2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

Happy_Kitties

283.          Another product of DDs decluttered from the bathroom into the recycling
284-287.   4 more items from the bathroom into the recycling including a small plastic pouch and old contact lens holder
 288 more paperwork into recycling

Now the bathroom has been turned into a wetroom I’m conscious of what goes back into it.

Have items for the CS just haven’t had chance to drop them off

short_bird

1408-1411: Deleted 2GB of data and another 100 emails.
1412: another job application sent
1413: DVD box set to charity shop bag
1414-1417: another 4 items to the correct location... 

retiredinfrance

Still decluttering but getting a wee bit slower. Ive just managed to sell some books that I had collected up and then Covid hit, so I kept on adding to the boxes and now they have gone. Hooray, I am now 100 euros richer, minus a not so small amount on petrol ( 12 ) but it was really good to get out for a long drive  and a pleasant one. A grand day out. I am now going to keep on with this as it should ease my guilt about my CS habit. Well, not guilt exactly....
Also out
4 books to CS
9 books went to the bookdealer ( all the rest already counted)
1 magazine rack. I mentioned this in an earlier post as it was in the way of my shins - the blindingly obvious solution occurred to us and it is off to the CS.
3 bits of embroidery - taking the plunge here as I have a stash of this stuff- I used to collect it.
1 duvet cover- wrong size - why we kept it....? to CS
1 pile of emails deleted
1 ood Christmas pudding uu- really delicious. Only one left. There is so much stuff at Christmas that it is lovely to keep something for a wet summer day. I didnt put by enough.

Total 20 = 293+20=313/365

Enjoy your trip, Mrs SD and thanks for the positive vibes re my planning to now visit the grandchildren in UK. Im still anxious, but have being doing some research. Thanks to you, too, Liverpool Anne.

Bon courage to those of all those of you in difficult times and keep safe, everyone.

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

810. Complaint to DS's rubbish GP at Uni - took a lot out of me doing that ...
811. Refund from a course that I will no longer be able to take.
812 - message to DS' Uni - re: options for deferring... 
813 - power-washed the smelliest bin ever 
814 - morning routine 
815 - broken lamp

816 - old bank card
817-824 - 8 x items of clothes - CS

dumpling

Good evening everyone 

I'm afraid I joined this thread months ago and zero progress has been made  . I have been made to feel uncomfortable after watching Nick Knowles' new programme on decluttering which aired this evening on Channel 5. I could empathise greatly with the family involved especially the mum who had let her crafting stuff take over the house. I looked around my living room and also the dining room which are full of my wool and card making stuff and when I go to bed there will be a tower of plastic boxes also filled with wool waiting to greet me. I am feeling very overwhelmed with it all and need to start making decisions about what to do with it. 

Three years ago I had my first bout of sepsis and when I survived that and returned home I gave away all my knitting wool, patterns and stuffing etc. In the last three years I have accumulated even more than before. My name is Dumpling and I am a hoarder  . 

What would help me lots is knowing what to do with all my stuff. I can't afford to give it all away again but to sell it all seems too daunting. I have literally hundreds of dies to make cards, drawers of papers and cards, let alone all the glues, glitters etc that mostly have not been opened or used. I don't really want to make cards anymore as I am a perfectionist surprisingly enough and I always expect a negative reaction to any cards I make as they are homemade and not 'perfect'.

I guess I am just posting to ask for suggestions. 
Thank you for reading my waffling, take care x

Floss

Hi @dumpling, long time no see!

I wonder if you have anyone in your family who could help you to sell your excess crafting equipment & materials, maybe for a small commission? You could perhaps sort it into Christmas & non-Christmas (- I bet Christmas stuff would sell now, as would bundles of glitter glue for kids.

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

Thursday started grey & overcast but gradually brightened up with several long spells of blue skies & warm sunshine interspersed with overcast skies & about 15 minutes of light drizzle. Fried breakfast for both of us, coffee DH, tea for me + toast & marmalade. Left before 10:00 a.m. Left Campbeltown (after visiting Linda McCartney’s Memorial Garden) on a 20 mile round trip to the Kintyre Peninsula to see a wagon wheel love seat - sadly not much of it left ☹️ However on the way back to Campbeltown we saw a real live seal 🥳 originally thought it was another statue but this seal turned its head when it heard the motorbike 😉🙂 Headed off towards Oban & stopped off at a garage for a comfort break. A rather well thought out garage - sold petrol of course 😉 but also sold proper coffee, hot pies, good selection of magazines & groceries. Also had 4 picnic tables on a nice grassy area & located near a stream or should that be babbling brook 🙂 Made even better by blazing sunshine - we sat out in the sunshine drinking delicious coffee & sharing a very tasty pie & finishing yesterday’s Empire biscuit 😉 Oban was very pretty & we drove through heading to Fort William then on to Dornie. Beautiful hotel overlooking the Loch & a couple of hundred yards from the Castle which is all lit up at night 🙂 We had dinner in the bar - DH had langoustines then salmon fillet in a nice chilli tomato sauce with vegetables & potatoes 🤤 & I had mackerel pate with toasted pitta bread followed by a beef stew with a pastry lid, vegetables & chips 🤤 We shared a raspberry Cranachan. DH & I agreed that the mackerel pate was absolutely delicious 😋 Had a few beers & were in our room by 9:30 p.m.

Wildlife list: cows, sheep, horses, chickens, ducks, swans, cormorants & a SEAL 🦭🙂
Sign of the day: Cats Crossing 
Sights of the day: 1. A small statue of a Native American in full headdress holding a blue plastic kiddies fishing net. 2. A scarecrow dressed as a policeman & holding a hairdryer (aka speed radar) 😂

Great work TC77 👏 Helping out both DD1 & DD2 in suitable ways 😉

Such a shame 3secondmemory ☹️ The BoE have no idea - down the back of sofas 🙄  - I think £1.4 billion is probably in money boxes, piggy banks, terramundi pots, those huge whiskey bottles, old purses & change pots 🤣 Fingers crossed that you get a tidy sum in compensation for those potentially mis-sold reward accounts - every bit helps 🤞

Good work with the decorating vulpix 👏 The last wall will be a doddle & think how pleased you will be when it is all finished 😉👏🙂  Do you decorate the whole house or just one room? If it is the whole house then you are perfectly entitled to keep all your Christmas decorations 😉😉😉

Very useful information greent 👏 I remember the old money 😉 £sd - farthings, half pennies, pennies, thrup’nny bits, sixpences, shillings, florins, half crowns, crowns 😔 so much nicer than the decimal coins 😉 I also miss the ten bob note & the one pound note 🙂 I digress 😂

Ouch GrannyKate 😣 but at least it is done 🙂 even if it looks like you have been fighting 😉 I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth out in my twenties in hospital, as the roots were curled around in my jaw bone. I can see why you are done with BG & have accepted the slightly better than original offer. As long as you have a tent for the garden & paper plates & cups you haven’t over decluttered 😉😉

Great decluttering ruby_eskimo 👏 A wardrobe that closes & 2 boxes that you can ‘shop from’ as you get fitter. A win, win 👏 I agree with your assessment - spare room wardrobe first - as 2 successes will set you up nicely for the big kitchen declutter & rearrangement 🙂

Great work Ellie79 👏 Love the word “cathartic” & a great way to describe feeling good 😉

Lovely post daisy_1571 👏 & great decluttering 👏

Amazing decluttering Gers 👏 I find it hard enough to declutter my own paperwork let alone someone else’s with all the associated memories that can trip you up. Hope the Confirmation comes through swiftly 🤞

Good work Finstickle 👏

Excellent work EnergyShifter 👏 especially the complaint 👏

Great work short_bird 👏

Will continue cheerleading tomorrow 🙂

MrsSD 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥇 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

Decluttering Target: 2021    1614/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £300.90 to end of August

TC77

Remember getting 10s note for my birthday and just googled to see what the equivalent would be but can only find what the note would be worth now. I know I could buy a poppee bead necklace and qtr lb of mint imperials were 7 old pence ( mum sent me to the corner shop.for her aged about 7).

TC77

Sorry popper  beads that snapped apart so you could.make bracelets or necklaces.

stellata

Really trying hard to do a bit of decluttering every day, this week a small eBay sale and a half hour spent decanting bits of stuff in bottles into one. So 5 shower gel flavours mixed into the pump bottle that goes by the kitchen sink, and 4 nearly empty bottles of bleach (went a bit bleach mad in lockdown) into one. That was a bagful of plastic bottles into the recycling. Also "kindly donated" some shampoo and gel to lodger (aka Silent Man) who seemed grateful. I know it's still in the house but not in my space. Got a day off today so going to have a ruthless go through wardrobe. Wish me luck.