2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

[Deleted User]

I came to say I did nothing today but then I remembered I popped a few bits on Olio which will be collected later today & Monday. I also downloaded the app for my wardrobe stuff. I've decided to clear out my understairs cupboard tomorrow. It's a terrifying thought but we can barely find our shoes in there for all the junk so it needs doing. Hopefully I won't need search and rescue to come in and pull me out!

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)

Dinner was delicious 🤤 roast pork (the crackling was rubbish), roast potatoes, roast vegetables & green beans + DH made gravy from scratch. Bedding dried in td & put away.

29 - 30. Kitchen recycling, drinks cans
31. Kitchen detritus binned
32. Cardboard packaging recycled

I must to do better on the cheerleading - several pages behind - again 😞

Great work tryingtoavoiddebt 👏 You are definitely getting into the swing of decluttering & cleaning & you are motoring along 🙂

Excellent work skint_chick 👏 You have found the method that works for you 👏 & are using it to best advantage as evidenced by your numbers

Great work Brambling 👏 Ah yes, but do you use your cookery books 😉 If you don’t, then you do have a cookery book problem 😉😉

Excellent work EnergyShifter 👏 Try to remember, you are not 18 (unless you are 😂) so try to pace yourself 😉 😉 Decluttering should be enjoyable not a chore 🙂😉

Good work gettingthrifty 👏 a steady pace which means you will be more inclined to stick with it 🙂

Great work bit_by_bit 👏 Thank you so much for the cs/Christmas decorations info 🙂 

Good luck with your selling 🤞I bet it was so lovely to have the space to photograph your items for sale 👏🙂

Great start charlies_tribe 👏 I have made a note of your targets. Dog Hair in closed cupboards - one of the great housework mysteries 😉, together with - 2 socks enter (the wm), one sock leaves 😉 (you might recognise the ‘quote’  from a movie - slightly amended of course 😉) Excellent work on the TV unit & drawers 👏

What a lovely thing to say Madusa 🙂  A great start to your decluttering 👏 & good luck with the hunt for a charity clothes bin 🤞

Excellent work Gem-gem 👏 you have been busy 🙂

Great work ClaireT13 👏 I love your decision to complete your room & then ban ‘clutter’ from returning 😉 I fell off the sofa laughing 😂 - who would have thought 12 yo & 13 yo would try to avoid helping 😉

Thanks for that greent 👏 I imagine it would depend on the size of the charity shop.

Great work the_cross_rabbit 👏 

Excellent work StickyTheStickInsect 👏 My DH has more shoes/trainers/boots than I have but no slippers (size 13 😱) 😉

Sorry TC77 ☹️ computer illiterate, me 😔 Excellent decluttering 👏

Definitely not cheating Uncluttered_unicorn 🙂 - like many of us you just wanted to see the back of 2020 & what better way than starting your 2021 decluttering 😉 btw excellent decluttering 👏

Well done stuck2020 👏 Good luck with the understairs cupboard 🤞 - don’t forget to take sandwiches & flask + your mobile 🤣 We did ours in 2018 🤔 Since he retired DH has become quite the handyman - he put up shelves & a coat rail + a couple of stick-on lights 🙂🙂🥳 

Hopefully Earnest will visit again 😉

MrsSD

Decluttering Target: 2021    32/2021

Savings Pot:

leelad

Morning MrsSD and fellow declutterers, well I have decluttered the food shelves in our pantry this morning, it's an old fashioned one, so there is plenty of space in there to store stuff (and forget about it if you're not careful 😄). Last time I did it was in April when I was furloughed so it was due a tidy up. My wife is shopping today, so I'm hoping she will comment (hopefully) on the effort and it helps her plan what to buy. So not much to throw out, six large bottles of diet coke in various states of volume. Most of which have gone flat. We appear to have been collecting them when we were purchasing takeaway meals every so often last year. One half full bottle of slimline tonic (flat) and some empty bits of cardboard and plastic for recycling. 
We have a lot of baking goods in our pantry so am going to make Yorkshire Parkin now with some of the leftovers. Will keep in touch with the thread and update with my decluttering successes on the weekends now. Cheers 🙂

gettingthrifty

....you know you're getting hooked on decluttering when you cant sleep and instead of counting sheep you imagine and count the items that are destined to go out the next day!  
Or is it me ?

tryingtoavoiddebt

Quick tidy round this morning and oven cleaned before everyone was up. Ironing up to date, one old bra binned and 4 gift bags that have seen better days. I’m also going include the bag of rubbish I took out of the conservatory, all junk, sweetie wrappers etc my OH left at his bum 🙄 (82/500). He’s worse than the children!

Off to make pancakes with the kids and then get the rest of the decs down!

Happy Sunday everyone x

villagelife

Some more done
52 an advent calendar recycled
53-55 candle remains
56+57 more seed catalogues had a quick look and then put them in recycling. In the past I would have kept them for a while before putting them out.

I think that's all for now.

[Deleted User]

I'm a bit tardy to the decluttering party.  In 2021 I shall declutter:

1. My home office which is an absolute tip at the moment
2. The spare room because it has been used as a bit of a dumping ground
3. The large cupboard in the utility room which is jam packed

I've only lived in this place for 9 months so I need to get the clutter under control before it escalated further.

Viking_mfw

I'm so impressed with everyone's decluttering!
Day 3 of the Minimalists Challenge:
1) pair of much loved but very holey socks to textile recycling (tried to get them counted as 2, DH wasn't having it)
2) bunch of make up I don't use packaged up to post to Give and Makeup when PO is opened
3) pocket mirror added to CS bag. 

6/465

KatyLovesCats

Morning all. I'm going to crack on and sort a couple of my kitchen cupboards out tomorrow as they have gotten ridiculous in the almost 2 months I've been living here but today I shall try and declutter some things from the freezer by eating them. I had a mad freezing of everything session a few weeks back as I didn't want anything to go off but I need to actually eat some of it now

whiteguineapig

Black_Saturn said:

Sabah al-khair to you all. I have been doing more of the cleaning rather than the decluttering, this morning. The sitting room is looking more presentable. There are still toys on the floor, thanks to my little boy who is a mess monster. I have a question with regards to disposable pull-up nappies. Where is best to donate them, and also, there are two open packs amongst the unopened - can they also be donated, or should they go to the waste bin? I thought of the local charity shop, but is this something they would want? Then I thought about food bank donations, but are they collecting in these times?

I often see them offered for free on my local Facebook groups and they get lots of mums asking for them.