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

Saturday all 3 of us had a bath, packed & were ready to depart to catch our train but when DH checked the train was cancelled 😞 So we had an extra 20 minutes at home 🙂 Bus to DLR station, DLR to train station then slow train to Rainham (19 stops 😱) Happily DH’s niece (S) picked us up from the station 👏 as it was bitterly cold with a high wind 💨 Hot drinks & chatting to S & DH’s DSis (W) whilst dinner was cooking (the men folk C & T were at a lodge dinner 😉😉) We had cottage pie, broccoli & carrots 🤤 & a couple of drinks. Although DH & I had been there 2 weeks before we still had plenty to talk about & with DSis in the mix there was even more to chat about 😉 C & T got back about 9:00 p.m. & we carried on chatting & laughing + DH received a birthday hamper containing crisps, engraved glass, jokey mug, St. Lucia guide book, apron (Old Lives Matter) + half a dozen bottles of beer with special labels 😉 W & T went home (next door) at 10:30 p.m. Then more chat until midnight when the rest of us went to bed (whilst the wind raged outside). Sunday we were all up by 10:00 a.m. - DH showered & then each had a bit of toast for breakfast. S, W & T headed off to The Great Danes about 12:15. C took DH, DSis & me in his car 20 minutes later. Not quite the same family members as at DSisIL’s (M) 80th but well attended 🙂 - so W, T, S, C + W’s son (P) & his two boys (L & Ty) + S’s daughter (Sh), husband (D) & 3 year old son (R) Also M + daughter (G) & her husband (E) & their daughter (H) + fiancé (Cr) & their 3 month old son (He) + birthday boy 👦, me & DSis = 19 of us 🙂 Another glorious family get together - lots of chat, laughter & hugs + great food & plenty of drink 🙂 My hug bucket is now overflowing 🥳 The ‘cake’ was lots of iced cup cakes on a 3 tier cake stand (made by DH’s great niece Sh 👏 )  DH opened his cards + received a few more bottles of beer (the party was the present 👏) & then made a lovely speech - all about how lucky we all were to have such a wonderful, loving family 😌 A great 4.5 hours 👏 DH, DSis & I went back to S & C’s to get changed into warm clothes + coffee & cake. Then driven to station in time to catch 7:00 p.m. train - home by 9:00 p.m. 

Another wonderful weekend 🥳 & we still have DH’s actual birthday on Monday 😉

Straight into cheerleading.

Pleased to hear that you are on the mend bit_by_bit 🙂 Great decluttering + furniture rearrangement 👏 Good luck to your DD in her new job 🍀 Hope you have a lovely time visiting your family 🙂

Nice to see you mothernerd 👋 You continue to amaze me - helping your mum & also working around your health issues & taking care of DS3 & Beloved 😇 I am keeping everything crossed 🤞 for you & your new target 🙂 Btw you were NOT wittering insert ‘wagging finger emoji’. Instead you were reminding yourself of how well you are doing & what a resourceful woman you are 👏 Excellent decluttering mothernerd 👏 & nice to see that DS3 is pitching in 🙂

Lovely post vulpix 👏 Take care driving in the snow. Sounds like you had a wonderful time at the Christmas Fair. Beautiful picture vulpix 👏 but please take care in the snow. What a pain re the snow blocking roads 😖 

Hope you are fully recovered Blackberrycurved 🤞 

elsien, hibernation is always preferable to Christmas shopping 😉 Excellent decluttering 👏 Keeping everything crossed that the desktop is an easy & cheap fix🤞 

Great work florianatwobob 👏 Not only the decluttering but sourcing suitable places to give your ‘donations’ 👏 What a wonderful local resource 🙂

Great paperwork decluttering oceanspirit 👏 & excellent work on decluttering frogs 👏 - one a week has energised you so more than one a week will not only be a bonus but will probably turn you into a whirling dervish 😉

Excellent work TC77 especially the admin frogs 👏

balabooberlies, sounds like the funeral went as well as these things can. Hope both you & your DB were unhurt? 

Great work EnergyShifter 👏 Belated happy birthday to DS 🥳 

Off to bed & will finish up later 😔

MrsSD   🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥇🥇      ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    2164/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £566.45 to end of November

ruby_eskimo

Morning all.  Hugs to those that need them and happy birthday to your DH Mrs_SD!  Sounds like another lovely weekend surrounded by family.

Had Friday off work last week and decided to finish a frog - sorting out all our paperwork and mementos.  It's all condensed down now into one box for essential paperwork and another for memories / sentimental things.  Managed to get rid of 28 items straight into the recycling and a lot more into the shredding but I'll count those when they actually get shredded (which should be this week...).  Also had 5 large boxes which have been lying around that went into the recycling this morning so not a bad weekend really for someone who sat on the sofa for most of it!  

Have some friends coming over on Saturday with their 4 month old baby who we haven't met yet, so going to give the house an even more thorough clean this week.  Living room on the agenda today and for once we're up to date with laundry, just have a load on the airer to put away later on.  Also need to get back to listing things to sell so setting a target of 5 items today.

Hope everyone has a good day and stays warm.

Siebrie

In a surprising turn of events, dd2 (13, 2nd year secondary school) told me she had taken a handful of condoms to school with her, to show classmates. Purely academically, because due to corona they missed so many sex ed classes, and during a break she and a few of her classmates started discussing the sex ed they had (not) had. DD2 volunteered to show them condoms and a pregnancy test. She's a sweet girl, but should have come to me first.... Anyway, husband can stay a bit longer.

Happy_Kitties

*390-391.   Cat toys x 2 very worse for wear-binned
*392.           New baby presents taken by DD
*393.           Glut of Christmas presents taken by DD early but will save me on the big day.
*394-395.    DD also took most of DMs decs and a storage tub to store them in
*396.           Finally the last of last year’s Christmas presents given out.
*397.           Storage box containing some of the last year presents that was to be used like a gift container had to go into the recycling after the cats decided to destroy it……on a nosy I reckon 

ive got some things to go to the CS and a couple of items to go to recycling tip place. If I can hit 450 by the end of the year I will be very happy

Finstickle

Hi all, it's been rather hectic here, mostly work related, however we do have builders joining us during the day as they do some work on the roof - so extra cups of tea & coffee required.  they are happily using a fair bit of the timber we bought earlier in the year for this job so when they are finished the driveway will look much better and any remaining timber will be stored in the garage roof space ready for use next year.

Sorry to read people's bad news, thinking of you.
Encouraged by lots of positive stories and motivated people.
Thank you also for my gold stars @Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I've definitely moved into Christmas mode so decluttering is taking a back seat but some more to report:

309-312      Socks into material recycling
313             DD's puddle suit.  This was replaced as she'd outgrown the last one, the new one should do possibly 4 winters 
314-317      Google drive - storage full and not receiving emails.  I photos are on a memory card backed up on an external hard                       drive so don't need the additional storage.  They suggested 4 different categories to clear down and i actioned them                     all.
318-321      Garden \ driveway clear up.  Large quantities of rubbish added to the skip pile and additional items moved to their                         correct resting place.  2 hours of solid cleanup, claiming 4

Wednesday2000

I have another two bags to go to the charity shop tomorrow. I got rid of most of my paper books. I think I only have two left now.

I went through my kitchen drawer and disposed of a few things there too that I never use. It's strange when you buy kitchen stuff but never use it. My husband was saying that yesterday about the air fryer. He uses it but I never do!

short_bird

2173: drat, broke a plate
2174-2182: 2 GB date and 350 emails
2183-2222: items to bin and recycling (including sticky tape that was only sticking to itself)
2223-2228: card and presents delivered.

Apologies for my absence: went to visit Bath for a couple of days then started a mad few days at work. My work week started last Friday and finishes Thursday night  I'm just about keeping up with the laundry but that's it; the days seem to disappear!

oceanspirit

2 items into CS box

Some personal care items taken out of drawer to use up.

Summer clothes taken out of wardrobe to make space for winter clothes. In the future this won’t be necessary as I have too many clothes overall but won’t be sorting them until the papers are all done.  The existence of the papers are definitely causing me more stress than the clothes so they are my decluttering priority.

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

Back again 🙂 Monday is an absolutely freezing day 🥶 I am wearing several layers & have the CH on as well 😱 DH opened the rest of his cards, tried on his jumper which fits perfectly & opened presents from the niece (we had lunch with the Friday before last) - a handy gadget - magnetic wrist strap for use when doing DIY that requires screws/nails etc. + very thoughtful presents from my DSis - a scratch off wall map of the U.K. (for the RBR), a foot massager, a mug “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a f…… big bike (and that’s pretty close)”, a 5 piece magnetic telescopic maglight (for use in the garage) & a couple of bars of chocolate orange 🙂 She is now in the kitchen making her lovely chocolate & coconut cake 👏 My contribution to the cake making was to test the eggs for freshness 😉& lick the bowl 😉 although I did make fish finger sandwiches for DH’s lunch 🙂 DH’s birthday dinner will be steak, chips, mushrooms, tomatoes & peas. Just had a box delivered for DH - another present from the great nephew who was unable to be at yesterday’s lunch party - a box of bottled beers 👏 DH is sorted for Christmas drinks 😉😉

2165 - 2169 Three cardboard boxes, paper packaging x 2 - recycled 

2170 Embossed wrapping paper - binned

Nice post Floss 👏

What a lovely idea skogar 👏

It was a lovely weekend ruby_eskimo 🙂 Excellent work on dealing with such a huge frog 👏 & so successfully. One Gold Star ⭐️ on its way as I am especially impressed that you did it all from the sofa 😉 Good luck with the cleaning & selling 🤞 Ooh, baby hugs 🤗 

What a wonderful & amazing girl your daughter is, Siebrie 👏 even though it might have been nice if she had discussed her idea with you first 😉

Excellent decluttering Happy_Kitties 👏 & I have every faith that you will reach your target 🙂

Lovely to see you Finstickle 👋 Life definitely sounds hectic 🙂 Two decluttering jobs in one - roof being sorted & timber being used 👏 You might be in Christmas mode but you are still getting lots of decluttering done 👏 I am especially impressed by the electronic decluttering 👏 

Great work Wednesday2000 👏

Great work short_bird 👏 especially the electronic decluttering 👏

Excellent work oceanspirit 👏 & well done for prioritising paperwork over clothing 🙂👏 You are tackling the hardest task first & when completed it should mean that the clothes decluttering will be a doddle 🤞

MrsSD   🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥇🥇      ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    2170/2021

2021 Savings Pot:  £566.45 to end of November

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

1012. Dead monitor
1013. Slight alterations to my new (CS) coat
1014 - 16 - 3 x Balls of wall
1017 - DS' old sweatshirt 
1018.  organised the loft while I was up getting xmas decs
1019. Cushion
  

1020. Assembled monitor shelf
1021 Birthday card & present dropped off to cousin
1022. Alarm Clock 

70 items to add in next month if I am to meet my 2021 target !