2022 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

stellata

I put 2 big pieces of polystyrene which had come packed round something into the bin. It's taken up too much room in there but better than in my kitchen. I'm saying that's 12 items out this year so far. Not got a target this time, just plodding on.

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

I managed a few tasks including transposing recipes & decluttering notes to specific notebooks, gathered leaves from front garden & put on raised bed, 15 minutes of weeding in back garden & sorted sewing supplies including a gazillion buttons 😉😉 DH finally got his call - may get taken off one type of tablet but being reviewed in 3 months - sort of good news 🙂 2nd bit of good news was that we might finally be connected to Community Fibre. After 4 other crews advised there was a blockage re the cabling, a 5th crew turned up - there is no blockage - the cabling goes across the road then up the road 😔 So no digging up the road required 🥳 Dinner was spaghetti Bolognese using mince from freezer. Wudupa. 

103 - 106 Kitchen recycling, glass jar & metal lid, newspaper, plastic tub & lid - recycled 

107 - 108 Kitchen detritus, small bag of sewing boxes detritus - binned

109 - 117 Nine colours of cotton thread to CS 

I see there have been a lot of busy people 👏 & The EDT is still speeding along 😉

Good advice re books & notebooks, Floss 👏

Excellent decluttering JustMum89 👏 Bathroom & airing cupboard must have taken you ages 🙂 Now that you have cleared out all the practically empty bottles it should be easier to see when things should be binned &/or replaced 🤞

donna73, the medal was awarded because JustMum89 only took a couple of mementoes from her grandma’s house 🙂 even though she could have taken more 😉

Excellent decluttering EnergyShifter 👏 & well done for braving the cold 🙂

JustMum89 a naked man statue - you devil, you 😈🤣

How lovely at florianatwobob 🙂 I have my mum’s sewing tin 🙂 It is a biscuit tin from a now defunct company (pleasant memories of their bags of broken biscuits 😁) & mum had  a lot of buttons, some of them quite beautiful. Happy memories all round.

Good work oceanspirit 👏

wort, sounds like you embraced Marie Kondo’s method of decluttering & it worked really well for you 🙂 I can aspire to be you but will be difficult as DSis is a hoarder & ever so untidy 😔☹️ My DH is a bit better but does tend to leave his clothes all over the floor 😔
Excellent way of approaching shopping trips 😉👏 

donna73 I do love African violets & what a lovely reminder of your Nan ☺️ Excellent decluttering 👏

Absolutely excellent work balabooberlies 👏

Thrifty_Taylor, fingers crossed that you have another -ve test tomorrow 🤞 Excellent decluttering 👏 & yippee to finding lost earring 🥳 

What an interesting post weenancyinAmerica 👏 & well done on starting your frog list 👏

Excellent work Happy_Kitties, especially the neutral items 👏

TC77, well done on having so many good habits 👏 Sorry you are having such a tough time at the moment TC77 😔 & I echo everything balabooberlies said. 

Good luck with your family tree Marpau 🍀

Lovely, supportive post balabooberlies ☺️

Lovely to see you Rootle 👋 & welcome aboard The EDT. Well done on persevering with your hunt for superglue 👏 You started a task & completed it 👏

Keep up the good work TC77 🙂 I rather like the idea of a trolley dispensing little packets of TLC & virtual hugs 🤗 - thank you for that 👏

nannywindow, Dixon of Dock Green reminds me of gentler times & the days of respecting policemen 😉 Excellent & copious decluttering 👏

Congratulations on having your offer accepted GeorgianaCavendish 🥳 Hopefully everything will go through smoothly & quickly 🤞

Good work stellata 👏 polystyrene always takes up so much space ☹️

Have a good night everyone 😴 

MrsSD  🏅🏅🏅 🌟 ⭐️ ⭐️

I AM A STAR 🌟 

Decluttering Target: 117/2022

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

donna73

Congratulations on the house @GeorgianaCavendish 🎉 fingers crossed it all goes through smoothly.

Don’t be hard on yourself @stellata, it doesn’t matter if it’s slow progress, it all adds up. 😀 It’s better to be plodding along than giving up. I’m on a roll at the moment, but I know there will be days when I can’t be bothered/ don’t have the time etc. Just count everything that leaves as a win. 

Having sorted out my loose coins yesterday, I’m going to tackle the kids coins today. Bag them up and get them banked. 

I’m also trialling not having a kitchen bin @Mrs_Salad_Dodger, have found a small storage container with lid that was lurking-I can put it on the surface with a empty bread bag/ frozen veg bag etc inside it as a liner. It means I can get a small plastic drawer unit out from under the stairs and put that where the bin was. 

Tackling under the stairs is one of my frogs. so moving the unit out today will help me to make inroads to that. 

Happy Friday everyone! 

thriftwizard

Moving the books the other day, I put my back out big-time. Luckily I was able to see the chiropractor the next day (chiro works for me! I know it doesn't suit everyone, though) so I'm well on the mend, but it's stalled progress for a few days. My next target is to empty & haul a metal trunk out of the porch; it has the dressing-up clothes in it, and as the Offspring are all in their 20s/30s now, we won't be needing them in a hurry! (Though they do still love dressing up for murder mysteries...) But I do need the trunk, in the chicken run; there's some evidence of unwanted visitors, so I need to keep their feed in a vermin-proof container overnight. Frustratingly I'll probably need to wait until early next week to do this. 

So I'll have to content myself with more sorting & disposing in the sewing room. It's still a complete jumble. First thing will probably be to put my embellisher on Ebay; great fun, but I need the space for a more practical machine, i.e. the overlocker, which is currently perched on the edge of the desk. Not good!

GrannyKate

I must start the day by eating 2 frogs but no outings planned and no excuses available.

I went in both banks yesterday to ask questions - one very helpful but in the other a very pleasant young man treated me as a batty old lady!  Still he confirmed what I thought  was correct.

Notebooks - I love stationery - I collected all together in one place.  Pads and notebooks which can be used as such are in a pile and I am working my way through them as my desk note book or for new projects.  Half used ones - paper removed and recycled or clean pages put in my scrap paper box and I am using them for lists etc clipped in front of my desk notebook.  Moving my large pile of used (one side) printer paper right next to printer has worked as it is easy to just load the used paper into tray for most printing that I do.  

Memories of Mum - on my kitchen wall I have two items from Mum's kitchen probably both at least 100 years old now and functional although I don't use them. Mum was a prolific baker and grew up in her father's bakery.  I have a wooden flour sieve and a metal whisk.  The whisk is held together with a string handle which remains undamaged.  It makes me think of all those egg whites Mum and us children whisked up for her wedding cake icing.  Not always fun at the time but happy memories now. 

164 Mobile banking set up for second bank
165 Some Apps deleted from phone as never used
166 Quiz done and papers to recycling
167 Meeting attended and papers recycled

Right get dressed; make cup of tea; complete those two frogs; download December and January pictures. That is the plan.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi all, i achieved no decluttering yesterday as i worked all day until 8pm as i had to go into the office; then it took me over an hour to get home
I then had an upsetting dream where i left my garage door open for an hour while i was indoors and when i went back outside someone had emptied out the entire contents!  I was really upset because one thing stolen was my bike and 2 other things were beloved childhood cuddly toys (we lost most of our possessions in a house fire).  However, at one point in my dream while i was crying i suddenly thought "at least i've decluttered 1000s of things"!!  
Decluttering is obviously on my mind so now i just need to put it into action
Happy Friday everyone !

GrannyKate

Deni_debt-free_dreamer - I don't often dream about decluttering but I keep having dreams where I am filling in Sudoku grids in my head.  I do quite a lot of puzzles but not obsessively so it is really weird. 

I am dressed and I have the cup of tea ready so now for the frogs before there are further diversions.  

168 Wrapped birthday presents for DS2
169 Sorted wrapping - threw some out and moved to a plastic travel suit hanger (as suggested on here somewhere).  It fits much more neatly into spare wardrobe than the bag it was in previously (to CS bag) - When I first went to wrap present above I realised that I had 7 rolls of girly and very feminine wrapping and none suitable for boys and men so had to buy a roll.  Note to self - do not buy wrapping paper or bags for female  gifts for at least the next 10 years. 

Baxtersmum

I moved the sewing machine yesterday out from the under stairs cupboard, going to try tackling a couple of frogs by sewing some A4 pieces of practice patchwork into a reversible lining for each of the cat carrying baskets and the dog cage (maybe maybe not as she’s sure to try to eat it.
Some items sold on eBay so…

• 6 things posted to new homes (this brings my Xmas fund to over £200 just in unwanted clutter)
• 2 books to Grandaughters

I honestly can’t believe I’ve made that much money in less than a month, I hate listing on eBay and try to just do one session a week, I’m still going to stick with that as I’m such a sloth most days and walking to the post office lays me up for a few days. 🦥 

Siebrie

@clutterbug_2 When we moved into this house I decided to use the local library as 'my bookshelves'. I have 2 small Ikea Brimnes cabinets to hold my books, and regularly (once a year...) go through and remove books. It's liberating! Unread books on a pile become a chore and bring me down, so it's much better to return them to the library guilt-free, with the knowledge that the book will still be there if I ever should want to try again. There are so many lovely books out there, don't waste energy on (not) reading a book you don't enjoy! And don't feel obliged to read the series if you've read 1 book you enjoyed, or everything by that author.

In a similar vein: I learned a long time ago that it's better for me to replace 'I should ...' statements with 'I want to ...' statements  

Re the candle holders: I'm teaching my daughters that the statement 'I got that from X' is not enough reason to keep something around. As soon as that changes to 'I got that from X and it makes me feel happy inside / I use it' it's fine to keep. So, the candle holders are from your wedding, they make you happy, and you use them; they are fine to keep, just maybe not all of them

short_bird

221-256: items to bin or recycling and 2 binbags out of the building.
257-263: 7GB data deleted.
264: ordered lateral flow tests.

Job application frog needs to be tackled which is why, of course, I've just finished some washing up... have identified a few tadpoles to tackle before they get any bigger. 
Have managed a couple more no spend days: am at work tonight then off till Wednesday tea time.