2020 - banish the clutter

TC77

Hi,
Trying to be inspired by all those motoring ahead ! and thinking of those struggling abit like me.

Finally set up my new pc and monitor (had PC for a few weeks and DD2 set up but forgot password) . Pleased I reset up and recycled all the packaging 113-114
Have a stye so thrown out old make up 115- 118
Paper declutter 119 - 120
Electronic declutter 121
General rubbish out as clearing up 122-123 (equivalent to couple of bags)
124 receipts binned.
Old food 125-128

winspiration

12 kilos of business mail has gone out this week bringing total for year so far to 95 kilos, another box emptied in the stock room. I did have a minor panic at one point as I misplaced a few sheets that had been rehomed when emptying a previous box. Fortunately I did manage to find them and put them at the front of a box so easily seen instead of buried in the middle, which had been a bit of a daft thing to do!

I'm not getting rid of the empty boxes as I have quite a bit of stock lurking downstairs in a corner of the living room which has been sorted and ready to be made up into kits, so will gradually start bringing that upstairs, making up the kits & refilling boxes. Also, I have been recycling a few of my stock room boxes by cutting them down a bit & repurposing them for personal craft stash storage.

Recycled an old cat flap box from the garage - it is a (double) garage of doom atm, but think I will wait for longer days to really get stuck in to that.

Bin day tomorrow, so have filled a big sack with long expired stuff from kitchen cupboards - the oldest dating back to 2011! My main downfall there was buying stuff from Approved Foods - which I have found really good for sauces & flavourings etc, but far to easy to go overboard with, so I have avoided them in the last couple of years.

I have been crafting and made 7 more cards this week, total for year so far 27. Not that many this week, but I have been doing a lot of paper chopping after being inspired by a few designs that I've seen on Facebook & Pinterest, so I've put together bases for a lot more. When going through my 6 x 6 pads, I weeded out 10 that I doubt I'll ever use, so they can go in a bundle onto eBay.

short_bird

94-95: 2 heat sensors fitted
96-97: 2 items identified for sale at specialist shop on Saturday (there will be more).
98-99: 2 cd's out
100-101: 2 courses booked. (what a palava that was...)

Right, off to make the overnight oats for tomorrow's breakfast.

sillyvixen

Not done much in the way of decluttering this week, as my day off was spent cooking for the newly defrosted freezer. Although I had scraped as much as I could from a large marmite jar so I half filled it with hot water and decluttered the melted remains into the soup I was making.

I have found a a large rectangular plant pot in a cupboard and planted salad leaf seeds to grow on the window sill for the lunchtime salads in the future.

I have chucked more away - just not purposely gone through cupboards and actively decluttered - i have generated extra rubbish ( put a couple of bags in next doors bin, as house is empty but going on the market soon).

I have 1 days holiday to take for the financial/holiday year, I told my boss to put it wherever was convenient, so I have an extra day off next week, so no excuse for not doing some sorting out.. I still have a week booked for March so more decluttering.

We had our weather beaten and blown down fence replaced this week, we replaced the lot and got it done properly with a concrete base and posts, the workman took away all the old destroyed panels (any other repairs we have had we have always been left to break down and dispose of the damaged panels and posts) so money decluttered from my bank account. Hopefully a good investment as fence normally rots from the bottom due to being planted in permently wet soil and eventually when the wind gets to it goes from the bottom up.

I still have charity donations in the dining room (as hubby had no time to take them on saturday) so will add stuff to the pile to make his trip worthwhile next week.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. DO NOT PUT OFF TO TOMORROW WHAT CAN/SHOULD BE DONE TODAY
2. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS”
3. LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I ENTERED
4. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT
5. WHEN DEALING WITH CLUTTER I WILL USE ‘Daisy1571’s idea of ‘WHAT WOULD I DO WITH THIS ITEM IF IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE’S ?’

Sunday has been damp & I have been lazy Did manage to post my letters/cards on my trip to MrA - supposed to be a small shop but ended up as quite large but I finally managed to get proper rtc :T 500g Beef Mince for 40p :j so I bought 4 (saving £4.76) also 3 branded mini pork pies at 20p each (saving £4.80) :T Rather pleased that I have three completely empty drawers in the garage freezer - my hard work using up freezer contents has paid off February, March & April birthday cards have been written & overseas ones have been weighed

Dinner was the 2nd half of last nights Chinese takeaway.

89 - 93 Five birthday cards from stash - Used
94 - 100 Three plastic takeaway boxes with lids, 4 plastic lids - Recycled
101 Large bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

Great work villagelife : Little & often is working for you

Well done Nicnak :T You powered through your initial target of 365 & now through 500 - so another Gold Star ⭐️ for you :T May I ask what your next target is? So happy that you have caught the ‘Decluttering Bug’ - your determination to succeed shines through in your posts :T
An excellent weekend of decluttering :T

Welcome aboard groatie queen :hello: sounds like you are a decluttering demon - having downsized twice :T

Well Done Barny1979 :T

What a busy weekend you have had boultdj :T Excellent work :T

Nice to see you leelad :j RL has a habit of getting in the way but you are still decluttering - so well done :T Two tip runs in a weekend - great work leelad :T

StinkingBishop 17 bags out of 52 earns you a Gold Star ⭐️ :T. So please do NOT be annoyed with yourself - 220 exam papers I am surprised you had time to sleep let alone declutter :rotfl:

Good work shangaijimmy :T

Excellent work greent :T you are powering along :T

Well done radioles1408 :T RL might be getting in the way but you are still decluttering :T

Great work mark88man :T especially the gardening :T

Brilliant decluttering work Marpau :T. I am so impressed with no.114 - decluttering Type 2 diabetes - so much so that I am awarding you a Gold Star ⭐️

Good work tboo :T it doesn’t matter how quickly or slowly we declutter as long as we continue to declutter

Good work newlywed :T

Keep up the good work oceanspirit :T

Glenda - you are not decluttering that slowly To reach 2020 we need to declutter just over 5.5 items a day - so you are almost there

Good work TC77 :T I will join you on the ‘struggling step’

Crikey winspiration :eek: you have been really busy :T made me tired reading your post :rotfl: Very sensible decision to leave the ‘double garage of doom’ :T Needs to be warmer with longer daylight hours before tackling the decluttering of a garage :rotfl:

Good work short_bird :T through the 100 barrier :T

Sillyvixen, as far as I am concerned batch cooking IS decluttering :T You have decluttered lots of ingredients into meals :T Well Done :T

See you all tomorrow my fellow declutterers

MrsSD
101/2020

notmy1sttime

I haven't really done any decluttering this week due to being ill again (sadly problem I was born with) and had a work trip to the other end of the country mid week - it was the only work I got done this week but luckily I am self employed!
This week I am planning on:
- dropping back of stuff to charity shop
- getting rid of a couple of broken electrical items in the boot I put there for recycling/taking to dump
- sorting Mt. Laundry at the bottom of my stairs

villagelife

A small amount done

202-203 shampoo and shower gel sample used up and binned.
204 magazine of DH recycled.

lindens

Annoyed with myself as never made that trip to the CS! :mad:

Anyhow, yesterday & Saturday listed about a dozen items on fleabay and they are all stored and box taken to attic room.
Whilst waiting for the shower to warm up i decluttered a basket of potions from the end of the bath. Threw out 3 dried up bottles, sorted out 10 samples to use up, made a pile to go in the travel drawer (not sure why but they haven't made it to the drawer yet!)
Used up 1 sample.
Decluttered 3 yellow sticker items from Mr As and cooked them whilst cooking Sunday roast. that's some lunches for work this week.
1 work lunch taken in today.
Decluttered some brain cells doing research on a Hive/Nest type thingy. Money for that to be decluttered imminently.

Everyone's doing great!

Marpau

:jWow Mrs SD thank you so much for my gold star that will motivate me at exercise classes this week :beer:

shangaijimmy

Well CS drop off done on back from school run, so that's 3 full bags of clothes out of the house.

And for today:
Day 27
- 1 x 2 pint glass to CS
- 1 x Extra large tea mug to the office at work