2020 - banish the clutter

StickyTheStickInsect

Thank you for my gold star Mrs SD :-)

short_bird

536-540: items brought back from my Mum's, checked for identifying information then securely disposed of.

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

Saturday has been another dreary day but no rain to speak of. DH was up in time to pay the milkman 👏 DSis went to Asd* - apparently it was mayhem - no masks, no social distancing & no following the arrows 😡 A thoroughly unpleasant experience 🙁 but she did manage to find a couple of small bottles of L&P Worcestershire sauce 👏👏🥳
DH was in his office sorting paperwork - 2” of shredding. TV, AB2 & knitting for me. 

Dinner was oven chips, fried eggs, baked beans with hotdog sausages added. 

1188 - 1198 Newspaper, kitchen recycling, 5 plastic lids, plastic pot, 2 glass jars, drinks cans - Recycled
1199 - 1202 Shredding bin emptied, 2” shredding, kitchen detritus - Binned

Well done EnergyShifter 👏 Getting admin tasks out of the way is mental decluttering 👏

Good work short_bird 👏 Items seem to hide in the fridge 😠 & well done sorting some of your mum’s stuff.

Great work boazu 👏 Useful items that help you tidy are allowed in 😉

Good work TC77 👏

You are welcome StickyTheStickInsect 🙂 


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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

1202/2020

roundtuit

Morning xx
Catch up post -
through the week
416 - 417 paper recycled
418 - 422 cardboard recycled
423 - 430 cans rinsed and recycled
431 - 434  plastic recycled
435 Costa coffee gifted to S

yesterday:
436 -440 cardboard recycled
441 - 442 flyers received in mail recycled before they landed on a horizontal surface
443 past it cleaning cloth binned
444 milk carton rinsed and recycled
445 - 448 pizza boxes binned
449 - 450 bags of rubbish binned
451 - 452 plastic bottles rinsed and recycled
453 glass bottle rinsed and recycled
454 - 477 cans rinsed and recycled

I need to ring a local cs and ask if they are accepting donations. Then the pile of 'stuff' that's been put to one side can begin to leave the building.
The thought of going in to town is not pleasant, but I can surely manage a weekly cs bag drop off. (Think of the space, Round, think of all that clear space that you will gain.)

Rxx

Willowtree222

jinnyisacat said:

Nicnak said:

I might try that Jinnyisacat to entice DD to do her toys more often! We still have a fair few to go. x

I think your DD and my DS1 are about the same age (he's in year 2) and I can report more success today with DS1 today, he cleared out under his bed and cleaned the skirting board behind it that I can't reach easily in return for a packet of football stickers for his album. I suspect I'm being played here but I'll take it as a win today !

Thank you! Great idea. x

Happy_Kitties

Been helping DD sort out her uni stuff that is now back home and dumped everywhere.
Just a start for now.
*198   bag of carrots that weren't placed in the main bag of frozens brought back, now in recycling after being found a couple of days later
*199     ood eggs recycling, esp as they were soaked aswell. Stuff we couldnt get in the freezer we popped in the fridge and did a big cook up the following day but as DD freezer had a tendency to overfreeze DD brought back lots of ice with her. It created lots of water-fridge did get a tidy and clean out of it!
*200     spare cutlery tray-charity bag
*201     jeans-charity bag
*202     DD old 6th form school diary-recycling. She had only used 2 pages, pulled those out for scrapbooking
*203    lots of paperwork-recycling
*204    used stamps sent to charity
*205    tin out of of DD room-charity bag
*206    another bag of plastics-recycling point
Have been using up bits of toiletries that DD has brought back
*207-208  shampoos x2 finished
*209     sandels-charity bag.
Im sure there will be more today, sure i've missed off some items
*210  top of DDs-charity bag
*211   pack of Christmas cat treats found and happily eaten by the cats last night. Bottom of the cupboard cleaned at the same time

roundtuit

478 - 482 cardboard recycled
483 - 489 cans rinsed and recycled
490 - 493 glass bottles rinsed and recycled
494 - 509 plastic washed and recycled

Rxx

bit_by_bit

Hi all. I have been back to the CS this week.
Each day we have been getting offers of more bags than we can take. the first day was 75 bags, one person bought 22. I was on the till and we had  a system so I didn't touch anything but cash. Most people were ok but there were a few hiccoughs as the till's touch screen doesn't like gloved hands.
Yesterday I was outside limiting people entry to three customers which was all ok. Some people decided not to wait but were ok.
I did have a disagreement with a woman who wanted to drop off donations which she had carried in by hand. I had been told not to accept any more because of the need to quarantine donations for three days. We had reached our days limit by lunchtime. The woman got angry, shouted at me, dumped them and ran off. Not pleasant. I felt bad about refusing too but there is only so much space. I could have had at least another van full of donations in the afternoon. Top tips are to drop off your bags early in the day and not take loads. Be prepared for refusal.
Today we got rid of 100 Scifi mags with holders which were on the shelves for years. Someone actually paid money for them too. I am counting as 2 bags. Current total now 33/52 bags and 8 large items.

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I have just decluttered a carrot, a shortie biscuit, a small piece of cake and a daisy (not intentional that one) into the grandchild, 2 cafetieres of coffee and slices of cake into the parents and half a box of baby clothes that's been in the bottom of the spare room wardrobe, a pair of size 5 crocs and a pair of size 5 wellingtons because baby is growing visibly and is almost walking, in fact baby stood up from sitting in front of us for the first time today, promptly sat down again with a flump but we're on our way! out with the stair gates and up with anything reachable!

Willowtree222

I dropped 23 books off at the shop. Hopefully they'll get their ok and they'll pay soon!
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