2020 - banish the clutter

TC77

Tyre pressure low on way to take DD2 to hockey so AA out again.. after new tyre this morning. Apparently couldn't find anything so we will see. Hockey missed and note to self for AA card to be in the car! Also can't find part of the hoover - must be me as no-one else uses it much.... clearly much more decluttering to do

1606 broken tea pot lid

1607- 1609 - 3 parts of things that I can't find binned /recycled

1610 - 1613 holey socks cut up for draught excluder

1611 Lamp picked up by freecyler

1612 bike given to neighbour (collected from another neighbour a couple of weeks ago but really abit big for me)

short_bird

697: SEISS claimed
698-709: fridge clearance of bits and pieces as it's bin day tomorrow morning.
710: another cereal box full of paper recycling out.

greent

Latest batch from the greent house  

1751 – 1762. Clothing items recycled via HnM scheme

1763 – 1764. Clothes to CS bag

1765. Megasketch3r sold via fbook

1766. Pair of trainers – CS

1767 - 1768. Books – CS

1769. Small white pot – CS

1770 – 1774. Paint either used up or dried up – binned

1775. Pile of paperwork filed/ shredded/ recycled

1776 – 1792. Various bits from DD’s room recycled/ binned

1793 – 1795. Various Tupperware type tubs recycled

1796. old earbuds (non working) – binned

1797. Old keyboard (suffered a fatal drinks spill) – recycled

1798. logo-ed school polo – in bag for PTA ‘shop’

1799 – 1800. Random items from DS1’s room – binned

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I may have found a very useful tool in that I have discovered I can use the dehydrator to make 'Vegetable Leathers' which can be used as soup bases? I steamed (recommended way of cooking them) some carrots that had languished in the fridge drawer for a while and really were getting past their youth and have put them through the blender with some seasoning a teaspoon of sugar, some dried onion granules and ground and leaf coriander and have two trays of thin puree drying in the machine.  It takes (according to the instruction book) between 4 and 6 hours to dry to leather so we shall see how successful or not it turns out.  If it's a success I can make all sorts of soup bases from veg purees and although it will deprive the compost  heap it will mean we can use all our money buys and not waste anything, win-win eh?

Willowtree222

boazu said:

I may have found a very useful tool in that I have discovered I can use the dehydrator to make 'Vegetable Leathers' which can be used as soup bases? I steamed (recommended way of cooking them) some carrots that had languished in the fridge drawer for a while and really were getting past their youth and have put them through the blender with some seasoning a teaspoon of sugar, some dried onion granules and ground and leaf coriander and have two trays of thin puree drying in the machine.  It takes (according to the instruction book) between 4 and 6 hours to dry to leather so we shall see how successful or not it turns out.  If it's a success I can make all sorts of soup bases from veg purees and although it will deprive the compost  heap it will mean we can use all our money buys and not waste anything, win-win eh?

Deffo a win win. Hope it goes ok.

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

Hangs head in shame 😔 I did sweet f*nny adams yesterday 😔 The day was dry & sunny with quite a strong breeze (DH’s motorcycle trousers finally dried 👏) - even had to water the tomatoes & grow bags as one day’s rain was not enough 🙁 I picked another 364g of tomatoes - Total = 1.264kg so far & plenty of green tomatoes waiting to turn red 👏 I did do a bit of pruning. DH went for a small Thursday sm shop. He also blended a bucketful of peelings & fed the worms. Dinner was shop bought salad but DSis did have the first picking of a new mini crop of lettuce. I did manage to do the washing up before bed 😱 Stayed up until milk & eggs were delivered & paid the milkman.

Friday started bright, sunny & warm but there is a very strong wind blowing & it is clouding over 🙁 (Forgot to say that we have had our first Odd Box of vegetables delivered - a bit underwhelmed - some new potatoes, 3 beets, chestnut mushrooms, radishes, 6 small onions, 3 courgettes & 2 corn on the cobs - I take it back it is actually a decent haul 🙂 they just packed it in a very large box. Listing it out makes it better 😉

1501 - 1504 Cardboard box, newspaper, kitchen recycling, drinks cans - Recycled
1505 - 1506 Plastic packaging, kitchen detritus - Binned

As I am out of charge I will return later for cheerleading 😉

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1506/2020

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

I have had a little burst of activity 😉 The camellia has been pruned to almost ground level, a small amount of garden tidying & the watering done. DH has filled the bird feeders.
Dinner tonight will be sausages, mash, roasted hg tomatoes & Yorkshire puddings.

Now to cheerleading 😉

Now you are down to really old stuff Nicnak 👏

Good work Rootle 👏 Maybe that should be 2021’s Title for the Decluttering thread -
“2021 -  “Clear Space is Good”: Decluttering Thread”

Winter Planning & 2021 garden produce planning, boazu 👏 May I ask how big your garden is? Absolutely brilliant if the vegetable leathers work - you really are planning ahead 👏 See you in November 😉

Great work TC77 👏

Great work short_bird 👏

Well done greent 👏 another batch of 50 👏

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1506/2020

winspiration

Glad you had a good trip, Mrs SD - hope the trousers have dried out by now! I'm off to see my SIL for a few days next week, first time I'll have been away anywhere since lockdown started, so looking forward to that.

Have quite a bit to report as I've left it a while again before posting - so makes it sound as if I've been busier than I actually have...

• 38 kilos of business post sent out, bringing the total to 556 for the year;
• Managed to collate some kits for the business, clearing a bit of space from the corner of my living room;
• Made my first card since lockdown - a 21st birthday card, so couldn't get by with one that was already made - I will get back into it at some point, but want to make sure I have somewhere for them to go before making a large quantity again;
• Posted a single bed size and two lap blankets knitted by me & several individual squares knitted by my friend to a knitting charity, lady from local cats protection collected 6 cat blankets that we'd knitted between us & a large bag with about 9 kilos of yarn odds & ends;
• Knitting feels like it has ground to a halt - I had a request for a 'Dennis the Menace' jumper for my great nephew - it was a bit of shock going from knitting blankets with chunky yarn & big needles to double knit & very small ones. I had a couple of false starts with it too, to get the size right - but think I have managed it now. Just have one sleeve seam left to sew up and a few ends to darn in, then it should be finished - and desperately hope that it will fit! I will take it with me to SIL's and hopefully will deliver to him while over there;
• Charity auction on facebook wasn't quite as successful as the previous one they had a couple of months ago, but they did raise over £1,000. I sold several things, including a metal camping table with attached chairs that I won years ago and had never used which raised £25 and went to a family with young children. Also some cross stitch books, yarn, a set of hand made cards and a mop. Most has been collected now, just waiting for a couple of stragglers;
• Managed to clear a bit more space in the garage and move another shelf unit to the garage, to go on top of another two the same (cable tied together and to the wall). With the one that I moved previously, this gives me two tall bays of shelving, each with 27 cubbies which will take either one 9L or two 4L really useful boxes - freed up from storing business stuff. I haven't got that far with filling them up with my craft stuff yet, but have made a start;
• I spotted on Facebook that there is an animal rescue charity where one of the co-ordinators lives just round the corner and that they are doing car boot sales to raise funds. They came round and collected 14 large bags / boxes of stuff and 16 jigsaws, so that cleared a huge amount of space - and hopefully they'll take some more when I've had another sort out. I got rid of two big bags of knitting yarn cones, a box of CDs, some business stock, craft books, blank tapestry canvases, wicker picnic basket that I won years ago and various other bric a brac - happy days!
• Some rubbish decluttered into the bin and recycling bin - although last Sunday evening my hoarder friend dug into the recycling bin and removed a paper sack of shredded paper, despite my best efforts to hide it under general recycling He wants it to lay trails for his running club. They usually use flour, which I think is a better and less messy option. Anyway, the lesson is to wait until he's gone before loading up the bin, even if it means sneaking out in the middle of the night to do so.

Sorry - another long post!

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Our garden is teensy MrsSD, the width of the house and maybe 25feet to the back fence but it's a case of 'size doesn't matter' because it's what you can do with what you've got that matters and we've been ruthless in taking out everything decorative and filling it over and over as things have been finished.  We have 2 x allotment plots as well about 10 minutes walk from the house so we're nicely set up as long as it's us who harvest the things we grow and not someone else in the dead of night!

The carrot and coriander leather is fab, dried to leathery perfection and very tasty indeed.

TC77

Found more mice evidence in eaves so pulled out old curtains now for recycling and box of toiletries 
1613 -1615 curtains and packaging .
1616- 1618 rubbish from under cooker , and some rooms when tidying. 
Found old papers which can't face sorting so put away but still chipping away at other things.