2020 - banish the clutter

Happy_Kitties

*428-429   cat toys x 2 into the bin. Were replaced with new that will equally get destroyed!
Tip run today. Didnt count the items but im guessing my portion was about 10 items which included
-a bookcase
-a random piece of wood
-plastic toy
- metal vase
And other bits.
Going to do another tip run next week.
So total going forward 
= 439

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

I found an even better excuse not to do my paperwork 😉😉

I found another small stash of wool - about half a dozen 100g balls 😱 + a knitting project I started 29 years ago 😔 A fair isle jumper for my DH. Apparently DH has been posting about this for years 😉 so I have picked it up again 😆 The pattern has 7 colours & there was 3/4 of one sleeve left to knit. It is way too complicated for me now so I am knitting the rest of the sleeve in blocks of colour. It will look a bit odd but it means it will get finished - hopefully by the end of the year 😉 The one benefit is that it was way too big but DH has now grown into 😂🤣 I decluttered the task of cooking dinner to DH - cheesy pasta. Used up 3 jars of mixed pasta shapes so now have 3 jars - large, medium, small. The medium & small jars will be used to decant olives once they are ready next year.

DH decluttered the lo rice with an onion, peas & bratwurst for his lunch - saving £££. Another day of no spending for me 👏 & I decluttered/tidied a corner of the lr 😉
Lastly the veg box was delivered about midnight - I will advise contents later 🙂

1867 - 1870 Cardboard box, large bag of office recycling, drinks cans, glass jar & metal lid - Recycled

1871 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Great decluttering Happy_Kitties 👏 Do you still have to book a slot to use the Tip?

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅
1871/2020
Money Spent £0

nannywindow

Out today- about 4ft of rusty fencing wire, almost 12ft of green plastic fencing and a child's ball ( not mine ! ). All this was found in the shrubbery while filling up the 2 green waste bins.... again. Saved £££'s as I did it all myself ( polishes halo )

TC77

Wow - fabulous finishing a jumper after 29 years!  I so want to get back into knitting but haven't had the time yet. Work and rl still taking over. 
Still carrying batteries round - keep forgetting to hand in,! 
1916 item back to shop
1917 old pen binned.
Found great stationery supplier - couple open my own shop. dd2 asked for another protector - they seem to break easily so found place but sold protestors in 10s and pens in dozens ! V cheap though! 
1918 -1919 item sold , packaged and  posted 
1920 receipts binned. 

villagelife

So much for me posting daily!
1274 a mirror
1275 -1276 loads and loads of packaging which I am the only one, it seems, capable of putting in the recycling.
1277-1280 magazines etc recycled
1281-1282 more holey socks
1283 a mug to work. It's so much nicer drinking out of a nice mug.
1284-1285 more shredding done
1286-1288 more moisturiser sample used up.
That's all at the moment.
No need of when DS1 house purchase will be completed. Should have been done by now.

retiredinfrance

86 blouse
87 blouse 
88 jumper
89 teeshirt, all to CS.
90 a box of toys
 Not exactly decluttered, but out of the house.
Since I haven't been able to visit grandchildren and they couldn't come here, I decided to post off to them all the toys, bits and pieces that I was to take to them and they could play with here. The eldest is five and I reckoned he might be too old for some stuff, so they will enjoy a surprise from Granny. I'm sure lots of us ,in the U K and elsewhere, are missing family and friends, but courage to everyone and keep 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

Lost a long post 😡 
Thursday I spent the day knitting - unfortunately my knitting tension has loosened considerably over the last 29 years 🙁 The sleeve would have made a bo*b tube for Twiggy in her heyday 😉 Hm soup for lunch. DH did the weekly sm shop. Dinner was ham, egg, oven chips & baked beans. 

Friday was dry with occasional sunshine 🙂 DH put down 100L of bark chips to cover the newly planted bulbs - hopefully this will deter the squirrels from digging 🤞He then moved the chard from the raised flowerbed to the table top bed. The raised bed is now ready to be dismantled, soil/compost will be sieved (saving £££ on new compost & giving us a start on filling the new raised bed (made from sleepers) which will be built.  We had a lovely visitor in the garden - a woodpecker - think it was a lesser spotted woodpecker with vibrant red colouring. DH & I finished the hm soup. Dinner was baked salmon fillets, boiled potatoes, roasted hg tomatoes, carrots & peas. 

I unpicked the 18” of sleeve I had knitted, swapped over from 4mm to 3.25mm & started knitting again concentrating on keeping the tension really tight. Seems to be working so far 🤞 Might mean I run out of the wool specific to the project but I have approx 150 balls of wool in my stash so I should be able to find something to match.
Another day of saving money by not spending anything + my PB win of £25 arrived by cheque. The money saving will continue tomorrow when I make another soup from los & bits & bobs from the freezer.

1872 - 1875 Newspaper, kitchen recycling, drinks cans, magazine - Recycled
1876 - 1879 Kitchen detritus x 2, empty bark chippings bag, office detritus - Binned

Brilliant work nannywindow 👏 I hope you have plenty of polish for your halo 😇 

Great work on the decluttering TC77 👏 As you can see from above there has been a setback with the knitting but I think I can still finish by the end of the year 🤞No idea why you got the ‘warning’ - seems to be no rhyme or reason 😖 

Excellent work villagelife 👏 Everything crossed 🤞  for DS1.

Good work retiredinfrance 👏 This whole keeping away from family is a nightmare but sadly we are all in the same boat 😢 The problem is we are all now exceedingly fed up as there seems to be no end in sight ☹️ I will accept your offer of courage & will send you lots of virtual hugs 🤗 

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅
1879/2020
Money Spent £0

£2.00 into Savings pot - up to 24/10/2020

Willowtree222

I'm determined to do something this weekend! I've been really lapse x

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:
733 - dead rucksack

734 - luggage tag
735. old shirt

736, old cat litter tray (replaced with new covered one..)
737. spruced up storage cabinet in hall  - its a lovely teal blue colour now and really pops! 
738 & 9 - 2x items to foodbank
Bag of clothes already counted to CS & 2 large items (already counted) taken by friend.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.... x

TC77

1921 - 1926 samples of tiles
DD sport cancelled so put a few things on F/cycle and also to try and sell, sorted a couple of drawers 
1927  swept front steps and dusted porch, took mat into street to bang against wall.
1928 small bits of rubbish from drawers and steps etc