2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

TC77

Mrs SD, I do hope you're on the mend, it's so easy to forget how awful it is when you're ill.Hopefully taking time out will help.
Thank you for my gold star.
@short_bird, fingers crossed for the job!

Been investigating technology as dad can't hear his fall alarm when it goes off, he's fine but everyone getting calls, luckily he checked his phone and saw I'd called.... counting as 1 frog although ongoing 1525
deleted emails and unsubscribed 1526
1526 decluttered small tasks and getting into consolidating to do lists and using my calendar and diary - actually counting as 2 so 1527 and 1528 DD2 phone contract sorted

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

Tuesday stayed dry but chilly. DH went to sm for a small shop - still unable to get DSis’s lacto free milk 😞 but treated me to a lovely bunch of flowers & a box of chocolates 👏🙂Dinner was bacon, eggs, oven chips & roasted tomatoes. Wudupa. DH is all packed as he is off early Wednesday morning going to Wales for the last RBR landmarks. An overnight stay & back very late Thursday. 

1646 - 1650 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, paper packaging, 2 plastic takeaway boxes & lids - recycled 

1651 - 1652 Kitchen detritus, lr detritus - binned

You are very welcome balabooberlies 🙂 So sorry that Tiggy has been so unwell but with your loving attention Tiggy is obviously a lot better. Exhausting for you but satisfying that Tiggy is on the mend 👏🙂 Sorry that your dad feels he needs you when you just want to stay home & get on with your bits & pieces. Thank you for the hugs 🤗 & right back at you 🤗 

Excellent decluttering short_bird 👏 Absolutely everything crossed that you have the job 🤞 

Definitely feeling a lot better TC77, thank you. Is there a flashing light version of the fall alarm? Good frog decluttering 👏

MrsSD🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥇  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

Decluttering Target: 2021    1652/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £376.45 to end of September

ilovetea

Sneaks back in after not posting for weeks/months.
Good morning people. Happy September.
Realised I haven't read 530 posts so I must have missed a lot.
Get well soon to anybody who is poorly. 
Have got rid of quite a few things. Will cobble together a few figures later.
 speak later.
   ilovetea  xx

Siebrie

Re decluttering the wardrobe: a few years ago there was a Canadian lady who kept a blog about how she wore the same brown dress to work for a whole year, and no-one noticed (at least, not to her face). It was knee-lenght, sleeveless, with buttons. She wore it as a dress, as a skirt (with a sweater over the top), as a cardigan, etc.

I try to keep track of the 'cost per wear', meaning that if a shirt cost me €25 and I wear it once a forthnight for a year, it has cost me €1 per wear. This means that if I buy a shirt from a charity shop for €2 and wear it only twice, it's the same price as the expensive shirt. Even if I throw it out after that, it has given me some variety.

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 is currently a dry but overcast day with a chilly breeze. DH said goodbye about 7:15 & was gone by 7:30 a.m. I got up just before 8:00 😱 watched a couple of episodes of Prodigal Son whilst drinking my mug of tea, then went to P.O. to post the first baby blanket & get some cash. Popped into a couple of corner shops on the off chance that they had some of DSis’s milk - not a chance ☹️ Got back just as window cleaners were going round our close so windows cleaned & I paid the bill 🙂 pruned all my tomato plants of excess/dying foliage & found 4 RED cherry tomatoes 🥳 Washed & ate one which was delicious 😋 

Will investigate To Do list & see what I can do this p.m. 😉

MrsSD🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥇⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

Decluttering Target: 2021    1652/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £376.45 to end of September

Rootle

So it's been a while and I've not achieved very much but still want to acknowledge something for the sake of my sanity!

3/52 - cleaned out my toilet bag and got rid of some very old items.
4/52 - a pair of socks to the bin

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

902. Returned lampshade
903. Old trainers
904 & 5 - 2 x pictures put up in DS' room
906. Candle
907. Resistance band
908. "touched up" desk edges
909. material remnant.

DS' visits extended to 4 hours which makes a massive difference.  It gave him time to have his friend visit which was wonderful to see (I felt quite emotional hearing them chatting & laughing).  If all goes well we're on for an overnight stay on Friday night !

910. Cxd prime trial
911. completed electoral register form

Get well soon mrs SD x

Finstickle

So the books I put on a local free. Site went quickly and as one job lot so that's another 17 items.
I try to use the library as much as possible nowadays but do love a good CS trip for books etc, though I always make sure they go back out the door these days. 

I'm also claiming 1 for a glass jar. This was one used for sugar whilst camping but as we have loads rather than putting back under the sink once cleaned I put it straight in the recycling

Hoping to declutter my brain a bit later and write a to-do list. My LG isn't going to sleep at the moment and I'm missing my evenings and feeling like the lists in my head need to become lists on paper asap.  Wish me luck 🤞😁

short_bird

1548-1565: items to recycling or bin or the right place
1566-1567: 100 emails out

Currently sorting out for my first weekend away since January 2020 and first trip to Manchester since October 2019. Obviously need to test before I go anywhere...
And confirmation arrived that I now have the job: the logistics are being sorted and I have a meeting next Monday. 

bit_by_bit

Thanks @mrssd. I hope you are feeling better soon. 

Everyone is very busy, must be something in the air.

I have took a shelf unit and a shopping trolley to the cs today. A bag is filling with more stuff to go. I foind a new to me cs near my DS3 who I see regualraly and popped in. I bought a few items for specific purposes so they will be used.

Also today DS3 and I moved a compost heap into a raised bed on my new plot. This heap had been left by my friend because it was made from 'bad weed' and was worried that it would regrow. It has sat for 6 years with regular moans from the comittee as they don't like compost heaps at the front of the plot. Most of it has gone now and I will finish it tomorrow. Also today I cleared the back of my new shed of dense brambles, haresting a big tun of blackberries along the way. 

My big achievement though was pulling everything out of my shed new shed, some of which went in there 6 years ago when I joined my friend and had been covered up. Lots of plastic waste and some stuff that could be used. There had been an infestation of non pauing guests though and I so no surprise when I found the corpse of a dead rat.   It was mostly skin and bone as it was old. Also lots of rat droppings. I have dusted all the ledges off to the floor and was wearing mask and gloves. Tormorrw I am clearing the floor in a hazzmat suit and then scrubbing from top to bottom with bleach. Otherwise, apart from a few fixes it will be good to go.