2020 - banish the clutter

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:
645 - washed outdoor sofa cushions to store away for the winter.

646 - Did a session with DS about budgeting - seriously think I deserve some kind of medal for this one - he wasn't the most willing student!  

Managed to get up at 3am - 1 down 3 to go.  Felt pretty spaced out but fortunately had enough energy to get a few bits & pieces done and go for a decent walk...
647. Paid in a cheque
648. Returned a cardigan
649. Scarf - CS
Thank you for my medal Mrs SD 

TC77

1873 other bike picked up and more pennies (these for me, others for DD2) - I think I will set up a treat jar

1874 - 1876 - ood food - left over pickle for those summer days

1877-1879 - old pens from a few days ago.

Still have the unwanted pests in the walls! big celebration when they are decluttered finally! And washing machine repair planned for tomorrow been cancelled and rescheduled for 17th October! went and bought more underwear for DD2 and me. Wed taking washing to DD1. And will then get rid of some old underwear!

Stay safe

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

Two hours after my previous post it started raining on & off - just light drizzle but a bit disappointing. I changed the water for my anniversary flowers, added food & only had to compost 3 blooms 🥳 

Dinner was roast beef, roast potatoes, parsnips & hg tomatoes, broccoli & cabbage & the obligatory Yorkshire Pudding. DH made gravy from scratch. Absolutely delicious 🤤 
One slice of beef, a few roast potatoes & some cabbage lo. The lo tomatoes & gravy have been added to the soup I made today using limp veg from the fridge, onion & garlic, couple of bits from the freezer & lentils.  The hm soup needs zizzing & tasting 😉 Washed up, dried & put away - no evidence we had dinner 😉 apart from our full tummies 😆 
Now watching The Hades Factor about a man made Ebola type virus - I am weird in that way but at least Covid19 doesn’t lead to bleeding from every orifice 😱

1818 - 1819 Glass bottle, drinks cans - Recycled
1820 - 1821 Plastic packaging, bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

Great work newlywed 👏 I need a couple of pairs of shoes, may I ask if the brand is ‘H*tt*r? Meanwhile I am very impressed with the one in, one out decluttering 👏 Congrats on the weight loss 🙂

Excellent villagelife 👏 Now I know how to do it - if DH complains about something, I just get rid of it 😆 

No problem bit_by_bit 👏 Brilliant decluttering, the refugee centre must be so pleased with your donations 🙂What a great idea to store summer clothes in boxes under the bed 👏 I think I might ‘borrow’ that idea, if that is OK although I might use suitcases rather than boxes 🤔 

Good work EnergyShifter 👏

Great work TC77 👏  You could go ‘commando’ TC77 🤣 

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

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1821/2020

TC77

1880  - olbas oil use by 2013. Put some on DD2 pillow as bad cold. Smells abit odd so in the bin, and hope she sleeps

newlywed

Hi @Mrs_Salad_Dodger. Yes indeed that is the brand. Can buy them very lightly used on eb@y for less than half price.  Just check all the photos carefully as some are definitely way more worn than others! I have a few pairs already that aren’t wide fit and those I plan to replace when they appear for my price range. 

I am a few years under their target customer range and only like selected styles but definitely have reached the age where I prefer not to have uncomfortable feet!

short_bird

evenin' all, realised I hadn't popped in for a while, the days are just whizzing by. Off to get my prescription now the school crowds have (hopefully) cleared...
826: DVD to the charity shop pile
827-840: carrier bags back to the supermarket delivery guy.
841-850: items from the fridge
851: prototype face mask binned (jersey. didn't maintain shape when washed
852: plate accidentally decluttered, oops!
853: Batman underwear retired 
854-862: films and series watched or abandoned, emails decluttered.
863-870: Paper recycling, rubbish and mixed materials recycling all out of the flat.

savvy

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

You have doggies digging up your garden savvy, we have squirrels & foxes 😔 Re the old motorbike on the drive, can you freegle it or maybe e-beast it for a few quid (for parts) - buyer collects? Please be careful savvy! Can you sell the excess strimmers & the broken remote control plane - start a fund for repairing the drive?

Awww that's lovely you have foxes visiting though I just have the naughtiest doggies and ones that aren't even mine! Lol it really is past anything unfortunately, was to be a project for me and my Dad, but he got ill

Yep hoping to start selling when I get 5 minutes to sort it all out, there is tons here to go but little time for taking pics, listing and dealing with time wasters - I get enough of them with my business as it is!

savvy

TC77 said:

Savvy - 4 strimmers is good going! Why do we get stuck with ex's clutter - surely they can find the CS/recycle or bin!

Found another padlock which none of the dozen keys I have fit - keeping and will keep to end of the year - having got rid of bike locks and now thiink I have the keys!

I honestly don't know, but does my head in, you declutter yourself of the ex but get left with their crap! Even found an old toolbag of the original ex I bought the house with 29 years ago in the toolshed, could have sworn he had those back!!! Maybe I couldn't find them and deliver to his mother (he lives in Thailand) 

OMG yesssss, so many keys and padlocks here, it drives me mad - they could be useful if I could find the right keys! Any new ones now I am labelling so I know what they are for lol!! And then technology is another major clutter, wires everywhere that I don't know what they are for, so again new ones are getting labelled as soon as they arrive!!!!!

I have the same issue with clothes, some too big some too small - so have decided instead of buying new I'm going to upcycle them, bit of 'fashion frankenstein' going on.............errr when I get the time!!

Willowtree222

I've just got rid of 8K. Might sound dramatic but it's the rest of a financial separation order to buy my house outright from my ex. I think it's worth mentioning though as technically it is decluttering something. x

retiredinfrance

As Bit_by_Bit pointed out , one thing does lead to another....
The mirror in the spare room bed has found a new home in a chest of drawers in the Utility room.... Inside which I found a cardboard box .....now in recycling. In my way back through the garage I decluttered 4 tatty garden gloves to the bin.
5 items out. 
Back in the spare room to smooth the bed I decluttered 8 craft magazines for the CS.
As it was still raining i thought I would start on the craft stashes, but I lost heart and will leave them for another day. While looking through  all the wool I had a go at the sock box and decluttered 4 pairs of socks which will end up at the charity shop. 
 These socks sum up our previous cluttered life. They were DH's socks good quality wool winter socks and then he switched to cotton and so as not to " waste " then I got them, but as they were too big, I never wore them  Worse still they came with us to France, 7 years ago. 
 Still that was then.
Total was 68, now 85.
Keep safe everyone.