2020 - banish the clutter

short_bird

893: DVD to the charity shop bag
894-913: another 20GB of assorted data off the hard drive... need to keep this computer working!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE DECLUTTERING & CLEANING “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
5. MSE CONTENT - WILL SAVE £££ RE THE DAILY POT CHALLENGE BUT AS A WEEKLY AMOUNT

Dinner was scrambled eggs on toast. 

1893 Kitchen recycling - decluttered into Recycling Bin
1894 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Excellent decluttering short_bird 👏 Shame about the railcard ☹️

Brilliant retiredinfrance 👏 Not only have you not brought any clutter in but you have also saved a couple of euros 👏

Congrats to Jacinda 🥳

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅
Decluttered: 1894/2020
Money Spent £0

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

IrishRose12

Hello everyone.  I haven't been on here in ages, as in I can't even remember if I have been on this year at all   I'm not liking this new layout for a start  
Hope everyone has been keeping well during this whole pandemic business.  I know I have had my struggles from time to time.

One good thing that came out of me shielding for 4 months or so was the fact I was able to have a good old declutter and clear out of the house. Done some re-organising and DIY.
We're now on a 2 week "circuit-breaker" so schools are closed again, so I'm going to take the opportunity of being off work to have another run through of the house after being neglected for 7 weeks since returning to work

I'll start at the top of the house again and work my way down.  But most important job to be done today is re-spray all doors windows etc with peppermint spray to keep the unwanted 8 legged friends out of the house
After that I'll sit back down here and read through the last few pages to to refresh and try and see how people are doing.   

short_bird

Mrs SD yes, it is a shame about the rail card but I have to pay 3 years upfront to get the best deal: I'll do that when things are more settled and I stand a chance of booking something in the UK and the event actually happening 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE DECLUTTERING & CLEANING “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
5. MSE CONTENT - WILL SAVE £££ RE THE DAILY POT CHALLENGE BUT AS A WEEKLY AMOUNT

Another week - where has the year gone 😉 Monday is Bright & sunny so DSis has a load in the wm.  I went out to post letters & birthday cards. Took the opportunity to nip into the P.O. shop & buy a few bits. They were open all through the original lockdown & the way things are going I will probably need them again 🙁 Not particularly MSE but we do need to keep our smaller shops open. 

1895 Lr detritus decluttered into Rubbish Bin
Welcome back IrishRose12 👋 so lovely to see you 😊 I don’t think any of us like the new format but would miss our OS MSE friends so we persevere

Excellent decluttering work, reorganising & DIY - so much so that I am awarding you three Gold Stars ⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️  I am looking forward to you popping in to see us.

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅
Decluttered: 1895/2020
Money Spent ££7.55

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

Happy_Kitties

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

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

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

Still having to book a tip slot and since the Wales circuit breaker lockdown was announced, the slots went crackers as the tip has to shut 6pm on Friday.
We’re busy cleaning out the last bits from DMs house, had two slots already booked, managed to  grab a Friday slot

Managed to decluttered some of my own bits along with DMs
*440-448    clothes and old quilt cover x 8 into the clothes bank.
*449-450    christening money boxes x 2 that DD didn’t want after I started trimming down her Christening items-recycling

50 items to go to meet my target for the year......getting closer

TC77

DD1 ( part of a support bubble) been round and created chaos... i keep taking in parcels she's ordered so boxes of shoes/ clothes lying around... trying not to get overwhelmed

1929 - cushions back to shop

1930 -31 item sold and packaged and posted

1932 steamer collected by someone (after lots of no shows)

bit_by_bit

Hi All,
Glad this lovely thread is still here and Mr SD is there cheerleading away through all the ups and downs. 
Popping in to add 4 bags to my total which I dropped off at the CS today. I have sold a few pots and books on various sites.
All the best to those in the clutches of another lock down all though. 
Edited to add..........I handed my letter in to retire in March next year. I have finally done it. Yay   

MrsStepford

Ooh.. decluttering.. 

We do two big declutters a year, to kick off Spring and Autumn Clearing. Husband just took a car load to a couple of charity shops. This week, I'm going through the books. Last year, I managed to sell £40 worth to We Buy Books and give a box each to charity shop and my mother's church fete. 

We created a home office space for The Husband at the weekend and that was another opportunity to jettison a few ornaments.( I have a bit of a charity shop book and ornament habit) so that it looks individual without being cluttered.

MrsStepford

Ooh.. decluttering.. 

We do two big declutters a year, to kick off Spring and Autumn Clearing. Husband just took a car load to a couple of charity shops. This week, I'm going through the books. Last year, I managed to sell £40 worth to We Buy Books and give a box each to charity shop and my mother's church fete. 

We created a home office space for The Husband at the weekend and that was another opportunity to jettison a few ornaments.( I have a bit of a charity shop book and ornament habit) so that it looks individual without being cluttered.

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