2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

vulpix

Hello and welcome wildrose. You have done so much already,and you have already worked out a plan of action. Slow and steady wins the race. I moved a year ago and the first thing I did was make a calm bedroom for when everything that needs doing seems overwhelming. Take care of yourself and your back. Xxx 
 

 Quite a bit was discarded yesterday when the sheds were refilled. Electrical leads and stuff. Half a dozen concrete flags went to the tip along with about a ton of stone that the lads said wasn’t good enough for the remaining jobs. Also out a Harris tweed handbag. Just not me. 

 In a linen top. £ 4 from the chazzer. Couldn’t resist. 

 I think the robins at work have a second clutch of babies. 🐣

 Vx

ps. Had a customer at work today from Florida. He gave me £5 tip. What a lovely thing. I am only front of house not even a guide. ❤️

florianatwobob

Welcome aboard @Wildrose! Having waded our way through (and still up to our knees in places) of family stuff you’ve made excellent progress and are formulating a plan of attack (I’m a project manager in real life and the plan is often half the battle). We also acquired bits when family died and have done through them time and again, refining what we’ve kept. It can be exhausting! 

I’m also a two shed owner, one the original, has been designated ‘the doing shed’ and holds the garden tools, power tools, paint, flower pots etc. The ‘top shed’ aka ‘the far pavilion’ (it’s far from pavilion like) hold the xmas deccies, an exercise bike, mini trampoline,  extra cleaning products and the random bits that normally live in the loft. Giving them a role really does help. 

The loft is empty as it will eventually be converted to 2 rooms and I refuse to put anything up there. It is my hill to die on. 

Floss

I've just discovered that the benign neglect administered to my resting orchids (that have flowered and are in recovery!) has resulted in a flower spike 😁 No idea what colour it will br until they open though, 75% chance of white with the other option being fuschia pink & white.

short_bird

2638: 50 emails deleted
2639-2665: items to bin or recycling including a couple of polo shirts from former employers
2666-2667: mixed recycling and paper/card recycling escorted to the outside bin.
Doing OK with the spend free days - well, apart from Record Store Day yesterday! 
August is always a quiet month so need to make some sort of plan and have a financial tidy up and audit.

florianatwobob

Excellent news @Floss 🌸 benign neglect has resulted in this one throwing up 2 spikes and another branch of flowers off this one’s original spike  

It’s white and cerise too but a bit hard to see as it’s against the light. 

weenancyinAmerica

Wildrose - I did the same thing move back into parents' house having bought out two sisters. Left me to deal with the clutter. Then a friend moved in with everything from her parents' home - she didn't sort it first. Still trying to sort out the mess. Have given tons of furniture away and still have more to go. Take it easy. A little at a time. 

One of the posters on this website talked about buying bamboo canes for garden stakes - maybe you could sell the bamboo as a side crop if you can't get rid of it. It took my father years to get rid of ours and it was only a small stand of bamboo. Good luck.

TC77

Loving the flower pics.
Welcome aboard @Wildrose be kind to yourself as sounds as if you are doing alot and coping with alot too.
Friends ask how we're getting on with my dad's house but apart from what I did at the start of the month (tip and charity runs) nothing on my side and little on my brother's. I'm going down in July, and offered to post pics I took of items but DB wants to do this (1970s dinghy  - or what's left of it in the garden) and oars and other bits in the garage with stacks of wood. We can't get the big shed open and not ventured in the loft!
At home 9 tester pots of paint collected, abit of gardening, some emails sent, and a little digital decluttering, and phoned bank, blueberries and tomatoes from the market, all washed and sorted, and ood food out etc 
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QueenJess

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger thanks for my medal. It’s very timely as I did finish tidying the bedroom! I’m now onto the bathroom, although not too much to do there. Just found a few bits and pieces to declutter and still have a stash of things to use up.

I have started a long list of things which are things that will take longer and need to be done over time - like finding a new lamp or fixing something that may or may not require a trade to do it. Just need to make sure I consult it regularly and do things from it.

Small decluttering progress today:
2488-2490 bathroom supplies used up
2491-2492 bathroom cleaning stuff

mhagster

wildrose I’ll also say hello. I too have just joined the thread here and it’s a good place to record what you’re doing/have already done/want to do. I post every day on 5 old style pleasures and have done for over 12 years. But as I’m emptying my late mums home this feels a better place to diarise what I’m doing as it definitely ain’t a pleasure. 

And what I’ve found is that you feel you’re making more mess to actually clear a space/drawer/cupboard/box as you’re bringing it out when it’s previously been hidden from sight. But even a few weeks in I can see progress. I know there’s lots gone out already and still lots to be done and the whole emotional gamut of clearing mum’s stuff and acknowledging it was important to her once. As I say often ooooft!

And after the rooms there’s a loft a shed a garage and a jungle of a garden. Ooooft indeed 😆

Good luck! 

nannywindow

Hi Wildrose welcome, they are a fantastic bunch on here, always helpful, encouraging and nothing is ever too much bother. Do what you can, when you can as we can't all be hares, it took a while for me to realise that I'm even slower than the tortoise now, I'm more slug like 😂 but I am slowly decluttering. Decorating my house has been a decluttering frog for at least 5 years and I've only managed to paint a radiator ( a challenge set for me by MrsSD which nudged me into action, she's such a gem ) then one room was finished last month, so you are not alone worrying about the state of the house. Plenty more rooms to be done here plus a few outside jobs to tackle too. My garden too is an ongoing project. I personally don't count numbers out, but it does help some people.
floriana fabulous orchids, you must have said sweet nothings in it's ear ! 
Yesterday we finally put all the caravan cushions back in the caravan, so there is lots of space in a walk-in cupboard now. We emptied the 'van in Oct 2019 as we like to store it empty and we haven't used the 'van since Covid as DH is on the vulnerable list. There are still lots of items in a shed ( water, waste containers etc) so I'm hoping to put them back sometime this week. 
Out today the flowers given to me by DD for my birthday, they lasted really well as it was in the first week of June. Dad came for the day and took his presents and card home, so they have gone too. I used up lots of party food from the freezer for our tea, they were bought for Easter but were never cooked and we decluttered half a bottle of sparkling wine, shhh! the rest is secreted in the fridge 😉. I recycled a glass vinegar bottle which I though it was re-fillable but sadly not, don't they make them any more? An empty tissue box, a pile of leaflets delivered by the postman and 4 booklets (annual statements) 2 from the bank and 2 from the building soc. Binned a broken bungee chord and a pen. Decluttered about a doz emails and lots of recorded programmes from the TV planner.
Take care all, I shall send hugs to those in need 🤗. Happy decluttering !
nan