2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

Liverpool_Anne

@vulpix, if I didn't know better I would say I know that lady. Ex science teacher who now works in my school, inherited 2 houses and has her own, all full to bursting. Her DH is just the same. She is retiring with me in 3 days and has invited me to visit her garden as there is nowhere to sit inside.  She doesn't buy a lot of stuff as she is very frugal, just never throws anything away Justin. When I have sorted out my carp I will offer to help her sort hers but I know it will be an uphill battle. I also trained as a science teacher, do you think there is a theme developing here
Unfortunately things are starting to come into the house now, 1 box of chocs, 1 bunch of flowers and 1 teddy bear, gifts from pupils that I will have to deal with. 
Kitchen rubbish out, another tube of hand cream uu along with a face cream sample uu.
Take care everyone

vulpix

  Hmmm a bit of theme here with science teachers and being unable to throw stuff out. I think the nature of the job, teaching gives people no spare time. I was HLTA and had to plan my own lessons and that was hard enough to work, run a house and 2 kids. I also used to clean for 2 teachers, their houses were very messy. I just think they do a days work then have to work all evening and weekends. Something has to give. Same I think for many working people and people with health issues etc.

 Spending car boot sale money. 2 new duvet sets for the spare beds (trundle).

 Yesterday I tidied the house, went through the clothes on the rail and packed some up for future car boot ,all "stock" now in the shed.

 Today I will clean and then potter in the garden.  Oh I also need to excavate the pantry. Somewhere in this house is a plastic bag with essential bits for the cooker! Not able to use the oven until they are found.
 
 493. 5 glass light shades
 496. 3 wedding umbrellas
 501. 5 coats
 503. 2 jackets
 504. skirt
 508. 4 tops 

  Vx

 

3secondmemory

Finally the fence is going up! 

I don’t envy the two old guys have got to do it in this heat it’s 29° in my garden! 

GrannyKate

It's hot here this morning.

1318 Plastic cereal box to DS1
1319 Boxes used in old dining room unit sold £10
1320 Cardboard packaging crushed into recycling bin
1321 Admin frog done
1322 Loads of paper instructions recycled
1323 Bag of spare bits from new unit labelled and saved
1324 Presentation done

short_bird

1057-1059: 3 GB data
1060: 5 photos
1061: a batch of extra washing
1062-1081: mixed materials recycling out
1082-1084: items from fridge.
1085: bag of rubbish

OK, the sun's moving out of the kitchen so I can move in  Only 29C, 84F today. 

3secondmemory

I can’t wait til it gets a bit cooler so I can start watering the garden and having a play 😃

I asked them to leave the fence posts long because it gives me some extra hanging space and I’m probably going to put up some trellis. 

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 😉

Tuesday was another hot, hot day on the Isle of Dogs until 7:00 p.m. when we had a heavy shower lasting all of 15 minutes. DH was not so lucky 😭☹️ The parts for the water pump on the Harley Davidson had arrived & DH was booked in for the repair at a garage in Maidstone. He left home at 10:30 & dropped the bike off at 11:30. As it was a glorious day for riding he was given a courtesy bike (the work was going to take several hours). DH rode to Leysdown on Sea & picked up some rock, then on to his sister’s where he spent some time in the garden (enjoying the sunshine) catching up & having something to eat & drink. Suddenly realised what the time was so set off back to the workshop. A mile from his sister’s house he felt the first drop of rain & within 30 seconds his underpants were wet. The heavens opened & dumped all their rain in 35 minutes 😱 Apparently the journey down Bluebell Hill was horrendous as car drivers were still driving at 60/70 mph & sending tidal waves of water over DH’s feet & the rain was washing across the road about 6” deep. DH’s boots were proved to be waterproof as the water that poured into them from the top couldn’t drain away 😉 😛 His jeans got so wet that the water wicked all the way up his T-shirt. To add insult to injury when he arrived at the workshop there was at least a foot of water - so deep that he couldn’t tell where the road & kerb met & the workshop door’s had to be shut as the water was pouring in 😱 😬. So dripping wet, looking like a drowned rate & feeling miserable he waited in the sales office for the next 1.5 hours while the water gradually drained away. Mechanic then took the bike for a test drive to make sure the repair was good & DH finally left at about 6:00 p.m. and just to cap off his day he got home just as the rain started again 😔 Apart from his jacket, he draped every item of wet clothing over the bath, dried off & got redressed in DRY clothes.

My day was spent knitting, watching old movies then a trip to sm when it cooled down a bit. Dinner was pork medallions in a mushroom Marsala sauce with boiled hg potatoes & mixed vegetables from the freezer. Delicious 😋 especially the hg potatoes 🙂 Wudupa.

Wednesday is another hot, sunny day but thankfully there is a cooling breeze & lots of white cloud 👏DH watered the garden this morning & is just getting ready to go to sm for cold drinks & a few bits of shopping. I have kept up with dealing with my post immediately 🙂

1379 - 1383 Kitchen recycling, plastic bottle, cardboard packaging, 2 newspapers - recycled 
1384 - 1386 Kitchen detritus, plastic packaging, broken watch strap - binned

Hope the dentist visit was successful GrannyKate 🤞 A good decluttering day 👏 Sounds like you had a lovely time swimming with the GCs. Excellent decluttering today 👏

3secondmemory, Well done on persevering with the cancellation of MSE notification emails 👏 I know electronic apps are a wonder but when they go wrong it is such a pain ☹️ The fence looks beautiful 🤩 and what a great idea to leave the posts long 👏 very forwarding thinking 🙂👏

Great work Finstickle 👏 & good luck with the selling 🤞

bit_by_bit, Thank you so much for my Gold star ⭐️ (added to my sig 😉) 👏 & DH is really chuffed with his star especially after the day he had yesterday 👏 A momentous decision bit_by_bit & I wish you every success in disposing of the dressing up clothes 🤞

You are welcome vulpix 🙂 What a lovely chatty post & thank you for sharing 👏 Such a sad story but as you say hoarding is an illness & although help can be offered the hoarder has to accept that it is an illness ☹️ A vicious cycle. You must be counting your blessings that you managed to find a good builder such a long time ago 😉 Hopefully he is training apprentices to the same standard 🤞You don’t know how happy I was to read that the liquid food was snapped up by someone who needs it 😁 rather than someone hoping to make a few quid 😠 Enjoying a lie - you deserve it 👏🙂 Then back to working like a Trojan 😉 You are working really hard & being very successful in decluttering 👏 I do like the idea of you ‘excavating the pantry’ 🙂 

Great work EnergyShifter 👏

Great work Gem-gem 👏 

Excellent work TC77 👏 What a great idea to note down moving frogs along as an incentive 👏

Liverpool_Anne, maybe chatting about how good decluttering is making you feel will sow the seed to start your friend decluttering 😉 Lovely to receive little gifts from the children but I seem to remember when I was young if we bought a present for our teacher it was a joint effort - not lots of little items. 

Great work short_bird 👏

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅 🥇     ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    1386/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £225.90 to end of July

Finstickle

A few more from me this morning:


26-30 - 5 pairs of least favourute knickers
31 - pair of toddler tights
32 - toddler hoody
33 - all emails >2 years
                  i was going to do everything older than a year but then remembered tickets etc for events from last year that perhaps i had ordered previously but might need thanks to Covid.


knickers were thanks to buying some more at the weekend - determined to get to only having things i love right down to my underwear.
toddler items were due to something running in the wash, though tbf the hoody is 12-18mnths and she's now 2, only still fits at a pinch so that's gone to the material recycling now

33/365

Happy_Kitties

360.  Packaging used to send neutral items to organiser…..which was very handy as I had nowhere to store them!

Another 8 neutral items out of the house=99 sent to charity. If I had known I was so close to 100 I would of really tried to get another item sent.

Mrs SD with toothbrushes my teeth absolutely destroy them. There is no head left to use for cleaning. I always say my teeth are the one thing that will outlive the rest of me

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

778. Birthday card & present posted to friend
779. Wheelie bin of green waste
780. Touched up paintwork - DS floor 
781. Quick sort out of DS' room to make space for his Uni stuff which is hopefully arriving today
782. Cushion cover

DS arrived with all of his stuff from Uni around 1pm last night - due to a series of mishaps with the guy driving the van.  We just shoved everything in the living room and went to bed.  There it remained until 8pm when I gave DS a gentle "nudge" to sort through it.  He's only sorted half of it but has at least made headway so should finish tomorrow.  Lots of it is up in the loft to be stored until the Autumn.  I've been in a bit of a daze today due to the heat combined with sleep deprivation (I only had 4 hours sleep as I woke up early when the sun came up and it doesn't take much of a deficit to affect me) - a cool bath and an early night for me.  

783 - 5 - 3 x items of garden furniture painted
786 - old baking tray
787 - DS' old trainers