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 is yet another hot, hot, hot 🥵 day but with the occasional refreshing breeze. This morning/lunchtime I emptied, washed & restocked the spice/condiments cupboard + the Br*x*t double cupboard - both now neater & have some space even though I put a few extra bits in (from the counter space 🥳 ) I also wiped down most of the kitchen cupboard fronts. Lunch was made up of los - lettuce, tuna, tomatoes, cold boiled potatoes kidney beans, sweetcorn, hard boiled egg with a dollop of Bearnaise sauce 🤤 I even swept the kitchen floor 😆 

1472 - 1474 Kitchen recycling, plastic tub & lid, plastic pot & lid - Recycled
1475 Kitchen detritus - Binned

That was a very busy Sunday garden_girl_2 👏 I will pop round after visiting boazu - I do so love hm jam/chutney 😉😉

Lovely to see you EnergyShifter 👋 Sorting out your health & wellbeing is a form of decluttering - decluttering ill health & injury. You still managed to do some physical decluttering so you should be very pleased with yourself. Please take lots of rest and keep your batteries charged 😉 Glad you are enjoying yoga in the park - do people stop & stare?

Interesting paint job Nicnak - glitter walls 😆 or did I misconstrue ‘painting’ 😂

But you are still decluttering boazu 👏 it all counts. Will you be making hazelnut liqueur? if you can beat the squirrels 😉

Excellent work greent 👏

Great work Happy_Kitties 👏 Shame about the ragman but at least you know that you will be able to do a drop off at some point in the future 🙂

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1475/2020

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No but if I can get to them first I'll be making nut loaf, we used to make cider when we were in our other house but no supply of apples here as yet, working on it.

Willowtree222

😂😂
Try glitter carpet, hair, walls, hands, clothes and other orifices.
One huge box removed from the loft and neighbours garage items returned to his house.
Ex coming to dismantle the kitchen units in the garage tomorrow ready to be picked up on Saturday. That also includes tons of wood and some plaster board. Garage will look great by weekend. 

bit_by_bit

Dropping in to report 2 sales packed in one big box with lots of recycled packaging (counting as one bag) and one bag of books to the CS. 
Pleased with myself this last week or so. Been to the allotment weeding and strimming plus dug up a row of spuds. Didn't weigh them but some were as big as my fist.
Weeded the garden today plus planted out more carrots and onions. The carrotsare an experiment. They get started off in those packs that you get with pansies with 6  or 9 plants. I tranplant them out when I can ping them with my fingers but try and minimally distureb the root. I have lost hardly any. I hat e the wast of thinning out. 
Lots of work going on depsite the heat. We are just experiencing a thunderstorm.

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

It is soooo muggy but there is a lovely cool breeze - just not often enough.
I watered the garden, DH & I had lo cottage pie for dinner & DSis ‘cooked’ baked beans on toast. I had a lovely cool bath & washed my hair. When combing out (long hair down to my waist in a plait) I lost less hair than I pulled out of the bath plug hole 🤢😱 tmi 😉
We have packed our bags ready for our Round Britain Rally trip to Scotland. We will be away for 6 nights - all hotels are booked & really looking forward to it. My one concern is that DSis will not water my vegetables ☹️ & they will all be dead by the time we get back. Last year she managed to let all my lettuces die. Please offer up a prayer 🤞 
Have picked 2 tomatoes & just ate one with a sprinkle of salt - delicious 😋 there are also 3 more going red 🥳 

1476 - 1478 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, Uu hotel size bath gel - Recycled
1478 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Never had nut loaf boazu 😉

Enough room for me to move in Nicnak 😉 We lol done 👏

Great work bit_by_bit 👏 I have no success with carrots - based on 2 years experience ☹️ Maybe next year 🤞

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1478/2020

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Oh exciting, I shall be de-cluttering an awful lot of food from the freezer into the grandchildren today as DD has decided they are OK to visit because they know they're covid free after the tests last week.  It's been so long since then came to see us all at the same time I'm really looking forward to it and we'll all go for a nice long walk in the countryside too. Best get cooking.....

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

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

Thanks for the tip @gardengirl - I keep intending to do yoga - I make half hearted attempts then stop - you've given me renewed motivation.  Love the sound of doing it outdoors.  Thank you for your encouragement - as always - @Mrs SD

My big news DS has got a place at Uni through Clearing - I'm really pleased for him - he's so ready to move onto the next stage of his life ... I will miss him but it feels "right". 

509: bin full of shredding

savvy

Hey all, hope everyone is well!

I was doing well with decluttering until lockdown hit and I lost my business overnight   Like all of you I lost the charity shop and local tip otptions, but not only that one of my dogs suddenly went lame in the back legs So I've spent the last 4 months back and forth to specialist vets and rehabilitating her. On top of that a floor went through in the utility area and that's taken up all my time in the last month, as well as trying to learn to grow veg, apply for financial help and study haha.

So not too much going on with decluttering, just 62 items over lockdown were extracted from the house.....and some items including building rubbish have arrived IN the house arrggg.

580/2020

nannywindow

My goodness Savvy, such a lot to be happening all at once. I hope that your dog is well and truly on the mend. Sending copious hugs your way. nan xx

Happy_Kitties

@savvy i hope ur dog will be okay. Sounds like u have a few nightmare things going on.

*370 scarf into a Christmas charity box. It is a beautiful scarf that i never used, forgot that it was there and i didnt appreciate it. So i decided to put it in one of my charity Christmas boxes i am making up that will go to an elderly person or couple where i know the scarf will be well and truly appreciated.