2020 - banish the clutter

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

Monday has mostly been a dry, sunny day & quite warm. However the breeze picked up & we had a few short showers - not enough to help the garden so did have to water 🙁
DH pottered, DSis stayed in her room. I did some shredding after sorting a bit of paperwork. Finished making the trifle - used up the last of the squirty cream & even found some sprinkles 🙃 Finally packed, wrapped  & addressed the boxes of baby blankets & baby bonding squares. Will post them later today. Also sorted one shelf of the larder - that’s how I found the sprinkles 😉 I had a bowl of hm soup for lunch. Pasta shells with Bolognese sauce from the freezer for dinner. DSis had trifle for afters whilst DH & I had rhubarb crumble & custard. 

1294 - 1298 Five packets of seeds to neighbour (from yesterday)
1299 - 1300 Kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging - Recycled
1301 - 1303 Kitchen detritus, 0.5” shredding, squirty cream tin - Binned
1304 Glass jar & metal lid washed & added to stash for olive pickling & tomato chutney - hopefully 🤞

Well done villagelife 👏

Great work boazu 👏 That is a lot of French beans & lettuce. 

Woo-hoo stellata - more money in the pot 👏 What a lovely day you had - prepping & a coffee out of doors 😉

You do bring a smile to my face nannywindow 😊 Freeloading mice 🐭 come to think of it ours live in one of the garden boxes & eat the bird food 😉

Great work roundtuit 👏 

Still decluttering Gem-gem 👏  every little bit out is a win 🙂

More pennies in the bank TC77 👏

Great work StickyTheStickInsect 👏


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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

1304/2020

villagelife

Some more done 
1022 more shredding
1023-1025 metal rods from the garden binned

More tomorrow.

[Deleted User]

Have decluttered Hubby and his fishing gear to the lake for the day and have just decluttered two crumpets into me for breakfast...it's a hard life but someone has to be noble and live it, today was my turn!

I've been right through the fridge shelves too today and rescued glass jars from a few things past their usefulness, fed the compost bin some items too far gone for us to use and given it all a good wash down.

Happy_Kitties

*256-257    bags of education x 2 sent off. Bit of a faff but finally did it. Been sitting in the spare room for ages
*258    boxes and packaging for the above. Never thought packaging would be an issue but can't pick boxes up from Tesc@ now and there is only so much cat food the cats can eat to free up really big boxes!
*259    box of ood cheesy biscuits DD brought back from uni that i found in the doomsday box-recycling
*260    book sent to friend
*261    wrecked quilt cover-fabric recycling
*262    top sent to friend
*263    more paperwork sorted and shredded.
*264     birthday cards-recycling
*265     foot stool thingy to balance the spine-charity shop

TC77

1388 clothes hanging rail freecyled and collected

1389 - 1390 tidied dining table , side and coffee table getting rid of few tiny bits and pieces but much better - more tidying of them needed

1391 - 1393 - given up on 3 socks finding partners so chopped up and put in next draught excluder

1394 really difficult email sent (drafted a few days ago and revisited)

villagelife

1026-1031 more socks
1032 empty body wash bottle of DS2 which has been hanging about so I finished it.

bit_by_bit

Thanks for the star MrSD. I find that all the support on this thread has helped me so much more than any self help books. It also keeps me thinking forward about what can go.
I got 4 bags to the CS yesterday morning. I took DD for her first day and showed her how to use the till at the managers request then worked on the door. We had a full pen by lunchtime again. It iscertainly a relief to get them gone. 
No decluttering today. DD should have been graduating today so we are thowing a staggered family gathering so we can have a sort of celebration. 
Take care everyone.

garden_girl_2

Decanted bubble bath into a diff bottle for use in shower, bottle in recyle bin.
Decluttered 5 carrier bags of garden flower plants to a friend.
Got rid of lots of emails.
Decluttered £200 to dentist for emergency filling 100 and rest on account fir one that he cant finish yet!!
Sorted out all the totals of  the surveys we do (DD does tgem too)..., got vouchers and cash to come....yipeeee.Also got points into an Asda moneycard for loyalty on gas/leccy. 
Its a good way to get a littlebit of extra cash. Can be a bit boring at times but bey ho....lol😁😁

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

Apologies for not posting yesterday 😞 really because I was lazy & did sweet fanny adams 😞 Weather was a bit bleugh but no rain.  DH went off on the motorbike Round Britain Rallying- managed to find a farm shop & bought a cauliflower, 3 corn on the cob, asparagus (soooo expensive 😱) & a cob loaf (sadly too late for potatoes🙁). He nipped into MrS & picked up potatoes, pork steaks & a sliced loaf. Only out for about 9 hours. 

DSis did all her washing including bedding but had to dry in the td 🙁

I will draw a line under my lack of activity but I did make dinner - pork steaks, mash & cauliflower. DH & I had rhubarb crumble with creme fraiche with chestnut honey stirred in. DSis had trifle. I DID do the washing up 😉 so still keeping up with mantra 2 🙂

1305 - 1312 Kitchen recycling, newspaper, glass jar & metal lid, booklet, plastic pot, 3 magazines from DH - Recycled
1313 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Good work villagelife 👏

Well done boazu 👏 you have reminded me I need to empty & clean the fridge ASAP - thank you 👏

Great work Happy_Kitties 👏

Great work TC77 👏 I especially like the use of lonely socks to make draught excluders 🙂

You are welcome bit_by_bit 🙂 good advice is always welcome & spurs the rest of us on when our GUAG is visiting 😆

I will try to do better today 😞😉



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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

1313/2020

[Deleted User]

The first full picking of runner beans from the garden this morning, enough for supper tonight and a whole bowl full of French beans all picked processed and in a container in the fridge for a couple of days meals.  3 cucumbers from the greenhouse and a picking of cherry tomatoes and a decent sized courgette from the pot outside.

Grocery delivery this morning sees the end of my dry goods restock for winter, all except todays sorted into categories and in the store and on the bookshelves in the spare room.  I'll just be ordering in a couple of tins of meat extra when we get deliveries from now on, it's the area I need to top up but everything else is in and neatly tidied away on the shelves, nice feeling.