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

It rained on & off all Thursday afternoon - DH got wet coming back from sm. Yippee 🥳 we do go pan shopping & managed to avoid the rain 👏 Tried out the specific pans I was considering & fell in love with them 🥰 Unfortunately the 3 pan set was not in stock, so had to order them 🙁 Rather than go straight home, we had a look around J*hn L*w*s - I treated myself to a planner 😉 - maybe I will get some decluttering done 😆 & then we popped into W**tr*se - admired the meat & fish counters & bought a few bits & bobs including bread flour 🥳 and yeast 🥳🥳 All in all out for just over 2 hours.
unfortunately by the time we got home I didn’t want to cook - so had curries delivered for DH & I but Chinese for DSis. DH surprised her by ordering banana fritters - she was soooo happy 🙂 Enough food left for Friday night’s dinner. The other successes of the day - got some cash & posted letters.

1741 - 1748 Six foil trays, kitchen recycling, drinks cans - Recycled
1749 - 1750 Kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - Binned

Good work Rootle 👏

Excellent work garden_girl_2 👏 especially on the not buying books 👏 

Oh dear ailz95 ☹️ what a nightmare. Hopefully Jim & Julia will be able to protect you against further mice incursions 🤞. When is MiL 100? I think you might have to put in a request for a card from the Queen. 

I shouldn’t smile really TC77, but I just had a picture of mice in little cars racing around your skirting boards 🤣 Great work on the decluttering 👏 - not sure about throwing out DD2 😉😉 🤣

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1750/2020

villagelife

Have benefits today so far. It makes me feel better and can see what's in my cupboards.
1166 some bag ties
1167-1168 a water jug and lid
1169 cake tin
1179-1183 foil takeaway containers
1184 kitchen roll holder
1185 tealight holder
1186-1193 jars and lids
1194-1195 a bottle and lid
1196-1199 plastic mugs
1200 a glass ramekin dish 
1201-1206 bowls
1207 a pizza stone
1208 another bowl
1209-1210 saucers
1211 a plate
1212-1214 various kids
1215-1216 freezer packs
1217-1218 large bags of cobnut to the local community fridge.
That's a fair bit fine but hopefully more later but about to go and meet a friend.

nannywindow

I made the decision to go through the DGC's toys today and now I have another cs bag full of various small toy items, pirate figures, toy army paraphernalia, lorries, boats etc, 2 tubs of 70 toy soldiers ( kept a large tub of army figures for justin....... sorry ) Plastic art stencils, a book and a junior learning laptop are all at the ready too. Also in the bag a gold coloured handbag, used only once for DD's wedding ( the matching shoes already gone ).

Binned a handmade ( by DH ) toy rifle which had seen better days, lots of little broken toys, full colouring books and a plastic tub with a broken lid. Took me longer than expected as I kept remembering the DGC playing with the things when they were little ones, I'm silly I know.

Villagelife you made me smile at your list items 1212 to 1214. How did you manage to get rid of various kids ? What's your secret ?

Enjoy your decluttering all, take care keep safe.

nan

Willowtree222

Only a few little bits of items from me this week. Hardly worth even writing about. Hoping for at least 25 items this weekend though. I have plans to go through quite a few drawers and remove whatever isn't needed or required anymore. 
Have a lovely weekend everyone x

villagelife

Nannywidow sorry it was only lids this time. Kids will be going soon though as both are in process of moving!

1219 a case
1220-1221 egg cups

TC77

Mrs SD - hoovered DD2 room, but tempting to declutter grumpy 16 year old at times. She's now lost her glasses, and looking through her things can see chaos and piles in drawers and around. I will have concerted effort in Oct - have alot of other deadlines the next week although a few things as I go

1831 lipstick that I put lid on wrong so binned

1832 broken pegs

1833 bits of rubbish as tidied before pest man came ( only have mice and may be coming from next door )

1834-1835 ink cartridges (empty and leaking)

1836 unusable packaging binned

Take care everyone

Vala-Mal-Doran

Travelled back from Cornwall at silly early this morning so lots of unpacking and washing but whilst putting a few bits away I managed a little declutter! 
Into the 'outbox' was;
2 Fascinators  - never really liked them and cant see me wearing them at the next wedding (if we get to actually attend! ) 
1 travel document holder - I've travelled a lot and never actually used one of these things for their true purpose!
1 flask
1 toddler sleeping bag 
Not bad on a few hours sleep! Now for a cheeky takeaway treat as im dead on my feet!

Sa1sysoo

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Filled up another page in my notebook, so time to add on here again.
94. Video Game
95-109. Books to Ziffit
110. DVD on eBay
111-114. Books on eBay
115. Body Scrub UU
116-120. Pine cones on sticks
121-122. Refillable Bottles from a Theme Park
123. Manager Book given to a friend
124-133. Cheap Coin Belts
134-139. Out of Date Nuts and Raisins in the bin
140. Bag of Icing Sugar binned
141-158. Plastic tubs recycled
159. Dead plant
160-191. Beer glasses to the Charity Shop :beer:
192-195. Bottle Openers to the Charity Shop :beer:
196-215. Test tubes used for shots to the Charity Shop :beer:
216. Christmas Penguin Tin
217. Body Scrub - UU

The kitchen is looking much tidier and it's so much easier to find things now. Plus, we can open drawers without their being a tangle of bits in there. :j So freeing! :A

Latest notebook page filled, so:
218. Nail Varnish binned
219. Pen Used Up
220. Poster to the Charity Shop
221-230. Magnets to the Charity Shop
231. Coffee Mug to the Charity Shop   
232. Camera Instructions recycled
233. Eyeliner thrown away
234. Laces thrown
235-236. Travel show cleaners thrown
237. George Foreman Grill Cleaner/Scraper to the Charity Shop
238-242. Misc packets from the fridge thrown away
243. Sleeping Mask to the Charity Shop
244. Barbell freecycled
245-262. Weights freecycled
263-266. Dumbells freecycled
267. Pen Used Up
268. Box Set Ziffited
269-270. Pants thrown away
271. Ring to the Charity Shop
272-284. Single socks thrown away

285-290. Bags for Life
291. Iron - given up the ghost
292. Alarm Clock
293. Haridryer
294-301. Glowsticks
302-304. Tops into the Charity Bag
305-307. Books to Charity Shop/Ziffit
308-309. More Glowsticks
310-312. Sorry You're Leaving Banners
313. Kinder Egg Toy
314-315. Work Paperwork
316-324. Work Paperwork
325-329. Work Paperwork
330-353. Work Paperwork
354. Work Paperwork
355. Work Paperwork
356-358. Work Paperwork
359. Work Paperwork
360-365. Work Paperwork
366. Work Paperwork
367. Work Paperwork
368. Work Paperwork
369. Work Paperwork
370-379. Work Paperwork
380. Work Paperwork
381. Bath Bomb used up
382. Work Paperwork
383-385. Work Paperwork
386. GDPR Work Paperwork
387. Risk Register Work Paperwork
388-419. More Work Paperwork
420-438. Hair Bobbles
439. T-Shirt to Charity Shop

It's handy that I'm in the process of changing jobs, meaning the stuff I've taken to work on from home can make it's way into recycling 

Blimy, didn't realise how long I'd left it. 
440. Water Bottle
441-412. Baubles made into Christmas gifts
443. Broken Bauble
444. Nail Varnish used up
445-446. Ketchup Bottles
447. Glass Shoe
448-452. DVDs
453. Wordsearch Book
454. Another one
455. Gardeners Club Card
456-8. Cosmetics Used Up
459-461. Underwear Sets
462-464. Tops
465. Underwear Set
466-469. Underwear Sets
470. Underwear Set
471. Underwear Set
472. Underwear Set
473-483. Clothes
484. Underwear Set
485. T-Shirt
486. Leather Jacket
487. Another underwear set

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 was mainly dry with a mixture of bright sunny spells & dark cloudy, damp spells. The one consistent weather phenomenon was the strong, blustery wind 💨 DH & I staked the rest of the potato plants + topped up the compost in the bags/pots/crate  - one lot already has flowers 🥳 I harvested another 904g of tomatoes 👏 Then we dug up & composted 4 tomato plants - the foliage smells so tomatoey 😉 MrG (to whom we gave tomatoes a couple of days ago) told us that the tomatoes were delicious & were the best he had tasted since his last visit to Italy 😉 DSis went out to pick up her prescription & did a small sm shop.

Dinner was the 2nd half of Thursday’s takeaways.

1751 - 1759 Cardboard packaging, plastic takeaway box + 4 plastic lids, kitchen recycling, small glass jar, drinks cans - Recycled
1760 - 1762 Plastic tray, kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - Binned

Excellent work villagelife 👏 especially the ‘kids’  Hope you had a good time with your friend 🙂 Oh shame - lids not kids 😉

Brilliant work nannywindow 👏 Sounds like you had a good decluttering session & nothing silly about reminiscing about happier times 🙂 - the thing is you got rid of loads 👏 & you are forgiven for keeping a tub of soldiers - handy for the DGGC 😉😉

Naughty, naughty Nicnak - insert wagging finger emoji 😉 Every single item out is a win 👏
& is ALWAYS worth mentioning 😉

Great work TC77 👏 I don’t envy you the grumpy 16 yo 🙁 Good luck meeting all your deadlines TC77 🤞

Great work Vala-Mal-Doran 👏 Sorting holiday washing & decluttering 👏 Hope you had a lovely time in Cornwall 🙂

Excellent work Sa1sysoo 👏 

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1762/2020

Willowtree222

Thanks Mrs SD. 
Last night I went through some of my drawers and binned around 10 items. Old pencils, rubbers, etc. DD found my pencil case with felts in and wanted to keep it so not entirely decluttered out the house!
What she doesn't know is I went through a couple of her toy drawers too and managed to get rid of a ton of bits of broken things, things that she no longer plays with, and anything where I know the other parts have gone. Up to around 20 items. I still have a lot of drawers to go through tonight. x