2020 - banish the clutter

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6 bags of assorted bric a brack and books taken to the Hedgehog Rescue, along with some glass and 3 framed pictures we don't need too.  DD has said come for a cuppa this afternoon distanced in the garden so I can collect some blackberries from her plant as it's laden and they're ripening very fast, all at once so I shall make jam and declutter a few more jars from the jar cupboard. I've just decluttered almost 1lb of cherry tomatoes from the greenhouse too this morning, Sungold, yellow ones, which always ripen early and are sweet and delicious.

roundtuit

557 kitchen towel inner tube recycled
558 - 563 plastic bottles rinsed and recycled
564 uu shower gel recycled
565 - 581 empty cans rinsed and recycled
582 full cans in fridge, packaging binned / recycled
583 ood eggs binned, packaging recycled
584 bird seed decanted into container and put in cupboard
585 ood tin of mushrooms: contents binned, can recycled
586 thawed bag of mixed veg binned - victim of freezer tetris earlier in the week
587 ood bread binned
588 tea bags decanted into caddy and packet put back in cupboard

I can see my kitchen :-) 
Rxx

Rootle

It feels very cathartic to have some progress to report!
17/52 - my coat cupboard cleared out, some poor wiring removed and binned, and a lot of dust decluttered.
18/52 - a bag of cables taken to the tip.
19/52 - an old mop found in the cupboard to the bin. 
20/52 - a bag of clothes to recycling (8 items).
21/52 - a bag of linen to recycling (1 bed sheet, 2 duvet covers and 3 pillowcases). 
22/52 - a 2nd bag of clothes to recycling (another 8 items).
23/52 - a big bag of used deodorant cans to recycling.
24/52 - 2 hotel freebies used up and recycled.
25/52 - a 3rd bag of clothes to recycling but only 2 items this time.
Yay!

Gem-gem

Good afternoon.
Have just finished getting all the stuff that I have decluttered since last summer out of the loft and into the car. Tomorrow, I am going to do a boot fair. Wish me luck.

Also, got an old suitcase of my husbands out of the loft and he has recycled lots of stuff plus the old broken suitcase. Things he wants to keep us now all in one big red box. Yay! 

Couple of extra things were binned from the loft. Hubby also got an old plastic chair from the shed, broke it up and binned it.

Feels like the house is heaving a sigh of relief. A great weight lifted. 

bit_by_bit

I am with you on the house sighing Gem-gem. 
Thankyou MrsSD. I remeber you have said that before now. It's just  friustrating to lose a post.
I dropped a bag of rags to the CS today. 33/52 bags gone now and hopefully another one tomorrow.

bit_by_bit

I am with you on the house sighing Gem-gem. 
Thankyou MrsSD. I remember you have said that before now. It's just  friustrating to lose a post.
I dropped a bag of rags to the CS today. 33/52 bags gone now and hopefully another one tomorrow.

Gem-gem

bit_by_bit said:

I am with you on the house sighing Gem-gem. 
Thankyou MrsSD. I remember you have said that before now. It's just  friustrating to lose a post.
I dropped a bag of rags to the CS today. 33/52 bags gone now and hopefully another one tomorrow.

Im going to go up and sweep the loft and get it ready for when we move. there are still two boxes that we need to go through. One I can't reach until I reorganise the packing boxes. 

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 was a dry & occasionally sunny day. Quite a productive day - especially for DH.
DH mowed both the front & back ‘lawns’ (I use the term loosely 😉🤭), trimmed the front hedge, re-seeded a portion of the back ‘lawn’ at the base of the bird feeder stand (the pigeons have trampled a crater 😱  & emptied 2 of our 3 specialised potato pots. The potatoes ranged in size from broad bean to salad potato. DH sifted the compost & we ended up with enough to refill 1.5 pots - now I just need some more potato eyes 😉. My contribution to the gardening was to stake the tomato plants in the raised bed, water the garden & harvest the chard.

I also visited the neighbour MrG who is going to be the beneficiary of 5 tomato plants - has a gate into his garden. We decided on the location for planting of said tomato plants - his garden is north facing 🙁. He has an apple tree & will be donating apples to me which I will use for making tomato chutney & if there are enough I may add to our hg rhubarb for hm crumbles. I then invited him over to our garden - had to go through our house but we remained socially distanced 🙂 MrG was quite impressed with our attempts at hg vegetables & joked that there might be raids on our produce later in the year 😆 😉 He has also borrowed a spade & trowel to prep the tomato patch 😉 
Now for the absolute highlight of my day - sooooo excited 😜 - giddy with excitement 🤭 Dinner for 3 - was chicken fried in butter with wait for it, wait for it ............ boiled HG potatoes & HG chard (including chard stalks) stir fried with bacon bits & seasoned with salt & pepper. So almost 2/3rds of our dinner was HG 🥳 The potatoes were gorgeous & so tasty 😋. AND there are enough potatoes left for one more 3 person meal 👏 

I have also started an hm soup & partially sewn up three sets of knitted hearts ready for stuffing & finishing - re NHS appeal. 

1284 - 1286 Kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging, drinks cans - Recycled

1287 - 1288 Empty compost bag, kitchen detritus - Binned

Excellent work greent 👏 A real burst of decluttering activity 👏

Brilliant work roundtuit 👏 I had to smile at Stressy Bessy & Weekend Willi - not crazy at all  😉 I think we all spend too much time berating ourselves for not decluttering as much as we think we ought to 😉 so anything that brings levity is to be applauded 👏👏 WW is definitely a great declutterer 👏🙂

Great work boazu 👏 Rather ashamed to say that I have greenhouse envy, cherry tomato envy & blackberry envy 😞 

Wow Rootle 🤩 you have been busy & successful 👏

Good luck with the boot fair Gem-gem - everything is crossed 🤞 that all your items sell at excellent prices 🤞 Sounds like your hubby is on board with the decluttering 👏 🙃 You must be getting excited re moving - especially with all the hard work you have put in 👏

Great work bit_by_bit 👏 

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

1288/2020

roundtuit

Morning xx
Lovely to walk in to a much clearer kitchen with actual visible horizontal surfaces woot woot. And WW is basking in the praise given by Mrs SD    and is whispering that it really is time to start on the cs pile - large bag of clothes for rags to be filled today methinks. (WW is whispering so as not to wake up SB - if she hears that a trip into town is on the cards she is likely to sabotage our decluttering effort. shhhh)

Rxx

TC77

Think I'm a stressy betty this morning. Feeling totally overwhelmed. Printer is on my desk so a few piles of papers, and then I move something and everything falls off, same in lots of the house. Brought a trunk back from my brother's, it was my mum's and then mine so keeping - not sure where but has my memories so makes me realise things that were other people's and not mine don't have memories so should go. So many of my clothes (80%) don't fit me but maybe change when pools reopen (used to be 3 times a a week - helps manage stress too).

Yesterday CS bag taken - not very full so out of embarrassment found couple more things to add 1377 - 1379

Not getting enough sleep but going to try and clear stuff - ebay bid withdrawn so think will just add to CS pile

Lovely sunny day - hope you all get to enjoy it x