2020 - banish the clutter

bit_by_bit

Popping in to say hi. I haven't done much decluttering as DD home from uni. Glad too as she developed a temperature and really wasn't well. Her house facilities at uni are all downstairs and at times she has been dizzy. Been isolating her and us until her test comes back hopefully later today. I think it was more flu than anything. Achy joints etc, but we shall see. 
Made a decluttering decision. I have been really enjoying selling on the Bay this last few months but have spent quite a bit at the CS because of 'bargains' and to sell. The intent is to pay off my mortgage early. I have decided to stop buying, finish selling what I have and then give it up. It is causing mess, clutter, and time spent may be worth it financially but not mentally.  I will have enough money to pay the mortgage off in March. I gathered all the stuff I bought and what people had given me on a single bed and it is totally covered with bags and boxes.  I have a load of stuff in the craft room which is impassable again 
If I am to stay isoalated I have plenty to do.

retiredinfrance

1 medicine tube uu
1 hotel soap uu
1hand cream uu
5 magazines to recycling
I like admin paper to recycling. 
Total now 120/122.
The last two are my bit by bit decluttering, taking the mags out of the rack means i might have space there for the rest of the paper in a day or two.
Like you Bit_by Bit, I had intended to do a brocante stall , and had saved up quite a lot of stuff, Bayreuth the virus , these French bootfairs have been cancelled. I have decided not to add to the pile of tasteful almost antique items ie  junk and do one next year, virus and health permitting. Most importantly ,however, I am not going to add to the pile. . Just noticed Bayreuth above and don't know what it is supposed to be. Ah well.....
Keep safe everyone.
PS it might be because of.......

daisy_1571

Afternoon all

Somehow I'd missed this post so have read through from the start and its helping me no end to get my cba turned into let's get on with this!  After months of lockdown bleurgh then I had months of being really busy with work but I've decided to close for a few weeks during which I thought I would have time to catch up.  I've decided I want rid of 1000 items which might be ambitious however I'm up to 68 so far so you never know.......

Daisy xxx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE/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. JUST DO ONE THING (courtesy of bit_by_bit)

Tuesday has been another fairly nice day - some sunshine, quite chilly & damp.
Another non day for me 😉 Watching old episodes of Antiques Road Trip whilst knitting another beanie. DH has fed the worms & taken delivery of monkey nuts, birdseed & fat cakes. I bought a couple of bits from our back to work door to door salesman.
DSis has gone out to pick up her meds & will probably pop into sm.

Dinner will be salmon fillets, boiled hg potatoes & tbd vegetables.

2060 - 2068 Kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging, drinks cans, plastic jar, 2 cardboard boxes, 3 newspapers - Recycled
2069 - 2070 Kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - Binned

Bit_by_bit, you have been decluttering by ‘baying’ lots of stuff 😉 + a major decision reached to bring your selling to an end 👏 Keeping everything crossed 🤞 that your DD is just suffering from normal flu 🤒 (a very strange thing to say but we do live in interesting times 😔) You must be getting very excited that the goal of paying off your mortgage is so close 🥳 Please don’t forget to give yourself a little treat when it is done & dusted 🙂

Great work retiredinfrance 👏 I agree that perhaps Bayreuth = because of. You are oh so close to another gold star 😉

Nice to see you daisy_1571 👋 Very pleased that you have found us 🙂 Your enthusiasm will gee us all up to make a concerted effort to end 2020 in a flurry of decluttering activity 😉 🤞 An ambitious target but a tremendous start 👏 & I have every faith that you will reach your target 👏🙂

Stay safe everyone & fingers crossed 🤞 that the vaccine is approved 🤞

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅
Decluttered: New target = 2222: 2070/2222
Daily Spend £10

£3.20 into Savings pot - up to & incl. 15/11/2020

retiredinfrance

Mrs SD, -" gee us up "  was a favourite expression of my late mother 's. You bring back many happy memories. 
Keep safe an d welcome,  Daisy.

TC77

bit by bit and retiredinfrance - I'm with you on the selling, and hassle, but liking making some pennies. I'd decided not to sell and take to CS and then recent lockdown so been wondering what to do so interested in your approach.
2050 large plastic wrapping
2051 broken canvas storage bag
2052 nail varnish - broken lid so can't open it
2053 toiletry finished (given to me and wouldn't usually use or replace)
2054 broken decorative lights (DD1s) binned
2055 few receipts sorted

retiredinfrance

TC77, here are my new selling plans. I usually sell books to a dealer quite far away, but he's been open on and off and now off, so I'm holding on to the stuff he might take as I usually get a euro a book sometimes more. I sell in batches of about 50  to be worth the petrol. I am keeping the books in English for a fair next year and the fewer books in French that I have i am keeping to take to a free book exchange place, again i can't go there at the moment due to locjdown. I have got some interesting books there so I want to return the favour as it were. I have picked up some vintage clothes from CS which I will take to the UK whenever I get there again. I started picking them up very cheap!y at CS. About ten items which I will donate to a CS in UK if I don't sell them. They are from the 1950's. I have a bad CS habit - ornaments - and there is only so much cupboard space, so I want to take them to a fair next year sometime. Really it's a mix of a hobby and wanting not to waste cash by making a wee bit now and then. Also, as we live in the back of beyond here, the big towns are an hour away and I got into the way of going to CS as there aren't many others besides the supermarkets. When I say I can get a euro for a book, these are books that have cost me less and I have read, so I call that profit. 
What's your approach, TC77 , and other readers ? Love to hear new ways of making money from the clutter!

nannywindow

Hello all.

Today I decluttered 2 Sunday socks. In the cs bag a brand new ball of grey wool and 2 fancy glass olive oil bottles. Also out either binned or recycled, the packaging and cardboard from 17 parcels, none of them mine and all xmas presents for my DGC from DD and SiL. DD called in last night to do a "show and tell" as to their contents and I've let her keep them here, for a nominal rent of course   My spare bedroom now looks like a branch of toysrus and my pressies for them are on the way too. So much for the decluttering !

Take care and stay safe

nan

M.E.

Not quite decluttering, but shifting things around, makes me realize how much stuff we have and how much of it is not ours!

Happy_Kitties

Plodding on to hit my magical 500
*471-474    fabric items including a old ripped quilt cover and a seriously holey pair of jogging bottoms-fabric recycling bank
*475           Mug into bin after it leaked everywhere making a cuppa and finding a crack along the bottom
*476          Small cardboard empty notepad block of DM into recycling.