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

Wednesday has been another dry day. DH & I both stayed up all night as we were expecting a delivery of sleepers, compost & topsoil from W*ckes - between 7:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m. We were both flagging by 5:00 a.m. 😱 but the delivery truck with crane turned up at 7:55 a.m. & we were both awake 👏 Fascinating watching the crane & we got two free pallets 🥳. We unwrapped the pallet with the compost & topsoil & binned the polythene wrapping ASAP as the bin was being emptied later & re-stacked the compost & topsoil on the lawn (500L& 100L respectively) Then spent the next 20 minutes moving the sleepers into the garage - only 9 of them but 6’ long & 10” by 5”. Then we needed a rest as we were pooped 😉 Coffees & naps on & off for the next few hours. Hm soup & sm crusty bread for lunch. Then we spent the next couple of hours moving the pallets, compost & topsoil through the house onto the patio. Also emptied, vacuumed out, cleaned & moved one garden box onto the patio. Then re-stocked with bird feeders, cleaning equipment, base for the garden umbrella which was dismantled & cloche poles. Then moved the drum composter + packed up the garden umbrella & stowed it in the shed. Meanwhile DSis went out to sm. As the rain held off I also watered the vegetables.
Dinner was cold lamb, oven chips & garden peas for DH & DSis. My dinner was lo roasted vegetables with a couple of scoops of soup covered with foil & heated up in the oven at the same time as cooking the chips + a few slices of salami as my meat fix 😉 Scrumptious 😋 

1527 - 1535 Cardboard box, booklets, glass jar, bag of office recycling, kitchen recycling, newspaper, 2 plastic lids from feed bins, plastic set tub - Recycled
1536 - 1540 Bag of garden rubbish, 2 empty compost bags, kitchen detritus, polythene packaging - Binned

Good work EnergyShifter 👏 ticking along nicely 🙂

Good work TC77 👏 keeping the momentum going

You have been busy garden_girl_2 👏 Lots out, lots of pennies in, home made jam, full freezer & persuading DH to get rid of a bicycle 😉 You are definitely on a roll 👏

Excellent work newlywed 👏 One in, three out is a great decluttering ratio 👏👏🙂

Tomorrow, weather permitting, DH & I will do some more work in the garden + DH will do the weekly shop. I WILL sort out the last bit of admin with the bank 😉

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1540/2020

nannywindow

Out - a multitude of carrier bags, leftovers from sm online shops, thank goodness they have gone back to bag-less as we were drowning in the things.

A jar of hm sweet pickled beetroot to DD and half of my fridge and cupboard food contents into the DGC !!

A large cardboard box into recycling.

Emptied the washing basket too, but re-cluttered the ironing one  

Stay safe and happy decluttering.

nan

Willowtree222

Decluttered my old car and got a new one. That did mean I had to get rid of all the stuff I had accumulated in the car including somehow nuts. There seemed to be a lot of nuts left in the boot from I have no idea where. I have also got rid of the car seat and replaced it with a booster seat. 
Slowly but surely the house is starting to look so much tidier. Even the car. x 

newlywed

Decluttered Facebook groups and deactivated account. Need to declutter my forum time too as I read too much random stuff about the problems of strangers. So will be more selective and make sure what I click on isn’t just me being nosey!!  

Bookmarked threads also updated... this one stays though, along with others that are of benefit to me!

next stop will be email newsletters.

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

Thursday is currently dull or should I say rather dark - I have had to put the lights on ☹️ Very overcast but as yet no rain 🤞 Currently clearing down programmes from the planner but do have plans to sort out a few things 😉😉 DH & I have finished the hm soup, so I need to raid the freezer for bits & pieces to make the next one which will fit neatly into the ongoing plan to clear down the freezers & defrost AGAIN ☹️ DSis is in her room watching N*tfl*x. DH is just getting ready to do the weekly sm shop.

1541 - 1544 Kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging, plastic bottle, drinks cans - Recycled
1545 - 1547 Bag of living room detritus, bag of office detritus, Uu pen - Binned

Good work nannywindow 👏 The problem with the COVID situation is that everything plastic appears to have become single use again - undoing all the hard work & good intentions re saving the planet ☹️ Re your washing - no good deed goes unpunished hence the ironing pile 😉

Congratulations on the ‘new to you’ car Nicnak 🥳  I have heard it said that a garden is an extra room but I think that also applies to a car, so excellent decluttering 👏

Very brave newlywed 👏 deserves a medal - so here it is 🏅. 

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1547/2020

newlywed

Thanks @Mrs_Salad_Dodger. I am honoured to receive another medal.

unsubscribed from 7 emails today... mostly food shops 
more healthy way of eating starts next week so hopefully less Emails will be less temptation to eat junk food!

TC77

Leave today and tomorrow and thought I would get more done.. but nice to not be working

Trip to sports shops - returned 3 pairs of football boots ( bought before lockdown)1672 - 1674 and Halfords and came back with footballs and water bottles - how many footballs do we need (this is for a 15 year old girl - but good she's found a nice team to join). Glad my goal was net things going out!

1675 - 1676  old ball binned, rusty bucket,

1677 - 1678 paper scanned/shredded and filed (small nos)

notmy1sttime

Hi everyone,
I haven't posted here since February but I do like this thread and had the occasional read.
I decluttered over lockdown and managed to sell quite a few items that were getting in the way including DS's old games console, games and loads of books! We had a big declutter of his room and it now is very teenagery, which is great for a 13 year old.
I have last week taken 3 large bags to charity shop, plus have already started another I will take this week.
It is like shovelling snow in a blizzard here, I got rid of so much but you would think I am lying if you came to visit!

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

Poor DH ☹️ he got soaked coming back from the sm ☹️ but at least I won’t have to water the garden 😉 
Dinner was hm cottage pie mix from freezer, with half a bag of mixed vegetables added & topped with cheesy mash + green beans. Delicious 🤤 but the beans were undercooked ☹️  (As you can tell I did sweet f.a. 😔)

1548 - 1549 Newspaper, drinks cans - Recycled
1550 - 1551 Plastic packaging, kitchen detritus - Binned

Good luck with the healthy eating newlywed 🙂 sounds like you will be decluttering lbs 😉

Well done TC77 👏

“It is like shovelling snow in a blizzard here, I got rid of so much but you would think I am lying if you came to visit!” What a brilliant comment notmy1sttime 👏😁 Great work on the decluttering 👏 & rather nice to have a happy 13 year old 😉

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1551/2020

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 CONTINUE

Oh dear, we dropped off the front page ☹️ 

Friday is a dark, dreary, wet day ☹️ Hopefully we will get an Indian Summer - we have put the garden umbrella away so that should help 😉 
I got up very late today 😔 but have come to the conclusion better that than having a nap in the afternoon 😉 as I have just read about a study that says if you have more than an  one hour nap you shorten your life expectancy 😱 Total rubbish I imagine, but good as an excuse for late rising 😂 
Anyhow, I have had a teensy, weensy burst of activity 😉 Made bacon sarnies for DH & DSis. Peeled all the hg apples given to me by neighbour MrG & half have been cooked. Picked a few puny sticks of hg rhubarb which have also been cooked. Will make a large portion of crumble mixture & freeze some. 

DH has blitzed all my peelings & fed the worms & is now in the garage tidying/faffing 😉

I hope everyone is well & that it is just the weather that has lowered all our moods. I just ‘vant to be alone’ & snuggle & eat junk food 😱 but that isn’t going to happen so I need to gird my loins, capture my mojo & get on with it 😉

1552 - 1553 Kitchen recycling, newspaper - Recycled

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1553/2020