2020 - banish the clutter

TC77

Thank you Mrs SD for my gold start  motivating and very much appreciated

Unfortunately CD drive not working despite trying all tricks on youtube so can't copy more photos but have lots to label and sort. Giving myself to the end of the year to sort.

Few items from yesterday and before 

875 large box and packaging from desk chair

876 -877 stash of file dividers - counting as 2 as thought of keeping some

878 - 888 paper declutter

889 broken folder recycled

Hoping to make indent this weekend. Washed more of DD things for CS which will count when in bag!

Hope everyone has a safe and happy 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

Friday was a mainly dry day but windy & chilly. TV, AB2, knitting - 2nd baby blanket is nearly finished. Next round of knitting will probably be for local NICU - after a bit of investigating. DH & I used the last of the stale hm bread covered with hm soup. The last portion has been bagged & frozen. Made a large bolognese sauce, so we had some with pasta shells for dinner. I still have no GUAG 😞 so I need to look at & remind myself of my mantras - especially No.1 😉 Rather annoyed with myself that I had to compost half a tin of mouldy green lentils from the fridge 😖 

Saturday has dawned bright & sunny but still no GUAG 😞 although I have watered the indoor plants 😆  I am not stressing TOO much 😉 - I just need to pick somewhere to start 😉 The other thing is that I am feeling antisocial - I am deliberately avoiding the Saturday coffee morning with the neighbours 😞 I need to give myself a severe talking to and/or a kick up the jacksie 😂 but currently can’t even summon up the energy for that 😞

819 - 824 Kitchen recycling, office recycling, glass bottle, cardboard packaging, magazine, cardboard box - Recycled 
825 - 826 Bag of kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - Binned

Good news about the garden waste, nannywindow 🙂 but not so good news about the fish’n’chips 🙁 Your large tree trunks will make perfect bug residences 😉 

Great work villagelife 👏 People do have the unfortunate habit of cluttering up the place 😂

Great work Happy_Kitties 👏  especially on your neutral items 👏 

What a lovely day stellata 😁 

Ticking over nicely newlywed 👏 

Doing rather well on maintenance decluttering Marpau 👏 

You are more than welcome TC77 🙂 Great work on the decluttering  👏 

Might see you all later - if I can summon up the energy 😆 

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

MrsSD ⭐️ 
826/2010

elly68

well im well chuffed i decluttered my kitchen cupboards i have banished all the spares to the attic and gifted some as well .I can now actually get to the stuff i use regularly.

im never going to keep a tally think i will just tick off rooms as i go .

kitchen no finished yet top of my fridge has ended uo a dumping zone so theres next.

good luck everyone

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

293  Old keyboard put aside - if I find dongle by the time lockdown ends it will go to CS
294. Improvised Standing desk using a shelf, a box and an ironing board  - if it works out I will treat myself to one - in the meaning this will do!
295. Designed and delivered a webinar !! (pleased with myself as this is a new thing for me and it went well)

Hip continues to improve - I really turned a corner mid-week.  I'm still a little sore when I sit for anything more than 15 mins or so at a time- I've discovered the trick is to change positions constantly and walk as much as possible.  So that I am able to do this,  I have moved my little office (I work from home) into the living room - now its more office than living room! I figured that DS & I use the living room together for only an hour a day so it made sense - I've arranged it so that at the end of my working day I can turn my back on my working space & cut off from it.  I'm donating my former office ( ie the box room) to DS so he has some extra space - his bedroom is quite small and he does literally everything from there - including running his YouTube channel - so it'll be nice for him to have some extra space.

The changeover has made me realise I have a lot of more stuff that could be decluttered - rather than make decisions now, I'm going to put them in a box in the loft and decide when lockdown ends and charity shops reopen.  

296. Armchair
297. book - cs bag
298. Yoga strap - cs bag
299. Created new home office!

Hope you are all keeping well & happy 

supersaver1000

Have sent some clothes to the charity shop bag - 3 items.  Hopefully more to follow soon.

Sa1sysoo

Sa1sysoo said:

Sa1sysoo said:

Filled up another page in my notebook, so time to add on here again.
94. Video Game
95-109. Books to Ziffit
110. DVD on eBay
111-114. Books on eBay
115. Body Scrub UU
116-120. Pine cones on sticks
121-122. Refillable Bottles from a Theme Park
123. Manager Book given to a friend
124-133. Cheap Coin Belts
134-139. Out of Date Nuts and Raisins in the bin
140. Bag of Icing Sugar binned
141-158. Plastic tubs recycled
159. Dead plant
160-191. Beer glasses to the Charity Shop :beer:
192-195. Bottle Openers to the Charity Shop :beer:
196-215. Test tubes used for shots to the Charity Shop :beer:
216. Christmas Penguin Tin
217. Body Scrub - UU

The kitchen is looking much tidier and it's so much easier to find things now. Plus, we can open drawers without their being a tangle of bits in there. :j So freeing! :A

Latest notebook page filled, so:
218. Nail Varnish binned
219. Pen Used Up
220. Poster to the Charity Shop
221-230. Magnets to the Charity Shop
231. Coffee Mug to the Charity Shop   
232. Camera Instructions recycled
233. Eyeliner thrown away
234. Laces thrown
235-236. Travel show cleaners thrown
237. George Foreman Grill Cleaner/Scraper to the Charity Shop
238-242. Misc packets from the fridge thrown away
243. Sleeping Mask to the Charity Shop
244. Barbell freecycled
245-262. Weights freecycled
263-266. Dumbells freecycled
267. Pen Used Up
268. Box Set Ziffited
269-270. Pants thrown away
271. Ring to the Charity Shop
272-284. Single socks thrown away

285-290. Bags for Life
291. Iron - given up the ghost
292. Alarm Clock
293. Haridryer
294-301. Glowsticks
302-304. Tops into the Charity Bag
305-307. Books to Charity Shop/Ziffit
308-309. More Glowsticks
310-312. Sorry You're Leaving Banners
313. Kinder Egg Toy
314-315. Work Paperwork
316-324. Work Paperwork
325-329. Work Paperwork
330-353. Work Paperwork
354. Work Paperwork
355. Work Paperwork
356-358. Work Paperwork
359. Work Paperwork
360-365. Work Paperwork
366. Work Paperwork
367. Work Paperwork
368. Work Paperwork
369. Work Paperwork
370-379. Work Paperwork
380. Work Paperwork
381. Bath Bomb used up
382. Work Paperwork
383-385. Work Paperwork
386. GDPR Work Paperwork
387. Risk Register Work Paperwork
388-419. More Work Paperwork
420-438. Hair Bobbles
439. T-Shirt to Charity Shop

It's handy that I'm in the process of changing jobs, meaning the stuff I've taken to work on from home can make it's way into recycling 

ailz95

It's been a funny old week.  Cold, wet and pretty miserable to be out in.  The guy from Hermes and I were having a - socially distant - moan about it.

DH decided on Wednesday that he wanted a pond, to see if he could encourage wildlife.  There is an area in our bottom field with a small stream running through it so he decided to dam it - someone has had the same idea in the past as there is a sluice and a round marking in the field.  He built a dam using a huge log that was there anyway - and then he dropped his phone in the pond.  That wrote off his old person Doro phone.  I've persuaded him that he should be a proper grown up and move onto a smart phone, which should arrive from Amaz*n today.  Thursday he went out - no phone, of course - and he fell in the pond.  Didn't bother coming straight back so when he did come in he was full of mud and so was his hat - he wears one as he's going a bit thin on top and I don't want him getting a sunburnt scalp.  It was all worth it though as on Friday when he took our lady gardener to show her his pond - there was a duck on it.  So we decluttered lots of money on Wednesday - I also ordered a new fridge as now that we're vegans we have so much veg that needs keeping in the fridge - and we can only get out once a week, lockdown or no lockdown, to buy the vegetables - that it's full to overflowing.

I've been collecting all my peelings, ends of cabbages, cauliflowers, garlic skins, onion skins - well everything really - in the freezer and yesterday as the bag was full I put it in the slow cooker overnight with some water and have made 4 litres of a nice veggie stock.

A quick question here - is anyone making bread and struggling for yeast?  I bought both brown and white bread flour and they each came with 200 g of dried yeast.  If anyone would like some pm me and I'll put some in the post to you - just tell me how much you want - I have 400g.

Other than that not much decluttering here.

Stay safe everyone.

ailz95

Just an addition really - I also have sourdough starter, both brown and white, if anyone would like some pm me as above.

villagelife

More done
732 another magazine recycled
733 a tin recycled - in the past I would have kept just in case!
734 Repotted my house plants so they all look better and some soil/compost has been out in the compost and brown leaves etc also composted

Been weeding in the garden so many weeds have gone.

villagelife

More done
732 another magazine recycled
733 a tin recycled - in the past I would have kept just in case!
734 Repotted my house plants so they all look better and some soil/compost has been out in the compost and brown leaves etc also composted

Been weeding in the garden so many weeds have gone.