2020 - banish the clutter

LameWolf

Three buckets of dead-heading and weeds decluttered from the garden. Both myself and DH were hot clammy messes at the end; but bearing in mind we both have debilitating illnesses, we don't think we did too badly.

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

Sunday has been hot, hot, hot 🥵 
After watching the motorcycle racing I persuaded DH to do a few tasks. He added extra compost to all the potato pots/bags/crate (3, 5, 1), refilled all the bird feeders, took out the bottom third of contents from the compost bin & placed on top (still a bit woody), emptied last sack of bird feed into the metal containers, blended lots of vegetable matter & fed the worms, cleaned his helmet visor & motorbike screen (lots of dead insects from our trip to Cornwall) & lastly rotated our mattress. 

DSis was way too hot so spent most of the day watching TV in her room with the occasional foray to the kitchen for drinks/food.
I was busier than I have been of late starting with a morning watering of the garden, then stripped bed; put 1st wash load on; emptied, cleaned & restocked last shelf in the larder (glorified cupboard really 😉) - unfortunately ood LL milk - smelt OK so did taste test & it was on the turn - emptied, rinsed & recycled carton ☹️; hung out 1st wash load & put in 2nd load; Peeled all potatoes, parsnips & carrots - cooked a few potatoes, a few carrots & the parsnips - mashed & will be bagged & put in freezer; rearranged the contents of the kitchen freezer (now have a bit of wiggle room 🙂); cooked the rest of the potatoes as the topping for the cottage pie I made for dinner; hung out 2nd load of washing - everything dried but still to be put away 😞; evening watering including feeding the tomato plants; washing up done. Currently watching Downton series. 

1464 - 1469 Kitchen recycling, glass bottle, 2 plastic bottles, magazine, drinks cans - Recycled

1470 - 1471 Empty compost bag, coffee tin full of kitchen detritus - Binned

Absolutely counts as decluttering boazu 👏 also prepping - winter, 2nd wave & Br*x*t 😉 Do you make your own bread as well? Crusty hm bread, hm chutney & cheese, cold meats or hm bread & hm jam 🤤🤤🤤 I’ve already packed my bag for my visit in November 😉😉😉

Great work Happy_Kitties 👏 especially the solution to your packaging challenge 👏

Brilliant nannywindow 🥳👏 10lbs of potatoes - very MSE 👏 Really wish I’d weighed mine 😔 However all the pots/bags/crate have shoots now & we still have one pot almost ready to be harvested 🤞that we will get a couple of lbs 🤞 Nothing wrong with putting the     chopped branch in the shrubbery - very environmentally friendly & the possibility of lots of bugs 🙂

Wow 🤩 Gem-gem, you have been busy 👏 Hope you made lots of pennies 😉

Great work short_bird 👏 Somehow it is very gratifying to clear down the TV planner - especially as you can fast forward through the adverts 😉

Good work TC77 👏 steady progress & I bet you are noticing a difference 🙂

Great work LameWolf 👏  You are a shining example to us all - not sure I would cope as I am a bit of a wuss 😉 I must say that I am really happy that you are posting on this thread 👏🙂

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1471/2020

garden_girl_2

Morning Mrs SD!! I cant sleep either, was reading,  nodded off, so put book down , woke up, too hot,
Tossed and turned, so decided to check e mails, then watch gardening on catch up BBC1...
Pick 20lb plus... plums fri eve, paid for, all from a local lady, so have now sold 12lb of them, cooked up some, weighed out 6lb, ready for jam/chutney for tues when i get hm del from Tesco. Rest will prob eat as is... Picked  beans and courg from our garden and watered all the veg and pots. Hubby had to fill one water butt first from the mains, pained me to do this, but needs must. Other 2 are empty, hope for some rain this week to refill them....hope I dont regret saying that!!!😁😁
Cleaned dust from bathroom window sill, put washed clothes away, cooked roast dinner. DD and I then sat and watched the 3 episodes of Penance and 3 other recorded bits off video. Still quite a lot to catch up on there!  ... 
Defluffed the DD 2 pet rabbits who are moulting a lot... we did this outside, thank goodness, as it went everywhere!!! 
Thats a hot sunday done....

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:
501 - wood offcut
502 - spruced up a little side table - looks quite funky now
503.  Bought some advance train tickets.  I don't normally managed to sort train tickets out that early - I've saved a fortune. 

Oops I went MIA again ..... Have done very little decluttering - Its been a turbulent couple of weeks - mainly due to my  health so that has been my main focus.  Osteopath sessions seem to be working - 2 weeks ago I had a day where I couldn't walk past the end of my road because of pain - now I can walk normally again thank goodness - feeling incredibly grateful.  Have an appointment at physio tomorrow so hopefully they will be able to suggest things to help prevent a recurrence.  I've also been prioritising rest & recharging. I tend to let my batteries run very low and don't seem to notice and it has a negative affect on me physically & mentally - so I'm trying to get into good habits around that.  DS is going through clearing to go to Uni - so its likely that he will be decluttering himself from the house in a matter of weeks so I've been managing the emotions attached to that life stage.  
I plan to focus on organising myself over the next few days then taking the weekend to recharge again.
A few things to add:
504.  Swapped for accomodation for my course next week - saved £100 and accommodation is in the same building as my course.
505.  Ordered recycling sacks
506.  Cancelled paid Zoom subscription 
507.  Cancelled Prime Trial
508. Signed up for a course in the Autumn - managed to get the early bird price
It's lovely to re-join you all 

Willowtree222

I couldn't sleep either. I spent some of the night wandering round the house looking to see if there was anything I could get rid of. I came up empty handed as sleepy me isn't actually that bothered about decluttering. 
The garage kitchen is being taken on Saturday afternoon so need to do some decluttering in there. DD did some painting and used a full tub of glitter. That means there is one less tub for me to worry about getting everywhere! 
Have a lovely week everyone x

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 I do make my own bread but I've been using sliced through the heat taking what we need out of the freezer as home made doesn't keep and I can't bear throwing out loaves that have gone mouldy.  The birds don't get fed quite as often now but they get all the odds they WILL eat and I make sure to keep the bird bath full and even the bees are coming in for a drink from it. I sometimes make cheese too, only the lactic cheeses like paneer but they work well and also yoghurt when I just have more milk than we can reasonably use in he fridge.  We walked last evening when it cooled down enough and on a new to us footpath found a tree of bullace plums absolutely laden with fruit, sadly I feel more jam coming on and also the walnut tree on the corner at the top of the hill is laden with nuts and beginning to drop the odd one or two so I shall make absolutely sure to be up early to collect them and hope to be ahead of the squirrels and crows who bury them for winter food, in fact I've been noticing quite a few young walnut trees in the hedgerows and the woodland behind our road where the brook runs so they don't dig all of them up again!  

Some cardboard taken to the cardboard bins in the car park, foil milk bottle tops to the foil bank and the usual paper, tins, glass and garden waste to the bin men for recycling this morning is the best I can come up with for de-cluttering today.

garden_girl_2

Hi Energy Shifter, I have arthritis at base of my spine....i do stretches everyday which physio gave me. I also go to yoga, goingfir nearly a year now, wasnt sure it was for me...but found its ok... It helps keeping back supple and good for mind too. Helps relax you... ive found it very helpful😁 at tge moment we are doing it in the local park, in the shade, its lovely😎😎

greent

Latest batch from me:

1701 – 1703. School trousers sold via flebay

1704. Box used to package above

1705. old frying pan – binned

1706. body scrub (xmas gift) – uu, packaging recycled

1707. box of dead batteries recycled

1708 – 1709. 2 items from storecupboard donated to fbank

1710. school jumper – donated to school for ‘shop’

1711. pile of paperwork from office (DH’s) – recycled

1712. BNWT jumper – sold via flebay

1713. packaging for 1712

1714. dress – sold via flebay

1715. box used to package 1714

1716 – 1734. Various random items from DD’s room recycled/ binned

1735. K1pl1ng bag with 2 broken zips – binned

1736. Pair of very well-worn flip flops with broken toe bar – binned

1737. several too small coathangers – binned

1738. Base part of an indoor animal cage – broken – binned

1739. several broken pegs – binned

1740. can of car cleaning stuff – used up, can recycled

1741. gas cannister for weed wand used up, binned

1742 – 1750. Clothing items recycled via HnM scheme

Happy_Kitties

*349-350     PS4 games x 2 sent off. Get a few pennies for them
*351-369     items dropped off at CS including lots of PJs (had a sort out of airing cupboard), lighting decoration, wii game, comical hat, curtains.
Asked about the ragman. At one point they were no longer collecting for the ragman, now they are again but have been overwhelmed with donations.

TC77

Struggling with work so little energy left but

1531 - 32 - out of date loyalty cards

1533 dd broke a glass jug (why I keep spares) my favourite to use

1534 filing drawers picked up freecycler

1535 admin tasks

Have hospital appt tomorrow so will drop off charity bag on way, and hopefully find few more things to go in

Hope everyone suriving in this heat!