2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

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

Wednesday was another sunny day 🙂 but as the day progressed there was rather a stiff chilly breeze ☹️ Yippee, plumber left a message so I called back & he is coming Saturday 🥳 Reminded him that this year is a full boiler service & asked if he could check cold water tank as it has been overflowing 😬 Tried to use the large container of weed killer but the pump no longer works ☹️ Decanted some into a spray bottle we found in the garage but that one didn’t work either ☹️ Finally found a working spray bottle (had been intended for use when ironing - but haven’t done any ironing for about 2 years 😉) Decanted weed killer & Sprayed the front path. Just need the rain to stay away for a couple of days 🤞Had a lovely chat with a neighbour - she & family have just come back from a holiday in Scotland. The weather was mostly kind & the 3 of them hiked up 4 mountains, swam in the sea & lochs - far too energetic for me 😉 Went to P.O. posted all yesterday’s letters, cards etc & posted urgent documents to DB in Germany (needed a customs form 😖) Walked up to the large corner shop & picked up a few bits for dinner, then caught the bus home - only person wearing a mask 🙂 Small frog dealt with - added a few phone numbers to landline phone book 🙂 More knitting whilst clearing down a couple more programmes from the planner. DH riddled 3 garden bags full of soil, stones, tree stump etc & ended up with half a garden bag of good quality soil & 2 bags the contents of which he needs to riddle again. As an aside a Justin was modified - round plastic washing up bowl had large holes drilled into it to make a garden sieve - my DH was particularly proud of that modification 👏🙂 Burger, mash & beans for DSis. Breaded fish, chips & peas for DH & me. Wudupa

1521 - 1527 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, 4 newspapers, plastic bottle - recycled 

1528 - 1531 Kitchen detritus, broken spray bottle (which we had tried to use for weed killer), cloth covered in weed killer, plastic glove - binned 

Wow TC77 🤩 Five frogs dealt with 👏 I hope your dad’s rehabilitation is going well 🤞

Liverpool_Anne - can’t live with ‘em, can’t live with ‘em (I know supposed to be can’t live without ‘em 🤣) - I remind you of the extra decluttering you did looking for the havianas 😉😉👏 Your niece’s home sounds idyllic 🙂 Ouch re the blood test 😬 was it a new vampire or was your old vampire having a bad day? Well done on persevering in your hunt for a photocopier 🏅 & great work on sorting an admin frog 👏 Not sure I could be so good re the chocolates - probably only half would have made it into the tin 🤣 Hope you can keep your purse closed apart from buying lunch 😉 when you meet up with your friends 🤞

GrannyKate break out the champagne 🍾- your pump is fixed & you have a plumber you can rely on 🥳🙂👏 Excellent work dealing with the croaking frog 👏 Sounds like you are having a wonderful time with the children 🙂 but do take the chance to rest tomorrow 😉
Everything is crossed that you get a dentist appointment before your short holiday. Good work on the decluttering 👏

Great work ruby_eskimo 👏 Hope the rearrangement of the kitchen goes well 🤞
Team TOMM is definitely working for you 👏🙂

So very nice to see you Frogletina 👋 Great news that Freda is getting on better (such a shame about her leg amputation ☹️) 45 years 🤩 . Thank you for the lovely photos & I think Freda is smiling 🙂 Remember cleaning & tidying is still decluttering in our world 🙂 When you remember what else has gone out you can update your numbers 😉 Not sure about 2 days walking but a spa day sounds wonderful 🙂

Lovely sentiment oceanspirit 🙂 & good decluttering 👏

Lovely sentiment vulpix 🙂

MrsSD 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥇  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

Decluttering Target: 2021    1531/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £300.90 to end of August

vulpix

 Granny kate,I can't believe it !!!!  Your plumbing problems mended! What a relief ,no pun intended.

 Liverpool-Anne,glad to see you are enjoying your retirement. We seem to have some nice weather forecast up North today, perfect for getting out and about. I worked in a school with half a dozen of similar age who all retired about the same time. We used to do lunch every month before lockdown. You have reminded me to instigate a meet up again.

 I will state my intentions for today.

 Put all clean washing away ,with you on the non ironing Mrs SD.

 Wash dishes and put away.

 Begin the bedroom spruce up with white emulsion, will probably need a few coats. Forgot to say one wall is yellow,3 blue,red exposed brick chimney breast and dark brown carpet. Just to add to the mix I have put up lilac velvet curtains! This will just be a temporary solution as I will  decorate properly later after the builders have been. That could be in a couple of years so I need the bedroom to be less depressing before then!

 If I have time some weeding. All the broken paving in the back is sporting a fine array of dandelion leaves.

 Vx

GrannyKate

Morning all - just waiting for the plumber's bill and possible compensation offer from BG (not holding by breath). 

DGS1 got the grades he needs for 6th form courses he has chosen.  I feel so sorry for their year (and the A level group) as their education has just been mucked up.  

No developments on dentist's appointment - guess I will have to wait until next Tuesday.  Still swallowing 8 paracetamol a day but keeps pain as a small ache if I'm careful.  Glad to hear about Freda - animals are amazingly resilient.  

mothernerd

Spent nearly 7 hours at my house yesterday, tackled the worst bit of the garden and all the nearest branches of the weed tree in my neighbour's yard, then sat chopping it up small to pack as much in the (newly emptied) green bin). Cut the brambles by the back door as they are a trip hazard. Returned four library books, did 'essential' shopping (food and drink for the day for me and the last 8 pack of decaffeinated coke in the shop, later on fat balls for the birds and a rubber bristle brush to scrub the bathtub without bending).

Two cardboard boxes and a bag of small paper recycling items into the blue bin (also just been emptied) and two more put to one side for next time. Four bin bags of rubbish collected and turfed out into the yard (2 more started and the remainder of the roll went upstairs to DS3's Beloved). Delivered 2 birthday cards to a house about 3 blocks away from mine.

floss I don't think I do as much as everyone else thinks - it just takes me a long time to do the simplest of tasks and I have to take frequent rest breaks. They say not to compare your life to others, my biggest challenge has been not to compare myself to my younger self and what I 'used to do'. I'm pushing on with the garden as I need to take advantage of the weather. There is a lot of 'mess' but a lot is things mum let into the household - like the dining table and six chairs that she didn't have room for (someone else needed to get rid) which made a whole room virtually unusable. This was after we'd disposed of the single bed taking up all the space, which she insisted on bringing to the bungalow.

Last year I had my polytunnel and various items which had been put outside, to break down or in the shed were used in my 3m x 2m polytunnel as staging and for holding seeds and plants. This included the garden table, the old dining table, 3 broken chairs and a stool, a set of metal shelves, 2 small filing cabinets (handy for the water butt) and lots of shelf pieces and leftovers of bathroom cladding, even a set of ladders opened out with boards across for shelves. When the cover came off for the third time (plus twice after I'd condensed the two halves of the frame into one - just to make covered space to 'paint') it stayed off. I never got it reassembled and I'm not having some things back in the shed. Mum is going to ask a member of the extended family to take some things to the tip and I want to break up the wooden table and the 2 remaining chairs in case there is room in his car after the electrical stuff has gone.

I am a lot happier than I was a few weeks ago. I didn't feel 'wanted' here, though I know I am needed and there wasn't any space for me to 'go home'. I'm not sure I can cope with the stairs all the time (mum moved to the bungalow because she could not do stairs and some features made it easier to 'contain' her partner, who had dementia).

I know she's ill, not eating a lot and it's making her niggley but she's finding things to complain about - she spent a whole afternoon going on about 'pop' and how it wasn't good for me (I was drinking fizzy water - bottled as it comes out of the ground), the number of sheets I use (she thought I'd taken a cover from her room when I'd pulled it out of the bed storage drawer when it turned cold). I've corrected her on a few things and she does seem okay with the idea of me sleeping here, staying for the day when she needs me, on appointment days and when we have deliveries or workmen but going home for part of other days. I will do what I have to but will spend time in my room, if I need to or want to.

short_bird

GrannyKate said:

No developments on dentist's appointment - guess I will have to wait until next Tuesday.  Still swallowing 8 paracetamol a day but keeps pain as a small ache if I'm careful.  

If you are able to tolerate ibuprofen, alternating ibuprofen and paracetamol worked for my tooth pain when I was having root canal work: have just checked the NHS site and it's still OK to combine those 2 drugs. Can I take paracetamol and ibuprofen together? - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Siebrie

Out: 1 small cardboard box of duplo donated to church creche. The duplo had been on a selling website for 6 months and just didn't sell.

Stupid oversized framed and glassfronted Ludo game husband brought from his home country 3 years ago. We have the game already, foldable, in a small box which stores nicely in our games cupboard. Also, I suspect it was a gift from a friend or relative for my daughters, and he just claimed it was his gift to them. What annoys me most is that he is keeping me from properly thanking the person who kindly bought the gift.

Also out: the cover of the party tent we no longer have the frame for.

Floss

@Siebrie when is your DH back in the UK, and how are you & your girls getting on?

Siebrie

@Floss Husband came back (to Belgium) on Saturday and is currently quarantaining. He just has to stay at home, not in isolation, and dds and I are allowed to continue our normal life.

We are currently discussing returning to the Netherlands, to the city I come from. Life is simple there, cheap (apart from housing), and I still have a social network there.

I had hoped husband had broken off with his mistress, but have seen that they are still in touch, by phone at least. We are talking, discussing, about our life together, and about raising our 2 daughters; we disagree on who is to 'blame' for certain character traits they have developed (but this is normal, right?). I'm still hoping we can get through this, but being realistic: I doubt it. Husband wants me to look for a job and a house in my hometown first, then dds and I will move, and he will follow. It almost sounds as if he wants me to move out, and then claim I left him....

oceanspirit

Sorry to hear about your relationship issues, Siebre.  I hope you can find as smooth a path as possible through it for you and your daughters.

5 items paperwork out today

TC77

@Siebrie   yes, i think arguing whose to blame for traits is normal..... please do take care of yourself, sounds very difficult but having a good support network is important, and sometimes thinking about 2, 5 10 years ahead and what is important can help with thinking through things.
Pleased to hear about Freda.

DD1 is going to rent unfurnished flat.... trying to get her to take things from me, (as she can't afford other things, but she is looking on freecycle etc and asking if I can pick up (she is still non weight bearing for 4 weeks). And hoping she will take the things she didn't have in a rented room. Dad in rehab (has different connotations than elderly people mobilising)  - have images of kids saying their grandad is in rehab.  Brought back some books from his house, and took him a few things to ward.
A few frogs eaten 1439 - 1443
Also cleaned fronts of kitchen units... cleaning has got very behind.