2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

TC77

Debating how many cool packs one needs!

TC77

Did abit more but so much slower putting things away. Found v large bucket of paint all solid and empty tin from today. Need to sort out under the stairs too. But need to finish putting things back first. Did alot of like with like and some old candles, sticky labels no long er sticky etc out.felt abit like the old days sorting snf some things out !

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

Saturday has been dry but oh so cold 🥶 The sum total of my efforts today has been to write the neighbours’ Christmas cards, clear down a couple of programmes from the planner, a teeny bit of knitting, menu plan until next vegetable box delivered, write a shopping list & make dinner. Mainly I slept 🤣 DH went to sm & got cold 🙁 Sopping put away. Dinner was pork steaks (from freezer), mash, spring greens & roasted carrots. Wudupa.

2082 - 2087 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, cardboard box, paper packaging, 2 magazines - recycled 

2088 Kitchen detritus binned

oceanspirit, you are so right - a few extra lbs to keep us warm 😉 Here is to being dotty 😂 You have been very busy - excellent decluttering & munching of frogs 👏 Nothing wrong with spending money especially if it keeps your DSis on board with assisting you 😉 So lovely to hear that you are reaping the rewards of decluttering - being happier in your home is such a mental boost 😊 I also love that your DSis is using helping you to declutter as a template for her own decluttering 👏 One medal 🏅 for each of you 🙂 Sorry to hear that OH’s house sale chain has broken but everything crossed 🤞 that the chain can be revived asap.

Lovely to see you Liverpool_Anne 👋 and thank you for the lovely long post - it is really nice to catch up 😊 Shame about the green waste collection stopping over winter 😖 I must say that we are lucky - Tower Hamlets collect weekly throughout the year. Nice to meet up & catch up with ex colleagues - revives your spirits 😊 Hopefully your little set to with OH will lead to a more co-operative decluttering strategy 🤞 Excellent work on your food management 👏 & how nice to have the offer of more Bramleys. If I pop round later with milk & custard powder can I share your apple crumble 🙃😅 One medal 🏅 coming your way for the judicious use of the word ‘NO’ 😊Sorry to hear that your ex line manager has been put in the position of having to find a new job but I am sending him lots of good wishes & positive vibes that his new job will lead to a less stressful work life 🙂 The hawk walk sounds like a wonderful experience - no wonder you are looking forward to it 😊 I have also taken a note of the idea as I think it might be something my DSis would love to do - so thank you for mentioning it 👏 What a lovely, cheering last paragraph. 

grandmanerd, what a lovely use of the time taken to get to your hospital appointment - lots of wonderful memories 😊 All in all your hospital appointment sounds very positive - no operation required is always good news 😊 You had a very full day & I am very impressed that you then had the energy/determination/grit to go into the garden & continue work on the dismantling of the garden wall 🤩👏 You are putting me to shame with the amount of decluttering etc that you are doing - garden labouring, sorting & wrapping Christmas presents, arranging rent collection, organising family gatherings etcetera, etcetera, etcetera 👏 I am exhausted just reading about all your activity 😪 

Absolutely makes sense roundtuit 👏 Stacks of bags & boxes can be very oppressive 😬 so very well done on clearing so much out of the Room of Doom that you are now creating floor space 👏 Good luck with the ‘Zadok’ bag 🍀 I was curious so looked up the name - most famous was High Priest Zadok who aided Solomon 😉 Hope you can shift the headache 🤞 

GrannyKate, not good news about the lack of progress on the dispersal of the smell 😔 Everything crossed that someone turns up to inspect & offer up a more useful solution than the dehumidifier 🤞 Congratulations on your Premium Bond win 🥳 Not sure if you are aware but you can set up automatic reinvestment of any wins 🧐 Excellent decluttering 👏

Lovely post bit_by_bit 😊 Pleased to hear that vulpix is doing well & that you both enjoyed your visit to the posh craft fair 👏

Lovely to see you D123456789 👋 Excellent decluttering of LO’s craft stuff & empty boxes 👏 Good luck with clothing sales 🍀 What a wonderful charity shop.

Great decluttering roundtuit 👏 Hopefully time in the TLC Carriage will get rid of the headache 🤞

grandmanerd, sounds like a wonderful meal & what excellent gifts 😊 Spectacles seem to be an ongoing source of stress - perhaps a chain so that you know they are always round your neck 😉 As to the long time lodger, it sounds like your brother would like you to continue collecting the rent & then handing it over to him 😉 The lead up to your lovely lunch sounds very stressful but you have lived to tell the tale 😊 What a lucky baby - so many lovely gifts to look forward to 😊 Please take it easy when returning to your labouring work 🙏

Yippee to decorator finishing, TC77 🥳 Excellent work in the kitchen 👏 - it might take time but you have a plan, so I envisage a tidy & clutter free kitchen in the not too distant future 🙂 Just the two for our next hot summer 😉😉 Better to take your time putting things away - then you only do it once 😉 🙂

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Decluttering Target: 2088/2022

2022 - 1p Savings Challenge: Running Total £469.22

Fizz2015

Morning All,

A quick hello while I get a chance. Not much decluttering yesterday as ended up going to the library, a free Christmas Craft session at local church hall and put up our outside Christmas lights.

Today plans include finish Xmas shopping, wrap the presents (need to buy more paper). Write xmas cards and post a few.  Plus carry on sorting my clothes, declutter the ironing pile and sort DD's craft cupboard as seems to have overspilled across the dining room. 

Found a local charity that will take children's toys, clothes and equipment and nappies/toiletrie so will drop off more items later in the week and gives me a chance to find more to donate.

Back later to catch up with everyone's progress. Right now I need my morning Cuppa.

roundtuit

Hiya xx

Three books brought down from RoD - to be read and then donated to cs.

Rxx

nannywindow

My decluttering yesterday consisted of washing and drying 2 loads of clothes for DD as they are having a new kitchen 😲 It's been ongoing for a week and all they have so far is large empty room with new floor tiles. Hopefully it will be finished by xmas but if not they will come to us. I don't think I could cope as well with such upheaval when both parents work full time and have 2 growing children with ever open mouths 😮 Think the popty ping will want renewing as it will be worn out 🤣
Today I have done 2 loads of washing for ourselves, but it's still drying as I don't have a TD and the weather is brr with rain/sleet showers. Later DD is taking me to see her school choir in a carol concert at a local community centre and I'm looking forward to it! I'll hand over DD's washing and her birthday card and presents at the same time.
My Dad called in this morning because he's broken his hearing aid and was hoping that DH could fix it. No luck on the fixing so I'll call Audiology tomorrow for him as he's as deaf as a post without it. He did go home with a large tub of hm frozen corned beef stew though, so now I have a little bit more room in my freezer for more xmas goodies.
MrsSD I haven't written my xmas cards yet so you're ahead of me.
Hugs to everyone in need, take care all
nan 

EnergyShifter

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

EnergyShifter, I think you knew your hearing aid was in your ear all along - you just had to trick yourself into doing some decluttering 😉🙃 Excellent work 👏

Mrs SD - you have more faith in me than I deserve .  

OceanSpirit:  Your post really made me laugh and I feel MUCH better knowing I'm not alone in doing things like that 

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

1026. bracelet
1027. Laundry bag
1028. tupperware
1029. Cushion
1030 & 31 - 2 x earrings
1032 - 1039 - old socks to dusters
1040 - reconfigured bedroom

Been super-groggy all day due to the weather - I had no option other than to give into it so had an afternoon on the sofa dozing and watching Netflix.  Feel a bit better now I've had a chance to recharge.  

1041. old valance sheet
1042. Stress ball
1043  Set up new system for paperwork (inspired by "MinimalMom"
1044. Big bundle of notes  

grandmanerd

Okay my wall is down. Went out this morning and stacked up (20 bricks across and up to 5 layers but not yet full layers) all the bricks we'd already knocked out, to give DS3 some room to get at the remaining bricks. Took more bricks out (some are very loose, they just need teasing away from the rest), started filling buckets with the soil from the raised bed behind the wall and exposing the roots of the pyracantha and ivy stump (5 full buckets on one side). Lost count of the green waste - have 3 previously used bags with small twigs and lengths of folded bramble in, several chunks of ivy stumps and lengths of roots I chopped or twisted off and there's a  pile of cutting at the side of the bin  - was too tired to move the things on top of the bin and scoop them up by the time I finished.

Moved at least 7 bags of rubbish/ recycling to the bins but giving myself 12 points - 1 bag split open and I had to gather them all up, 2 bags needed careful sorting - most was for the paper bin but a few items were unsuitable and I also collected little bits from here, there and everywhere.

I've broken up at least 12 cardboard boxes (in the breaks when I sat down to have a drink. half filled a tree bin (2 old buckets weeded and contents put in on top of the liner, then a mulch layer, 3 more bins from around the yard) and it's currently on the dolly truck as I'm going to move it back nearer to the gate. 

I think I was outside for about 5 hours (came in for drinks, food ordered by DS3 and a tin of chunky soup later) and was totally exhausted. Came in and asked DS3 to do his thing with the sledgehammer. He complied, got the top (my repair) down in chunks (but still with the 3 layers and the coping stones together - biggest piece is over 4' long and more than a foot square), then held onto the gatepost and just kicked the remainder of the bricks down. DS3, Beloved and the bride to be have also managed to separate some of my tree bins that were jammed together. 

I came in and had a shower to warm me up and ease out some of the kinks, checked the time of the bereavement service which I thought was at 7 pm. No it was 3 pm on the website so half an hour under the covers and then getting myself together to go to the service (which was lovely). We'd been asked to write Christmas cards with the names of our loved ones so I did one each for my mum, the boys' father and my nieces' other grandma. These are to be left on the altar throughout advent and the festive services. Brian the dog was in church. He followed the vicar around as he talked to people, lay down in the choir stalls for the service and then trotted down the aisle after the vicar at the end and said goodbye to  people with the vicar as they left church.

I've just checked my diary entry for last Sunday and seem to have done most of what I had written down (apart from items I moved across to next week). Next week looks much more doable - just have to hope the gas man has some availability or that I can find someone else to do the boiler service. Some things I need to do, some things I'd like to do and some things (major domestic push) that I'd like to start but there will still be time if it carries on into the week after.

So I was going to give myself 100 points for moving next door's wall, another 100 for taking down our wall and I think I'll just add another 100 for all the recycling, boxes, green waste and multiple buckets of soil so 1490/ 2022.

GrannyKate

Not much done but we did go and buy a real Christmas tree and children saw Santa Claus.

1302 Two trees up and decorated with 'help'
1303 Some decorations I never use in charity bag and other boxes all back in loft
1304 Broken decorations binned

I need to clean tomorrow as place is a tip but demoralising with flooring missing and dust everywhere.