2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

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

Still no sign of DH or DSis 😂 but has meant that I have managed a few more tasks 🙂
vulpix, I have booked my mammogram 😉 one frog dealt with (letter was July 2021 😱) = 3/11; sorted post including filing = 4/11; Menu plan to Sunday = 5/11 👏 Will have a coffee, wake DH & then pop out to do a smallish shop. Tuesday is already proving more productive than Monday 😉

You are very welcome florianatwobob 👏 I love it - someone starts a decluttering project & this triggers something & someone else adapts it & hey presto more decluttering 👏😁

princesskitty29, no such thing as being way behind ‘wagging finger emoji’ You have been attending to more important things than decluttering 👏 I hope your mum is OK & that the radiotherapy has been successful 🤞 Well done on what you have done 👏 & fingers crossed that you can find a couple of small tasks that will make a difference to you 🙂 Every task completed or item out is a win on your Decluttering Journey 🙂

Liverpool_Anne, every cloud has a silver lining 😉 Since you hurt your shoulder twice as much is getting done 😉 You dealing with financial & mental decluttering & OH dealing with physical decluttering 👏 Perhaps OH can continue with the kitchen decluttering even when your shoulder injury is completely healed 🤞No comment on the garden party as I might break ‘posting’ rules 😡 

Firstly newlywed - congratulations on such a magnificent weight loss 👏 As to the brown clothing I agree that CSs rarely have brown in stock ☹️ The skirt sounds beautiful so I understand your reluctance to declutter it. Perhaps more of a deep tan colour?

Excellent decluttering Finstickle 👏 Re the porch, it just goes to show how an initial decluttering session makes it easier to deal with when you tackle it a second time 🙂👏 

If you own a car perhaps a couple of the hi-vis bits can live there? What a lovely thing to do for your DH 😊

P.S. I have woken my DH with a kiss & a cup of coffee & I hear movement 😉

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅 🌟 ⭐️ ⭐️

Decluttering Target: 50/2022

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

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I knew it would be beautiful 😍 

sabsob

Hello hello I'm fairly new to the forum, and finding my spiritual homes. I am trying hard to turn clutter into cash this year, and give away as much as I can. I got off to a great start by listing 5 items a day between Christmas and New Year, so they would come due this month and get me going. I'm now (due to heavy workload) moving to listing at least 6 items a week-end. I am not particularly organised in my approach - I had a few items earmarked in advance, but am now just kind of moving through the house, taking it one drawer/shelf at a time. So far this year, I sold 29 lots, totalling 37 items, and gave away a couple of bin liners' worth. It'll slow down now, but I'm all motivated I suppose listing 6 items each week-end makes for a rather uneven 312, but it is what it is  Glad to be here.

sumb7170

Hello,

Sorry it’s taken ages to post my progress, but I have been keeping an eye on what everyone has been up to, brill progress everyone!  Hugs to those who feel they're not doing as well as they should, we can just do as much as we can.

Big thanks to @Mrs SD for all your encouragement, your stars are so well deserved!  @ruby_eskimo, great to be on this journey together, hope we both do really well, but let’s not feel guilty about down-time on the sofa!

So progress:

Items decluttered out of the house – 64 clothes items, 9 old phones / tablets and cases, 3 cables, 4 big boxes & packaging, 1 large bag soft plastic, 14 old magazines, pile of post from hall table and 4 items broken crockery.  Unsubscribed from 43 emailing lists and completed 30 off my list of jobs, plus started eating a big Frog!  Total 173/5000.

Purchases incoming – 10 items (4 for tidying away items, 3 at zero cost due to returning other items), so minus 10 on my decluttering = 163/5000 (day 11 target 2 14 per day 154 so ahead, plus have lots of DVDs and books earmarked to go to CS).

Read a book about finding Richard III’s body in the car park in Leicester, in the hope I might be able to declutter it, plus 35% through Tess of D’Urberville (our local book group Jan book, all finding it heavy going!). Total 1/52.

Mending – oxygen bleached / dyed some discoloured bedding that would otherwise have been decluttered, really chuffed with how they turned out, only one item now going to fabric recycling – Total 7/52.

Wanted to buy a tablecloth in the Emma Bridgewater sale but held back, when I looked again it was out of stock, so saved my money there!  But have ordered an ex-displayed shed costing less than half price, to hopefully empty our storage unit into, which cost way more than the desired tablecloth (more practical tho).

No progress to report on using up toiletries or cleaning products or on sorting my huge amount of ornaments.

Progress on decluttering Xmas chocs so no progress on the weight loss, but did get up the courage to weigh myself, 2.6kg heavier than this time last year, boo.

Overall feel pretty pleased with progress, although I'm not tacking my clutter in any systemic way yet!

Love to all on board!  H x 

Goal of 5,000 (<14 per day!) items decluttered, read a book per week, mend one item per week
Operate a 1 in 1 out rule for clothes, ornaments and other similar items! 
For purchases, write down what I want and look at my note again in a week, if I then decide I don’t want the item, put the purchase price into a pot.  No buying without trying mending first, then secondhand as the next option.
Use up old toiletries and cleaning products so only one of each
Sort ornaments into four - 1 for display, 2 for storing and swapping for display later, 3 for selling and 4 for donating / disposal.
Weight goal of 1kg per week averaged over a month, so 4kg a month.

OWD_nana

GWS vibes to Vulpix and Liverpool Ann and anyone else in need.
Have recently realised a neighbour works at the local Oxfam charity shop in nearby town. Excited as she has a car and i dont so can leave bags with her for disposal. Double win. I am very easily excited

61. Old thermal top - Rags
62/3. old handtowels - Rags
64. Backpack
65/7 tops
68 boots
69 shoes
70/74 handbags
75/77 purses
78 phone cover
79. make up bag
80. backpack
81. picnic basket
82 book
83. Hoodie
84. Cardi


Today a spend ( i know this is a decluttering site). I had decided one of the few things i actually needed this year (not want) is a pair of black loafers and had seen in M&MrS the pair i desired but had decided to wait until February as they were more than my monthly clothes budget. Today whilst with a friend browsing the sales were my shoes in my size , and £20 off.
For once in the right place at  the right time. So i had to have them didnt i. Decided i did deserve them as i had decluttered so many things in the last couple of weeks.
Sorry, so have taken myself off to the baggage carriage.

weenancyinAmerica

I wouldn't mind so much if they were children; One of my roommates is 63 - and was never allowed to do housework by her mother. Didn't even know to use hot water to do dishes. She is on the Autism spectrum, add, and a hoarder. One is 62. He was an alcoholic and drug addict before he moved in here - because he was homeless on the streets. He has Parkinson's now. Tries to help but has problems with coordination. The next is 45 and employed but he works from about 4:00 pm  to 1:30 am, so sleeps until 2:00 pm most days. He has a male co-worker who stays here a lot - both tested positive for Covid in the past week. The last one's daughter was in Foster Care in another state. Can't tell time, write coherently, and only reads a limited amount. She ran away when she was 19 and came here 2 years ago - recently diagnosed as Autistic (should have been years ago), has ADHD and is also a Hoarder. Has back issues as well and can't seem to do anything but work on her phone ad tablet. I'm 74, diabetic, with Fibromyalgia, and get so tired in the afternoons. About to scream most days. I am working on my stuff - trying the Swedish Death Cleaning Approach. I actually got one to start the getting rid of six items a day! Definitely need help here. Really enjoy reading this Forum - helps to keep me sane. I have been to England about 20 times for 2 to 6 weeks at a time, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales at least 17 times each. I'll imagine myself on the train - easy to do - looking at the scenery. 

Clutterbug07

Two half-frogs?  I contacted a local jeweller about getting my wedding ring resized (is too big), and also contacted a local dry cleaners for my wedding dress and DH's suit (plus another suit of his).  Been on the to-do list since we got back from honeymoon in November, but what with catching covid when we got back and then Christmas, it never got done.  It's nice to get the ball rolling on this! :-D 

ValentinoRossi46

Thank you for welcoming me on board. I have made a steady start

1. face serum tube that was a freebie but does not suit my skin.
2. Two plastic spoons.
3. Three metal things from inside the kitchen cupboard doors at my old house.
4. Receipts from things bought at Christmas.
5. Finished Lip balm 
6. roll on deodorant - been stood upside but not more will come out 

EnergyShifter

EnergyShifter said:

196. Booked hearing test
197. Booked vet appointment
198. Morning routine 10/100
199. Old towel to rags

No cancellations in work today so a quieter day on the decluttering front:

200. organised meds drawer
201. organised makeup drawer
202. iPhone box (why do I keep them?)  
203. Morning routine 11/100

@MrsSD - just wanted to add to the praise & thanks for you keeping up with the cheerleading on this fast moving train 💐

shabbychic12

I now have an end goal l want to achieve with my decluttering and that is to partition off my garage ( it is double length with a caravan stored in one half) and have a proper functioning utility room. I will then be able to store things properly and make a store area for consumables. So thick coat and bobble hat on and out I’ve been last few days, least it’s stopped me snacking. It will be long task that’s for sure but l can visually then end goal now.