2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

charlies_tribe

To those struggling with losing posts, I always highlight and copy before I post so if it decides to log me out I dont lose everything, I was gutted everything I lost a huge post.

Well today didn't go as planned. Dd3 best friend was coming, she hadn't been since before Christmas. I had the things for her present (I've not long since started crafting) but hadn't actually made it. So made a start while DH went to his parents. He came back to say they go away this week, I thought it was next week and it's his mum's birthday in the week, so another crafting session this afternoon. Does mean a few things have left the house though.

Then this evening we've been getting ready for back to school tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to an early start.

128 100 emails deleted
129 another sweet tub
130-132 christmas present and some belongings left last sleepover to dd best friend
133 present made, wrapped and delivered to MIL

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi everyone

i'm taking a slow and steady approach ( emphasis on slow
This weekend i have:
Returned a coat to a shop for a refund
Sorted a pile of mail (junk mail or catalogues, not anything important) but had been neatly piled in my porch to deal with 'one day'
Thrown away OOD food - 2 items
Sorted a bag of random socks - matched up 5 pairs and put in drawers

love Deni 

skogar

Sue - sounds like you are doing great - well done on the weight loss.

Vulpix - I'm sure the quilt will be appreciated - you make such lovely things. Hope you are feeling better soon.

Liverpool Anne - Sorry to hear of your injured shoulder. Hope it heals quicky.

Bala - Making gret progress.

Vasco - Hope you had a lovely birthday meal.

Get well greetings to all the poorlies and a hug to anyone who wants one. It's great to see so may people new and oold making such super progress. 

Nothing to report on decluttering but all paperwork now ready for sending in on giant frog front so back on the decluttering waggon now.

StickyTheStickInsect

The loft clearout has stalled since I last posted, with the exception of 3 boxes downstairs that I have to keep moving off the table every time we have dinner because I have yet to do anything to them !

I did a tip run but it took two attempts as the queue was out of the tip and up the road the first time I went and I didn’t have enough time to wait. Managed to get rid of some random bed slats and bed supports, I’m not even sure which bed they belonged to. Also dumped various pieces of shelving which equates to about 2 bags.

On our local freebies site, I’ve got rid of a baby car mirror, 2 children’s puzzles, 2 large metal filing boxes and hanging files, a small side table, a hold-all, cross body bag and purse, a bag of Christmas stuff and 2 children’s games. All in all, it adds up to 8 bags of stuff so still moving in the right direction. So 21.5 bags now in total.

We need to give notice on the storage unit next week and all the stuff needs to be out but the end of the month. Almost all the stuff coming back is already sorted out, so there won’t be that much more to get rid of.

I’ve recently started using Vinted and have had much more success than I have previously done on bay, I’ve sold and sent 3 things this week which is more stuff out.

I’ve decluttering some money and brought myself a Fitbit and signed up to a challenge to walk the equivalent distance of Hadrian’s Wall. My appointments with the consultant for my ME last month were disappointing at best and he offered absolutely no solutions or suggestions whatsoever (this is probably why the last time I saw him was 2004), so I've decided to see if trying to be a bit more active helps at all. It won’t help my fatigue at all (possibly quite the opposite) but may help my mental health and it’s something I can do with the children too. If I don’t get any better by April when I have to return to my full hours at work, I’m not going to manage, so I have to try.

I agree that you need a gold star ⭐️ Mrs SD, the thread is moving so quickly and you still manage lots of fantastic cheerleading !

Stay safe everyone and hugs to those that need them xxx

Friday1989

I'd like to join. My flat has kind of turned into a mess. I have no routines and I'm just generally overwhelmed. In October I left a very chaotic job in a very messy and chaotic institution (it recently made the news for being that chaotic and failing...) I think that, combined with working through a pandemic, just wore me down so much I let everything slip. 

My decluttering is a combination of mental and physical so I'm aiming for 52 jobs which could be getting someone out to do something to the house or sorting through cupboards/drawers/bags/boxes. What counts as one thing is going to depend on how much effort it will take. 

These are the things I know need doing:
1) Get someone out to quote for roof/guttering/not sure what the issue 
2) Get a carpenter to quote for cupboards under the stairs which will definitely help with clutter

3) Paint the wall where I spilt red wine on it 
3) Put up a picture in the living room (going to ask my mum to help when she comes to see me because I have no idea what I'm doing!)

4) Sort through the plastic boxes in my bedroom
5) Sort through the clothes in the temporary wardrobe under the stairs (and be ruthless!)
6) Get rid of most of my DVDs to free up some space

7) Decide what I'm doing about curtains/blinds in the bedroom and do it.
8) Put up the remaining 3 dining chairs

9) Put up the blackboard stickers in the kitchen

10) Sort through the bathroom cupboard

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 5 tasks.
2. Deal with Old Frogs & potential frogs ASAP but at least one on FROG Fridays.
3. Reduce/Restrict time watching TV and playing AB2 during daylight hours 😉
4. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

Well having had such a good start completing yesterday’s tasks, I descended into torpor so now have 9 tasks to complete on Monday - although I did start a frog 😔 Dinner was mushroom risotto 😋 with plenty lo to make risotto cakes. Wudupa

45 - 46 Kitchen recycling, glass bottle - recycled 
47 Kitchen detritus binned 

Excellent work marrob 👏 I especially approve of DH dealing with a frog 😉 even if has delayed the loft sort out 😉 I remember Are You Being Served 😞

Wort, thank you so much for my gold star - I have already added it 👏🙂 I am very encouraged by your success in growing chillies indoors 😄 Hope you enjoy your week off & that the weather is kind for your planned walks 🤞

Excellent work GeorgianaCavendish 👏 especially the amended approach to your coursework 🙂

Excellent decluttering shangaijimmy 👏

elsien, 4. on P18  - you decided to only record ‘extras’ on top of day to day decluttering 🙂 Hopefully this will help you update your numbers. Excellent decluttering 👏 and well done for completing a week - you are in the zone & decluttering is becoming a habit 👏🙂

Excellent decluttering Floss 👏 & fingers crossed for your weigh in 🤞I haven’t been brave enough to find out my starting weight 😔

TC77, you have sold yourself short 😉 On p44 = 53, on p47 + 13 = 66, p51 = +14 so your new total = 80 👏 Great work on setting a few frogs hopping 👏

Great work charlies_tribe 👏

Good work Deni_debt-free_dreamer 👏 slow & steady 👏

Excellent work on the paperwork Frog, skogar 👏

Excellent decluttering StickyTheStickInsect 👏 regardless of the 3 loft boxes 😉 Very impressed with the work you have already done re the storage unit 👏 You are on a roll 🙂
Great news that Vint*d is proving more lucrative than bay of e 👏🙂 Is that a 2nd gold star or confirmation of the gold star from wort? 

Welcome aboard The EDT Friday1989 👋 Very pleased you have found us 🙂 You have made an excellent start by clarifying the tasks you want to get done 👏 We will all be cheering you on & look forward to hearing about all your wins/successes 🙂

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅 🌟 

Decluttering Target: 47/2022

2022 - 1p Savings Challenge: Jan £5.00; Feb

villagelife

Everyone is doing so well and a very fast moving thread.

75 a shelving unit
76 broken garden shredder
77-78 old paintbrush
79-83 old tiles
84 - 85 sheets of wood
86 old pasting table
87-90 various old broken tools 
91-92 rusted clamps
93 old tin
94 old Hessian sack with holes in it
All the above from
95 an old shed that was starting to fall down

Also 
96 a glass I broke

A productive day again and it's a non working day for me so hopefully more will be done.

Baxtersmum

All eDay posted, I use drop and go at the post office which saves me having to queue and also stops me panicking as I get steamed up glasses and not being able to see clearly properly makes me anxious.
Dog has been walked, also a plus as I skipped yesterday, possibly need some vitamin D as my mood has been a bit low and I feel more tired than usual, which is practically impossible as I’m part dormouse.

• 9 eDay items posted
• 1 cute pair of unicorn pink glitter Mary Janes to the Charity Shop, they are 2 sizes too small but the youngest tiny keeps squashing her feet into them 🦄 👠 

Total 1934/2022  🎉 

roundtuit

Minging washing up sponge binned
Falling apart shower scrunchie thingy binned.
New shower scrunchie thingy retrieved from stash.
Gift bow given to S
Box of bath bombs given to S 

Every little helps 
Rxx

oceanspirit

13 items, mainly papers, gone over the weekend.

Have also been sorting through food stocks and now have an up to date list.  Need to move things around so they are used up in date order.  This will hopefully be a better system than last year so should reduce stress levels.  Am pleased that nothing is to be thrown away so we’ve improved dramatically on waste over the past 2 years.  It has definitely helped that we haven’t eaten out at all so meal planning has worked.