2020 - banish the clutter

bit_by_bit

I hope you all had a good day and didn't get too much clutter. I was happy to say that I got a lovely lot of nothing much. Some of it wilkl be decluttered before New year. (Prosceco and chocs) 
The final run is here for 2021. Yay.

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)

Another Christmas Day bites the dust 😉 All in all a nice day - bitterly cold but no rain 👏
The 3 of us gave each other chocolate/biscuits. DSis received a lovely bracelet from her friend; some slipper socks & a carton of ciggies from DH & me; DSis gave me some lovely garden ornaments - 2 robins & a wood elf that you fix to a tree & it looks like it is peeking round the trunk & I got a shiny top from DH - I can dress up for New Year’s Eve 😉. DSis gave my DH a T-shirt - check list ‘Naughty, Nice, I Tried’ with the ‘I Tried’ box ticked 😉.
DH & I (but mostly DH 😛) then prepped all the vegetables - potatoes for mash & roasties, sweet potatoes for mash, sprouts (with bacon & chestnuts), cabbage, carrots, parsnips, leeks, peas. The meats were - turkey leg, turkey joint wrapped in bacon, duck breasts, venison fillets & pigs in blankets. I wrote the cooking schedule & gathered together all the pots, pans & roasting tins/trays & serving dishes + we finally used our new saucepans (bought 3 months ago 😉)
We cooked in stages - I LOVE  my warming drawer 😍  
Sat down to dinner at 6 p.m. - stuffed ourselves, quaffed Prosecco 🤤 & reminisced. (As an aside, we had the worst ever Christmas crackers from MrS ☹️) 
By the way, we cooked enough food for a dozen people 😱 so bubble & squeak for at least the next 3 days 😉

DSis & I have a new favourite re TV viewing - Monkey Life filmed at Monkey World in Dorset. Currently watching Series 9 - absolutely fascinating 🧐 

Hopefully you have all had as nice a Christmas as possible in the current circumstances.

2418 - 2423 Kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging, plastic bottle, glass bottle, drinks cans, large foil tray - Recycled
2424 - 2425 Kitchen detritus, wrapping paper - Binned

Great idea garden_girl_2 👏 I am not sure I’ve ever heard of decorating as a hobby 😂 

Welcome to Tier 4 😉

Thanks Nicnak & 3forholidays 👏

Sounds like a perfect Christmas bit_by_bit 😉👏

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️🏅
Decluttered: New target = 2500: 2425/2500
Daily Spend: £0

£6.00 into Savings pot - up to & incl. 27/12/2020

Willowtree222

All my year of decluttering has just been filled up again! We have a big family who all buy DD something! 
The cycle starts again x

TC77

Hope everyone had a safe and happy christmas.  
Can't face photos but thought some electronic decluttering. Have onedrive and dropbox automatically saving everything - rubbish alongside treasured things but finding it hard to sort, Have dropped textile recycling into recycle bank (not full for once).

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

899 & 900 - 2 x books
901 - meat thermometer ( i'm veggie) 
902-904 - 3 x fairy lights

Thank you for my gold star Mrs SD 

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas Day in spite of restrictions - ours was really nice - there was just me, DS & the cat and it was very chilled! Weather was lovely so we went out to the local donkey sanctuary to feed the donkeys (which has become a Christmas tradition for us) had lunch then I went for a long walk and listened to "A Christmas Carol" on audio book... Back for Chocolate log, Bramble Gin & a lovely movie...  Nothing special happening today so might make a start on some tasks (or at least write the "to do list" )  

905. Travel holdall
906. bag 
907. broken laundry delicates bag
908. Worn out socks

General_Grant

General_Grant said:

I'd like to join for 2020. I need to tidy up which means be better organised and disposing of some things will help. I'll only count items actually leaving the premises rather than those relocated within the house and out of sight. So I'll have an annual target of 120 items (average 10 per month).

Reviewing my post from a year ago I realise I failed miserably.  
Even counting any pair of shoes as two items doesn't get me anywhere near the target for potentially still useful items making their way out of the house.  Then again, lots of plastic containers made it to recycling without being counted and they would have had the potential to be useful!  (So I've adjusted the criteria a little.)

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

905. Travel holdall
906. bag 
907. broken laundry delicates bag
908. Worn out socks

I feel like I've been half asleep most of the day but at the same time too restless to just chill.  Weather has been hideously overcast all day which I imagine had a lot to do with it....  Managed to summon up enough energy to get out for a walk then continued to do a little decluttering which perked me up!   I've been adding things that I keep almost discarding then putting back - its funny it's felt easy to let them go this time round ...  Oh & I did the "to do" list of things I plan to do before I go back to work ...
909 - earphones
910 -817 - 8 x sealed packs of earphone pads.... 
918 - thing to keep earphone wires tangle free 
919 - jumper
920- book
921 & 2 - 2 x packs of gift ribbon
923- bundle of coloured pencils
924 - back massage thingy....  
925 - bundle of notes
926 - large & quite ugly candle holder....  
927 - Super-soaker
928 - pack of old elastic bands
929 - pack of old treasury tags

rtandon27

🎄❄🎅 Happy Holidays MrsSD & all the Declutterers! xxx 🎅❄🎄

TC77

Mystified why when deleting photo they seem to be copied with even more to delete!!
Tackled some emails/ photos/saved scans and some bills so counting as 4 2495 -2499
Mrs SD - I've counted items in  CS bag which I haven't taken - if I can find others things to replace these numbers can I count these when they go out in the new year - Tier 4 so could be some time? This will motivate me and next year will only count when actually items out of the house or the ether.
Hope everyone stays safe with the storm as well as Covid. Hoping for a kinder 2021 x

villagelife

We have been in tier 4 here since day 1 of the four tier system.
1853- moisturiser sample
1854 packaging
1855 wrapping paper
1856 tags
1857 more carpet
1858 a mirror broken
1859 receipts etc from a handbag
1860-1861 pens which no longer work
1862 a old membership card

More will be going with DS2 later in the week.