2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 5 tasks
2. Deal with Old Frogs & potential frogs ASAP but at least one on FROG Fridays.
3. Reduce/Restrict time watching TV and playing AB2 during daylight hours 😉
4. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

Try again 🤞Tuesday was bright & sunny but oh so very cold 🥶 Started cleaning the kitchen cupboard fronts & am about half done 🙂 Dinner was sausages, mash, plum tomatoes & baked beans 😋 Wultdpa.

366 - 370 Kitchen recycling, 3 lots of cardboard packaging, drinks cans - recycled 
371 Kitchen detritus binned 

Great decluttering GrannyKate 👏 Hope you have a lovely time in Scotland & that the price of the diesel does not spoil your enjoyment 🤞

Excellent decluttering 2Scratters 👏 What a lovely story re the Kenwood & well done to your DH re the mower 👏 Always useful when there are 2 of you decluttering - makes life so much easier 🙂 One Gold Star ⭐️ coming your way for preventing a frog 👏

Excellent work on the allotment & on paperwork bit_by_bit 👏

I will be round later for tea & cake vulpix 😉 Fingers crossed that the roofer has turned up 🤞

Nice to see you D123456789 👋 I am positive you will be back on track with your decluttering very soon 🙂

Will be back later as need to sort clothes for tomorrow’s funeral - we have been instructed to wear bright clothes as it will be a celebration of a life well lived 🙂

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅🏅 🌟 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

I AM A STAR 🌟 

Decluttering Target: 371/2022

2022 - 1p Savings Challenge: Running Total £42.92

vulpix

Phew, at last I feel like I have a few minutes to write a post.

 I hope all went well TC77. Xxx

 Energy shifter, I am so pleased for your son and your family. So good to hear something positive. Xxx

 Best wishes to you Mrs SD for tomorrow. I am sure you will all do your SIL proud. Xxx

 The meringue was good. About one of the only puddingy things that I know I can make. The best bit was the home made lemon curd. 

 So, no roofers or plumber 🤦‍♀️  . The odd job man came and put up a blind in the kitchen, fitted the outside loo door. Put up some trellis, and fitted a new but old door in the sitting room. He is back tomorrow to fit a new old bathroom door. The sitting room door is awaiting some toughened glass panels to be made. I am ridiculously pleased with replacing modern doors with period ones. Once the roof is done and the scaffolding is gone it will really feel like progress. 

 I am still using up stocks of cleaning materials and toiletries. Today we have bought toothpaste for the first time this year! What I am saving there I am keeping B n Q in business. The price of door handles!!!!

 Mr V is still hobbling on his broken foot but it is improving. 

 Confession. I am on a no new clothes for a year. Sooooooo difficult for me. Went to the pound chazzer today and bought a scarf. I also bought a tweed like skirt to make a door draft excluder for the front door. 

 I hope you are all ok, especially people who haven’t posted for a while. 

Vx

kscour

So been a long day , Wednesday is my "day off" as in the day I try to sort the housework without DH under my feet.

Today I decided to get my mums photos (only the ones that she had left in envelopes so I had some rough idea of dates rather than the ones she randomly stashed around the house)  into an album.  Time flew by and with my head starting to ache I realised I'd been at it for 3 hours.  Took a break and for some mad reason decided to tackle the 4 heaped baskets of ironing.  I was only going to do an hour whilst having a therapeutic coffee and then take dogs for a walk.  An hour in I had made a huge difference, got togged up to take the dogs out and they took one look at the weather and said no 

Another hour and ironing finished and put away  👏

Finished album which turned into 2 albums but that will mean she has room to add more photos of grandkids/gt grandkids etc as they are sent to her.  I will take them in to her home for her when I can next visit.  At the moment they take up less than half the room on the shelf the box that they were in before did so quite a gain  

Dead frogs
6 mum's photos
7 ironing mountain

Don't know if it's just a coincidence but I have been sleeping better this week  

Hope everyone's had a good day

weenancyinAmerica

I've learned to delete extra e-mails every Friday. And I sort the mail when it comes in, including going through magazines, removing articles to read later, and then getting what's left into the trash. Kitchen trash goes out daily (sometimes twice) and recycling goes out twice a week to the bin. Now if I could just get my roommates to clean up their stuff, I would be okay. My main goal is to finish a book I started in the 1960's - talk about a long frog - but as it is on Frugal Living, I have been using the material in my life in the meantime. I just have to find the time around taking people to appointments, taking care of their animals, dealing with an autistic young person who wants to show me strange things on TikTok every hour or so, and cleaning up after other people. Most days I don't get anything written. It's not like I can't finish a book - I have written over 85 genealogy books that are actually out there selling. But most of those were done before the last three years and some need to be updated now. I still help people with their genealogy several days a week as well. There just aren't enough hours in the day, are there?

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

evening

no @weenancyinAmerica there are not enough hours in the day at the moment!  
I have decluttered some work paperwork by taking it back to the office; shredded lots of paper and deleted about 2000 emails.  I sat next to a colleague in a meeting and he couldn't believe i have over 27k in my inbox I keep unsubscribing but it's an uphill battle.

Hope your SiL funeral goes well and is a lovely celebration for her Mrs S_D

Sorry i haven't managed to keep up with everyone's news, life and work should calm down next month (for a bit anyway)

love Deni 

florianatwobob

Laptop has been replaced! 

The only decluttering that has taken place this week (so annoying when work gets in the way) is:

- the recycling out

- 2 poorly courgettes in the bin that were lurking in the fridge and beyond salvage (very annoyed with myself about them)

- 2 tins of toms and a tin of black beans used up for tea tonight (Mr J Oliver’s Mexican Breakfast)

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

570.  Returned item to tk maxx
571 - email deleting session

I'm feeling a lot less frazzled this eve than I have been for the past week.  I think it helped that I had a quieter day at work and didn't try to fit too much other stuff in - just caught up with myself a bit including putting a shampoo in colour on my hair which has lifted me a bit! It was looking very dull! 

572.  Lent pledge day 8
573.  Rebooked hearing appointment
574.  Went to contact lens check - all good ! 
575.  Another email deleting session.

Thanks for good wishes Vulpix 
I hope all goes well at DSIL funeral tomorrow - sending love  

Smoosh

Can I join in?

I'm currently decluttering the house! It's not too bad, but we keep things we don't use/need and always leave things in a mess! My goal is a big declutter and clean, which will hopefully make it easier to keep things tidy.

So far this week the bathroom, hall cupboards and most of the kitchen have been declutteted and deep cleaned. 3 (smallish) bags of rubbish in the bin and a few bits gathered for the CS. 

The garden and garage also need tidying, which is probably going to involve a skip at some point. 

charlies_tribe

Good evening. 
I haven't managed much at all since I last posted. DH went to put some rails up for DD1 as she only has a week until she's due. I'd been collecting everything here that I'd been adding each week to the shopping order so DH took it all with him.

Today I got fed up of waiting for DH to help me start the utility room (I was to scared to move things because it seems to breed spiders) and braved it myself! The floor was tidied and swept, some things to the bin and way too many spiders disturbed! There's piles of washing to get through but at least I can get in there now to start on the shelves.

As DH went to work I handed him 2 black bags of clothes/shoes that had been sat in the room (had to count them first though 🤣)

625-634 1000 emails deleted
635-645 baby items to dd1
646-665 2000 emails deleted
666-672 odd shoes, broken toys, bag of rubbish
673-682 1000 emails deleted (12200 so far this year)
683-729 47 items (2 black bags full) to charity bins

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 5 tasks
2. Deal with Old Frogs & potential frogs ASAP but at least one on FROG Fridays.
3. Reduce/Restrict time watching TV and playing AB2 during daylight hours 😉
4. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

Wednesday was a dull day & still cold 🥶 Bag packed. I went out & did a small top up shop. Dinner was pork steaks, mash & cauliflower with purple carrots for DH & me.
Wultdpa. Had a lovely bath & washed hair - just waiting for it to dry before going to bed 😉

372 - 373 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - recycled 
374 Kitchen detritus binned 

Good work nannywindow 👏 Bad news about the potential surgery closure - rather short sighted when your surgery is already overwhelmed 😔

You are welcome marrob 🙂

Now, now kscour - remember you have started & you earned your medal 🙂 Well done on tackling photos 👏

Welcome aboard The EDT tealady 👋 A great start 👏 Shame about the glasses - I had a big smile on my face picturing lions having eye tests & being given glasses 😂 

Good work short_bird 👏

Great work oceanspirit especially being able to release the dress to a new owner 👏

Great work merrysmiles especially keeping kitchen surfaces clear/clearer 👏

Excellent work EnergyShifter 👏 I am very impressed by your commitment to Lent & well done on sticking with it 👏

Excellent decluttering GrannyKate 👏 Marvellous work in the loft & great work on reducing the number of boxes 👏

Hm lemon curd, vulpix 😋😋😋 Yippee for the odd job man 🥳 & yah boo to the roofer & plumber 😒 Pleased to hear that MrV is improving 🙂 Well done on resisting the temptation to buy clothes to wear 😉

Excellent work kscour 👏 You we’re obviously enjoying yourself tackling the photos & then the ironing 😄 Lovely to hear that you are sleeping better 🙂

Wow weenancyinAmerica  🤩 I was tired just reading about everything you do. A published author - autograph please 🙂 With the amount you do no wonder you feel like there are not enough hours in the day 😉 

Good work Deni_debt-free_dreamer especially the electronic decluttering 👏 

florianatwobob, well done on keeping up with the recycling 👏 shame about the courgettes but please just put it down to experience 🙏 

Great work vulpix 👏

Welcome aboard The EDT Smoosh 👋 What an excellent start to your decluttering journey 👏 The items we keep and don’t use/need are called Justins I.e. Just in case 😉 & I for one have quite a few of those but not as many as I once had 😉 The more you declutter & tidy the more you will WANT to declutter 🙂 

Excellent work charlies_tribe 👏 especially tackling the spiders 😉

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅🏅 🌟 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

I AM A STAR 🌟 

Decluttering Target: 374/2022

2022 - 1p Savings Challenge: Running Total £42.92