2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

vulpix

Hi, a very productive day here, Bed tetris completed. Stuff put in the loft. Out, a king size bed and a huge set of Victorian drawers. My landing looks massive without it.
  I have had to rehome stuff. Our new bed has storage so all gift wrapping paraphernalia in one drawer so it won't be too heavy. Clothes and textiles shuffled about so like is with like.
  At the end of the month we plan to finish the construction of a studio in the loft. We have all the components but it will need a couple of days to set up. I will then have a tidy up there. It is a possibility that Ds's stuff will go this year. Boxes and some furniture. I have been storing it for about 5 years. he lived in Canada for a couple of years then has lived in small flats ever since. He phoned earlier to say they would now be able to buy a place with 95% mortgage. DD2 should be moving to a bigger place this year too. There are plenty of boxes of Sylvanian families in the loft which will go . It will echo up there.
 I do try to keep like with like , It helps me enormously . We do have several places Mr V shoves stuff when I ask him to move things he leaves lying about... usually wires! 
 Vx

VickyV

Not been very good at keeping up with all your efforts (or really my own to be fair! 🤣) but I’ve cleared 13 items of clothing out. It would have been more but I decided to keep a lot of DS2’s clothes for my friend’s LO so not going anywhere just yet. Not much else going on but I’ll keep doing bits here and there! 163/730

Vicky x 

balabooberlies

{thank you Sam,

onwards and upwards !

bala

x

mothernerd

Current total 644. Hope for more progress today. No, must be more positive - will make progress today. If it offends my eye (may have to use seed trays for storage drawers - it will look 'uniform' at least.

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)

Wednesday was overcast, cold & wet. We have completed the 2021 Census Form online. I finally received my invite for Covid19 jab - decided to keep the ones I have already booked 😉 DH’s new phone arrived, all set up up before he went out (in the dry 🙂) & picked up some more compost & also popped into sm for a few bits poor DH came back in (the pouring rain ☹️) He was absolutely soaked ☹️ I did thin the soup with a mug of beef stock - it is now liquid soup rather than solid soup 😉😉 It was absolutely delicious 😋 especially with some nice crusty bread 🙂 
Dinner was bolognese sauce with conchiglione pasta. One of my better ones - so tasty in fact that DSis was so busy eating that she forgot to take her pills 😉 so had to have a second helping 🙄 

486 - 493 Kitchen recycling, office recycling, 4 magazines, cardboard packaging, drinks cans - recycled 
494 - 496 Kitchen detritus, plastic packaging, 0.5” shredding - binned

Everything crossed for you moneyonmymindsam 🤞 Wishing you a successful interview with a successful outcome 🙂 Great cheerleading btw 🙂👏

Excellent work villagelife 👏 Writing it all down reminds you that you are a successful declutterer 👏🙂 keep up the good work 👏

vulpix, that was a very busy day 👏 & you found time to knit, garden & make dinner 👏🙂 amongst all the cleaning & furniture moving 🤩 Still losing weight 👏👏 One medal 🏅 coming your way vulpix 👏 You have had a busy & very successful day 👏🙂👏 Also what great news for both your DS & DD2 🙂 The studio in the loft sounds brilliant 🥳

Well done Floss 👏 Hopefully lots of cash for your clutter 😉 One day in the not too distant future, the heap of to-be-listed items will become a tiny pile but only if you don’t add to it 😉😉

🤩 Wow GrannyKate you have been busy 👏 I am particularly impressed with the box sorting 👏 If you have the same 90% success rate with each of the ten boxes you will have only one box to sort 🥳 

It might be a long time since you posted ilovetea but you have been busy 👏 I hope your cash for clutter is earning you a decent amount of cash 👏

Great work balabooberlies 👏 What a lovely feeling creating both physical & mental space 🙂👏

Good work Barny1979 👏 another poster on the cash for clutter trail 👏

Oh dear TC77 ☹️ Sorry to hear about the receipts but there is still time to find them before the charity shops open 🤞 One medal 🏅 coming your way for resisting the temptation to take in more items 👏 Naughty neighbour trying to tempt you 😉😉 Good luck with the garden work - hopefully sunshine & warmth will revive your decluttering mojo 🤞

Nice to see you VickyV 👋 Good work on the clothes decluttering 👏 & a 😇 for saving clothes for your friend’s LO 🙂

Well done mothernerd - a positive attitude is a great asset in decluttering 👏 

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅🏅 ⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    496/2021

Savings Pot:  

D123456789

Toys are tidied, LO at preschool, shoes put away in cupboard, washing on, dishwasher emptied, some baby feeding items I found in the cupboards Will go in charity bag. Just looking for a box to send Grandmas homemade mother’s day present - a painted ceramic plant pot with a little packet to plant some herbs. Will change bed when DH gets out of it(!) then will go through either the loft room or the office and have a sort out...

oceanspirit

2 items off the reading pile
Half an hour doing friend's paperwork with her - more recycled and shredded.  I have plenty here to keep us going until we're allowed to travel again and I can go and fetch more.

bit_by_bit

Just popping in to say hello. The thread is busy as usual. Nothing has really left the house apart from the weekly bin liner of rubbish. I have been given some rusty tools to clean and give away and some CDs and DVDs for the CS but they will be going out asap.
I have been working or on the allotment, sleeping in between time. Work very busy (for me)  as numbers of covid patients fall and surgeries are starting to be done. I have been on my own a fair bit too as the others have been on annual leave or relocated to more urgent care areas. 
Counting down to retirement now. less than three weeks and only 7 workdays left. Yay .

greent

latest batch from me

201. worn out fake uggs (DD) – binned

202. worn through conver5e – binned

203. Angry birds game – sold

204. lots of bubble wrap reused to post 203

205 – 207. Jars of old hm jam – contents into food waste, jars recycled

208. socket with USB point finally put in kitchen. Old NW one & packaging recycled

209 – 211. Too small school trousers given away via fb00k

212 – 217. Books – sold

218. broken/ cracked large plastic toy box trunk (bought in 1999) – binned

219. 4000+ emails deleted

220. paper tablecloth approx. 10yo – used, ripped ☹ and recycled

221. too-small school trousers – given away via fb00k

222 – 225. Books – sold – fb00k

226. school trousers – given away via fb00k

227. Angry birds game – sold

228 – 229. Box and tissue paper reused from packaging stash on 227

230 – 233. 4 clarinet books (DD) – recycled

234. Mound of random bits of paper/ old work/ old posters etc (DD) – recycled

235. pack of risotto rice 2 years past its BB date…. made several rice puddings😊

236. burned through oven glove – binned

237 – 238. Hotel jam and marmalade – used up, pots recycled

239. BN aftershave – sold

240. Reused bubble wrap and box from stash – used on 239

241. holey knickers! – binned

242. trowel (sadly broken) – binned

243. non-working solar lights (but about 5yo) – binned

244. Mistletoe bunches from Xmas – finally out in green garden waste bin!

245. BN school trousers – sold

246. Packaging used on 245

247. couple of broken coathangers – binned

248. broken stool – binned

249. old school trousers – given away

250. night cream – used up (loads more left in stash)

retiredinfrance

Vulpix, maybe you know this already, but my DD informed me that Sylvanian families are worth cash, should you want to sell them,
especially the early ones. She had asked me hopefully as she had collected their stuff for years and sadly I replied that they had all been given to the school charity fair!
TH had second vaccine  today so we are having a quiet afternoon indoors.
Keep safe everyone.