2020 - banish the clutter

villagelife

One more for now
106- an old fire blanket found at the back of a cupboard.
107 unsubscribed from 10 mailing lists.

Gem-gem

Recycled:
Unwanted post
Used envelopes
Tins x2

Binned:
Old seat cover (started to recover two old chairs).
Lollipop stick that had my chocolate cube on
Hot chocolate packaging

Willowtree222

I decided to keep going. Was up to 328
2 razors that were exs - given to him
1 nail polish remover bottle out of date
2 out of date creams for various things
1 broken charger

6 more makes it = 334. I am also just in the process of scanning books ready to send. x

radioles1408

radioles1408 wrote: »

11. A Christmas Garland returned to Li!dl for refund

12. A bottle of Morgan's Spice which I decluttered by finishing on Friday night:)
13. A big box of Thornton's chocs to FiL for his birthday. I ended up buying too many at Christmas, he will appreciate them and it means less chocolate in the house for me to eat.

x_raphael_xx

Well I haven't posted, but I have been decluttering.
Even got the bf on it now. He happily volunteered a handful of stuff yesterday, and today I've come home to find 2 shelves of DVDs gone.
I haven't been adding his stuff to my numbers, but my total stands at:
91/2020

x_raphael_xx

Marpau wrote: »

2 hats for NICU knitted from wool oddments

Hi Marpau, I would like to do this, but I don't know who to contact for details.
I have sent an email to the local hospital, but not had a reply yet. Any tips?

Marpau

x-raphael-xx there are lots of groups on Facebook who coordinate this. I am a member of needle & Hooks Angels & preemies. Currently I am knitting for Edinburgh royal as they looked after my grandson.
You could ask at your local surgery the midwife should be able to help.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Couldn’t sort it out over the phone as 87th in line :eek: So all 3 of us bathed (one at a time before anyone says anything :rotfl) Finished the last bit of packing, taxi arrived early, journey not too bad to Gatwick. Obtained our room keys, dropped off our bags then down to Spoons for beers & dinner. DH went to check in desk & was informed he had to contact the travel agent - even more stress :mad: then reply to the email DH sent - no joy - YET MORE STRESS :mad::mad: We ate - burgers for DH & DSis, sausages, mash, peas & gravy for me - yummy 🤤
DH visited check-in again - more reasonable person on the desk advised that no problem with no spacing for our names. Had a couple more beers to celebrate then coffee & cake & in our rooms by 11:00. Hopefully tomorrow will be stress free ;)

Well Sunday morning was stressful beyond belief 😫. Went down early to check in our bags & get boarding passes but the computer say no :mad: Getting more & more 😥 , 4 people working on sorting it out, eventually Jorge gave us boarding passes after 30 minutes :T so we thought we were in the clear Had a full English breakfast & chilled out - DSis & I got as much of a nicotine fix as we could before going through security. Security was painless :j Quick visit to Duty Free then to the gate. Where our problems started again :mad: :mad: All 3 of us were so stressed 😫 that I am surprised we didn’t explode :eek: However we finally managed to get on the plane, got settled but didn’t breathe until we took off :rotfl: 8.5 hour flight - dinner was pretty good, got to drink as much as we wanted + a sandwich for tea. I watched 3 films - Downton Abbey, X-Men Dark Phoenix & Gemini Man. I did plenty of walking up & down + stretching exercises. DH & DSis both had short naps. Enormous queue at immigration when we landed & the heat hit us full force - local time 7 p.m. Immigration painless but for the 1st time ever had to give finger prints - all of them :eek: DSis & I had our nicotine fix then boarded our mini bus to the resort. Checked in, shown our rooms, got changed & down to dinner. Rooms are lovely - overlooking one of the many swimming pools.
Will come back later & finish + do my cheerleading Only one place we can get free internet :eek:

See you later

MrsSD
22/2020

gilly1964

Hi All

I have been MIA, but busy decluttering in the background

89 - 185 - Xmas Baubles to CS
186 - Sink to DD
187 - 189 Worktops to DD
190 - Sander to DD
191 - 193 - Bags of taps to scrap merchants - £64 made
194 - Tarpaulin to tip
195 - 201 - Glass bottles to recycling
202 - 211 - Cardboard boxes to recycling
212 - 214 - 3 paint cans, contents now on the ceiling and walls in the lounge and cans to the tip
215 - 219 - t-shirts to clothing bank
220 - 229 - kitchen "stuff" to CS
230 - 232 - 3 bags of unwanted stuff and rubbish from garage to refuse collection
233 - OOD Quark to bin
234 - 235 OOD food cans to bin, decided baked beans with BB 2012 was pushing it
236 - bin bag to refuse collection
237 - 245 - cans to recycling
246 - 272 - various plastic containers without lids and lids without containers to bin
273 - 275 - magazines to recycling
276 - 2018 (yes I do mean 18) calendar to recycling
277 - 2019 calendar to recycling
278 - 279 - light fittings to CS
280 - 3lbs of excess blubber at Slimming World
281 - dead car battery to tip
282 - dead Peace Lily to green recycling
283 - 286 - cacti to green recycling

We posted on social media about hubby's van being broken into and a lady messaged to say she had found some boxes with bits of tools in them. Unfortunately all the power tools and batteries were gone, but we got some stuff back. It is all insured, but the inconvenience has been a PITA.

Keep up the good work everyone :T

Willowtree222

Great that you got some tools back, but so inconvenient for you all. I am so sorry. x

Thankfully you got there Mrs SD. What a palaver though. xx