2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

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florianatwobob said:

You can now gift aid goods, Cancer Research and Scope have both signed up and I get letters letting me know how much my goods have sold for and what they’ve been able to claim in gift aid. I had the paperwork come through from
one of our local charities too recently. 

Interesting - I'll look into it.  Thanks, floriana

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks

2. Deal with Old Frogs & potential frogs ASAP but at least one on FROG Fridays.

3. Reduce/Restrict time watching TV during daylight hours 😉 AB2 playing zero - 20/9/2022

4. Declutter/Relocate one item every time I stand up.

5. Don’t put it down, put it away

6. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

Received an invite to a christening next month 🙂 As it is for the 3 of us & miles away, we will have to get there by train, taxi to the church + taxi to the lunch venue. Further investigation required 🙂 Dinner was steaks (cooked perfectly by DH) with oven chips, roasted tomatoes, fried onions, dry fried mushrooms, & peas. Delicious 🤤 Wudupa. DH went to bed at 10:00 p.m. & got up 3:45 a.m. to watch the MotoGP races being held in Japan. 

1592 - 1594 Kitchen recycling, glass jar, drinks cans - recycled 

1595 Kitchen detritus - binned

Please don’t feel pressured basketcase 😉 

Excellent decluttering daisy_1571 👏 One Gold Star ⭐️ on its way for reaching 500 🙂 Very pleased to hear that you are starting to notice spaces 👏

QueenJess, please book your opticians appointment 🙏 & please try to get some rest & give yourself some TLC 🙏  There is plenty of room in the TLC Carriage. Well done on completing your humongous work frog & great decluttering 👏

Thanks for the useful information Floss 👏

TC77, like you I struggle with official paperwork - never quite know what to keep 😔 The stall at the Vintage Market sounds like less hassle than online selling 😉 Hope you had a lovely evening with your friends 🙂

It really does sound a faff, basketcase 😔

Thanks for that florianatwobob 👏 Now you mention it, I used to get a letter re donated goods sold from Spitalfields Crypt Trust + I was asked if I gift aided (so left name & address) when I dropped off a bag of clothes & hand knitted items at British Red Cross.

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Decluttering Target: 1595/2022

2022 - 1p Savings Challenge: Running Total £379.22

Floss

basketcase said:

Floss said:

@basketcase As long as you pay tax, if you sign up for gift aid with the charity shop you donate to, they can claim the tax back & it can be used in a tax return (if you do them). You can sign up to more than one charity too.

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I'd not heard of this before, and it sounds like an awful faff.

It is not a faff, and benefits the charity so is well worth the 5 minutes to add your name & address to a form & sign to confirm you are a tax payer. If you complete a tax return there is a section to declare any amounts which are confirmed in writing by the charity/ies (and you can sign up to more than one).

GrannyKate

Hi re Gift Aid you don't really have to do anything at all as they do it.  I give my name and postcode in whenever I drop stuff off where I have registered for Gift Aid - the legalities require them to send you a letter once a year saying what they've sold and giving you the opportunity to claim money back.  I guess no-one ever does.  I had a letter from Oxfam yesterday saying they had sold some items for £10.65 but were able to claim another £2.66 because I had gift aided things.   The only advantage to me was that when I was paying higher rate tax (doing consulting work) my accountant claimed the higher rate tax back for charitable donations (from HMRC not the charity).  I just file the letters or keep emails.  

DS2 got active and has been doing some sorting.  No sign of contractors starting work on leak damage.  They have asked me to pay the excess though.  

1098 General tat from garage
1099 General tat from garden cabin
1100 Cleared some runner beans away
1101 Large cardboard box 
1102 Large bag of plastic bags to recycling at Mr T
1103 Garden cushions to loft inside some zip up blanket bags that were spare ( much better than the individual bags which were recycled above)
1104/1113 DS2 Books to CS 
1114 Various items returned to loft
1115 Spare folding chairs to loft
1116 Broken crockery binned - plate and mug this week
1117 Plastic toy box to CS
1118/1129 Box of plugs, wires etc to recycling
1130 Broken scooter to recycling
1131 Toy push a long to recycling
1132 Random collection of smaller cardboard boxes to recycling
1133 Unused decorative lights to CS
1134 Pop up beach tent which I can never fold up again
1135 Swimming bits for toddlers
1136 Bag of clothes to CS

Floss

@GrannyKate I've always paid any excess after work has been completed, maybe suggest that you wait to pay when the work is ongoing rather than in advance?

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, well this jab has left me feeling pretty rough. It came on me about 3 hours after the jab and is still with me this morning. Dosed up with paracetamol and hot drinks and just lounging around listening to radio 4. 
Take care everyone

Wednesday2000

I am going through our wardrobes again today as my husband wore a jumper he hadn't worn before the other day and it had odd puffy sleeves so that will be donated along with whatever I can find.

I had to declutter my brown ankle boots this week as I wore them for the first time in ages in the rain and realised the sole on one is completely destroyed. There weren't expensive enough that I would consider repairing them.

I also decluttered almost £200 to the fence guy yesterday, Not my favourite form of decluttering!

Wednesday2000

Liverpool_Anne said:

Hi all, well this jab has left me feeling pretty rough. It came on me about 3 hours after the jab and is still with me this morning. Dosed up with paracetamol and hot drinks and just lounging around listening to radio 4. 
Take care everyone

I hope you feel better soon. I have booked my Covid booster for next weekend. I think I felt ill after at least one of the jabs so I will take paracetamol too.

vulpix

Hey hey!

 I suffered two nights of insomnia so have been fit for nowt. Went to bed at 9 last night and Mr V woke me at 10:30 today. I feel vaguely human now. 

 All my plans were abandoned as I just cannot work through tiredness like some people can. Plan for today is to finish painting the first coat on 3 sheds. Another undercoat on the bookcase and give a rose plant some TLC. My neighbour’s mil died the other day and the potted rose was the last thing they bought her. My neighbour is renowned for giving plants a very hard, short life. 

 Feel better soon Liverpool Anne. 

 Thank you for the reminder about gift aid at charity shops. As we no longer pay tax we shall have to stop gift aiding. Or maybe give donations to someone else to take in. 

 I had better get on. Sitting here with coffee and amaretti isn’t very productive. 

 Oh by the way Mrs SD, I noticed in Lidl they were selling what looks very much like Bakewell pudding in their bakery department. They had an Italian name and I couldn’t read exactly what they were as I didn’t have my glasses. 🤣

 Another one here who’s optician appointment is long over due. 

 Have a nice day people. Vx 

florianatwobob

More shuffling and sorting today. 

DSis repainted the front doorstep after the replastering work took its toll on the paintwork. We’ve nearly finished the pot of doorstep paint though. DSis also finished the pot of hammerite on the letterbox. The door is looking quite smart for Winter

I’ve scrubbed the doormats again (the plaster is stubborn) and finally got the door number back on the door - it’s only been off and in the drawer for oooooohhhh 8 or 9 years!

I’m off this coming week and am planning on tackling some personal admin that has been left to drift  whilst the house has been the main focus this year. Might even tackle a frog or two.