2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

nannywindow

I think you need a round of applause MrsSD for having and giving others such a wonderful day, averting a not enough chairs crisis and even finding W a comfy chair with arms !!

Forgot to add earlier that there weren't any leftovers after the DGD went home and certainly not in the cake/biscuit line. Never mind she's taken my temptation away ! She enjoyed the baking and has requested making pizza next time so I'll let her make it from scratch and I'll supervise as I did with the cakes. Never too young ( 9) to learn how to cook for yourself and she's an eager beaver. I had to throw away a whole tub of bubblegum ice cream though as we all thought it was disgusting 🤢

Take care all

nan

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 😉

4. CLEAN & EMPTY SURFACE AREAS - DAILY

About 3.30 p.m. the heavens opened & DH arrived back from the sm soaked through 😱 His bottom half was wet through to the skin 😉 Meanwhile DSis was also caught in the rain but managed to duck into shops & only got slightly damp 🙂 I had egg Mayo sandwich for lunch. DH had finished off the barbecue chicken from yesterday. Managed a couple of items from my To Do list - Wudupa last of the cups & today’s lunch time crockery & cutlery, cleared more recorded Olympics from planner + a bit of knitting. Dinner was chicken fried in butter, boiled hg potatoes & peas for DH & DSis. I had a large salad using up los from Thursday. There is still a lot left 🙂 Currently watching Unforgotten series 4 before doing the wudupa. Getting a bit sad as the Olympics is almost over ☹️ but at least I only have to wait 3 years for the next one & maybe will get to see some Archery 🙂🤞

1495 - 1499 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, 3 newspapers - recycled 
1500 - 1501 Kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - binned

balabooberlies, So sorry to hear about the loss of your childhood sweetheart ☹️ Please take care of yourself & remember all the good times. I hope you get to say a goodbye that eases your grief. 

vulpix, the perils of electronic items 😉 but very nice to see you back 👋 The rides that DH  does are an organised event over 6 months. It is called The Round Britain Rally aka RBR & has been going for over 25 years. There is an excellent article on “real-Classic.co.uk” Not sure if there is something similar for cars. Great work on the decluttering & one medal 🏅 coming your way for being so organised in having everything in a couple of places all boxed up & ready to be sorted. Mine is all over the place - cupboards, drawers, bags, boxes & even the loft 😱 There are small pockets of order all over the house but not enough ☹️ Please don’t work too hard - you need to take care of yourself & not run yourself into the ground 🙂😉 Excellent purchase & great amount of cash in your sales kitty 👏 Nice to learn that someone is organised enough to have all their important paperwork in one place 👏 I must try harder 🙄 Your wombling is a part of who you are & is very successful so well done on recognising a good opportunity 👏

Congratulations 3secondmemory - skipping over the the randomness of debt being written off 🤔 - it must be a great relief 😮‍💨 

Good work Happy_Kitties 👏

Excellent work oceanspirit 👏 Isn’t it lovely when you can see the benefits of all your decluttering & cleaning 🙂👏

Unfortunately there appears to be no way of helping some people stellata ☹️ no matter how hard you try ☹️ Sometimes sofa & wine is the only way to go - restores equilibrium & sets you up for the next round of tasks that you want to accomplish 🙂 

Great work short_bird 👏

TC77, Lovely sentiments for balabooberlies & 3secondmemory 👏🙂
As to the “like with like system” that is my downfall as well. My current solution is that if I find similar items in 2 places I sort then combine into one place. I try not to worry too much about the possibility that similar items might be in another couple of places 😔 Eventually all the similar items will be in he same place 🤞😉

Wow you & your DH have been busy 2Scratters 🤩 👏 Dealing with admin frogs, filing, shredding, collage framing 🙂, hairdressers, finding treasures in the loft, vintage chairs & laminate flooring for sale - Justin will hopefully prove profitable 🤞😉 Really good work on deleting emails 👏 A Gold Star ⭐️ is on its way 🙂

ruby_eskimo - lots of successes 👏 You and your DH have been working very hard & your persistence is paying off. So much so that I am awarding you each a Gold Star ⭐️ ⭐️ 

nannywindow, Yet another busy declutterer & cleaning demon 👏 I did have to smile at your description of yourself as “Demolition Dora” 🤣 There are only so many “Big ticket items” that can be disposed of unless you are going completely minimalist 🤣 & getting rid of lots of small items is still a big win 👏 

BigSpenderLittleSpender, You are never too late to join the the Decluttering Party 🙂👏 Welcome aboard 👋 You have had a major success by reaching the decision to start decluttering & planning your starting point. We are all here to offer you encouragement, praise your successes & commiserate when things don’t go as well as expected 😉

Floss (everything was from L*dl) - seeded bread, lettuce, pea shoots, radishes, celery, slices of red pepper, tomatoes, spring onions, various cold meats including salami, ham, beef, barbecue chicken pieces & mortadella also chilli flavoured salmon fillets (which I shredded), potato salad & coleslaw + a couple of jars of pickle. No cooking involved 🥳

Thank you nannywindow - applause gratefully received 🙂 Enjoying time spent with family (& friends) is one of those blessings we often sadly forget to appreciate. It was very considerate of your DGD to eat all your biscuits & cake 🙂😉 She will have happy memories of nanny teaching her to bake & cook & those memories will be with her for a lifetime 🙂👏 I still fondly remember planting flowers with my paternal nana over 50 years ago 🙂 I think we sometimes forget that time spent with our loved ones is precious & priceless. As to the bubblegum ice cream, I agree it is disgusting 🤢 but at least you tried it 😉 

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅 🥇     ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    1501/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £300.90 to end of August

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, very little done here since my last post which was several pages ago, everybody has been very busy. I have had a quick read to catch up but I am not sure if I have remembered everything so hugs to anyone who wants one.
I seem to be spending most of my time reading, watching the olympics and sleeping
Last weekend I managed to double book myself with a family birthday bbq in the early afternoon when I saw several family members for the first time in 2 years which was really lovely and then a meal out in the evening with our lovely neighbour to celebrate my retirement. I didn't have anything to eat at the bbq which was just as well as the meal in the evening was very scrummy. So money decluttered for birthday present and card and meal. Since then I have been doing a bit in the garden between the rain bursts. Tackled a few brambles that I think the birds kindly deposited a couple of years ago and despite a determined effort last year to dig them up have reappeared and seem to have multiplied. I have only managed 1 load of washing and have sheets etc waiting to go in the machine due to the rain, absolutely lashing it down at times, and I refuse to put the airer up again until October. I have sorted through some paper work and found a letter I had been looking for and was on the point of phoning for a replacement so that was good. I have found and made a note of my NHS number as everyone seems to be asking me for it atm. I have booked a blood test, routine but now have to be booked on the interweb rather than just go along and wait. Honestly I don't know how people without internet are coping atm as you seem to have to do everything online. 
I am off to a 70th birthday gathering tomorrow, themed flower power as the birthday girl has a hankering for the 60s. I have managed to unearth a pair of ban the bomb earings and a pair of ban the bomb socks along with a pair of flowery trousers that should serve the purpose. More money decluttered for a present and a card.
@mothernerd, once again I am in awe of the amount of work you get through. I think you need to teach your DS how to do some of it, you have enough to do without cleaning up a house you don't currently live in. 
@GrannyKate, I can't believe BG. If you have a contract that covers your central heating system it must cover the pump. They should have done a survey of the system when you took out the contract so they should know what you have, it is totally irrelevant how often others have pumps. I had my boiler replaced about 3 years ago and now have it serviced by the heating engineer who fitted it, (for a third of the price BG wanted), but prior to that I also used BG and I had a pump that they did replace and I only had the boiler covered. I would seriously complain about the shambolic service you have received. I would also consider contacting the CAB to see if you can get any compensation from BG. We have a local radio station that has a thing called the a team who also help people with this type of thing, they seem to get an amazing amount of things sorted out when they phone companies. I would also look around for someone else to do your services, the heating engineer I now use is a small local firm and while he is busy he is very reliable and reasonably priced. With the number of engineers BG have got rid of there must be some who have set up their own business, maybe ask around the neighbours to see who they use.
Well after sitting up to watch the womens marathon I am off to bed
Take care everyone

GrannyKate

Thanks for advice @Liverpool-Anne. Problem is it is not part of heating boiler system but is a hot water pump which I now understand boosts the water pressure - I know nothing of what various bits of plumbing do.  It would have been helpful if BG had told me back in May that this was excluded.  Local plumber has been and his concern is that, although the existing pump is old and noisy, replacing it may not cure the problem as the most likely cause is still a tiny leak somewhere in my pipework.  A leak should of course be covered by BG and even their engineer had said they needed to look properly for one before telling me I had to replace the pump myself.  So pump is old and probably knackered or nearly so and I have agreed to replace it with a newer, hopefully quieter, and more efficient pump which is going to cost hundreds of pounds.  They may also have to move it as new design may not fit where it is.  I am then faced with what I do if the new pump comes on every ten minutes like the old one.  My contract with BG covers central heating, plumbing and electrics. 

Working my head round an email to BG on this but I have raging toothache which is making everything difficult.  I already have a dentist's appointment booked for Tuesday week but hoping they have a cancellation before then. 

Nothing useful happening on decluttering or cleaning front other than money as new pump ordered for click and collect today.  

Edited at 4.22 am - no time like the present - my email has gone off to BG.  Paracetamol has taken edge off toothache so I may get some more sleep now.

1371 - Another email to BG.

TC77

@GrannyKate if you don't get joy with BG do check if the cover you have counts as 'insurance' and you can go to the ombudsman once they have offered all they can -or if not insurance perhaps OFWAT or another body that governs their behaviour maybe.  Do feel with you, I am just sending additional documents for ongoing dispute with a bank re a loan to DD when advised of her ill health.
Keep starting things and as I pass something else abandon it to start something else which is not the most efficient way of decluttering but trying to go back and finish tasks
1401 pen
1402 pension transfer papers/quotes which I decided not to do when changed jobs 3 years ago
1403 papers relating to newish! job together/stapled parts and labelled
1404 papers for bank complaint scanned today and tel call and emails sent yesterday
1405 many calls re dad and extra care when hopefully out of hospital. Apparently he is confused and keep telling hospital to use his middle name he has used since he was a teenager rather than his childhood first name as it can't help. 

Hope everyone survives the torrential rain and other challenges , makes me nervous having had major leaks/damp and imagine the ceiling/roof is going to collapse etc.

3secondmemory

Morning all! 

For some reason, this little ditty came up on my Facebook feed from an executive dysfunction group that I belong to.


🐸🐸The first rule of eating frogs is: if you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

The second rule of eating frogs is: if you have to eat an ugly frog, don’t sit around looking at it for too long! 🐸🐸

having sorted out tax Credits with the DWP and 2 outstanding problems with PAYE, I moved onto pensions a couple of days ago. There’s a small endowment policy that I took out with my first husband over 30 years ago. The trouble is, I have to initiate some sort of contact with him to sort it out -the last time I saw him was at our daughter’s wedding. I had to nudge him that his fly was open 🤦‍♀️😂😂😂

Liverpool_Anne

@GrannyKate, seems to me between the heating, plumbing and electrics the pump should have been covered by BG and an important point is that they didn't tell you it wasn't covered. I would definitely push this one by getting some further advice and complaining further. I know this will be a pain for you but it makes me quite angry that they are happy to take your money but then don't deliver the service. It also makes me angry that you have to get angry to get it sorted out good luck
@3secondmemory, oh I have a frog connected to my exH that I have been trying to sort out for about 30 years. I have no idea where he is or any of his siblings etc. Last I heard of him was when my niece saw him at Heathrow airport when he was on his way to Poland to work, that was about 20 years ago and now I am trying to sort out my various pensions I need all sorts of paperwork that I gleefully threw away when we got divorced

nannywindow

GrannyKate do you have an emergency dentist that you could ring, we have a specific number to call if you are in pain, especially on weekends (Wales) Sorry about the BG saga, hope you can get it sorted soon.

Decluttered the contents of the washing basket this morning, all washed and hung out........and it's now persisting down with rain 🤬 I'm not getting soaked running crawling to bring it in. Why didn't I do it yesterday when it was a lovely dry day ? DH was also in the middle of taking a fence panel down, it squeaks when the wind blows in a certain direction, so we're now at a full stop as the rain has stopped play. Atm I have one eye on the rain and another on the Olympics, never watched and enjoyed so many different sports, don't know what I'll do when it all ends. More decluttering ? It's ok MrsSD that was rhetorical 😁 Of course I will, there will be no excuse not to get stuck in again.

Hope everyone is okish, hugs a-plenty available if you need one, or two.

nan

Floss

@3secondmemory could your daughter pass a message to him? If he's going to benefit he will most likely respond 😉

@Liverpool_Anne that reminds me of my first XH who ripped up his decree absolute when he received it, stating he would never get married again....5 years later he had to apply for a copy 🙄🤣

GrannyKate

Thanks for everyone's thoughts on BG and dentist.  I am hopeful of a cancellation next week as my dentists has already done X-rays of tooth in question.  Paracetamol regularly seems to be kicking in as long as I remember not to bite down on that side of mouth.  I have information re Ombudsman and BG - I have sent off my latest missive to BG and have asked them what they plan to do if fault does not lie with pump.  Waiting for confirmation that pump has been delivered to shop so I can collect.  

Quiet day on my own so caught up on hundreds of competitions I had missed.  All my surveys are done and up to date.  I did buy some lolly making moulds for children so I might have a play with those later and possibly cut the grass.  Lovely day here although my son has gone only 50 miles west and it is raining there. 

1372 Puzzles and surveys all up to date.
1373 Emails all cleared from in boxes 

Urgent Frog hiding in the corner staring at me.