2020 - banish the clutter

Happy_Kitties

DD cleared out the last of her uni flat and we've been sorting things out, finding homes for things.
*156  bag of plastics- taken to recycling point
*157-192   another 35 items (alot of odd socks) of DDs into rag bag
*193   to me it looks like a toilet brush but DD said it was a washing up brush-into recycling, taking no chances !
*194  a metal draining board thingy that actually takes very little, outside ready for recycling or free to anyone that wants it
*195  box of cheesy bisuits and crackers. Only slightly ood but when we went to eat them they were stale
*196    huge box of cardboard sorted ready to go out for recycling
*197    more packaging material used for neutral items
Another 6 neutral items sent to organiser now makes 85 items sent

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

466. 2 hours of admin done yesterday setting up systems which I hope will save me time on a day-to-day basic
467. Repotted vegetable plants
468. Typed up lots of course notes
469. pole from the garden

470. Old deckchair frame
471. Loads more course notes typed up

villagelife

Thank you for my gold star MrsSD - it is exciting.
A little but more done but better than nothing.
956- 10 emails unsubscribed- a bit of digital Declutter
957 more shredding done
958 magazine recycled

short_bird

510-517: 6 small drawers and a Re@lly Useful Box sorted so like is with like; also, all estate paper work in one place. 518-521: working on the putting away of laundry as I haven't been awfully good at that. I've put a couple of work uniform pieces in a drawer as goodness only knows when my theatre jobs will start up again. 😟

TC77

short_bird - do feel for you sorting out all the paper work

I hadn't thought I'd done anything today (been working) but then decided to delete emails for the last hour - about 1000 emails and trash/spam so counting as 5 , 3 samples for the bathroom (been meaning to get done for years - can do now DD1 and her hairdye/make up moved out!, old food binned 1. have to look up my numbers and add.

TC77

1314 - 1323 as above. Hope everyone staying safe and well x

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

Forgot to mention DH went into Bakewell & bought Bakewell Tarts - expensive but oh so tasty 😋- Mr K*pl*ng eat your heart out 😉

Wednesday was a wasted day all round 😞😞 Very chilly & overcast but only a few spots of rain. Dinner was lo beef stew & lo mash & green beans for DSis. DH & I had boiled rice & peas with our lo beef stew. 

1173 - 1177 Kitchen recycling, office recycling, cardboard box, glass jar & metal lid, booklet - Recycled

1178 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Great work TC77 👏 especially the clearing of e-mails 👏👏

Good work on the book clearing Nicnak 👏 I hope that is a few pennies into your account 🙂

Oh wow boazu 🤩 🤩 what a wonderful day 🥳 Mental decluttering& a good night’s sleep  are such great outcomes for a day with your family🙂

Quite agree Primrose - it was a lovely positive post from boazu 👏  I have noticed that since the easing of lockdown there is more traffic, more noise & people are less friendly. Also fewer people appear to be wearing masks.  I am only just over 60 with no underlying health problems apart from being fat 😉 but I am not looking forward to resuming normal activities, especially as all the talk now seems to be that there will be further spikes. The whole situation rather plays into my lazy character 😉

Sounds very well organised bit_by_bit 🙂 & it sounds like it made for a very pleasant day. Not sure about 22 bags from one person though 😱 hope it was all usable/saleable 

Everything is crossed 🤞 for you stellata 🤞- sounds like an excellent plan to sell items to fund your groceries & I wish you every success 🙂 Hope you manage to get enough/plenty of work to avoid dipping into the bank balance 🤞 

Excellent work Happy_Kitties 👏 very impressed with your neutral items count 👏

Good work EnergyShifter 👏

Working swiftly towards your next gold star villagelife 👏

Good work short_bird 👏 I am always surprised by how much better I feel when the laundry is folded & put away, so well done on getting back into the habit 🙂

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

1178/2020

villagelife

959-960 socks with holes in
961-964 some old rights also with holes in.
I now have slightly more space in that one drawer.
Hopefully will be back later with more. The house does seem to be more cluttered recently.

garden_girl_2

I thought i had joined this group, but cant find my first comment...help please

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We picked loads from the garden yesterday (and nearly melted in the process, it was so hot!) so lots of raspberries into the freezer, the first proper picking of loganberries into the freezer, broad beans into the fridge for lunch today, the last few peas podded and will go into a risotto tomorrow and a picking of rhubarb some of which made a nice big crumble and the last few bits with some scraggy raspberries that were squishy and half a punnet of English strawberries made me two jars of 'almost jam' which is a Swedish breakfast thing using 100g of sugar to 600g of fruit.  It tastes lovely and fresh and not as sweet as jam.  So kitchen nicely decluttered of produce and freezer with some home growns in too!

I had a tiny bit of rhubarb left and more milk than I need so I cooked the rhubarb with a couple of apples, made a big pan of custard and have made fruit fool which will be decluttered at lunchtime!