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

Last night I did one wash load but had to use td to dry. Dinner was fried eggs, bacon & baked beans for DSis with the addition of fried lo mixed mash & plum tomatoes for me.
The winter bedding is on but not the duvet - warm with just the duvet cover 🙂 

MrG returned the Pyrex bowl which had the apple crumble - apparently it was delicious with lashings of custard 🥳 I am very happy that I hadn’t poisoned the neighbours 😂 

I actually set the alarm clock last night 😉 & was up at 9:00 a.m. - early for me 😉Wednesday has been warm & sunny so far but the occasional breeze is a bit chilly - however I will take it 🥳 The summer bedding has been washed & is on the whirligig to dry. The wm is on a “clean drum” cycle with a C*lg*n tablet. Next task is to make some green tomato chutney - all the ingredients are out. I need a muslin bag for the spices so cut a small section from a tea towel & hand sewed a small bag 😉 I now have no excuse not to retire to the kitchen 😂

1579 Uu hotel size bath gel - Recycled
1580 Empty cotton thread spool - Binned

Will be back later to report on chutney making & to cheerlead 🙂

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1580/2020

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

Success, the chutney is made & in 4 sterilised & labelled jars. Now needs to mature for 6 weeks. The bedding was mostly dry when it started to rain, so is being finished off in the td ☹️ DH phoned again, the rain that started at 9:00 a.m. has stopped but not before soaking him ☹️ He managed to get some meat & a cauliflower from a farm shop. Now on the homeward leg & expecting to arrive home about 9:00 p.m. Dinner will be burgers & oven chips.

1581-1582 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - Recycled
1583 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Welcome aboard Ms_Green 👋 Nice to see a new face 🙂 Frequent house moves do tend to concentrate the mind 😉 It sounds like you are now ready to tackle your books & paperwork. Looking forward to hearing about your successful transition to ONE bookcase & ONE shelf of paperwork 🙂 Good luck 😉 

Sounds brilliant EnergyShifter 🥳 Upcycling & renovating is NOT cluttering. You are bringing in/making beautiful items for your home. From my point of view you are decluttering ‘not’ beautiful items into beautiful items. 

Now, now TC77 wagging finger - you have been decluttering at your dad’s place & unless you have some form of ‘beam me up Scottie’ device how can you declutter at home 🙄 
Good luck with the dentist visit 🤞 

Not really Wednesday2000 😉 Note the judicious use of the word “endeavour” 😆 
Do not engage with the ‘pest’ - you are better than that 🙂

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1583/2020

Rootle

31/52 - an old pair of boots to the bin.

greent

Latest batch:

1801 – 1855. Various items (jewellery (lots new), toiletries, packs of Leg0 cards, pencils + more) donated to shoebox appeal

1856 – 1857. Keys relating to old locks in BTL (changed) – binned

1858 – 1862. Various old reloadable gift cards and loyalty cards (all no longer used) – binned

1863. trainers – sold via flebay

1864. Box from packaging stash – used for above

1865. Bags and bags of pears given away to anyone who’ll have them!

1866. top – cs

1867. shoes – cs

1868. chipped mug – binned

1869. cracked takeaway tubs – recycled

1870 – 1884. Various items from DD’s room – binned/ recycled

1885 – 1900. Various items from DS1 and DS3’s rooms – binned/ recycled

Hoping to reach 2020 by end of Oct.....  

VickyV

Hi,

A couple of days of light decluttering have seen 35 minor casualties - mainly on their way to the CS:

1-5: Exercise clothes (too big)

6: broken phone charger cable

7: knackered school bag

8&9: kids pants/trousers

10: broken sandals

11: T-shirt

12 & 13: Body butter sets

14-16: Bedding

17-27: Clothes (too big)

28: Broken make up bag

29: Broken hair brush

30-31: pillow cases

32: Pile of boxes and packaging from my room (that's been sat there since Christmas - oops!)

33-35: Bags that had been sorted previously and were languishing in the garage - now out of the house!

Hopefully there will be a few more to add. I need to increase my target by 3 after taking delivery of some new mountain biking gear!

Vicky x  

ailz95

I've been sorting the boiler room and kitchen - how these jobs spread when you start them.  Now that our cat Pickles has gone to her new home in Liverpool, hubby cleaned the floor in the boiler room and moved a drawer set to the opposite side of the room where it's much less noticeable.  I emptied said drawers the other day and in the course of putting things back, had to move stuff in other cupboards, so ended up trying to sort cupboards in 3 rooms.  It's meant quite a few items for the charity shop anyway.  I'm taking it steady and not oveerdoing it.  I'm off swimming from 4-5 today anyway.

I find that I'm noticing other people more nowadays.  Before the virus you could wander around largely unconscious of people around you - enough not to walk into people but that was about it.  Now with masks and social distancing we have to be more conscious of others.  I think i prefer it.  I just wish face masks were transparent so others know that I smile at them.

Wanna_Bee_Free

Hi Ailz, I lurk on this thread and read along with you all and wanted to let you know you can get transparent masks now - there are loads on Axmazon, some totally and some just the mouth. Really helpful for lipreaders etc too. Well done on your 3 room shuffle - great stuff!

TC77

I agree about wanting to see people smile, and the issue of lipreading. Not sure why news reporters who are socially distanced sometimes wear a mask as makes it very hard for people who rely on lipreading to understand the news (sub titles for the news are always odd!)

Didn't count decluttering my dad's stuff - but will when I get rid of the few things in my car, but had my DIY man and counting,

hook put on door, mesh put on airbricks and gaps to stop mice etc (can't wait to declutter them), Handle secured on door, and gate more secure to post 1686 - 1689

rubbish out of DD2 room ( door handle was hers)  2 bundles of rubbish 1690 - 1691

1692-1694  random bits of building left overs found under kitchen units (builders years ago) binned

1695 - alot of admin and chasing hospital appts (DD1)

garden_girl_2

DH and I have decluttered a big shrub from beside the fence, it was huge, so brown bin filled right to the top.Thick pieces saved to saw up for friends sons log burner. Have to get nephew to get the roots out as thats physically beyond us....we are getting older and dont realise it!!  Threw out some old mags, leaflets and little bits of paper with notes on, dont really need... 
TC77 hope you get on ok with tooth, I still have to get mine finished. It was started and temp packed at start of covid.... it has been fine...but now its started to play up!!! So I do need to make 'that' appt...

ailz95

Wanna_Bee_Free said:

Hi Ailz, I lurk on this thread and read along with you all and wanted to let you know you can get transparent masks now - there are loads on Axmazon, some totally and some just the mouth. Really helpful for lipreaders etc too. Well done on your 3 room shuffle - great stuff!

Hi Thanks for that.  I've just bought some from ebay - though the cheapest were from my home town, Oldham, and cowardly I know, but I bought ones from elsewhere.