2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

roundtuit

I'm struggling with this bag. How bizarre.

If DS doesn't want the guitars - and why would he? - I think  they should go in the bin. One has over stretched strings; the other a corroded battery compartment. I'm waiting to hear what he says......he doesn't want them. Bin. They're in. And breathe...

Goldberg belt - DS (he wants to see it. It may then go to cs, or he may take it with him. Either way it'll be out of my house.)

Toddler's tool set: missing tape measure, and DS has scribbled on the case - tools bagged for cs / case binned.

Telly Tubbies fuzzy felt. The handbag is in my mmas bag. (So is the plectrum for one of the guitars - so that can be binned now). Plan to retrieve handbag and put set in cs bag.

And that leaves my hair dryer - last seen in 2003. When we left the flat. OK. Breathe. Diffuser and attachment - bin / hair dryer - small electrical recycling/ box - recycle.

I'm going to find the fuzzy felt handbag and give myself a breather...

Rxx

roundtuit

Tinky Winky has been reunited with his handbag. Now that's a sentence I don't write very often 🤣

Plectrum - bin
Play food plastic tin of sausages - bin (his mates left the building yesterday)

4 x wooden blocks placed with Timberrrr game on top of cupboard in RoD

My mmas bag system works 😊

Had a scavenge in RoD and brought  down: 
Random piece of paper - recycle 
Floppy disc x 3 - bin

And a lever arch file to be gone through. I must have done an IT course at some point in the past. 🤔. Or maybe DS did. Either way I think we're both past 'An Introduction to Word'. I suspect the contents will all be recycled but I'll see if there's anything useful in there before disposing thereof.

Rxx

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I've been decluttering the tops of wardrobes, (in all bedrooms) and bedroom cupboards, the past week, boxes of all kinds of 'stuff' .... and i mean all kinds !

Old Christmas decs, pillowcases, duvet covers, cushions and covers, curtains  ... the list goes on.
I choose to put it on the Freecycle site, in my local, area rather than other ways/places.
It's a liberating feeling getting shot of the things i thought i'd use again but haven't in 5 years so unlikely to again - senseless to keep it all.

short_bird

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

...& shared a couple of Scotch eggs - peasant & rabbit... 

Shocked emoji here: ________ 

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Hahaha, them there  peasants are tasty 😲🤣🤣🤣

Siebrie

'Meet Roundtuit - your experienced guide to urban mining'

Husband's friend has bought a truck to export to their African country and allows us to fill it up. So, out:

- 4-seater sofa. Excellent quality, but in need of re-upholstering and we can't find a reasonably priced upholsterer here.

- 3 banana boxes of clothes

- antique German 4-door wardrobe. I love it, but it's slightly too small for the 2 of us (and husband has more clothes than dds and I together), and it won't really fit after the renovation of our top floor. It is very heavy, but can be flatpacked. We will wrap it in curtains we no  longer use or have bought on sale and never used.

- pull-out sofa bed that we're actually sleeping on during the upstairs renovation, and a spare cover. We will be sleeping on a mattress on the floor until our bedroom is finished, hopefully this Sunday.

- dining room table (cherry wood, 60s scandinavian design, unpractical with the diagonal legs)

- 6 dining room chairs (good quality but clunky, need painting and re-upholstering, see above)

- sound set (sound bar, 3 speakers) husband was given

roundtuit

😘

Contents of file:
paper- recycled 
plastic pockets - take to work

File - binned. It was wonky.

Turns out it was me that took the IT course! In 2002. I remember some of the examples in the coursework,  but I don't remember actually attending the course. After my breakdown in 1998 there are big gaps in my memory for many years. I must have been running on auto-pilot. I can remember the GCSE courses that I took in 1995 / 1996. Vividly. But not any IT course. Shrugs and moves on....

I've wrapped the birthday presents for my niece and great niece ready to drop off at DB's this evening or tomorrow evening. Delivery man has just knocked with DB's Christmas present. More cardboard to recycle. 
Every little helps

Rxx

grandmanerd

Went to the All Souls service at mum's church yesterday evening and felt better afterwards. I felt vaguely unwell and apprehensive when I woke yesterday so decide to stay in and take things gently. The weather was horrible which didn't help.

I'm seeing DS2, darling daughter- out-law and the baby on Sunday at a large Garden Centre. It's close to me but on the other side of the Lancs so it's in posh Cheshire. It's expensive but they do lovely Christmas displays, there's a range of eating options (my turn to pay) and lots to see and do whether it's fine or chucking it down. There are quieter areas (including a woodland walk) so if baby gets overwhelmed we can retreat to a quieter bit. My mum and her partner used to take my sons there quite often  (they have fish ponds and play areas) so it's the start of a new tradition.

I was going to ask about advent calendars and stockings but as it's taking ages to finish the craft projects I've already started, I haven't mentioned anything (I've made embroidered Christmas stockings for many relatives' children and we had a hm advent calendar when the boys were young - when I was broke I used scraps of coloured foil to make tiny parcels which each contained 2 chewitt sweets). I didn't know if the had a colour scheme for their decorations but last weekend I bought a little fox with wearing a jumper as the baby's special decoration -it's natural coloured (her nursery has a woodland theme) so shouldn't clash with anything.

Sunday was a tentative arrangement which then got firmed up so I've ordered DS2's token Christmas present and will  wrap the things I already have (baby's is a basket with teething items and sensory toys, all in natural materials) they only have a small house and have quite a lot of big items already. I'm expecting to see them again before the big day but in case the winter bugs come back for round 27 (I should have seen them 5 weeks ago but didn't feel 100% and have been ill for 4 of the intervening weeks). I bought wrap last year mum and I were supposed to spend Christmas with DS1 and DS2 and partners at DS1's house (my ex too, but they only told me that after I'd accepted). The year before we couldn't go because of lockdown and last year mum made me cancel 2 weeks before because I wasn't picking up from the bug she'd passed onto me in August. DS1 threw a wobbly - he'd taken time off work to clean, shop and was doing all the kitchen as well as hosting his dad in a non-adapted house, all I had to do was turn up.

Anyway he messaged me last night to invite me again (third time lucky) so I've said yes. He sounds much happier (he had a hissy fit over his dad's funeral arrangements and pretty much hasn't spoken to any of us since and we've all just left him to cool down) and he has paid back the money he borrowed from DS3 so it looks as though he might be a bit more sorted financially (he's not fully recovered from his 2 Brexit related redundancies and he'd just been told he was  going to be made a permanent Civil Servant (after working for various departments on and off for years as an outsourced agency worker when they decided to get rid of 1 in 5 of them). 

DS2 is doing a huge family Christmas with his gf's mother and her partner in N Ireland - her sister who also had a summer baby is coming all the way from Australia so it's a big deal. I'd already said it would be easier to travel with a baby for the first couple of years so it was okay if they chose to spend time elsewhere (gf's dad lives down South and her grandma's in Scotland - I wasn't to tell anyone about the baby until they'd done the round Britain tour to tell all the grand-parents - my ex was in N Wales but died 2 month's before the birth).

I've only done little bits of tidying up so far. Finished taping the middle section of the lights, realised that the box for screws was on the window bottom (it has space for 4 drawers, the weekend job was sorting out one drawer, 2 more drawers only have a few bits in, something in each compartment but smaller categories) so I've emptied and wiped it, put it in position under the stairs and then put the drawers back in. 

I've emptied a cupboard as I 'd seen something in there which might (and indeed was) Beloved's mixer so I've added  that and the soda steam (mine but they can take it) to the gadget shelf. There was a small box in there with yet more tinned fruit and 7 cans of corned beef - I think I'd started to get it ready for the food bank - I did a reverse advent calendar for them and a pile of kitchen papers - rolls of foil, cling film (I don't use it, I only finished my brother's last year and he died in 2007), greaseproof paper and assorted freezer bags, so I'll make up a kitchen starter set for them. Sat outside to eat but it was trying.

Something will be coming in (sorry). I ordered DS2's present and went with the free 30 day prime trial (will cancel it on the 30th) so it will be here tomorrow. The offer on boxes of cans of pop at Tessimo has ended now so they're back to £10 instead of £7.50 (I had to buy 4 cans at 88p each last night as neither of the two nearest shops had large bottles, it did help my throat). I checked the next day delivery option (used it quite a lot at mum's - came in useful when I found some of mum's birthday guests had other dietary requirements than being vegetarian) and they had much larger packs for £10 so I went back to my Tessimo order (can make changes until midnight on the day before delivery) took the cans off the order (the rest will come tomorrow evening) and redid them today and they arrived in just over an hour (I've already drunk several litres of tap water today).

Well I have a list of items I've been looking at for anything from 2 months to a couple of years (mum's account closed when she died) so I've just ordered some garden incinerators and fruit and nut trees. I wanted metal bins rather than plastic but then wondered about drilling holes (the ones I have are quite old, the dolly tub was older than me so have developed holes over the years) so I've gone with incinerators (still 90 l) and I will line the bottom with pieces  of weed  proof membrane which will keep the soil in but excess water will go  through that and out of the holes. They won't be coming in the house or even in my yard. I want a row of bins, one tree per bin, in front of the railings separating our backs from the little car park behind the secondary road.

It used to be a brick garage (at one time it house a school dinner van) but then the gap at the back was built over (hoodlums used it as a short cut after causing mayhem in the town centre) and we got this fence across the end of the back which mostly stops people but we get car park rubbish blowing against it on our side and rubbish from the shopping street blowing up against it on the other side (that street is mostly takeaways so we get all the disposable containers dropped by late night revellers on the way home from the pub. I've been litter picking it for a few years but it's yet another job that's getting harder. I want to put a roll of chicken wire across the metal  bars which will keep half the rubbish on the far side of the fence and a row of trees in bins on my side which should keep the litter in one place for me to deal with. 

It will actually make things tidier as I will set the bins up and then move smaller containers of soil across to fill them and the trees don't require much maintenance. The bins are galvanised so I can use them as they are for now and paint them when they start to get a bit worse for wear. The smaller containers will stack inside one another and I'll have more room to work out a new garden plan (ball wall repair, new fence and gate and hopefully the 2 new washing line posts are all happening this month), I will be able to move the trees using the dolly truck, if I need to (some of those I've brought from mum's have been housed in bins for 5 years). I need to buy a roll of chicken wire but I think I've spent enough for today.

Two small boxes have been emptied and binned. will start on the next batch of rubbish/ paper/ cans and bottles.

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

927 & 8 - 2 x packs of meat to friend (neighbour passed on a food box they'd ordered as they had to go away unexpectedly and DS & I don't eat meat)
929.  bag full of spices / sauces that we won't use, from above food box
930-4 - 5 x leftover parts of covid tests (4 complete put away) 

Finished work for the week yesterday - it was a very full 3 days as every single client showed up and last night I went on a course.  Woke up feeling quite down and low energy but thankfully it wore off after a bit of pottering and a couple of phone calls with friends.  Then I made the mistake of sitting on the sofa and fell asleep until after 1pm.  The only productive things I've done are caught up on work admin and associated shredding, put washing away and bought food for dinner.  All I want to do now is to snuggle on the sofa & watch a nice movie .  Any suggestions for good films on Netflix?  

935.  Sympathy card to neighbour
936.  Vitamin D - ( bought in error - way too low a dosage)
937.    broken side plate (I have replaced this same plate 3 times now!!) 
938.  Cardigan - bought in CS quite recently - it's kind of nice but falls strangely 
939.  Bin full of shredding. 
940. Empty paint pot
941 - posted card to Niece 

Ha!  Mrs SD - I didn't know that "coddling" was a cooking term !  Definitely not the kind of coddling I wanted! 

TC77

Couple of frogs moving slowly.. gathering rubbish for bin collection. Realise there are some frogs I have totally neglected and mix of apprehension & overwhelm means I haven't addressed issues which will become bigger frogs!