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2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN
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1. KITCHEN WILL CONTINUE TO BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT2. JUST DO ONE THING EVERY DAY (courtesy of bit_by_bit) OTHER THAN DAY TO DAY CLEANING & DECLUTTERING
3. CLEAN ONE ROOM (TOP TO BOTTOM) EVERY MONTH (hopefully 3 weekly by the end of the year)Tuesday was a cold, damp day. Earnest visited DH again - the tabletop garden bed has been reinforced - so no side to side movement 🙂👏😉 Today I left the house for the 1st time in 8 weeks 🙄 - bus to MrA - I was the only passenger 😱 Needed cash from the atm + birthday cards for February & March + did some shopping including 1st batch of £1 Easter eggs to post to France. Will be posting early - now that everything has to have a customs form 😡 😖 Dinner was chicken fried in butter, boiled potatoes & half of the hg chard (harvested on Monday) which was chopped & stir fried in single portions - bacon bits added for DSis but bacon bits & chopped chestnuts for DH & me. DH & I had crumble & custard for afters 😋 Last portion of crumble boxed, labelled & frozen. Wudupa.Very sad to learn that Captain Tom passed away 😢 what a remarkable gentleman.278 - 284 Kitchen recycling, newspaper, 2 magazines, plastic bottle, cardboard box, drinks cans - recycled
285 Kitchen detritus- binnedNot poorly written at all balabooberlies just poorly understood 😉 A bit drastic selling the family to buy plants/seeds 🙃 ..... oh, you mean the watches 😉😉 Sorry I just had a flight of fancy imagining you auctioning off family members 🤣
A skip on the landing ScarletRibbons - be careful you don’t fall down the stairs 🙃 - sorry for that, going a bit loopy 😉😉 Well done on the decluttering 👏A couple of busy days ruby_eskimo, well done 👏 Fingers crossed for Friday 🤞 & success in locating the certificate.Good work pamsdish 👏 Well done on just having the one cluttered room 🙂
Great work GrannyKate 👏 Your original post is floating around with my lost post 😉
Yippee charlies_tribe - DH finally getting into the swing of decluttering 👏👏 I am sure the mini eggs will be absolutely fine 😉 after all chocolate is chocolate 😉😉
Great work moneyonmymindsam 👏
Great work bit_by_bit 👏 Well done for not succumbing to bringing all the boxes home - 2 boxes at a time is more than enough 🙂 Hopefully the CS’s hope turns to reality 🤞
Every item out counts VickyV 👏
Good work EnergyShifter 👏 especially the email 🙂
Good work TC77 👏 more cash for clutter 👏Great work Frogletina 👏Great work JaneyJim 👏 I will pop in tomorrow evening just for the pudding 😉😉 I do love turron 😋 🤤
Great work balabooberlies 👏 I like it ‘the Know thyself Campaign’ 🙂MrsSD 🏅🏅🏅⭐️⭐️Decluttering Target: 2021 285/2021Savings Pot:Be Kind. Stay Safe. Break the Chain. Save Lives. ⭐️2025 Savings Pot Challenge: As a monthly amount, running total = £299.00
Jan £5.00 Feb £12.74 Mch £23.26 Apr £32 May £43 Jun £50 July £62 Aug £71 Sep Oct Nov Dec Grand Total £12 -
Another dreary day here. So looking forward to spring.Last week was a bad black dog week. So only a few bits out.
50. Another tee light used up
51/2 Biros ran out
53. Rubber finger stall perished.
54. Dried up felt pen
55. UU Hair leave in conditioner. Lots of these to use up still. I belive someone on here mentined a conditioner that really works for curly hair.? Could you let me know the name, or any other recommendations please. I have spent a fortune over time and never found one that really tames my hair.
Hope everyone is keeping safe.
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Hello BarbCh. Amazing work you have done there.
Popping in to report a bag of sales out in various ways and 1 large item. A standard lamp DS was going to throw to the tip and I rescued. £20.00 better off and a nice space in the spare room.
2021 totals so far: 10/100 bags and 4 large items.Wife, mother, gardener, nurse, Big C survivor. Officially retired at 55 2021 [/b][/b].Mortgage free April 2021Challenges 2024: Decluttering Campaign 32/100 bags plus 0 large items. Make £2024 in 2024#8 £0/£2024 Using my craft stash 0/52 Reading books 0/52 Donations for the CS/washing done from others (in and outs) in 2024 x 10 bags and 0 large items.12 -
Thanks Mrs SD
6 board games sold and posted so I'm now 8/49 for my Feb challenge.
We also went in search of the next size up baby clothes in the loft (fruitlessly - I can only conclude after I went back to work last time my DH stripped the baby everywhere he went and flung the clothes to the winds) and I found a whole other box of my cds so there's some more easy decluttering wins to be hadand indeed cash for clutter, my new favourite thing!
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Steady progress today;
- Card board box - recycling
- Handags x 2 - charity bag
- Bag soft toys - charity bag
- Box MIL stuff sorted - Keep/Charity or Rubbish - 3 points
- Box of papers - recycling
- Bag of fridge magnets - charity bag
- Clocks x 2 - charity bag
- PJs from last night as I put my hand through the material when I put them on!!
- Amalgamated 2 half pots of same surface cleaner - tipped full pot over and lost a bit but unit top and front got an unexpected clean
- Empty can of fly spray - not sure why I was keeping it - recycling
- 3 Books - charity bag
2025 Decluttering Campaign 648/2025 🏅🏅🏅🏅(🏅🏅) 🌟🌟
2025 Weight loss target 13/16 lbs
2025 1p Challenge 195/36512 -
41. An old protective temp hospital shoe-binned
42. A glut load of cardboard out for recycling(have had to do this over 2 weeks)
43. An old sock-binned
44. Sports kit catalogue-recycling
45. Another empty small jar candle-recycling
another 17 neutral items sent to organiser =42 sent. Don’t think so many will be sent this year as difficult to get bargains and have had the space to pack away a fair bits this year until they need to be sent SeptDecluttering challenge 2023🏅⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Decluttering challenge 2024 🏅🏅⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️10 -
Evening,
Cleaned cutlery drawer, changed bed, did washingthat's quite enough of that
"Out'" for today
Peeler that doesn't really peel at all.
Massager that has never been used.
Random bits from drawers and cupboards - bits of rubbish mainly things like sweet wrappers, old written post it notes to self, elastic band, hairband, old pen, clip and so on - in the bin.
Did rescue the safety pins to the sewing box so good to know I have a few.
14 items listed on ebay this evening, aiming for at least 20 so will have to list the rest tomorrow.
I have a small box of light bulbs that needs sorting so I shall go through these to see what works and what can be used tomorrow.
No news on jobs but I will keep going, lot of people in the same boat sadly.
Sam xGrocery challenge Feb £107/£100-epic fail due to cake and biscuits
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Good evening. Just a quick post to say DH did another shelf of the pantry. He did find 11 bottles of squash (7 of them cherries and berries) so won't need to buy any for a while.
I didn't get to try tge mini eggs but the kids said they were good.
213-226 more pantry itemsLBM in April 17 - Starting card debt £33554
Mortgage@1 June 18 - £76350
Total debt @june 18 £102311
Debt Jan 25 £8282
Mortgage £51215. Total debt now £5949713 -
Love the upcycled things.
I've given a coffee maker to my work and have a bag of clothes to donate.
Some items have been taken out of the skip so more room has been created. I plan on filling that room! The sand pit and bar stool are two items that I can see have gone. It looks like more has gone but I can't pinpoint what!
Think I'm up to 1 skip and 11 bags. XSeptember 2017 Debt = £25330
Starting afresh.
You can do anything if you put your mind to it. x11 -
150-163: magazines to recycling
164-166: recordings watched and deleted
167: DVD back to its owner
168-169: bag of rubbish and bag of recycling out
170-171: emails and photos deleted‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ David Lynch.
"It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.” David Lynch.10
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