2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

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Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Your allotment sounds like hard work 😓  bit_by_bit  ☹️ but a real bonus having the shed & greenhouse 🙂 Sounds like you have very green fingers which bodes well for decent crop sizes 🤞 Sorry you are suffering from tiredness & pain ☹️ not a good combination but I admire your fortitude 👏 Retirement is keeping you busy 😉

Thanks Mrs SD. Its a great therapy but requires a bit of forcing myself to get going sometimes.

Emm-in-a-pickle said:

Happy Easter folks! Thankyou for my gold star Mrs SD, and I`m glad my `name` makes you smile.

Vulpix, thanks for sharing - what rotten timing though! As you say, people usually know of someone (or even someone close) who didn`t make it, yet there are SO many who do fully recover, and too many women are not aware of this.

to get to.
This is more like Domestic Archaeology than a declutter!

Hear Hear Emm  I like the term 'domestic archeology'. 
It feels like spring is in the air with all the cleaning and clearing 😁
Not much going on here. We are using up cream, fruit and a load of eggs given to us by our nephew. We have made cheesecake, fruit crumble and ice cream and today we are making a 12 egg bunt cake. Most of it has been/will be frozen or given away. We often make the cheesecake topping without the biscuit and freeze two person portions in the cream cheese tubs.
Gardening and allotment work today. Slowly working through some my jobs.
Hopefully delivering a blanket I made ages ago for a friend.
Good news on the house front. We had what I thought to be a twisted joist between the old house and extension. After the plaster came off for the structural surveyor the joist was fine , the plastering not. In the end a job that will have cost us up to £20,000 has now been reduced to a smaller one. A lintel adding above a window and some pointing. The builder came to have a look at it yesterday and I am just waiting for the quote.

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Hello everyone. Great to catch up on all the posts, lots of gardening going on with this nice weather 😊
not much to report, spent all day outside yesterday relaxing not gardening!

I had planned to sort the loft eaves cupboards- I hoped DH would climb in and I could happily sort stuff. He doesn’t fancy it as its cold and dusty - I dont blame him. So I had to just go for what I could reach this morning. 1st box was loads of craft stuff that I can honestly say I haven’t touched in years - I advertised it as free to collect, literally minutes later got a reply and it was collected within 40 minutes - great result! 

Then I found some bags within bags, largest one was mine and it’s pretty much new but dusty as has been stored. It’s full of DH old rucksacks and carry on bags. Unbelievably he said I could get rid of them so long as I check the pockets for hidden treasures 😂 so I will do this and give them a hoover! Then

I have a charity collection booked for tomorrow. 

The sun has come out so will go for a walk with LO to the woods, then might try to find a few more things to donate. I have some books which I thought might sell, but for the effort I think I will just give them to charity. Then I will feel like things aren’t just hanging around waiting to be sold...

Frogletina

Hi everyone

I thought you'd like an update on Freda.

She's doing well under the circumstances. I feel fortunate that I have the money to pay for the vet's bills which are substantial.

As well as the rat bite on her leg, she also had a bite on her neck which later was found to be infected and had to have an operation. She is eating now but also gets nutrition and medication from a tube and has been getting injections which my granddaughter has learned to give. She goes to the vet again tomorrow for another small op.

She's in the house with a heat lamp. Here are photos taken yesterday.

moneyonmymindsam

Oh bless you frogletina, great pictures have brightened up my day. 
Fingers, toes and eyes crossed for Freda. 
Sam x

GrannyKate

Hoping Freda does ok.  I had a whizz round everywhere with vacuum but mostly everywhere is fairly clean.  A trip outside to de-head some daffodils lasted only a few minutes as it was bitterly cold.  I have sat for 4 hours this morning and downloaded the last of the old photos on iCloud from my phone and iPad.  16 months from Jan 2015 to April 2016 with about 3500 images.  They are now neatly saved with my more recent photos with labels and dates although they need culling somewhat.  I now only have a selection of favourite photos on phone and tablet.  I gave myself a point for each month worth of pictures;
678-693 Downloading, sorting and storing photos
694 A few flower heads - I showed willing even if only for a short time

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1-24. CD Audiobooks sold on Marketplace
25-45. Video games sold on marketplace.

46-80. CDs into charity bag.
81-85. Shoes into charity bag.
86-120. Miscellaneous into charity bags.

121-123. Items sold on marketplace.
124-126. Shoes into charity bag.

127-130. Metal cd rack left out for the tat man

131. Clothes rack sold on marketplace 

132. Pair of shoes sold on FB

133. Old electric toothbrush motor sold on FB

134-140. 7 video games sold.

141-145. Some pictures sold on fb.

146-153. Books donated to a friend 

154-178. Food cupboard sorted, items binned as massively out of date.
179-200. Other items donated to local food bank.

201. Pair of boots sold on Vinted.

202-208. Books passed to a friend

209-212. Half used jars used up and recycled.

213-215. Three books passed to friend
216. Book into charity bag 

217-242. Items sold on FB

243-244. Books into charity bag.
245. Pair of shorts perished at the crotch binned 😂 

246-247. Items sold on FB
248-249. Boxes used to parcel up items to post.

250-290. Found a local charity shop that is still accepting donations whilst closed, so dropped off a load of bin bags with various clothes, shoes, dvds in etc, this morning.

291. Item sold on FB.

292-293. DVDs into charity bag
294-305. Various other items into charity bag.

306-309. Four bags of various food to food bank.
310-312. Various broken electrical items to recycling 
313. Bag of old batteries to recycling 
314. Pagoda in garden dismantled.

315-322. Random pieces of metal found in the garden put out for tat man

323. Old bath ripped out and smashed and disposed of

324-325. Two games sold on marketplace 
326. Large stack of wood collected by friend for their garden.

327-329. Three bags dropped off at charity shop on Monday 

330. Coat sold on marketplace 
331. More bricks picked up by someone on marketplace 

vulpix

 Poor old Freda xxx Get well soon.
 Took about 15 Indian stone flags to DD1's, Not the huge ones. came back with 5 bags of pebbles from her garden. she is unearthing a large section which had been covered in weed suppressant and tons of pebbles. Also visited a garden centre and purchased a few plants.  Also took a concrete bird bath which came from SS's Grans garden.Donated to a primary school. 
 DH mended DD1's hedge cutters yet again. She thinks she has to cut the wire every time she uses them!
  I am sorting the airing cupboard. Hopefully Charity shops will be able to accept donations again soon. If I find anything to go I just shove it in there. I am neatly bagging up now.
 144 -150 indian stone
 Vx

jenni_fer

bf 83/365

Busy weekend, have been struggling to keep up with all the collections! It does both amuse and annoy me that some people are such hard work when they are collecting free things!
One lady collected about 10 bundles, half the craft drawers have gone into a bag for the school to have (pens, crayons, stickers, scissors, cardboard tubes, rubbers - 7 'things')
Kids dressing gown, some toddler cutlery, polystyrene sheets, 3 lots of activity books collected.

We've had a couple of visitors over the weekend and sent them home with various things, toddler books and loft boards for BIL, plant pots, lolly sticks for MIL, people are going to start being wary about coming over!

Thrown Away: Various kids paintings/scribbles, oddments of shampoo, instructions for appliances we have long since got rid of, a pile of letters and a couple of diaries from my teenage years!!!

There are a few things due to be collected hopefully tomorrow, and another pile of stuff waiting to be listed on fb but otherwise I think things will stall a little for the next couple of weeks, the house is feeling a little overrun with half sorted 'stuff'!

C/f 115/365

EnergyShifter

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279 - back on morning routine
280 - 282 - 3 x easter candles burned- I've had them for years ...
283 - damaged wood from garden table
284 - 298 - 15 x geranium plants - forgot to protect them from frost 

299 - morning routine
300 & 301 - 2 x bins power washed
302 - 6 - Garden table & chairs power washed
307 - end of year stuff for accounts 

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All the best to Freda. Poor thing.