour - who are both widowed.
Swept up some grass and garden detritus. Trying to keep the patio and path as clean as possible, so that it doesn't end up in the house.
Two Easter Egg boxes have gone into the recycling bin (reduced down to 75p).

short_bird

266: !kea rack to hold iron and ironing board jettisoned, hasn't been fitted in 3 flats... fling!
267: drat, a potato gone green
268: half a box of bits of paper gone to recycling
269: plastic recycling gone out.
270: blackout blind gave up the ghost so that needs urgent work.
I went out yesterday and managed to acquire some mould proof sealant so I can redo the shower while I'm off work. Also, got some more duct/duck/gaffa tape as I had run out! 

newlywed

I decluttered my makeup case today. 

Bought a new eyeshadow selection a little while back in my favourite brand (not cheap) so have been through all the cheap stuff I now won’t choose.  Four lots of multi eyeshadow, three eyeliners, two mascaras (that I don’t like) and two lipsticks I have never worn, plus a seriously ancient one!

Have gone for seriously simplified makeup. And ditched all the stuff that annoys me. So when this is over, I will treat myself to a new lipstick (need to see it in person)

also... washed scrubbed and cleaned makeup case, washed all brushes and foundation sponge. 

So half empty and extremely clean and tidy. 

TC77

A few things out the house

815 faulty headphones returned

816 patterned glass (kept as it matches some in my windows but too small) recycled and bubble wrap tidied away

817 -818 heated brush and belt to CS bag

819 - garden sweepings

Using up old toiletries - funny those not keen on but want to use up seem endless and you can get to the bottom, those you love seem to go so quickly and have bottles that you can't get to the last eighth!

Some general tidying and feel like the numbers should be higher - Kon Marie'd a couple of drawers (sort of rolling rather than standing up items) but take up less space so feel I can keep more)

Not sure I counted the strawberry plants I finally posted 820- 822

stay safe x

Gem-gem

Decluttered dust off the living room and bedroom 1 blinds by hoovering them.
Also hoovered inside sections of bedroom 2 wardrobes. 

Several bits of paper/envelopes/cardboard recycled. 

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

Friday night’s dinner was chicken & mushroom risotto - delicious 🤤 Plenty lo for Saturday nights dinner made into risotto cakes.
Saturday morning was overcast & chilly but the afternoon was gloriously sunny & warm. Up in time to pay the milkman. Spent an hour chatting with 7 neighbours - suitably socially distanced - all of us had our cups of coffee & tried to put the world to rights 😆 TV, AB2 & knitting - finished scarf no.40. 

Dinner was risotto cakes (floured, egged & breadcrumbed) & shallow fried with chicken pieces fried in butter & garden peas. Truly scrumptious 😋 

795 - 798 Cardboard box, 2 plastic bottles, cardboard packaging - Recycled
799 - 800 Bag of kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - Binned

Sorry TC77 - no advice 🙁 Good work on the decluttering 👏 

Ooh 😲 Gem-gem, home made jam made from home grown fruit 🙂 Unfortunately no greenhouse 🙁 - so far have planted potatoes, lettuces, leeks, carrots - all sprouting. Also had old seeds which are being soaked in a growth medium - chard, parsnips, tomatoes, chives - no sign of life yet but only started a few days ago! Fingers crossed 🤞 Good work on the decluttering 👏 

Good work short_bird 👏 

Great work newlywed 👏 so great in fact that I am awarding you a Gold Star ⭐️ 

BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

MrsSD ⭐️ 
800/2020