2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

810.  a bucketful of confidential waste (I'd got behind with my shredding and there was too much to shred so I'm using the bucket of water technique.  
811.  Session 4 of my EMDR therapy.  We've done all the prep now - next session we're starting the treatment. 

812. DS’ holey socks
813. DS’ holey pants 
814. Another bucket of confidential waste - caught up now !

short_bird

2289-2292: 200 emails deleted - I sorted out my inbox so everything goes into one and TBH it seems a lot easier for me to use that way.
2293-2307: items to recycling or bin, will need 2 trips to the bins downstairs
2308: another carrier to return to the supermarket delivery chap tomorrow.

Time to make a start on the 21-22 tax paperwork, I think it's pretty much all here. Will soon find out.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Hi everyone sorry I haven’t posted in a couple of days. We are exhausted - up way earlier than we are used to, riding all day & then dinner & usually in bed & asleep by 10:00 p.m. 
We are up at 5:10 a.m. tomorrow as another full day planned. Trying to make written notes & it will be an epic post in about 3 days 🤞We are having a marvellous time - temperature in Joshua Tree National Park reached 92F 🥵 
Anyway lights out & try to drop off immediately 😴 

MrsSD

GrannyKate

@bit_by_bit Hugs appreciated. 
Mrs SD - enjoy your holiday - we can hear about it when you get back.

793 Emails deleted etc
794 Committee frog dealt with
795 Signed up for a meeting
796 Downloaded lots of original family history records which went on line last week
797 Mowed lawns
798 Weeded
799-803 Bags of garden waste to recycling  - lovely gentleman insisted on helping me at tip even though he was a good 10 years older than me
804 DS2 trimmed very tall hedge and large bush (no birds nests in either - I checked first)
805 DS2 fixed hinge on kitchen cupboard door

bit_by_bit

@vulpix. I have a jar of white and blue broken pottery dug up from the allotment  I do have plan for it, homest 

5 days to be fully holiday ready  Getting excited. 

Its bedrroms and batrooms upstairs for a clean, gardening and picking up my spare glasses today. Every time I go on holiday I manage to lose or break them so a spare pair is essential. Also a visit to the loft to get the hug holiday bags 

QueenJess

Changed my decluttering activities a bit for this week ahead.  Although most of it is now finishing tidying up and the very dull digital decluttering, I found myself still slightly stressed about the physical stuff.  Although overall the amount of stuff in the house is ok now, I asked myself why I was a bit stressed with it and quickly made a note of the areas I disliked and were a bit rammed in.  It was actually a bit eye opening to see, but also gives me some direction with the decluttering.

So this week is more digital decluttering and also picking through the areas on the dislike list.  Some I can't do too much about as I am storing excess clothes/shoes/toys for DD from DS.  Eventually that will go as they won't grow as fast and I'm sure they won't want to share such things.  I am trying to ignore it as it is a temporary annoyance really and will see what else I can do.  It might seem minor, but my life is reasonably stressful/time short and this is a thing I can control and hopefully means other tasks (like tidying etc) will become much easier and quicker.  As I work from home, I like to get up away from the screens relatively often, so will do 5 mins of tidying/decluttering throughout the week (or other chores) so I maximise my weekends with the kids.

Logged onto the local buy nothing group and saw a post about wanting bubble wrap.  Well obviously I jumped on that as I hate to ever bin anything.  Got rid of a massive bag full!

Anyway, progress today already as below.  Digital decluttering I tend to do in the evenings if I'm watching TV as lets face it, it is incredibly dull!

1833 - 1853 - Bubble wrap

1854 - 1855 - Bathroom stuff used up

1856 - free water bottle not needed (grr.. I never accept this stuff, but DH always does and it sits there for years before I eventually get rid of it)

1857 - make up I never use and is very old

1858 - Boots which are so uncomfortable I never wear them

1859 - 1887 - digital bookmarks deleted

bargainbetty

My neighbour returned the spare bed. I had kind of hoped they would want to use it for longer, but it is currently pride of place in my lounge as I need to leave it downstairs so I can paint the room before refilling it!

More stuff into the charity bag though. I got a facial steamer upon doctors advice to help my lungs during a bout of Covid - now I am fully recovered I have no need of it and refuse to keep it just in case (I hate facial treatments where they steam you and just get overheated and grumpy).

Working my way through slowly. 

Looking forward to hearing the holiday stories @Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Thrifty_Taylor

Glad you're enjoying your holiday Mrs SD!

Sorry I've been AWOL for a while, have been reading along, but not totally caught up yet.

270 sweatshirt
271 coat sold
272-86 15 books sold
287 DVD to CS
288 sweatshirt to CS
289-92 2 eboy sales & packaging
293-303 10+ CDs
304-17 7 sales & packaging
318 packaging
319-21 3 pairs of trousers to CS
322 u/u facemask
323-6 3 eboy sales & packaging
327-30 50+ emails
331-2 eboy sale & packaging
333 t-shirt to CS
334-6 2 eboy sales & packaging
337-60 20 eboy sales & packaging
361 notebook used up
362-8 3 eboy sales & packaging
369-70 eboy sale & packaging
371-2 2 t-shirts to CS
373-9 7 books returned to friend

short_bird

2309: 1 GB data deleted.
2310-2315: items to bin and recycling.
2316-2320: 3 bags of rubbish and 2 bags of recycling to the downstairs bins.
2321-2330: 10 GB data deleted.

oceanspirit

Found out what was biting me … bed bugs!  It took me several weeks to get there and in less than 48 hours of calling pest company the population exploded and they were running about during the day.  Have decamped to OH’s conservatory as every single room had to be fumigated and I am not allowed to vacuum or clean anything for 14 days.  I am hoping it hasn’t been spread to OH’s - only time will tell.  He is doing a hurried declutter and spring clean as a preventative measure.

Am feeling somewhat shocked as the only place I have been recently is hospital outpatients, A&E and doctors surgery so don’t know where they came from.

So major declutter is being forced upon me.  Skip is coming tomorrow and already have several bin bags ready to go.  Loads of washing clothes, towels and bedding to be done in the coming days and once the 14 days are up the whole place will need to be emptied and cleaned as apparently there will be a sticky residue from the insecticide and there will be dead insects to clean up.

With my chronic fatigue, arthritis, related mobility restrictions plus other health issues which after 6 months are still undiagnosed (hence the hospital appointments) I just do not need this.  I am hoping to sort out some sort of help once the 14 days are up but there is no space in my brain as yet to think about it.

I am glad I started decluttering some time ago however am sad that it wasn’t finished as this would have been so much easier to deal with with less stuff lying about.

Sorry for the long post - it has been a trying 6 months and am crossing my fingers that I can get through it without a fatigue crash and hopefully be back in my own bed in about 3 weeks. 

Does anyone know of a good all round steam cleaner that isn’t too big and heavy to use?  OH would like to get one as part of his preventative measures and it would be good to use in my place to ensure any strays don’t set up a new colony.  Apparently given the right conditions the bugs can last up to a year without feeding so I want to be sure I never have to go through this again.