2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

vulpix

That is something I am fighting myself about happy-kitties, empty candle jars! Seems silly now I have written it down. 

 Taff, much of my stuff is in boxes too. When I have a new kitchen I hope it will then have a home. I intend to put a few choice things in the loft now the roof is done. At the moment the pantry has elastic sides with so many faithful banana boxes. 

 I feel like I am getting somewhere. Plasterer coming on Monday to do our bedroom ceiling. Such a lot to do before then. All but empty the room. (Groan) I have nowhere to move stuff to. I will have to move all our clothes onto the spare bed so the extremely heavy furniture can be moved round the room. 

 I have spent the day taking cats separately to the vets. £365 thank you. Fluffy cat drew blood from the vet. Fomo behaved unexpectedly well. I have mended something of MIL’s and finished a couple of charity knitting things. 

 I took some stuff to the chazzer yesterday. I will update numbers later.

 Where do you all keep the stuff waiting to be recycled? Plastic for the supermarket,tablet blister packs etc. my house is so small every space is already filled. 

 Vx

florianatwobob

@vulpix re the recycling I have two lidded crates outside my back door. One for recycling that the council takes away (it gets emptied into the recycling bin every couple of days)  the other is for supermarket soft plastics and stuff for terracycling etc. The terracycling stuff has jars in the crate so they don’t get mixed in with the plastics. Dead batteries have a small cardboard box under the kitchen sink. 

Floss

My recycling is kept in 2 places:
Inside I have a small bin for blue bin stuff (glass, cans, paper, card) behind my waste bin, soft plastic is in an ongoing bag on the worktop with small plastic trays beside. When they are full / too intrusive they go into the box / bag in my bin cupboard outside. Blue & black bins are both collected weekly, soft plastic goes to a supermarket & plastic trays etc go to the tip when I'm passing.

TC77

I have black and green bins outside, and keep my recycling in a white I*ea bin which I empty into the green one every couple of days. Green bin emptied weekly and black one fortnightly.
@-taff thank you for explaining your situation. My clutter about 12 years can be linked to extending house and going into the loft so buying more furniture , filling it up, DD1 being v ill and my mum dying, and I just acquired more things... mainly CS bargains!
2 x CS bags taken to Blackheath posher CS and added another 10 vintage glassware.535
Also made crumble with market plums and veggie casserole as DD2 on own as I see friends this weekend and better use of oven than a few veggie sausaged - agree Mrs SD that seeing friends is important. They were all going to stay with me but I felt too much for me at the moment so going to north london. Hopefully next year I can host

No more decorating but have bought the filler for cracks only to find didn't have applicator gun so another trip (shortish walk),.
Packaging to drop LFT to DD1 (B/F has covid) and used up food 537. 2 bottles of wine packed for friends  539 and chocs but don't count as specially bought. 

Electrician didn't show up so hoping DIY person may be able to help with one of these (note to ask them)

Will do my meter readings after this. Washed curtains. Put off decorators for the hall again and hope I will finish the room I'm doing so can more furniture.

Hoping those on the EDT are staying safe and well or on the road to recovery x

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

Although the sun came out it was very cold with a very chilly wind. Did write a menu plan &  sent DH off with the shopping list. DH slept for most of the afternoon & early evening & went to bed before midnight as he is not feeling at all well. I will get him to take an LFT tomorrow. Dinner was risotto cakes & rocket for DSis whilst DH & I had chilli con carne with boiled rice, sour cream & grated mozzarella with a few tortilla chips 🤤🤤 Wudupa.
Have just bagged up the prepared risotto cakes (which I open froze) into 2 bags + 3 bags of chilli con carne. Now nestled in the garage freezer. Also have enough chilli left for Friday night’s dinner. 

536 - 538 Kitchen recycling & detritus, newspaper 

GrannyKate, sorry to hear that DD has caught Covid ☹️ Hopefully it will be a mild case 🤞

Well done on the decluttering you have earned a Gold Star ⭐️ 👏 Good luck dealing with the frogs 🍀 Another inspirational post confirming the benefits of decluttering 🙂

What a lovely friend TC77 🙂 Reading these inspirational posts will hopefully help my decluttering mojo return from its rather long holiday 🤞🤞

Great post florianatwobob 👏 I managed to keep paperwork in the office fully sorted but it is only over the last couple of years that I have managed to keep my personal paperwork relatively sorted 😉 

Baxtersmum, well done on being so ruthless with your paperwork 👏 Keep up the excellent work 🙂

Exciting times ahead, -taff 🙂 Shame about all the disruption but it will be great when all the work is done 👏 Excellent work on reducing your fabric stash - a huge achievement 👏

Great work bit_by_bit 👏 The new house that DS2 is living in sounds rather nice & good that one of his previous house mates is also with him 🙂

EnergyShifter, talking to people is quite stressful especially if it is your job & you are doing it all day. No wonder you are tired.  Excellent work making your bedroom a more restful place 👏

Great work Happy_Kitties 👏

Not silly at all vulpix 😉 you have been keeping them for either Justin or Ron 🙂 Is your kitchen being done soon? As to the bedroom ceiling being plastered I don’t envy you having to move heavy furniture around 😬 but it will look lovely when done 🙂 Big ouch re the vet bill 😣 

Thanks for recycling storage solutions florianatwobob & Floss & TC77 👏

Excellent decluttering TC77 👏 I hope you have a lovely weekend with your friends 🙂 & that you will feel up to hosting next year 🤞

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅🏅 🌟 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

I AM A STAR 🌟 

Decluttering Target: 538/2022

2022 - 1p Savings Challenge: Running Total £42.92

vulpix

I can’t believe I am asking advice about recycling. Thank you for your replies. I never thought to keep it outside 🤦‍♀️  I visit our recycling bin several times a day but I don’t mind as it adds to my steps. Luckily it takes a lot of different types of stuff. It is odd how different authorities have different criteria. It would make sense to me to have a national policy. Where my daughter used to live in a different authority was very poor on the recycling front. I was very surprised as it claims to be a green city. 

 I am not having a new kitchen imminently. I am trying to renovate the house top to bottom. After the bedroom ceiling will be a bathroom. Big job as the only way I can envision a sensible layout is to move a window. 

 Today starts the serious diet. I have put half a stone on since Christmas. I am an emotional eater. My DIL had an ectopic pregnancy at New Year. They were distraught and I was so upset as there was nothing I could do. Stuffing my face won’t help anyone!

 Sending strength to people in need. 

 86. Birthday presents given to tombola
 87. Ornament,chazzer  
 88. Skirt  
 90. balls of wool given away to knit corgis !
 91. Vet frog eaten
 93. 2 pairs of socks recycling  
 94. Phone charger DD2
 95. Bath tidy chazzer  
 96. Massive mirror chazzer  
 99. House plants chazzer  
 101. Plant pots chazzer 

 I am slowly crossing things off my to do list. It is like painting the Forth bridge though. As I cross off more things are added. 

Vx

GrannyKate

@vulpix - I am a 'bored' over eater - reach for the fridge when nothing else to do.  I am going to be serious this time and up my steps to ensure minimum 4000 per day.  Doing ok in week one despite stressful real life.  Taking small people away to coast for two nights - it could be very bracing!

509 Utilities paper folder sorted and lots recycled
510 Various receipts and instructions binned for things I no longer have
511-513 Random items binned
514 Bedroom 3 cleaned 
515 General tat binned
516 Plumbers came to fix new tap which is very nice but seem to have disconnected water supply to dishwasher so waiting for them to come back. Washed up by hand.
517 Last of MIL's box of souvenir pens sorted - mostly no good but a few to my pen drawer
518 Monthly accounts done - a bit depressing
519 New savings account opened

Thanks for my star Mrs SD.

bit_by_bit

vulpix, I am a tired overeater. I realise I am tired when I shovel the fifth biscuit. Sadly I am often tired so I remain fat. 

Been to DS2 today to sort all his clothes out. I came away with 8 bin liners of clothes to sort out. Many will be ok if washed for rags or the CS. His room is sorted into a kitchen, longe and bedroom area now and the 'kitchen' has empty draws. i wouldn't let his start ramming clothes in there. 

He needs some bits and bobs which I will sort out for him next week but otherwise he is very happy now he is sorted. The chap downstairs and his mate are crack and heroin addicts. DS2 has his issues but doesn't want to goet inolved. I hope he doesn't.

I also dopped off a pallets worth of plants to Sister's partner but he has covid so no gardening for him today. Going to have a rest then do some work upstairs.

marrob

Hello to everyone, hope you are all well and hugs to all who need them. 

I've been busy sorting out financial stuff this week - not my favourite job, especially at the moment.  I've managed to finish off two jobs which had been hanging on, so two more frogs bite the dust today.  Otherwise, still working through deleting emails and tidying up my PC files.

540.  One book read (14/170)

541.  200 emails deleted

542.  Filing done

543.  Junk mail recycled

544.  Cardboard  packaging recycled

545-546.  Two u/u tealights recycled

547.  Documents deleted from PC

548-556.  Nine brochures/catalogues recycled

557-558.  Two financial frogs eaten

559.  Spreadsheets updated

560.  Emails replied to and filed

Take care everyone

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said: 

703. BG meter reading submitted

I was meant to meet with a friend for lunch but she cancelled because she was ill.  As it turned out a morning pottering was just what I needed - I feel much better for it.  The table I had planned to give to a CS is just not in good enough condition so I dismantled it, I managed to get some bits in the bin but the table top will have to wait until I get someone to help me take it to the tip.  I'm a bit annoyed at myself as I could have given it away months ago but was being indecisive - it's been stored outside wrapped in tarpaulin but the rain got to it and now its no use to anyone.  I won't dwell on it but I will try to learn from it.  

704.  Legs of table - bin
705.  Box used for storage.
706.  Reported missed bin collection.

Bit-by-bit - I do hope your DS is OK in his new flat 
GrannyKate - so sorry to hear about your DS' relationship problems - it must be so hard to see that.  Wishing you all well
Stellata - I hope you get your energy back soon - rest up in the meantime 

Love to anyone else who needs it