2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

roundtuit

3 x shorthand notebooks - take to work
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florianatwobob

Lifted some paving to help the sparky when he comes to work his magic. 

The building work has meant I have a misplaced WWI diary transcript (Gt Grandad) and a great uncle has gone AWOL (well his picture has). He died in 1943 and DNA has just turned up his gt grandson. They’ve not seen a picture of him. I suspect the AWOL gt grandad and Gt uncle are ‘somewhere safe’ for winter research. We just can’t remember the safe place…….

roundtuit

Boofle gift bag - gift bag stash

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vulpix

Floriana those precious things will reveal themselves from their safe place eventually. 🤔

 roundtuit I am not surprised that you have shed a tear today. So much is changing for you very quickly. You are doing great. X

 We have had a visitor this afternoon. An old colleague/ friend of Mr V’s. We have had a good catch up and he has left with a large monitor. Yess! Also passed on to our neighbours a bag of blister packs for her school’s fundraiser and some pieces of wood for her fire which were packing in the door window. 

 Every day is a decluttering day. 

 Vx

roundtuit

vulpix - thank you xx

3 snapshot sized photos - to go upstairs with photo stash
2 x primary school class photos (DS) added to my FB page and the school's FB page then placed in a wrapper with 4 secondary school single portraits of DS - keep
1 photo - DS
1 photo - put up on wall unit. (Black and white picture of DS in Lower or Upper 6th Form....not sure which.)

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florianatwobob

They will surface @vulpix but it’s bugging me that I can’t find them. 

On the other hand we have another part of the WWI diary that needs to be transcribed which has quite an impassioned section on 1916 French farming practices (Gt Grandad’s immediate family were farmers) compared to English techniques. 

TC77

@florianatwobob.. I know those safe places.. I have too many of them and hoping many things will reveal themselves.

Zimmer and lamp picked up from my dad's, sorted by me but handed over by DB.
Suitcase full of empty jars etc and a few clothes taken to the donation hub.

Few things listed for free and sale...does seem very time consuming!

Hoping to try the electric blanket later.

Cleared out most of the freezer but still have a little more to do.  Trying to do one thing that I can see as well as tinkering around the ages. Clothing packed ready to return - underestimate my size! just couldn't squeeze myself in, I still have images of myself some years ago

2 hour round journey taking DD2 to football and at kick off referee called it off due to biblical scale rain - would have been 3rd week being drenched!  

Also sorted appts and notes on the fridge.

Hope people taking care as it's getting darker and colder. Given in to putting the heating on.

QueenJess

Started spring cleaning the living room including sorting out a huge amount of tech/wires that have been cluttering up the kitchen for years. Also did a little bit more of the kitchen, although barely scratched the surface of that one!

More bits gone doing this and general tidying up:
4736 - broken fuse
4737-40 - DD old toys
4741-46 - wires no longer needed
4747-49 - kitchen biscuit cutters
4750 - book
4751 - paper
4752-54 - DS stuff

Also listed a bunch of stuff on buy nothing, so hopefully I can start making things slightly tidier rather than making it worse as I am curently!

GrannyKate

Just caught up on posts and checking in.  Had extra children this weekend so not much done and they wrecked the tidying I had done.  

1209 All photos downloaded and saved 
1210 Fridge oddments used up 
1211 Zoom meeting done and papers recycled
1212 All November cards written and only one left to post
1213 Fluorescent light to tip (they have special collection point) and metal casing in recycling
1214 Random magazine and parking tickets (found in car) recycled whilst I was at the tip
1215 Arranged for surveyor to come back Thursday about the second bathroom problems - hope they can get started on redecorating and flooring the other rooms. 

Quiet couple of days once I have decluttered GCs to school in the morning.  Need to get out and tidy the garden but too wet this weekend. 

roundtuit

Morning all xx 

Last day off before I return to the paid stuff.
Before I came down I had a shufti about in RoD. I didn't mean to do so. My intention was to empty a box with some books in it,  put the bag containing Scalectrix type track etc into the box (said bag being of the 'giving up the ghost' variety - and liable to surrender said ghost halfway down the stairs!) and bring down the track. But I was distracted.....picked up a few odds and ends from the floor, managed to reach a box that had been completely unobtainable before....a gorgeous table lamp still boxed within a box. ??? That'll look nice on my bedside cabinet (if I ever find it). 
What I did discover is that, below the cupboard which I know is stacked with board games, there are two drawers!!! Who put those there? And when??? I had a sneak peep into the top drawer and closed it again. Quickly.

Plan for today is:
Put track & gubbins into a healthy bag
Search mmas bag for items related to track
Give track & gubbins to DS's Dad to sell (if he can) or bin (if he can't).

And
Continue to sort through the contents of the LR cupboard that I started yesterday. I'm hoping it will be easier after a night sleeping on it, so to speak. Anyone who's been following my progress will notice that it slowed r-i-g-h-t down yesterday. 

Odd. Things that I expect to affect me don't,  and then I'm knocked sideways by something totally random. Like notebooks, stack thereof. (I already have a shelf rammed full of notebooks below the cupboard- I didn't know there were more inside the cupboard!!!.) SABLE? How many notebooks are enough for a 62 year old who had 2 grandmas live into their 90s and at least 3 great grandmas who did too. I mean, that's possibly a lot of years left to need a notebook. Don't you think?

Part of me has decided to cs the more utilitarian notebooks and just keep the nicer ones. The other part of me has that part in a choke hold and is threatening to pile driver it. (Taking DS and his mates to watch the wrestling when he was younger gave me ideas 🤣)

Another brew, breakfast, and get dressed. I'll do that first.
Wishing you all a good week.
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