2020 - banish the clutter

greent

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Excellent work greent 👏 Now you are just showing off greent 😉 I have to say I would have counted selling the caravan as at least 10 items 😉 - hope you got a decent price 🙂

Thanks, Mrs S_D We got a good price for the condition it was in/ age - and it's gone from the garden, which is the best bit - it was on our 'to-do' list last year to sell it, but that didn't happen. As to numbers of items, we sold some 'extras' with the caravan and included some other bits for free - they're all included on the next part of my list

short_bird

314: CD to charity shop pile
315: Another bag of assorted stuff now sorted   There's a chaotic table covered in stuff, but it's an organised chaos!

villagelife

741-742 even more shredding done - hopefully DH has finished sorting paperwork out.
743 another tin thrown away
744 another hand cream used up
745 a small bag of herbal teabags taken to work. I will use them there
746 egg box to neighbour with fresh eggs in it.

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 a lovely sunny day so spent lots of time in the garden with DH. The strimmer came out & all edges were tidied & clippings cleared up. I used the lopper & cut down the branches from next door’s tree which were overhanging our garden. All the branches shredded & bagged. Planted loads of seeds (tomatoes, coriander, chives & basil) which are in seed trays or the rather pretty wooden allotment (which is finally being used) on the kitchen or living room window sills - south facing windows so will hopefully germinate quickly. Watered twice. Found enough compost/top soil to fill 3 more pots. DH also mowed the front ‘handkerchief’ - ours & next door’s. Rather therapeutic working in the garden on a sunny day & an excuse to wear my mum’s straw hat 🙂 - she used to love gardening especially when she lived in France - she had the knack of resuscitating plants & trees when everyone else thought the only thing to do was add them to the compost pile 😂 . Front & back gardens are beginning to look good. Fingers crossed 🤞  that everything grows 🤞 Dinner was Snorkers (aka sausages), mashed potato, the last 2 mushrooms & a couple of tins of chopped tomatoes. 

882 - 885 Cardboard box, kitchen recycling, plastic pot, cardboard packaging - Recycled
886 - 889 Bag of kitchen detritus, 2 empty compost bags, bag of garden detritus - Binned
890 Large bag of shredded garden waste (+ 2nd bag from neighbour’s hedge) - Collection

Thursday is another gloriously warm & sunny day. DH was going to do an sm run but has had 2 massive nosebleeds (tmi coming up 🤢one whilst he was having a bath - Sweeney Todd was an amateur 🤣) - fortunately nothing urgent required.  Third nosebleed & DH is now sitting out in the garden with a wet tea towel & watering can of water - feeling utterly miserable. Feel so helpless as absolutely nothing I can do.
Long chat with next door neighbour - he is busy gardening as due to a complete overhaul of his diet (no carbs, no dairy, no meat) he is now hay fever free 👏 The neighbour across the road has dragooned her 3 kids into gardening 🤣 - the older 2 are of the grin & bear it brigade, the youngest is do a bad job & I won’t have to do it again brigade 😆 

Good work villagelife 👏 and a 😇 for the eggs

Shame about the plugs boultdj 🙁

Good work Nicnak 👏 

Lovely to see you RepentHoarder 😁 You are definitely a reformed clutterbug 🤣 Really glad that you have an incentive to rejoin the world when this is all over 🥳 I miss - being able to visit family, hugging people, going away for weekend bike trips with DH, going on holiday, visits to the Chinese Wellness Centre - so won’t have any problems reintegrating 😉 

No charge so will be back later - too much AB2 😞

MrsSD ⭐️ 
890/2020

Wednesday2000

The bins and recycling were emptied yesterday.

I threw away 2 nail varnishes, an old bottle of Tippex, some leftovers I forgot to eat (I'm self-isolating at the moment or I would have fed the birds in the park with them) and I went around my house and put more packaging into the recycling bin.

I am mentally adding some things to the charity shop donation bag. At least one of my handbags, a blouse and three jumpers.

I am using up the end of a bottle of essential oil tonight as well as a bottle of body lotion with my nightly bath.

TC77

Little from me

926  - 1 sock in draught excluder

927 - I top in CS.

928 removed from subscription (not sure where Bold came from)

Have looked out a few things that I decided I may try and f/bag and if don't go first time into the CS bag. Concerned that CS will be overwhelmed and I'll have to keep hold of the stuff for ages to let things calm down.

Stay safe everyone and enjoy the long weekend.

elsien

And in the latest research news, studies have shown that "just-in-case-itis has been proved to be hereditary. 
Parent has just rummaged out the flags from the Queen's Silver Jubilee ready for tomorrow.  :

For younger forum members,  1977.

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

320 - box
321 - paperweight
322 - colouring book
323 - decorative stone

324. Repotted my vegetable plants - DS didn't claim my vacated office/box-room quick enough so it is now being used as a greenhouse for the plants! He can have it back in a week or so when they are ready to plant out....
325. Renewed my professional insurance
326. Assembled standing desk converter (I don't have to use the ironing board and books any more - hoorah!) 

Chocolatedrinker

Back again!

Items decluttered:

2030 - 33 - cardboard boxes recycled

2034 - magazine recycled

2035 - stress toy binned

2036 - 1" recycling

2037  - candle used up, container recycled

2038 - 2041 - boxes recycled

2042 - shower gel used up, bottle recycled

2043 - out of date tub of vaseline binned

2044 - fluffy bit of soap binned

2045 - 2071 - photos binned

2072 - 3 - 2 lego brick unsticking things to CS

2074 - 76 - 3" recycling

2077 - dress pattern - CS bag

2078 - 83 - plastic packaging binned

2084 - catalogue recycled

2085 - 93 - toilet roll insides recycled

2094 - 2108 - stamps to charity collection

2109 - 2112 packaging recycled

2113 - 2119 - dried up glitter glue binned

2120 - 2121 - craft kit packaging binned

2122 - catalogue recycled

2123 - magazine recycled

2124 - hand cream used up, tube recycled

2125 - magazine recycled

2126 - 2129 - boxes recycled

that's all for now.

To get round the lack of bread flour we bought some from a local supplier - a 16kg sack full, now called Gerald by my daughter!

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

DH’s 4th nosebleed was an epic. It prompted him to phone 111 & get advice. Did the ice, pinching the nose etc, etc but it didn’t stop. The back garden has blood pools & if anybody saw it they would think there had been a murder 😱 90 minutes later it was still bleeding & a 2nd call to 111 was met with ‘you should get a taxi to A&E’ The benefit of living in London is that I only just had time to get DH a clean polo shirt & a carrier bag containing a towel, a couple of cans of ginger coke/cream soda, face masks & his wallet, before the taxi turned up. He arrived back about 5 hours later - having seen 8 NHS staff. He had blood taken, blood pressure (high) & nasal tampons inserted. Sat around for a couple of hours awaiting the blood test results - all clear thankfully 😅 So consultant cauterised & inserted gel. Finally got home about 1:00 a.m.. DSis made DH a cup of coffee & I cooked him bacon, fried eggs & oven chips - DH was starving as he had only had a couple of slices of toast with marmalade at about 10:00 a.m. 😱 DSis & I had eaten earlier - same meal for DSis with the addition of baked beans but minus chips for me.

891 - 892 Kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging - Recycled
893 - 898 Two blood soaked Microfibre cloths, two blood soaked tea towels, one blood stained polo shirt, bag of kitchen detritus - Binned 

I am very impressed greent 👏 

Good work short_bird 👏 

Great work Wednesday2000 👏 

Good work TC77 👏 I am with you in my concern that CS will be inundated with stuff & not all of it suitable. I do know that they can & do refuse donations, so probably best to phone beforehand. 

I rather approve elsien - your parent is a true professional in the art of ‘Justin’ 👏 Now I want to know if anyone can beat 43 years for a ‘Justin’ item? 

Good work EnergyShifter 👏 I hope you told your DS ‘you snooze, you lose’ 😆😉

Excellent work Chocolatedrinker 👏 I hope your daughter has given Gerald a surname 😂 

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

MrsSD ⭐️ 
890/2020