2021 MISSION DECLUTTER and CLEAN

vulpix

Sold a dining chair and a bedside table today. Both things I had bought cheaply and basically just cleaned them up and used them for a while. I love rescuing old unloved furniture. As well as pallets in stages of being dismantled I also have some old oak drawers waiting for attention in the kitchen. I sell things cheaply as I enjoy renovating and they leave for a new home often within a couple of hours of listing.
  I have been given a new bedside table which matches some drawers I already have.  The furniture in the smallest bedroom is safe for a while. I am happy with the way it looks for the time being! The other spare room is not safe though! DD2 is planning a house move and has laid claim to some of the furniture. Great for me I love constant change. Like playing with a dolls house but poor old Mr V has to lug around all my bargains.
  
 Pounds gained £88
 Pounds lost  5lb
 We are all going in the right direction with decluttering, every one thing out is one thing less.
 Vx
 

Marpau

62-74 uu  or binned moisturizer x9 body scrub x1 body lotion x3
75-76 2  x toothbrush heads
77-83 magazines recycled
84-85 tights binned
86-92 newspapers recycled
93-94 shampoo & conditioner to CS
95-97 ood medicines
98- 110 13 books sold
111-112 lots of emails deleted and unsubscribed so hopefully less coming in
113 magazine to neighbour
114-115 jeans sold and packaging to post
116-117  uu last of ammaretto in a cheesecake bottle recycled
118 uu perfume bottle recycled
Bathroom cupboards all cleaned and tidy and like placed with like.

Frogletina

Thank you so much for my gold stars Mrs SD, much appreciated.

I'm honoured that you've decided to try my cleaning routine. Today I was wondering if I was trying to tackle too much but I'm happy with what I've done, although it took a lot of the day after doing my daily tasks as well.

My main area for today was my bedroom and ensuite, and as well as giving it a thorough clean, changing streets etc, I also did my dressing table drawers and one cupboard even though I'd tidied them the previous week. This time I managed to get rid of a few things.

Coconut oil - I thought I'd use this for my skin...I obviously didn't, as it was dated 2009!
2 small toothpastes - these had gone hard.

OOD bottle of nail rescue

OOD bottle of hard as nails

OOD hydrocortisone cream

3 OOD stick antiperspirants - I've still two unopened. I only use these on holiday and they should be used within 12 months, so not used in 2020. (If you're curious as to why I use them on holiday, it's because I use them under my boobs to stop sweating, as due to getting damp with swimming and sweating, they can get sore and painful) 

OOD tube of arnica cream for bruises. I've had really bad bruises on my leg twice in a year and not once did I remember I had this cream, dated 2013.

A half empty bottle of body lotion.

15 other miscellaneous papers and bits from around the house since I last posted. I'll put a count up next time.

I also did a toiletries inventory which took ages. I've told my family not to buy any toiletries for my December birthday and Christmases, I've so much to use up. I suggested vouchers for books or DVDs, but no one listened. I didn't get toiletries, but some things I got can only be filed under 'stuff' and I wouldn't have bought them in a million years. It's as if they don't know me at all.

Good luck to the newbies on here, you will love it. So much support and ideas. I'm so glad to be back.

VickyV

Not done loads today but keeping on top of some stuff at least!

78: baby/toddler food from the freezer.
79: ufo
80: pizza box from the freezer (was housing frozen takeaway pizza!
81-90 miniature bottles of shampoo & body wash given to mum. 

Vicky x

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. CLEAN ONE ROOM (TOP TO BOTTOM) EVERY MONTH (hopefully 3 weekly by the end of the year)

Monday has been a dry, bright & sunny day 🙂 but oh so very cold 🥶☹️ Earnest made two very brief visits - 1. Telephone banking & getting records straight + completing a survey 2. DH & I prepping lots of vegetables (which were roasted) incl. celery, carrots, sweet potatoes, onions, celeriac, swede, red peppers, kale stalks - some for soup. 

Dinner was roasted pork steaks with roasted tomatoes, fried mushrooms, mash & boiled carrots for DSis. DH & I had pork steaks, a tablespoon of mash, fried mushrooms, stir fried kale with bacon & chestnuts, boiled carrots + a large portion of roasted vegetables. 

DH has made the soup for the next few days lunches. I Wudupa.

225 - 226 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - recycled 
227 - 228 Coffee tin filled with kitchen detritus & a bag filled with lr detritus - binned

Great work ScarletRibbons 👏 🤞that your CS survives Covid19 🤞

Great work vulpix 👏 So nice to have a friend with a different skill set 🙂 When this situation is all over & Br*x*t kicks in fully, I think we will all be bartering services 😉 & that is when we find out that our neighbours can knit lentils or repair cars & they hate/cannot sew or iron 😉 You are also doing really well on the lbs lost 👏  Wow to the up-cycling aka renovating of furniture & pallets vulpix 🤩 A great hobby - useful & cost effective 🙂👏 Well done to MrV for his furniture moving skills 😉

Excellent work 2Scatters 👏 You were correct first time - Steady Progress 😉 Don’t forget to stop and admire your clear & tidy spaces/rooms 🙂 Absolutely you can count properly recycled items regardless of where they came from originally 😉

Good work gettingthrifty 👏 At last count there are SEVEN measuring jugs in my kitchen cupboards but 4 different sizes 😱 

elsien, there is vitamin C in grapes 😉😉

Nice to see you mothernerd 👋 sorry I am so late in welcoming you, however Viking_mfw & balabooberlies did a good job 🙂 Thank you for sharing your story 👏 I am full of admiration for your green credentials 👏 and I am with balabooberlies “a hidden hero” 🦸‍♀️
I wish you every success in simplifying everything & I am really looking forward to seeing you later in the year 🙂 You are now a member of our family 😉

leelad, what a great start to ‘Project Declutter Attic’ 👏 I am also very pleased to see that your previous decluttering efforts have yielded results - a space for your wife’s magazines 👏👏 Please give your wife my best wishes for a sustained recovery & if she accepts hugs from strangers, a huge enveloping hug. I hope you addressed the haggis correctly 😉

A maintaining declutter is an extremely important part of the process, OWD_nana 👏 

Oh dear nannywindow aka Herbert ☹️ Really pleased that you have not injured yourself further 😞 Now repeat after me ‘Bad luck be gone, bad luck be gone, bad luck be gone’ 
The crumble definitely counts as decluttering 😉🙂👏

Good work EnergyShifter 👏 I do know your neighbour wasn’t David Bailey as he bought the house next door to me 😉

Excellent work Ms_W 👏 You are motoring along 👏

Great work TC77 👏 & pleased the soup turned out well 🙂

Excellent work Marpau 👏 Decluttering, cleaning, earning & baking - you have been busy 🤩

You are welcome Frogletina 🙂 You have been busy again 👏 The other advantage of stick deodorants is that they don’t cause a problem having them in your hand luggage when flying 😉  If they don’t listen, can you return the ‘favour’ & make their gifts completely useless to them but exactly what you want 😉😉 😈 

Every single item out is a success VickyV 👏 so please do not sell yourself short 😉

MrsSD  🏅 ⭐️⭐️

Decluttering Target: 2021    228/2021

Savings Pot: 

balabooberlies

Hello Frogletina and all

It's my birthday today and I am going to make a confession which MIGHT make me sound pretty awful but here goes. I knew what I wanted for my birthday so when OH went shopping with me last night I asked him to buy it.  I am now the proud owner of 2 bunches of purpley white tulips.  They are on the kitchen window sill and I know they are going to bring me at least a week of joy.  He was looking at a bigger bunch of mixed flowers but I loved the tulips which were 4 pounds less at £6.00 for 2 bunches.  I achieved my goal as I can buy flowers for others (and often do) but find it hard to buy them for myself.

Many moons ago I had a group of friends that used to make Christmas and birthdays a great experience.  One of the group was candid enough to ask for vouchers at Christmas as shopping in the January sales was her idea of a perfect present.  And as she put it she could buy what she really wanted.  We baulked at first, as it didn't seem personal enough, but when we saw how she stretched those vouchers we were always in awe.  So what we had bought her were sometimes multiple presents, her idea of heaven (shopping in the sales), and what she really wanted.  Frogletina, could you try this ?

I wish I had something to report but I don't.  For the last few months I have been at times light headed/dizzy.  My birthday present to myself is to get an emergency telephone consultation with the doctor as these last few weeks have been awful.  I think it's my blood pressure.

Have a fabulous day

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me-heeeee......la la la.........happy birthday to me !  

tee-hee

bala

x

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear balabooberlies, Happy Birthday to you & many more 🥳🎉🎁 🎂 

Emergency telephone consultation with the doctor - best present to yourself especially in view of you suffering for months ☹️ 

Hope you have a lovely day & that OH spoils you by making you breakfast in bed & either cooking dinner or ordering your favourite takeaway 😉

balabooberlies

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear balabooberlies, Happy Birthday to you & many more 🥳🎉🎁 🎂 

Emergency telephone consultation with the doctor - best present to yourself especially in view of you suffering for months ☹️ 

Hope you have a lovely day & that OH spoils you by making you breakfast in bed & either cooking dinner or ordering your favourite takeaway 😉

Ooohhhhh, thanks for the giggle.  (and birthday song)

breakfast in bed ?

cooking dinner ?

take-away ?

giggle giggle and tee-hee..........

ScarletRibbons

Belated happy birthday wishes Bala, your flowers sound lovely.
I decluttered 2 leeks and half a red onion into soup yesterday, with some spuds, it was enough for two of us. Also, some more books went into the charity bag, so I'm plodding on in a small way.

pamsdish

Happy Birthday, @balabooberlies hope you have a lovely day, the best you can in these trying times.
Need to get my mojo back, seem to have backslid since the parrot arrived.
Will get into spare bedroom and re-sort into piles, problem is I don`t think there is anything to get rid of, walked up the town last week and all the charity shops are closed, so will shuffle stuff about and see how I do, I will be decluttering the dust that seems to have suddenly accumulated on the hall skirting boards.