2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

Happy_Kitties

*385.  Broken container with a very mouldy piece of bacon- container recycling, bacon, food recycling
*386.  Laptop sold of DMs. Not being used, rather someone else get use from it
*387.  Car dash cam sold on the bay of e
*388.  Small tube of glue I was hunting down-binned due to glue being solid!

*389.  Promo memory stick binned

Gem-gem

Started the day opening up two new email address accounts. Had one for nearly 30 years. Have read that, thanks to three companies where data has been hit ( not MsE) that my email has been spotted on the dark web. I have been receiving dodgy emails in my spam box for ages, so decided to do something about it. Spent late afternoon, early evening going through old email address - identify which companies etc I want to keep and start the long process of changing the email address. Have complete mist of the important ones. 

Have also deleted lots of emails. 

Spent late morning / lunchtime pulling up leeks and freezing them down ready for soup. Gave some leeks to two neighbours. Left eight leeks in the bed for my mum - these I will dig up later in the week, ready to take down to her. 

Decluttered some weeds, two caterpillars !!! And some snails. 

Unwanted paper and plastic recycled. 

Roasted a chicken, but had it with salad as the pepper was starting to look a tired. Froze the rest of the pepper to put in a curry. Dug up a stray potato plant - had enough new potatoes for one meal. 

oceanspirit

Haven’t posted for weeks and no major decluttering going on.  Some kitchen bits and pieces gone, plus some DVDs I know I won’t watch again and a book.  Paperwork sorting is continuing.

Haven’t counted things having already reached target this year but am pleased that decluttering is now a habit so there is continual flow of things out.

There are yet more piles of paperwork to be sorted and I still have too many clothes so the decluttering will continue into next year.  It would be nice to get rid of more papers before Christmas so I can enjoy my living room without having to move piles from the sofa to the table and back again.  There are frogs to munch, too, several have been put off for years and becoming more urgent by the day so it would be good to start getting my teeth into them.

Am loving my clearer, cleaner bedroom.  There is still too much stuff on top of the filing cabinet but apart from that it is staying tidy and clothes are no longer dropped on the floor but put on the clothes horse overnight.  Can’t wait for the rest of my home to feel the same.

TC77

2084-2088 flip-flops, and shoe/ boot trees to dd1
2089- 2097 dd1 left lots of toiletries as overwhelmed. Been WhatsApp ing a few at a time which she can respond to so bag of them dropped off when helped her pick up furniture from g*tree. 
2098-2103 items to textile bag
2104 -2109 items to cs bag.
Putting frog list together for next week! 

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

Sunday was mainly dry but oh so very cold. Wrote small shopping list & sent DH to sm. I spent the entire day clearing down programmes from TV planner - whole 3rd series of Britannia - very weird 😱 & entire 2nd series of Cobra: Cyber War - absolutely petrifying 😳 Dinner was oven baked pork steaks & tomatoes with mash, sweetheart cabbage & carrots 🤤 I did do one extra task - made soup 😉 Wudupa.

2133 - 2136 Kitchen recycling, 2 large cardboard boxes, paper packaging - recycled 

2138 Kitchen detritus - binned 

Not sure how old one of my rhubarb plants is - donated by DH’s BiL, Florianatwobob but this year was a rubbish crop ☹️ May I ask if your rhubarb plant is in the ground or in a pot? I am quite jealous 😔 

Liverpool_Anne hope you managed to get washing dried outside 🤞

Great work TC77 👏 and good luck with the plan 😉 I am with you in the ‘Tomorrow Club’ TC77. Unfortunately in my case tomorrow never comes 😔 Great decluttering 👏 & good luck with your frog list 🤞

balabooberlies, maybe the resistance was due to the fact you were sorting out an old frog & he hasn’t started on his own aged frog 😉 Shame about the row but it appears to have been the best sort of row - clearing the air & resulting in a positive outcome 👏 There are some good men & you & I are lucky enough to have one each 🙂👏  I do like the idea of being a ‘Today Person’ 🙂 Perhaps if I can embrace this idea, I might not be so lazy 😉😉

Well done on being ruthless with your downstairs decluttering Blackberrycurved 👏 So sorry to hear that you have succumbed ☹️ & fingers crossed that it will be a mild case & that you recover quickly 🤞Is there someone looking after you? As to the chaos beyond the stairs - I see that a couple of our fellow declutterers have come up with some good ideas 👏🙂 Sounds like a perfect winter project 🙂 The albums & box sound beautiful 😍 

Thank you -taff & balabooberlies for such nice ideas 👏 What a lovely 3 way conversation 🙂

bit_by_bit, nice to see that good things have come in 3s for your DD 👏 Sorry to hear about your DB but I did smile at the ‘memento’ 🙂😉 Very useful items for SiL which should be a great help. Great de lettering 👏

Great work Happy_Kitties 👏

Gem-gem, what a pain in the proverbial 😡 but well done on dealing with it so quickly 👏 May I ask how long your leeks have been growing? You appear to have had a large crop 🙂 Well done on the garden decluttering 👏 What a lucky find - a meal’s worth of hg potatoes 👏🙂

Lovely to see you oceanspirit 👋 You should feel very proud of yourself 👏 one day I hope I can say that decluttering has become a habit 🤞Excellent decluttering & well done on keeping your bedroom clutter free & tidy 👏👏 Good luck with the frogs 🤞

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Decluttering Target: 2021    2138/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £566.45 to end of November

florianatwobob

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger the rhubarb is in the ground and resides…..in a flowerbed….we tried moving it to a more convenient (and less ornamental spot) but it got the hump so it was returned to the flowerbed. It likes a southish facing spot with some shelter from the shed, fence and lilac tree nearby. It’s also on a slight slope (created by years of lunatic dogs running round the garden) which may help as my ground is clay over chalk 

elsien

All work ground to a halt yesterday courtesy of Gitdog sending me flying on our walk. 

Luckily I have now regained the use of my hands without the need for a hospital visit and can manage to lift the kettle again. A cuppa is in place and all is well with the world.  

Blackberrycurved

On my own Salad D but thanks for asking lovely neighbours x

vulpix

Hey hey, Hows Tricks?

 I have been away for a few days, just got back about 10:30 last night.

 We went to Banbury and Bath. Spent the time with DS and DIL. Went to watch DS play rugby on Saturday afternoon where he broke his hand for I think the 4th time. Sooo many broken rugby bones. A previous broken finger halted his entrance to the RAF. He and I are very sorry indeed about that but not DIL.  ( it is an unusual break that will never fully heal. They cannot agree whether to operate or not so he will have a deformed, painful little finger forever. The RAF will not consider you if you have a broken bone or have had an operation within the past year .He had already progressed in the application to enter as an officer but had to withdraw. If it were to be operated on and a year passed he would then be too old)

 Bath yesterday. The Roman Baths and Sally Lunns for afternoon tea. I said it was amazing but to be honest I couldn't taste much as I have a streaming cold. Cold much better today when I am back home and it doesn't matter!

 A little bit of retail therapy occurred from a chazza. A Jaeger handbag for £3. A weird fish top for Mr V. Oh, I also got one of the little 60's vases that I am collecting. I did promise a photo of the mice ,I will do it later.

 It was lovely spending time with them. I appreciate their effort as they are both teachers and have so much work to do at weekend.

 It was such a great feeling, coming home to a clean and tidy house. Today I will have a go at a frog which is to clean the inside of the windows. I WILL unpack he bags and put everything away.

 Vx

 

 

 

Siebrie

Mrs Salad Dodger: dds have worn some of the branded clothes, but not all. If their wardrobe is full, and they have enough nice clothes to wear, I don't go and check in the attic if there's more. It's only when the clothes are cycled out of the wardrobe that I go up, and then find the branded clothes. Furthermore, they don't care for brands, and find Burberry 'weird' ,and often uncomfy (that goes for anything bulky, like Hilfiger corduroy, etc.).

Into African donation bag: 7 summer pyjamas (will be too small for dd2 next summer).

Cleaned: 4 pairs of shoes, too small for dd2, still debaring whether to sell or donate. 1 Pair only worn 1 summer mountain vacation;  dd2 skipped a size, 1 pair were from dd1; 1 pair was donated, but dd2 wasn't that size last winter; 1 pair bought for outdoor sports, and then covid hit and the sports were only played 3 or 4 times.

I have sorted the 3 toolboxes husband has. He keeps everything muddled and mixed up, he's been seen emptying the neat box with the ratchet screwdriver bits into the large toolbox and then throw away the original box with the indents where all the bits go. Similar with anything that comes in a set, with neat holding frames: it will get emptied into the large toolbox and the neat frame will be thrown out. Drives me mad! It makes looking for a tool soooo unnecessarily hard! Anyway, I will give 'us' a new screwdriver set for St Nicolas, from a proper brand instead of DIY market's own or a discount brand, so that I can throw out the worndown old ones.

Husband has decluttered a few more condoms, but not with me, so as soon as the renovation has finished he will have to leave the house, too.