2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

newlywed

Sorry, been absent…. And struggle to keep up with all the posts….

Didn’t go for a walk today due to the weather.

Dusted and hoovered my my previously decluttered wardrobe. Was lovely and easy to do. Put a few odd bits back where they belong also.

finished putting away bits from yesterday’s supermarket delivery.

dusted and hoovered bedroom. 

dusted and hoovered bathroom and lounge. 

Want to do more decluttering and keep up with everything as it makes cleaning so easy (and I hate dusting )

oceanspirit

11 items today - some were computer wires which were duplicates of others and I have no idea what they are for.  Have kept one of each for now but am hoping to get rid eventually.  At least they all go into one tin now instead of being a tangled mess in a drawer.

GrannyKate

Made myself go out today although it was rather wet.  garden looking green again and I only have to water greenhouse.  I went to Mr A but it wasn't very exciting although I did buy 2 new pillows and covers for my bed and a few groceries.  Later I went to tip and to nearby small town - very depressing as more cafes than actual people.  Dropped things off at CS whilst I was there.
Done quite a few surveys this week so some Amazon vouchers and small amount of cash.
1074-1075 Pillows to tip as replaced with shiny new ones.
1076 Quiz questions done for next week
1077 Removed an incorrect chunk from my online family tree.  Can't replace it with correct names yet but know I had it wrong before
1078 Some intermittent weeding in the rain.  

vulpix

 Still no rain to speak of. Just 10 minutes drizzle.

 Great minds Mrs SD, I filled the shoe box with the batteries ,plasters etc from the very large piece of furniture with a lot of shallow drawers that hold nothing. It was my Dads. It is antique and when my son gets a house I hope to give it to him. I have had it for 35 years so happy to pass it on.

 I completed washing, cooking, emptied the chest of drawers, and under stairs cupboard. Still to do the built in cupboard in the kitchen. I also just remembered the drawer under our bed with wrapping paper and gift bags etc. Also to pack, crockery and cutlery we are currently using.

 Work tomorrow.

 Vx

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. ONCE A WEEK LEAVE THE HOUSE (e.g. Go into city centre for bank & butcher;  go to local town for cs dropping off or buying; visit the pub with DH 😉

DH & DSis managed to avoid the rain during their trip to & from hospital 🙂 Dinner was salmon fillets with boiled potatoes, roasted cherry tomatoes & peas for DSis with the addition of boiled sweet potatoes & asparagus spears for DH & me 😋 Wudupa.
DSis & I watched a great film called Where’d You Go, Bernadette.

1189 - 1191 Kitchen recycling, plastic bottle, drinks cans - recycled 
1192 Kitchen detritus - binned

Nice to see you newlywed 👏 Nice to see your previous decluttering is allowing you to do your cleaning & dusting more easily 😉

Good work oceanspirit 👏

Great work GrannyKate 👏 I do admire you for flitting out during breaks in the rain 🙂

Happy to join you in the ‘Great Minds Club’ vulpix 🙂 Amazing & annoying though that you suddenly remember other places that need decluttering 🙄 However you do appear to have everything well in hand 👏 By the way, how is MrV’s back? 

MrsSD   🏅 🏅 🏅 🏅🏅 🏅 🏅     ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    1192/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £164.80 to end of June

nannywindow

Hello all.

Not as much decluttering going on here as I'd hoped 🙁 but in my defence I've been decluttering a 4hr round trip to the hospital every day, 3 down but 17 to go 😲 I am DH's plus one and can't actually do anything but try to keep his spirits up. I have decluttered 2 books from my kindle while waiting for him in the car.

Yesterday I decluttered the washing basket and put the clothes away. Today I have had a blitz of the bathroom and put into recycling an empty bubble bath, shower gel, cream cleaner and zoflora bottle. The bed has been changed and the bedroom cleaned and dusted. I've washed the bedding too which is out on the whirly but it's overcast and not very warm ( It may have to drape over the airer upstairs overnight to finish off ). Both bins upstairs emptied, plus the kitchen one.

In the cardboard recycling bag went the box and packaging from DH's Fathers day present of new headphones and DD will arrive tomorrow with his card and some other bits and bobs. She isn't allowed in though as we are in isolation until the treatment ends because of this virus and his almost non existent immune system. I've also decluttered my Dad's card and present into his conservatory for him to collect, this is the second year that the family can't all get together. Sorry for the moan.

I'm glad there is a lot of decluttering going on, keep up the good work everyone.

Take care all, hugs to the poorly/worried ones

nan

mothernerd

Declaring 1251/ 2021 (real total is much higher although a lot is recycling/ reusing things for the garden). State of play on the garden 3 wooden and one metal raised beds set up against the back fence plus two large tubs (ex kitchen bins maybe 65 litres). All planted up - broad beans, cabbage, tomatoes, dwarf beans, a few leeks and other veg in rows, mum's clematis back in place and much healthier than before, rhubarb in another old kitchen bin so should be much easier to pick.

Half the side bed has been dug out to the level of the paving slabs (higher and lower in different places - struck a clay patch in places, looser soil in others). Spent at least two days digging out roots from the stump of a tree and hacking, sawing, prising from different directions. Last week I got the largest root out - it ran across as far as the next fence post and then forward for two more feet. Still not got the whole stump out but it is confined to an area less than one square foot. There may be whole set of roots running in the opposite direction under the rose bushes but not expecting to have to deal with those for another couple of weeks. Two one metre by 0.5 metre fabric bags (think recycled tyres fabric) in place, filled and broccoli planted. Small 'fence' in front secured by long skewers to keep them square.

Yesterday was a very tough day. My main task was to get two small filing cabinets (2 small and one A4 file deep drawers, mostly removed) behind the shed. They have been used in the shed, in the polytunnel and have been covered in a tarpaulin and used as part of my 'painting station'. On Thursday I planted 24 tomato and pepper plants into their permanent homes (roughly 10 l tubs). yesterday I had to move 2/3 of them so the window cleaner could access the window. Had planned to do this but not for him to turn up 2 hours earlier than usual. 

First file drawers pulled out, toys extracted and large drawer taken out. Drawer removed to corner behind the shed (I'm going to grow potatoes in them). Overnight I had worked out how I could possibly squeeze the cabinets past the water butt (other end is wider but about a day's worth of stuff to move to get there). Moved a large container next to the water but then slanted the cabinet up onto it bypassing the tap. Once it was flat on top of the container I could manipulate it so it was the right way up) no proper back or base so bottom was top and the two backs were to go together to make one unit. Some soil and stones left behind from last year's planting so moved them across.

That was tough but doable. Second set, pulled out the middle drawer (used to hold small potted on plants). Several bonus items - 3 cleaning products for mum, useful screws for me (have been searching for some I knew I had put safe). Bottom drawer was stuck. Took toys out one at a time. It had 3 wheels so I could move it across near to the shed. Turned it over to remove the wheels (not good enough for reusing _ I have started to put wheels on heavier items of furniture at home). Two bottom slats had swelled. Prised one off, knocked out the back of the drawer, pushed out the fibreboard bottom of the drawer, rest slid out and fell apart. Tried to get it onto the container and the container went backwards. Short stop to rest and think. Put container back in place with a piece of stone edging behind to stop it moving.

Realised water butt had moved forward (some things had slid behind). Rectified that and finally got it in place. Went for early lunch and a rest. Very tired so the remainder of the day was plodding. Moved most of the soil still on the flags (left 3 sieve fulls of small stones for another day as I had run out of places to put them), plus the contents of an old toy box and most of an old laundry basket. On my last trip from behind the shed, I nearly fell (from dizziness/ tiredness not an obstacle) so decide to come in. washed, changed my dress, had emergency tea (sat on the recliner in front of the tv) and went to lie down to find a position that hurt the least.

Not feeling up to much today so settled for one small job per hour and did many bonus jobs. I have a to do list of things that need sorting, including getting the mattress back in line with the bed base. Simple to do but lots to move to be able to do it. Lots of things have fallen down the small gap and more were on the bed base where the mattress had moved to leave room (I think things fall down, more follow as the gap widens so the problem grows.

So some hours were very simple 11 am went to the back door to bring my waste bin in - could not move much at all before then. Most had gone into the bin bag in the yard - nearly all week I've had a bag for rubbish, a paper sack for roots and weeds, various small containers for stones and little piles for the brown bin bits - all surrounding me and a large bucket for sifting soil. At noon I washed my mask and the sponge filter, put some items in the washing machine including the shower mat and cleaned the shower screens.

At 4 pm I moved pillows and cushions to the front room (already had piles for sheets, pillowcases and bedcovers in my room, plus tool box and craft supplies). 2 bottles of suncream and one cleanser from the floor (probably fallen off the foot of the bed), from the side of the bed 50p, 3 more empty bottles, 50p piece, an empty face cream pot. Peeled the mattress cover from the sides of the mattress (parts were already off), moved stuff still on the bed to under the mattress cover rather than on top (used all the tops of the drawers and if I put stuff on the floor I won't be able to get to the wall side of the bed). Rolled the mattress cover and put it over my shoulder, intending to put it over the line and sponge any marks off it - don't need it on the bed, it's only on because it's easier than finding somewhere else to put it.

As I walked out of the room, the mattress cover caught the bin which turned over and emptied it's contents onto the floor. Outside I was struggling to get the cover onto the line. I reached for the line which promptly broke. It was already broken, the knot where it was 'mended' came undone. I over balanced and part of the cover went in the soil pile. Decided to leave sorting that until tomorrow, folded the cover onto my chair and sat on it. potted up four courgette plants and another 8 pepper plants, whilst I was there. Hunted down a 4 foot length of wood and have used it to lever the bed away from the wall (I can just about stand in the gap).

Think my priority now is to get everything out from the sides of the bed (shuffling, sweeping and some bending) and make my bed - even if I only put sheets on the bed, sleep on half  and line up the things still to be sorted on the other half. want another shower.

On Thursday I potted up more than 20 savoy cabbages, 10 lollo rosso and 5 spinach. Small plastic bottles have beeen made into drip feeders, large bottles have been turned into small plant pots, more water root feeders, bird feeders and some are going to be fairy houses. Lolly sticks are saved for plant labels, small drawers, gravel trays and cardboard boxes are used to hold plants in groups. 

Earlier in the week I moved lots of cans from stores into the kitchen cupboards and spent some useful time sorting pills, toiletries, first aid supplies, pens, pencils, scissors, my diary and address book my wooden tray. The CPAP machine, bedside lamp and phone chargers have been dusted, wires untangled and the bamboo tray has been washed and dried.

I am nearly done with this stage of the garden and will nearly have my bed sorted in the next hour. Then I will sleep (for a long time). well done on all your progress. Hope I'm back with less of a gap next time.

retiredinfrance

Well done, Mothernerd! I'm exhausted just reading what you have achieved.
As for me,
3 cardboard boxes
1 bag of polystyrene bubbles
2 pairs of gardening gloves
3 books
2 magazines
All to recycling, and CS
Total =11+230=241/365

ALl mainly as a result of a bit of tidying in the garage.

Nothing brought in from a CS.
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KeeP safe everyone

bit_by_bit

Not a huge amount of decluttering but have photographed loads, prepped pics for online sales and actually listed 18 items in the last day or so. Feels good to get started with it as the stuff piling up has been hanging round too long.

Up to Manchester to SiL tomorrow to help clear a cupboard. Gota small shelf unit and boxes for storage. Booking a trip to the recycling centre in teh week to get rid of the waste and a bag of our electrical items.

TC77

@mothernerd.... gosh so much going on

Much less here, still need to work out how I'm going to get to next level and tackle harder stuff.... really do want to feel I can downsize in a couple of years or if something fab comes up be flexible. Room of doom DD1's old bedroom I want to paint but can't as she's not up to sorting, v fragile mentally so just want her to hang in with her work/uni and fingers cross move in with a good friend next year. DD2 meant to have tidied her room but I haven't ventured in. Still have pesky rats, although hopefully a new rat valve will stop them   in walls not house.

Have been doing some cleaning and tidying.
Had new blinds fitted and packaging recycled etc x2  (old ones in good condition so will go to CS)
Odd bits of plastic and parts found, pen, paper declutter, v difficult complaint email sent,  bits of wood used up to support new blinds (one is abit drab (grey) meant to be sophisticated but at least keeps light out. More packaging, fabric samples (counting as 10).

Can't decided whether to keep trying to sell things or just take to CS, I know they need stuff so want to give away but my mse streak wants to try and sell .
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