2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

To use Guineapigsqueaks/Sa1sysoo words “A new thread for declutterbugs in (2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020) 2021 !" 

2020 had a great start - we went on holiday to the Dominican Republic - just a week but we decluttered stress & thought we were setting ourselves up for a productive year 😆 How wrong can one person be 😂 
You would have thought that with the Covid19 Pandemic (for most of 2020, with all foreign holidays cancelled ☹️) that a full declutter & all the decorating would have been a breeze 😔 However yet again I was not as productive in 2020 as I had intended  😔 NO full declutter and the decorating has been restricted to deciding on a colour for the bedroom & buying the paint 😆  One success was that DH & I (with a bit of input from DSis) managed to sort out the garden. We will never be self sufficient with vegetables but we managed to grow 6kg of potatoes from ‘eyes’, 12kg of tomatoes, lettuce, 5 radishes ☹️, Swiss chard, kale, rosemary, olives (2kg brined for use in 2021). Several neighbours were gifted a small amount of hg produce 😉 Also grew some rhubarb 🤤 

Depressingly I believe that 2021 will be more of the same made worse by the ‘BR....’ word 😢

Now to cheer you all up (a little at least) 😉 a shiny new Decluttering Thread

SO 2021 HERE WE COME 🙂

My good intentions (sadly resolutions are always broken) for 2021 are:

1. Finish DH’s office carpeting, put up a long shelf & declutter fully.
2. Decorate & re-carpet our bedroom. 
3. Complete all little repair jobs around the house.
4. Be as productive as possible in the garden.
5. The bathroom refurbishment will now be 2022 😉 UNLESS we complete all of the above.

So who will make the 2021 decluttering journey with me? ALL are welcome 👏 Whether you are doing a major declutter or a maintaining declutter. This will continue to be a supportive & encouraging thread - our aim being to declutter our lives of physical & electronic items & maybe even the stress of having too much ‘stuff’ plus keeping each other’s spirits up in these difficult times. A laugh & a joke, a shoulder to lean on & a place to vent (within Forum Rules) - hopefully provided here.  A real bonus is that decluttering makes our homes safer &  cleaning easier 😉😉

Gold Stars ⭐️ ⭐️ will continue making an appearance, as well as medals 🎖 🏅

Plenty of options available on numbering the clutter out

2021 in 2021 or 52 in 52 weeks even 365 in 365 days or maybe by room. If you are feeling really adventurous a la basketcase (2018) - you can weigh the clutter out 😉

Whichever numbering option you choose or you may choose not to number, we would love to hear both your success stories & your ways/methods of decluttering - they may not have worked for you but they may work for someone else.

I am hoping that everyone who posted on the 2018 & 2019 & 2020 threads will also post on the 2021 thread 🙂 + lots of new people.

I know I am a bit early in setting up this thread but it can help to plan your decluttering - ‘To Do Lists’ are your friends 😉

So join me in my quest to have a clutter free, decorated & tidy home with no hidden horrors 😆

MrsSD

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ScarletRibbons

Good morning, and thanks for the new thread Mrs SD.

I'll be doing a maintaining de clutter, in fact I've got a charity bag on the go now, and we have plans for decorating a bedroom in the new year. The kitchen is going to be painted this week.

Onwards and upwards !!

villagelife

Thank you for the new thread.
I will aim for 2021 and to finish painting downstairs. DH is still keen on this so it may happen.
Both DS's bedrooms will need to be reorganised as I want them as both will have moved out by then.

KatyLovesCats

Hi, I would love to join please. Next year is a bit of a watershed year for me and a lot of things need to change. My daughter will turn 18 and hopefully toddle off to University so my finances will take a massive hit. My aims are to: find a job that I'm able to do and doesn't affect my ESA, lose a bit of weight (medication induced - grrr!) 2 stone would be wonderful, declutter the ridiculous amount of clothes I have in my wardrobes and declutter my very cluttered mind. Thanks for this thread, I'm hoping it will be really helpful. Best of luck everyone!

ruby_eskimo

Morning all, I'd also love to join.  We made a bit of a dent this year but there are still lots of areas to declutter in our house, my desk and wardrobe being just a couple of them!  We have a pile of things at the top of the stairs that are for donation / tip / selling but I need to just get round to sorting it out - probably during Christmas and the new year when DH is working and I'll be on my own!  I'll be definitely keeping a count of all the things that leave the house over the next 12-ish months but not sure I can commit to a target just yet

Viking_mfw

I'm in for the declutter! DS2 is 3 months so we can start eliminating the little baby stuff from the house. 
Aiming for 2021 items out. We are also getting a wall knocked down to turn 2 small rooms into one larger one so there will be plenty of decorating. 

vulpix

Hi,I would like to join you please.I have been on the decluttering wagon for several years and have been able to reduce the contents of a 5 bedroom house plus garage into a 3 bed house with shed! Also decluttered 3 adult children along the way.
 I don't think I have a clutter problem but we do have too much stuff,well my Husband does,all my stuff is esential obv!
My aim is to keep on with a general declutter,house and garden maintainence and my downfall, regular cleaning. Posting here may hold me to account with that.
I have kept a record of what has left the premises this year and am up to 345.I aim to rehome rather than landfill where I can.
Rehome,repair and repurpose in 2021.

nannywindow

MrsSD I'm in again for 2021 !

My plan is to declutter all the decorating I should have done this year. I have plenty of leftover paint to use up, a large tub of white emulsion for a start which will do for ceilings. In my defence I did declutter a lot in the garden this year as the weather was so good. However there is always room for improvement.

Looking forward to reading along and being inspired by others.

nan

Betharooni

Hi

Please can I join for 2021? 2020 has been a rubbish year health-wise so I’ve achieved very little in the house. My plans for 2021 are:

• To work with my Mum and brother to declutter all communal areas, getting rid of anything that is not wanted or needed, so that we can give the house a thorough scrub through
• To change the garden around so that we have paths and raised beds rather than the grass and make the garden more productive for us
• To declutter and thoroughly clean my bedroom
• Get unwanted items out of the house as soon as I am able to
• Get outstanding electrician, plumber, builder and decorator jobs in progress/completed

There will probably be plenty more to do, but that will be plenty to be getting on with for now.

B x

boultdj

I need to join you, we have so much stuff, but the black dog has been a regular visitor this year, so it's even worse than what it should be.

short_bird

yes, I'm in for 2021 and will start posting over here when the new year arrives. Hopefully by then I will have some idea of the direction I want to go in...