2020 - banish the clutter

nannywindow

It's a horrible afternoon here, wet, wet, wet ! This morning I made my first venture out into the community after over 5 months, I was a bit anxious as I wasn't sure what to expect, but it was all good and I managed to declutter £'s to the meat-van man. That was enough excitement for one day for me. I've also decluttered 5lbs in weight too, which I'm very happy about !

MrsSD I have visions of your DH having the worms lined up ready to be fed ! Made me chuckle anyway. Thanks

nan

bit_by_bit

Thankyou once more for your kind words MrSD. I agree it really is a habit now. A habit that gets in the way of decluttering sometimes. I am impressed by your all nighter and then energy to move all that wood and stuff.
Dropped my DD off for her shift at the CS today, she took in a bag of stuff for me so I my count is now 58/100.
Tomorrrow I am getting up a bit earlier than usual to drop off some more stuff to the refugee collection centre. 8 bags and two boxes; none of it mine. I will be glad to be able to get the car cleaned out.
DH and DD out looking at a car tomorrow evening so I will have the house to myself for a few hours. May even do some tidying in the craft room. 

newlywed

Unsubscribes from even more emails today.

Decluttered four carriers of recycling.... 

cleaned out my freezer from all the many crumbs and organised it ready for Monday’s supermarket delivery. 

short_bird

678-703: Carriers out to the local food bank
704: canvas bag to the local food bank.
705-708: paper recycling, 2 bags of rubbish and mixed materials recycling out.
709-715: unfinished oddments from the fridge.

TC77

1679 - bag to posh CS as my better than usual stuff

1680 teapot broken

1681- 1682 DD2 2 soft toys CS

1683 pen binned

Marie kondo'd some drawers so more clothes tidied away

1684 - 1685 ood food

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

Friday continued to rain on & off all day. The rhubarb & apple crumble was cooked at the same as 1. the lo cheesy pasta (with added mozzarella & a couple of sliced hg tomatoes) & 2. lo cottage pie & green beans. Also went over to MrG to check out if the family have any allergies as intending to make them a small apple crumble as a Thank You for the apples.

1554 - 1556 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, cardboard box - Recycled
1557 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Wow nannywindow 🤩 what a great weight loss 👏. I fell off the sofa laughing at your vision of my DH lining up the worms to feed them 🤣 A very bright spot during a dull day 👏

Great work bit_by_bit 👏 I still think you should count the bags as you have been storing them 😉 

Good work newlywed 👏

Great work short_bird 👏

Excellent work TC77 👏 shame about the ood food.

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1557/2020

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

531 - completed student finance form for DS
532 - dead purse

533. Dead plunger 
534. Folder -CS
535. A humongous bag of paperwork (DS' old school notes which given he's now going to Uni we can let go of) 
536. Book
537. Decorative Box
538 - 541 - 4 x dead folders
542 - broken glass candle holder 
543 - dead notebook (typed up notes) 
CS bags are still languishing in the loft - I need to start dropping them off - it's way too tempting to start taking things out again.... 

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

Saturday is another overcast day but no downpours as yet. There is definitely a chill in the air ☹️ DH went round the corner & collected a bucket of fallen crab apples & blitzed - worm food or compost invigorator. I made a courgette & potato soup - I seasoned before zizzing & tasting so found out that I was a bit heavy handed with the pepper 😱 However, pepper notwithstanding it was tasty & I will make again. Shout out to Purplepenguin70 - thank you for the recipe. Currently binge watching old John Wayne movies I.e. being lazy 😔😉

1558 - 1559 Kitchen recycling, Newspaper - Recycled
1560 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Good work EnergyShifter 👏 I quite agree you should start taking CS bags to the CS 😉

StickyTheStickInsect, apologies on their way + a Gold Star ⭐️ - I missed out when you reached 26 bags 😔 

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1560/2020

bit_by_bit

The car is clear  I am very happy with this. If the weather is good tomorrow I will actually clean it, maybe
Thanks for your kind words Mrs SD but I  would feel like I am cheating if I counted other people's stuff whenI am just moving it around.
It wouldn't keep me tuned in to how much of MY stuff I am getting rid of. DH is enjoying the building number of bags of our stuff going out of the house.
Worked at the CS today. We were already full for donations as usual by the time I arrived. People still irritated about being told this and dumping bags angrily and running off. I am glad that there are 4 other local CS open now so I can send people to other places if they are not too concerned about who they give it to.
I picked up a shirt for myself, a lovely blouse for my DD, I checked with her first, and some DVDs and prints. I am selling two of the DVDs and one I have already given away. 

Chocolatedrinker

Hi all,
Not been here for several weeks, but I have been busy!
Its too much to type it all up and its too early in the morning - insomnia makes me grumpy! Anyway, I'm up to 2742, highlights of which include a shopping bag full of about 40 lightbulbs passed on to my sister, a lot of which were freebie bulbs from various energy companies, recycling, balls of wool knitted up, and clothes given to charity shop.
Also decluttered meter readings to energy company, which will hopefully mean in a couple of weeks when they have updated the account we can get a small refund.