2020 - banish the clutter

TC77

1019 - drain problem resolved - v unpleasant - went to hang up washing and noticed water and gungy by downpipe and drain. Didn't smell too much - not covered by home emergency cover so donned rubber gloves and broom and tub to bail out water. Too much for me and called in help - decluttered £ and fingers crossed ok. Broom been disinfected but may throw away ( only used in garden but only bought a month ago,

1020 gloves binned

Found bread flour (don't make bread but special seeded flour and on offer about a month ago /no yeast needed so going to use this up.

1021 more electronic declutter

Just seen my numbering gone awry...should be 1109 - 1111.

elsien

Dribs and drabs going on here.
A large fruit bowl freegled, and some old slippers in the bin. Not my most impressive weekend. 

Marpau

Not been on for a while but still busy
511 dead electric toothbrush binned
512/515 4 heads for toothbrush don't fit new  brush
516 2 bottles of conditioner into one and bottle recycled
517 2 bottles shower gel into one and bottle recycled
518/529 12 balls of wool used from stash 
530/535 3 tops sold and packaging
536/538 3 lots Sunday undies textile bag
539/540 2 slips to textile bag
541 mirror to cs bag
542/543 Top sold and packaging
544/545 pr of curtains sold and packaging
546/547 birthday present and wrapping
548 birthday card
549/550 dress sold and packaging
551/552 Top sold and packaging
553/556 4 series watched from planner 
557 2" paperwork burned
 558/570 12 fridge magnets sold and packaging
571/576 6 magazines recycled
577/579 3 magazines to neighbour
580 2 glass jars recycled
582/583 2 green bins emptied and refilled
584 packaging from new cobweb duster
585 old cobweb duster binned
586/587 skirt sold and packaging
588/589 another fridge magnet sold and packaging

Charity uplift due tomorrow so hopefully 2 large bags out so pleased these are restarting

TC77

1112 more electronic clutter - lots of files and photos deleted but copied rest on to external drive and will just keep (about 12,000 items copied!) in a few years can bin.

1113 washing up glove binned

1114- 1115 2 old sponges binned.

1116 - 1117 ice lolly moulds and food to DD1

1118 - 1121 book and 2 bangles to CS bag

oceanspirit

8 items off reading pile read and recycled
1 item of paperwork shredded
3 ood food items uu

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


Sunday was an overcast damp day. DH pottered in the garage, DSis watched TV in her room. I wiped down inside of the fridge & sorted contents. A bag of rocket & spinach starting to go over has been bagged & frozen - added to “soup” drawer. Unfortunately I have dairy products & a sauce to report as binned - about 5p single cream, 20p bbq sauce & 50p of Philadelphia cheese = 75p in total 🙁 Containers all washed, dried & recycled - like a good girl 😉

The contents of the 4 kitchen freezer drawers have been rearranged more sensibly & there is a bit of wiggle room. I need to get back into the habit of at least writing a weekly menu plan - unfortunately neither DH or DSis are ever forthcoming with any ideas 😖 

Of course with the way the pandemic is going & talk of more infection peaks, I think I need to sort out my kitchen cupboards & create more space for supplies - dry goods, tins etc. So have just had a little flurry of activity & have managed to create half a shelf of space 👏 by moving all my small & medium glass jars (for hg olives + hm tomato & apple chutney - hoping for a decent harvest of olives & tomatoes & a neighbour has promised a supply of apples 🙂) to the empty drawer in the living room wall unit  🥳 Also sliced the going over bananas & froze them.

Dinner was lo hm cottage pie & green beans for DH & I. DSis had lo hm cheesy pasta topped with slices of mozzarella (from freezer) & sliced tomatoes.

1039 - 1041 Kitchen recycling, glass bottle, cardboard packaging - Recycled

1042 Bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

Great work roundtuit 👏 I think we are all WIPs 😉

Great work Nicnak 👏 & it appears your DD has caught the decluttering bug 🥳

You have been busy boazu, well done 👏

Good work EnergyShifter 👏 Seems an eminently sensible solution to get stuff out 👏

Great work TC77 👏 

Items out make it an impressive weekend elsien 👏 You are still decluttering 🙂

Excellent work Marpau 👏

Well done oceanspirit 👏


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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

1042/2020

villagelife

After my last post probably over a week ago my back went so have done very little. Also looked at my tea towels and
848- 852 tea towels used for rags
853-855 shirts that don't fit DS2 any more as he has lost so much weight.

roundtuit

154 - 155 boxes recycled
156 -160 plastic recycled
161 uu body wash container recycled
162 - 176 cans recycled
177 bag of rubbish binned
178 uu washing up liquid bottle rinsed & recycled
179 - 180 catalogues recycled
181 magazine read and recycled

All dirty pots, pans, baking trays and cutlery now washed up and put away.

Now that I can see the wood for the trees I'll start packing the cs pile(s) up.

Rxx

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I don't know if it counts as decluttering but yesterday I sorted out my kitchen store cupboard and put everything in packets into jars with lids and labelled up the jars with indelible marker.  It certainly 'looks' tidier in there and much less cluttered but all I got rid of were the outer packets.

TC77

Boazu- definitely counts as decluttering! When I sort out a cupboard I count it or if alot of work might count each shelf and then anything I throw out ( very out of date etc) good luck