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2020 - banish the clutter
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12 items of clothing and 3 pairs of shoes. It's not much, but all I can do in the circumstances x
October 2020 Debt = £28,270
2021 Start:
Car £17450 = £12,056
Loan £11000 = £10,100
TOTAL £22,156
Mortgage £191,311 = £189,598
EF = £600 Xmas = £0
40/52 - cleared out the car of all rubbish. Car returned to company!
It rained horribly today so not so busy.
DD home from uni for the weekend. She is going back to Stoke tomorrow on tier 2 measures so I can only drop her off sadly. She may not be able to visit again for some time.
Challenges 2021: Banish the Clutter 2021 6/100 bags plus 2 large items. Make £2021 on 2021#12 £0/£2021 MFW #87 2021: £17500/£17500 🏅from MrsSD and 1 Gold Star ⭐️
and I did a diabetes risk quiz.... it scared me enough to do something.
Doing all shopping online and no eating out or lunches out has reduced a huge amount of temptation.
January declutter: 10/21
4. DAY TO DAY DECLUTTERING WILL CONTINUE
5. MSE CONTENT - WILL SAVE £££ RE THE DAILY POT CHALLENGE BUT AS A WEEKLY AMOUNT
Saturday started dry but overcast, then the rain & wind started. Another no spend day (MSE content) + Dinners were cheap - added mash to fish pie mix & cooked for 20 minutes - DSis thoroughly enjoyed & enough for Sunday night’s dinner - now that is MSE 😉 Boiled rice with the chilli for DH & I - very small portion left for a one person snack.
1932 - 1933 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - decluttered into Recycling Wheelie
1934 Kitchen detritus - decluttered into Wheelie Bin
Good decluttering work TC77 👏 I am waiting for a spurt as well 😉 as my Decluttering Mojo has deserted me completely 😢 yours appears to be putting in brief appearances at least 😉
Great work on clothing decluttering newlywed 👏 Congratulations on the wight loss 👏
So pleased that you are all on the mend ailz95 🙂 and still decluttering 👏 Your M-I-L sounds amazing 😉
Now, now Nicnak - 15 items decluttered 👏 rather a good haul 👏
Well Done Rootle 👏 but surely that should be 40 & 41 - rubbish = 40, car = 41
Good decluttering bit_by_bit 👏 sorry that DD may not be home for a while.
Decluttered: 1934/2020
Daily Spend £0
January declutter: 10/21
However this was our 1st week of our circuit breaker and I couldn't do anything else but sit down. Working in a school at this uncertain time has taken a toll on me mentally I'm sorry to admit. Schools are stressful enough at the best of times, however since August until last week I was mentally drained, and this circuit breaker was very much needed for me to "declutter" my stress, worries and constant being on guard all day.
I did go through my clothes again, added a few tops and trousers to a black bag.
Have managed to sell a few things on ebay and Facebook this week, so the money from those have went towards my credit card
A lot of paperwork has been ripped up and disposed of or recycled, cardboard boxes from the attic went into the recycling on Friday. Got an Iceland food delivery yesterday, so I went through the freezers and got rid of items we haven't used, or won't use up. All that went into the food recycling, and we freed up a lot of space. It's silly how the cardboard boxes take up so much room.
I'm currently sitting trying to coax myself to go through the bathroom cupboards and sort/Tidy or donate bits and pieces from there, think that will wait until tomorrow now though.
Thanks to being off work because of our "circuit breaker" I've managed to de-clutter a lot of to watch lists of the tv recordings, And also a few more books that had started to build up again. One more week hopefully and I'll be caught up on a few other bits and pieces too.
£1 a day challenge 2021 - #44 - £40 £365
Declutter a bag a week in 2021 - 0/52
October 2020 Debt = £28,270
2021 Start:
Car £17450 = £12,056
Loan £11000 = £10,100
TOTAL £22,156
Mortgage £191,311 = £189,598
EF = £600 Xmas = £0