2020 - banish the clutter

elsien

EnergyShifter said:

EnergyShifter said:
470. Old deckchair frame

471. Loads more course notes typed up

472. Finally submitted expenses claim from beginning of year
473. Yet more notes typed up ! 
Off work until Monday now! Whoo Hoo! 

Ooh, you've just reminded me, I've got three months worth to send in by the end of the week. Cheers for that. 

short_bird

531: Tax return finished, will probably hand deliver it tomorrow.

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

Lost my first attempt at a post 😡
Thursday was a rainy wet day - the garden loved it & so did my pocket 😉 DSis spent the day watching TV in her room. DH went out for the weekly shop - unfortunately still no L&P Worcestershire BUT did get some MrS own brand 🙂 My day was TV, playing AB2 & surprise, surprise I rearranged four kitchen cupboards - now more user friendly 🙂 but nothing decluttered 🙁 I used up the last of the hg lettuce with half an hg radish, some sweet pepper, a few cubes of cheddar & a dollop of salad dressing - a very tasty lunch. 

Yippee 🥳 - the Chinese is finally open 👏 Ordered our first Chinese meal in at least 4 months - expensive but does us for 2 nights dinners & a nice surprise for DSis - she hates curry & is not a fan of pizza. Delicious 🤤 

1179 - 1181 Drinks cans, kitchen recycling, cardboard box - Recycled 
1182 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Well done villagelife 👏 little & often. Are there more people in the house? You do know that decluttering a person is worth at least 100 added to your totals 🤣😉 Only joking 🙃 

Welcome back garden_girl_2 👋 Sorry I can’t help with the technical question - the forum is definitely less user friendly now 🙁 You have been very busy since you first posted & as such I am awarding you a Gold Star ⭐️ What a shame about your DD’s new home - did the seller pull out because of the pandemic? Hope your DD didn’t lose too much cash 😖 

Wow boazu - can I pop round for some toast & almost jam 😀 & a portion of fruit fool 😉 You must be so pleased with your haul of hg goodies 🙂

Elsien, no need to tiptoe - if freecyclers fail to collect then you are entitled to retrieve 😉 Chop, chop with the expenses 😉 it is your money after all 😉

With you on that Primrose 👏 Unfortunately it is a fact of life that web designers do not appear to give a fig about the users 😖  I had to laugh Primrose 😂 - so funny & very MSE of your OH - so much so that I am awarding a medal 🏅 Now you know that you have to go further afield to avoid this occurring again 😉

That did make me laugh 🤭 nannywindow - your DGD is very clever 🙂🤭

Gem-gem, it is definitely cheering when we get our DHs on board 🙂

Keep up the good work short_bird 👏 I am positive that completing your tax return is worth at least 10 added to your numbers 😉

Great work TC77 👏 Are you sure you weren’t a bit hasty in donating 😉 On the too large for oven theme - I brought back two large roasting tins from my DSis’s place in France & nearly cried when they didn’t fit 😭 At least the cs was grateful when I donated them 🙃

Good work EnergyShifter 👏 steady progress👏

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

1182/2020

Willowtree222

Morning,my sister has a skip.
I took advantage and got rid of DD's plastic baby unit. Big thing that no longer clutters my garden. A large wooden fence post that was rotten, a mirror, old light fitting, 5 garden pots that were not needed. A piece of wood from an old item and just a handful of other bits. Garage is looking better again! 
DD wasn't impressed but a film night soon sorted that out x 😂

villagelife

MrsSD I am hopeful of decluttering DS2 in next few months- he is looking to buy and if he does the amount I will Declutter will smash this year's total!!
DS1 was looking at moving out but as he has been made redundant that won't happen any time soon.
965-969 over 50 photos gone
970 photo album
971-972 plastic wallets
973-976 small rolls of paper
977 a broken toy car
978- 984 photo pockets.
985 a candle holder
986 bits of strong
987-993 sheets of cardboard
994 - 995 some nails and screws

I'm close to 1000 so will be back later

garden_girl_2

Thanks for the gold star... DD didnt lose any money, thank goodness. 
Something else id forgotten we have done was we  sorted out the airing culboard and gave lots of unwanted sheets and pillowcases to ladies to make ppe for our local hospital. 

Wednesday2000

I had a blitz today. I went through my toiletries drawer and weeded out stuff I don't use. I have emptied the recycling bin twice today with all the packaging I found.
 
We did drop some stuff off at the tip last week. I can't remember if I already said this on here.

My husband is also dropping off some bags at the chazzer. Yay! It feels so nice to get back to decluttering.

[Deleted User]

Have sorted through the kitchen tools and found I don't use half of them they just clutter up the storage container on the workj surface so they've been sorted out and not thrown out but put into a drawer in the old kitchen area in case any of the ones I do use break.  I'm thinking some things might be worth holding on to until we see how availability and prices are into next year. If things are as they are now price wise and easy to find I will then charity shop all my extras.

TC77

I decluttered DD1 in Feb so if I need will add to the count in December! she could be back so not counting yet!

Another bag to CS - can only carry one at a time 1329

Pair of shoes CS Bag 1330

plastic wallet 1331

going to help my dad this weekend so may help him declutter - I bring most home for my CS and about 10-20% stays in my house ... harder to declutter his (and what was my mum's) than mine at times!

villagelife

Some more today
996 vase and flowers given to a friend
997 an egg box and eggs, peas and a cucumber given to same friend she has been shielding and lives alone.
998-1003_magazines recycled
Reached 1000!!!