2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

GrannyKate

Feeling a bit grumpy today and then I realised I had no hot water.  I think the power cuts have caused problems.  I am away next week so can't get a fixed until after that.  Plumbers again. 

A mouse story - I may have told it before but always makes me smile.  The last year before I married, more than 50 years ago now, I lived with my parents in a flat at top of an old Edwardian house used by the local council for random offices.  They were moved there for a short while before going to a modern flat which was being built.  We had a cat and worried how the cat would manage getting in and out but she had no problems - the old house had lots of windows and sticking out bits and within days cat was climbing confidently up and down the building using the bathroom skylight as her door.  On the floor below us one of the offices belonged to the pest control officer or rat catcher as my dad called him.  We never saw said cat leave or arrive via the stairs but for the entire year they lived there the rat catcher complained to my parents that there were offerings (dead mice) outside his office door most weeks.  The cat just looked smug and never got caught doing it.  

1495 -sorted children's pencil and crayon box and threw lots away
1496 - new children's drink mug shrank in dishwasher and I had to throw away
1497 - pruning done - will take to tip in the morning

Out for tea tomorrow with DS and family - my birthday treat. Hugs to all who need them.  

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Before pruning

 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

After pruning 🙂

bit_by_bit

Thanks Mrs SD. Similar things happen when ther eis a spider with clogs on in the house 

Sorry you are still not up to full fitness @vulpix. I hope things improve soon. Good luck with the fund raising efforts. 

Decluttering this week has included a chair to DS2 and a set of plastic filing draws, to the allotment.

Work is slowly going on with moving plots. I need a rest but DH is helping me in the morning to move some heavier items. CS in the afternoon.

I am heading off to Poole on Sunday. I am seeing a Nieces photographic work exhibited and being given a personal viewing by her. It was supposed to be a family gathering but due illness and covid there iwll only be 5 of us plus my niece. I was going to be staying in Portsmouth overnight and transporting family members but this can't be done. I can get to Poole and back on a tank of petrol. Just.

Well thats it for now. Have a peaceful weekend everyone.

bit_by_bit

PS cool tree @mrssd

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

Friday was another bright, sunny day - very hot early afternoon but cooled off quite quickly. Today I had a light bulb moment when I realised that I am letting almost every task on my To Do list become a frog by not dealing with it immediately/asap 😔 So today, remembering oceanspirit’s challenge I dealt with several frogs 🙂 - descaled kettle; made soup; phoned bank - paid cc bill, checked accounts, updated my records & filed everything away; read my magazine & completed the puzzles; sorted out a week’s worth of post, skim read 4 newspapers 🙂 DSis went to hairdressers & came back with a short haircut (think Meg Ryan) having got fed up with trying to grow her hair. It looks great & really suits her 🙂 DH spent time working in the garage & spotted a mouse 😉 Dinner was Chinese. Wudupa. Mouse 5 caught & put in compost bin 😉 

1786 - 1797 Kitchen recycling, magazine, drinks cans, large cardboard box, 1” paperwork, seven newspapers - recycled 

1798 - 1799 Kitchen detritus, 1” shredding - binned 

ruby_eskimo, that is a long time to still be affected by Covid but as you say the only way to deal with it is to take it easy. Hopefully your coastal walks will help to not only blow away the cobwebs but also to blow away the last of the covid effects 🤞 I think 6 months is the correct amount of time to wait before giving a housewarming gift 😉🙂

Great work villagelife 👏

vulpix, you have a plan & you are making great inroads 👏 The concern with brutal decluttering before moving to a new home is that you accidentally release items that you might need or love 😉 I am very impressed that kitchenalia is no longer a difficulty 👏 You are now targeting your next area of difficulty & I know you will have a great deal of success 🙂 Good luck with your plants sale 🤞 I did manage to post a before & after photo of the olive tree (but couldn’t work out how to get them on one post 😔😉🙂)

Hope you are feeling better 3secondmemory 🤞 A hand & arm massage followed by a little retail therapy sounds just the ticket 👏🙂 Rounding it off by watching cruise ships & noting thoughts & feelings in a notebook sounds like a good antidote to feeling blue 👏

Excellent work TC77 👏 Is it a case of dd1 also being a bit of a hoarder 😉😉  Btw, I am positive that you are not a hoarder - you are a collector 😉😉 Now, now TC77 - we all make mistakes 😔 perhaps you could sell unworn items? 

GrannyKate, that is my favourite mouse story so far 🙂 Thank you for sharing👏 Just goes to show how intelligent cats are & you would have thought the rat catcher chap would have been grateful that his job was being done for him 😉 Good decluttering & I hope you enjoy your birthday treat 🙂 Good luck with getting the hot water sorted 🤞

bit_by_bit, Very pleased to hear that DH is helping with the plot move 👏🙂 You have a very talented niece 🙂 her own photographic exhibition 🤩 & lucky you getting a personal tour 🙂 Putting my nosy hat on can I ask the subject of your niece’s photos? Thanks for the (tree) compliment 👏

MrsSD🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥇⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

Decluttering Target: 2021    1799/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £376.45 to end of September

oceanspirit

Wow Mrs SD you did loads!

Cleared out the box file and 47 items of paperwork have gone.  Haven’t yet worked out how best to file the remainder that needs to be kept.  Did a lot of niggly jobs whilst procrastinating over getting started on the Frog file so the Friday Frog challenge was an all round win for me.  Knowing that I needed to report back meant that I had to get on with it at some point during the day.

6 other Items decluttered this week.

vulpix

That IS one impressive olive tree Mrs SD,did you plant it? It is certainly very happy in the spot it is in.

 I spent 3 hours in the front, weeding. Did my next 3 neighbours too. Finished 2 charity blankets.

 Work today as I swapped with someone so my rearranging and decluttering is on hold. The trouble with me is once I have made a decision I want action straight away. When I have sorted everything into the pantry what then? There will be no meaning in life if I am actually sorted and organised!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps I can start my aspirational life. You know lunch with glamorous friends, spa visits that kinda thing.

 Weight loss is not happening as the weather has got a bit colder all I want to do is eat!

 laters Vx

 

Floss

Over 20 years ago while still married to 20th century husband we lived in a village with farm & fields beyond our back garden, with a cat flap in the back door. Our cat Smudge would go out every night exploring the countryside. When the weather was bad she would bring mice & voles home to play with on the stairs & she often lost them in the house 🙄

One morning we were getting ready for school /work, and I picked up my shoes which had been left in the dining room, only for a tiny field mouse to run out, up my arm & sit on my head 😳 I managed to grab it, put it into a quickly emptied lunchbox & took it back outside, popped it through the hedge & into the wheatfield. 

Marpau

Had to share this I found on line
Stages of having a clear out
Enthusiastic start
2 hrs of nostalgia about old stuff
Bewilderment over the 87 different piles 
Cry at crap EVERYWHERE 
WIsh you’d never started
Start chucking everything
Wonder why the room doesn’t look much different despite filling 45 Black sacks

I'm sure we all start like this 😃😃