2020 - banish the clutter

Happy_Kitties

*540.   Cushion padding which the cat ended up being sick on.....a lot straight into the bin
*541.   Decorative wooden chair for a teddy bear that was beaten up when it arrived-recycling
Wednesday will hopefully be a good day......a tip run day

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)

My 5 days of tasks/decluttering will start Tuesday, as Monday was wasted 😔

Dinner was hm soup with crusty bread for DH & me. Fried eggs, tinned ham & oven chips for DSis.
DSis & I are almost caught up on SCD - just Saturday’s episode to watch. Bill Bailey is a revelation 👏🙂

2230 - 2233 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, empty plastic sweetie box, cardboard packaging - Recycled
2234 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Great work moneyonmymindsam 👏 I especially like the very MSE saving a plug for another appliance 👏

Good work Happy_Kitties 👏 How exciting - a Tip run 😉

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅
Decluttered: New target = 2222: 2234/2500
Daily Spend £0

£4.50 into Savings pot - up to & incl. 06/12/2020

wort

Retired in France,  a tip from the marie kondo board, is to pick say 5 pairs of socks or 7 for the week and put all the others away.
Then use the 5/7 pairs in rotation, to wear them out quickly. Then when you throw them away a new pair comes out of your stash.

retiredinfrance

I know, I know. Lockdown is making a tip run so exciting! Our local tip is on my list of places to go to after 15 December. Along with stuff to deliver to CS.
1 face cloth to rag bag.
1 book to CS.
Total now33/365
I must resist the temptation to look through the book bags and the clothes bag.
Keep safe everyone

moneyonmymindsam

wort said:

Retired in France,  a tip from the marie kondo board, is to pick say 5 pairs of socks or 7 for the week and put all the others away.
Then use the 5/7 pairs in rotation, to wear them out quickly. Then when you throw them away a new pair comes out of your stash.

That's a brilliant tip for my OH thank you very helpful, I have never seen so many socks 
Cleaning afternoon for me, so nothing to go bar the usual emptying bin and recycling. Still drying clothes lol story of my life.
Sane as usual if anything goes will update later. 
Good luck decluttering all. 
  

retiredinfrance

Thanks,Wort. I didn't know it was a MK tip. I tried this all summer  (lol) with old MandS tee shirts, hoping they would wear out. All three are at least 10 years old but the quality was so good then that I will be spending more summers doing the same. I will try it next summer with the socks as some are on their last legs! ( lol).
What I really like about decluttering is the feeling of control and achievement and the great friendship on this forum.
RL still being a bit of a pain but I'm in good form so sending hugs to all who need them.
Keep safe everyone.

TC77

Haven't been here for a couple of days,   had leaking WC , now partly fixed, tap to be replaced, starting leaking during process, but now sorted, but all towels from mopping up the leak now in washing machine which is showing an error!
2234 old tap out
I've gathered alot of stress! hopefully decluttered in the next few days!
Like the sock tip - i decided i'd only have black socks but now have so many pairs but only 3 or 4 are exactly the same so a nightmare to pair up!

oceanspirit

37 items paperwork
16 items
7 old emails deleted

Friend's paperwork still going well.  Another friend will be visiting her in a couple of weeks so will be able to get the items she wishes to keep back to her then.

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 was a bright & sunny day but oh so cold 🥶 DSis went out to P.O. to return a package & then on to sm for a small shop - apparently crowded & manic with hardly anyone wearing a mask 😡 DH went out to sm - bread & soft drinks + picked up a 5L can of the paint colour we chose 🥳

I did start my ‘5 day rolling jobs list’ - No.1 finished knitting the beanie; No.2 created space in the spare room for bedroom furniture; No.3 moved several items of furniture out of the bedroom + put a few items under the bed 😉
DH & I finished the soup for lunch & had HB sausage casserole for dinner. DSis had Chinese takeaway.
DH did the washing up 😇

2235 - 2245 Kitchen recycling, office recycling, drinks cans, 5 newspapers, 3 plastic takeaway boxes & lids - Recycled

2246 - 2249 Kitchen detritus, office detritus, bedroom detritus, lr detritus - Binned

What a great idea wort 👏 thank you for sharing 👏🙂

retiredinfrance, a Tip run is ALWAYS exciting, as are visits to charity shops 😉 
BJ & his cronies are destroying the U.K. - their handling of Covid19 (apparently it is taking a 5 day holiday over Christmas 🙄 - you couldn’t make it up 🙄) + the shambles that is Br*x*t + the revoking of Duty Free shopping + cutting foreign aid +++ Sincere apologies for the rant but if I didn’t rant I would start crying & would probably still be crying this time next year 😭😭  Do tears weigh a lot? As I could do with losing rather a lot of weight 😆

“..........What I really like about decluttering is the feeling of control and achievement and the great friendship on this forum.” What a lovely thing to say, retiredinfrance 😇

Cleaning is just as important as decluttering, moneyonmymindsam 😉 

You have been having a time of it, TC77 ☹️ Fingers crossed 🤞 that you can offload ALL your stress quickly & painlessly 🤞

Great work oceanspirit 👏 Are you sure you cannot come round & sort my paperwork 😛😉

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅
Decluttered: New target = 2222: 2249/2500
Daily Spend £0

£4.50 into Savings pot - up to & incl. 06/12/2020

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:. 

807. Set up Instant Ink for my new printer
808. Finally got around to setting up schedule on Hive ( 2 years  )

809 - 811 - 3 x broken plant pots
812 - planted up winter window box 
813 - dead fairy lights
Thank you for my gold star @mrs sd - I promise not to paint it!!