2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

Frogletina

Yesterday I tackled my mending. I was down to just one bra, and the mending had 6 bras in it with wires that had come out! I'm counting that as decluttering 6 items.

Today I worked hard on cleaning the house, didn't have breakfast until dinnertime, and now don't fancy what I'd prepared for dinner and it's already gone tea time. So it will be something simple.

This afternoon I worked on my to do box. 
16 items dealt with, and I now have 10 items waiting for the next step

I have 13 other items waiting to be dealt with, or waiting for me to

 make a decision on.

In the box were 4 pages from a book I intended to reattach them to, but the book must have gone in a previous clear out.

More puzzling were 4 other pages which I was going to tape up before reattaching in an old medical book as they were quite badly damaged. I went to the bookshelf and found the corresponding book, but the book was not damaged at all and as I checked where the missing pages would go, they were not missing at all! So, at some point I must have replaced the original book. But the loose pages have been in various places for ages, waiting for me to deal with them, sometimes in prominent places...and not once did I realise the original book was no longer there

Three letters I need to write are waiting in my to do box. All envelopes written and stamped. I just need to write them.

1 pair of slippers out. My feet have been aching lately. I don't think my slippers have helped, so out they went.

I've not done a count yet. Will do that tomorrow.

Gem-gem

Good evening. Being half term - more decluttering is being done. 

Spent yesterday hoovering skirting boards, edges of rooms. Edges of ceilings and under furniture.

Today, Uu eggs and made one fruit cake and 24 fruit scones. That should keep hubby going for a while. Scone given to neighbour. Two eaten rest frozen. 

Also, used last of leeks that I have dug up from garden - only a couple of really thin leeks left in the raised beds. 
Binned:
top with hole in it
tissue paper from shoe box
Recycled:
shoe box
two foil containers 
unwanted mail

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

175, birthday card posted on time
176. Spruced up a "vintage" laundry powder tin - made into a funky cat food container

177. Shoe rack to neighbour
178.  long overdue optician appointment - (decluttered a good few hundred pounds as I need varifocals - but at least I will be  able to see properly again !) 

vulpix

Decluttered patience. Kicked the coffee table with no slippers on. Just as it's warm enough to get outside and get some jobs done I have a big throbbing black toe! Covid blues is very apt. I am proper fed up and out of sorts.  we do have appointments for our Covid jabs though. Nothing much achieved today.Started the renovation of the big brown chair before I broke my toe!
 vx

moneyonmymindsam

Sorry to hear about the toe Vulpix.. Ouch, I felt that one 

leelad

Evening MrsSD and fellow declutterers, just to say thank you MrsSD for my gold star and for continuing to cheer us all along. Will catch up with our daughter this weekend to present her with her medal. Looking through today's posts and the post from @-taff sums it up for me. Find a way of decluttering that works best for you and also it's about making sure that the stuff you want to declutter leaves your home. When I was working through the attic, I realised that it didn't make sense to continue to walk past the stuff that I was going to throw away (eventually). I realised that I needed to get on and get shut of it as soon as possible. Easier said than done I know, but to declutter properly for me meant that I mentally had to be ready to get rid of the clutter. And that's not an easy thing to do either. We are all doing our bit for the decluttering cause and that's the main thing. Sorry I had to get all that off my chest. Advance notice...will be recycling a Wii balance board this weekend, it's picked up a fault, so just bought a replacement one in an eBay auction. So it's our daughters bedroom this weekend for the next episode of my decluttering journey, cheers 🙂

TC77

- taff I haven't heard of Dana White, I use Marie Konda for folding in drawers , esp things I dont wear often or don't fit as you get lots more in. Like Andrew Mellon as it;s often the stories we tell ourselves that keep us holding on to things. I take what I like from each of these.
4 hours taking stuff to new flat for DD1 - and working before then, but got couple of emails off re my dad so 2 371 - 373 going down to help him and sort out carers -he can't hear on the phone so has to be done in person (lip reads to help) 
DD2 was going through my CDs ( don't play music much which I think is quite sad) so decided if I neither of us like the CD will give away and I'll get a good speaker to play music, with bluetooth so can link phone. 
For me it's alot about trying to use and enjoy what I have - not keeping things for best, or not having fun.
374 toiletries used up.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. KITCHEN WILL CONTINUE TO BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT

2. 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)

Monday was a dry, warm day 🙂 even had some sunshine so the solar light tried to light up 😉 My sum total of activity today was cooking (I use the term loosely) dinner - ham, fried eggs, baked beans & oven chips 🤤 DH even did the washing up although I dried up & put away 😉
A rather annoying day - the claims assessor turned up re the fallen down back wall, he spent ages writing up his report & then denied our claim 👿 I was spitting feathers - 22 years of paying insurance premiums for this house, no claims & the first time we try to claim we are turned down 😤😤 Thieves is the kindest thing I can say 😤 Anyway, my DH was more sanguine about the whole thing & started investigating re hiring a builder etc. - told you he was laid back 😉 The silver lining is that we can afford to pay for it ourselves 🙂 but it is the principle 👿😤 & breathe & let it go - now that I have vented 🙂😔

359 - 364 Kitchen recycling, glass bottle, 2 cardboard boxes, magazine, drinks cans - recycled 
365 - 366 Kitchen detritus, lr detritus - binned

A weekend off ruby_eskimo - good for you 😉 There is a time for decluttering & a time to be kind to yourself 👏

Great work GrannyKate 👏 shame about the picture frame ☹️ You are continuing to do great work GrannyKate 👏 A few years ago I used to enter lots of postal competitions each month (used to subscribe to a comping magazine)  - best prize was a week in Atlanta for the Olympics 1996 & oddest prize was a plastic blow up banana 😅

Excellent start to your decluttering journey lindsay54v3 👏 What you count is an individual choice - whatever works for you & encourages you to keep decluttering 🙂 

Succinctly explained vulpix 👏 & well done on reducing your craft stash 👏

Must admit I quite like the pictures 2Scratters. 

Great post -taff 👏👏 I had to laugh 😆 when I typed in Dana White I got some huge American wrestler 🤣

Good work moneyonmymindsam 👏 Fingers crossed that your weather warms up soon 🤞 Yippee microwave finally gone 🥳

Please do not be naughty oceanspirit 😉 You have done some good decluttering & you have every right to be pleased at your progress 🙂

Wow you have been busy mothernerd 👏🤩 You must have oodles of space now mothernerd 😉

Great work D123456789 👏 especially defrosting the freezer 🙂 New bedlinen is one of the great pleasures in life 😉

Well done Nicnak 👏 and an excellent job on including DD in the decluttering process 👏👏

Excellent work Frogletina 👏 A very busy day - mending, cleaning, decluttering & dealing with frogs 👏👏🙂

Gem-gem, you have been a busy bee 👏 decluttering & baking 👏 I will be round later for a fruit scone 😉😉

Great work EnergyShifter 👏 Enjoy being able to see properly 😉

Yikes & ouch 🤕  vulpix ☹️ However very good news that you have an appointment for your vaccine 🙂

I really enjoyed reading your post leelad 🙂 Between you & -taff, we have a great road map for decluttering 👏 This is an ideal & safe place to get things of your chest leelad - no need to apologise 🙂 Is your daughter looking forward to decluttering her bedroom? I bet she is 😉

Good work TC77 👏 I will have to join you in admitting I don’t play much music (and you are right, it is sad ☹️) I probably have a couple of hundred CDs so I think I need to bite the bullet & donate to CS when they reopen 😔

MrsSD  🏅🏅 🏅⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    366/2021

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gettingthrifty

Aw Mrs SD feel your pain!
Yes id be seething too and like yours my DH would be onto to plan B to sort it out.
 Happened to us too.
We had the finial ( cross on roof of house) fall off in a mini tornado the weather was confirmed by a local weather station as it was a freak weather condition for june . It fell and hit our front window and smashed the sill landed in the garden. It was a brand new build house. Assesor would pay for a new finial and damage to the roof but not the window it hit.🤔 which was the bigger part of claim.
Honestly not making it up.
No frills policy from then on.

TC77

Mrs SD , I got the wrestler too with dana white. I have CDs and prob over 100 vinyl and recorder player but no amp or speakers. I had claim refused , complained got it overturned and asked to use insurance contractors , who were hell, destroyed my floor, dropped piano on slate  hearth etc and took over 2 years to sort so being sanguine and sorting yourself I think is v sensible! I had to go to ombudsman and many lost nights sleep. Changed insurers.