2020 - banish the clutter

StickyTheStickInsect

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Great work jinnyisacat 👏 I especially like the barter system 😉 You must be a saint - chocolate biccies would last about 3 hours in our house 🤣

Sorry for the delay in replying Mrs SD, we've been without a laptop for a little while as DS1 knocked it on the floor by accident and it wouldn't boot up, I subsequently discovered that he'd smashed the hard drive ! I've been rescued by a friend who is a computer genius who has replaced the busted hard drive and the laptop was returned today :-) Thankfully, it didn't cost me anything but he will be duly rewarded with a bottle of very nice gin
The chocolate biscuits is nothing saintly, I can only eat them when the children are in bed because nothing is sacred any more and they eat them all if they get sight of them !! Hiding behind the fridge door when they are around, no longer works !!

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

 EnergyShifter said:
377. phone case
378. wheelie bin green waste

379. Slipper Socks - CS Bag
380 - painted wooden steps
381.  Painted up a frame for use in garden 
382 & 3 - 2 x empty paint pots

TC77

1060 old medicine to pharmacy

1061 - 1065 parcels posted (mostly returns - been waiting for a while and one needed to be scanned and couldn't remember what was in it so had to open ! Hoping to do some paper decluttering today as recycling taken tomorrow.

greent

Latest batch from me: 

1251. bottle of 12 year old massage oil used up in playdo (bottle recycled)

1252 – 1254. Bottles of food colouring used up in playdo (bottles recycled)

1255 – 1257. Fence panel and 2 posts cut up for burning in chiminea

1258. 3 yo frozen puff pastry used up….

1259. 18months ood quick-jel used up

1260 – 1266. New items set aside for PTA fayres

1267 – 1273. Various random items added to CS boxes

1274. More hotel s’poo and conditioner used up, bottles recycled

1275 – 1280. Various hotel jams used up to make jam tarts (cannot recommend Schmukers grape jelly – bleurgh!)

1281 – 1283. Bag, purse and card holder – sold via fbook

1284 – 1285. Box, paper & lots of airpaks used to post the above

1286 – 1296. 11 books sold via fbook

1297 – 1300. Piles of paper sorted out by DD from under her bed and 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

Wednesday night’s dinner was pork steaks, mashed potato, greens, chopped tomatoes + mashed sweet potato for DH & I. Had peach slices & cream for afters.

Thursday was another hot sunny day. DSis did her washing, line dried but quick 15 mins in td to finish off. DH went to sm - saw 16kg sacks of flour but I now have plenty - I just need to get my ‘arris in gear & do some baking 😉 Knitted 2 more sets of baby bonding squares, finished book 3 of the Shipyard Girls series & have started book 4 again - it is making more sense now 🤭 Lunch was hm soup - very tasty & enough left for one last bowl for my lunch on Friday. DH’s love of gadgets has proved serendipitous yet again 👏
Our neighbour G couldn’t start his car. DH had taken delivery of a battery charge booster pack just 36 hours earlier & had charged it up. Once it was attached to the car battery it took 15 seconds & the car started. Bearing in mind the size of the booster pack it seems like a minor miracle 👏 The neighbour took his 2 boys out in the car for about 40 minutes. 

Dinner was salad (including hg lettuce) & cold meats.

Friday is yet another hot sunny day but the breeze is a tad chilly. DH has been doing some work on his motorbike. I had a chat to the neighbour J who has finished his cancer treatment& is waiting for test results. He looks well & feels good. 🤞 

Now have to disappear as no charge on my iPad - I will come back later to cheerlead 🙂

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 
970/2020

Gem-gem

Hi Mrs SD, 
Reading parts of your post about the flour made me smile. Two days ago we had 3 x 16kg flour (SR, whole meal and strong white). The first 16kg is in the freezer killing any weevils. Second loaf in the bread maker, made a batch of dairy free chocolate chip cookies this afternoon.

Yesterday and today, hubby and I also had hm soup. Hubby had tomato and basil, I had leek and potato. (I grew the tomatoes and leeks).
Hubby and I walked to the town and back this morning, six mile round trip. Recluttered the fruit bowl and fridge.
Rang HMRC, whilst waiting to be connected, went through accounts book and recycled receipts, shredded bank letters. 

Unwanted post recycled.

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:
379. Slipper Socks - CS Bag

380 - painted wooden steps
381.  Painted up a frame for use in garden 
382 & 3 - 2 x empty paint pots

384. dead bowl
385. rotten wicker chair
386 - 390 - 5 x tiles
391 & 2 - 2 x rotten tarps 
393 - completed notebook

TC77

1066 cream uu

1067 - resanded cedar balls to declutter moths  - and put to reuse

short_bird

391: cereal box size chunk of paper sorted to recycling
392-393: 2 old purses to the bin
394: DVD watched, to charity shop pile
395: another book finished.

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

Bacon sarnies for DH & DSis, last of the hm soup for me. We had salad again tonight. DH watered the garden.

971 - 975 Plastic bottle, 2 lots of kitchen recycling, 2 cardboard boxes - Recycled
976 - 979 Two bags of kitchen detritus, pair of Sunday socks, bag of bedroom detritus - Binned

Now into cheerleading

Well done short_bird 👏 keeping up the decluttering momentum

A very impressive haul from the garage Nicnak 👏 Artexed ceilings are so ‘busy’  - so well done & I wish you success in finishing off the rest. 

You have been busy nannywindow 👏 & I love that you repurposed an oar 👏 Definitely a syndrome 😆😉 my problem is that I have already taken weeks off 😞

Well done TC77 👏 keep up the good work. I had to smile at the ‘resanding of cedar balls’ 😆 

Great work Gem-gem 👏 - much as I dislike wasps I do like the idea of them visiting your bird bath 🙂 Hg tomatoes & leeks - a bit jealous 😞 but hopefully sunshine & rain/watering will persuade my tomatoes & leeks to grow - eventually 😉

Excellent work bit_by_bit 👏 At least you are decluttering your house - even if some of it is ending up in the garage - hope you can still get the car out 😉 The repurposing is very MSE & I am extremely impressed 👏 

Lucky you StickyTheStickInsect 😉 having access to a computer genius 👏 Hope you observed social distancing 😂 - only joking 😉 The tale of the chocolate biscuits did make me smile 😆

Good work EnergyShifter 👏

Excellent work greent 👏 you are powering along 👏


I now have the weekend to plan some decluttering to commence on the 1st June. Where on earth have 5 months gone 😱?  

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 
979/2020