2023 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD

Florenceem

MrsSD - I didn't know that about no more boosters for Covid.
I had a day indoors - first for 13 days. Had a lie in and no decluttering as if I understand it right - only items in the house before January 1st 2023 count going out.
I did do taking dry stuff off the airer and a load of washing and ironing. Plus I made pastry and turned it into 2 cheese & onion quiches.

Day 6 - 

Stuck at 

25 - against aim of 21

charlies_tribe

Evening all.
Yesterday's 23 MMiM was putting the boys drawers back in their room and some of tge easier things (unopened lego sets, jigsaws, this year christmas gifts... ) still have a pile of older things they need to sort to see what they want to keep.

Today I did a MMiM in the hall, stairs, landing before the shopping came. Hoovered and cleared windowsills and the flat banister rail upstairs where things just get put down and forgotten. Tools, hair accessories, dog things all put away and a handful of rubbish to the bin. Spent the last few minutes running the clothes piles upstairs one at a time to get some more steps in today as trying to beat last momyhs average per day. It shouldn't really be too hard as it was only 2400 😂

This evening while DH took DS2 swimming I did 23 minutes in the bathroom. Rubbish and recycling out. Looks a bit tidier.

While watching Last Of Us ive spent another 23 minutes (between watching the tv) I've de labeled a pile of boxes (mainly small am@zon ones 🙈🤣) that have been waiting to go in recycle bin for months (goes out tomorrow and there was still a bit of room) and taken the front address labels off some magazines before recycling. Just waiting for DH to take them out to the bin now because its cold out there.


481-493 13 cardboard boxes recycled
494-498 5 magazines recycled
499-502 4 bottles recycled

short_bird

1216-1225: recycling to bin
1226-1237: items to bin
1238-1257: 20 GB data deleted from 2 drives
Deferred decisions: 206-211: items to craftstore pile
23 minute missions now up to 7: mostly moving stuff round so it looks slightly less precarious. 

Keiths_Mum

Liverpool_Anne said:

@Muddy_Walker and @Keiths_Mum love the daffs, aren't they just the perfect thing to cheer up a dull grey day

As soon as the little bunches if daffodils start appearing in supermarkets, you know spring is on the way, my favorite time of the year, I'm a spring baby.

They also really remind me of Mothering Sunday, when we were little and we used to come out of Sunday school on Mothering Sunday there were always boxes full of the little bunches for us to pick up and take home for our Mums.

Did not declutter anything today apart from taking the glass recycling out, not sure that counts.

DundeeDoll

Yesterday was 23 minutes blitz on DS stuff as was first thing this morning.
Still also did 2 * 23 mins blitz on work emails - they're still coming down, now 1159. phew! aiming at 100 by Easter

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, lurgy seems to have moved to my sinuses today. I am getting a bit fed up with it now. It is years since I have been ill like this and I know logically it will pass I just wish it would hurry up . It has rained all day here and is quite chilly.
OH went to the bank today and brought back coffee so we spent a while with ln who has returned from her travels with lots of lovely vids of her great grandson . I have had quite a few union texts to deal with and 1 thing that might need further action, should know by Friday. I made a large pan of carrot and lentil soup, 5 portions in the freezer and 1 in the fridge which I will have for lunch tomorrow. The kitchen and lr recycling bins emptied, a candle uu and 200 emails permanently deleted. 
I have caught up but the brain is on strike atm

@Brie, I hope your boiler is sorted soon. Hugs

On the subject of platypus I was amazed to find out a few years ago that it is one of the few mammals to produce venom. It has spurs on it's hind legs that inject the venom. I don't think I could survive in Australia. There are more things that bite and sting than on any other continent and I can't even go to Scotland without being eaten alive So
493 union texts
494 candle uu
495 kitchen recycling bin emptied
496 lr recycling bin emptied
497 - 498  2 x 100 emails permanently deleted
Take care everyone
498/2023

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks to include MMiM - do this before I go to bed

2. Commence ‘Operation Frog Tickling’ I have an acronym - I.R.I.S. being Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off - 

3. Implement a new sleep/wake up regime - start going to bed earlier (target before 2:00 a.m.) get up earlier (target by 9:00 a.m.)

4. Deal with ‘Urgent’ daily mail immediately & the rest at the weekend

5. Don’t put it down, put it away

6. If I spot a mini task deal with it immediately e.g. refill olive oil pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc

7. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

Just a quick post as I have just noticed the time & need to get to bed. Dinner was delicious just linguine in a creamy bacon & pea sauce. Wudupa. Spent the evening catching up on recorded programmes including the penultimate episode of Endeavour. I will catch up with the cheerleading when I get up hopefully earlier than 12:15 🤞

MrsSD (a superwoman) 😇 🎖💐🤩🏅🦸🏅💐🏆 💐🍰🍾🌟⭐️🌟 💐🏅

DH Awards: 🥇 🏅

Decluttering Target 2023: 774/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £74.70

Fizz2015

Hello All, 
Thank you to all the warm wishes for my nan's funeral. It was a lovely service and a nice celebration of her life. The M4/M5 were kind to us and a smooth journey both ways.
I contacted the Dr's yesterday and I have now been signed off work for a month. I just need to collect my note first thing and let work know (dreading that phone call). 
I can then focus on my wellbeing and decluttering. Back later to catch up with everyone's news.

grandmanerd

Florenceem my mother and I catered for my 21st (about 100 guests) and my wedding (55 in the afternoon and roughly 300 in the evening, although we arranged it so one flowed into the other to accommodate guests with small children) as well as many other smaller events (my mother was a confectioner by trade, she made all the family wedding cakes and I became her assistant at the age of 3) . Before my 21st my mother had a period of working full-time and bought herself a Kenwood chef mixer and a freezer (both long term wants). It was the late 70's, there were strikes and bread was rationed by the shops or unobtainable.

One day mum suggested that if she took the frozen chicken out of the freezer, cooked it and made it into sandwiches, then the pack of sandwiches would fit back into the same space the the chicken came out of. So we did. Since then, whenever I've been catering for large events I've used this method. Any suitable sandwich fillings are made up and frozen, they come out of the freezer as fresh or fresher than they went in and as a bonus, sandwiches and cake slice extra crisply when part defrosted.

If you have the freezer space (or if the SA will buy one either for their own premises or yours) it would save you a lot of time and effort (you could put a loaf of sandwiches together whilst doing your normal cooking). You seem to be very active but you need to look after your legs and health. Having some bulky items frozen in advance gives you more time for garnishes, salads and any bits that have to be done at the last minute. I also think you need to talk to someone at SA about giving you notice of these events - if you're catering for a service they're usually scheduled in weeks or even months in advance, so they could mention to you (or the rest of the congregation) that help will be needed on such and such a date.

When I worked in a factory where we had to stand all day, one of the older workers stood on a piece of cardboard - if you're working on a hard surface (concrete or tiles) standing on cardboard cushions the pressure on your legs. Sorry if this seems like I'm butting in, my mother had her varicose veins 'done' when I was 6 years old, so I've had it drummed into me from an early age to sit down and put your legs up when they start to ache.

grandmanerd

Can't find the list of things I did on Saturday. It was mostly a resting day in preparation for Sunday's trek to Wrightington Hospital. We live at one end of a very large borough. In the days when I could walk I've frequently done walks into both Cheshire and Merseyside. Wrightington is at the far end of our borough and then just over the border into Lancashire (modern county of Lancashire, I was born in Lancashire and have never lived more than a mile from where I was born).

I did check my bank statement, tried to renew my library books (the 3 that were due back on Friday but got overlooked, even though I'd written it in the diary) online (the new system update that happened on Monday won't let me do it), moved washing from the WM into the TD, dry washing came upstairs, another load went into the WM, rubbish and recycling went out (as I clear each patch of stuff/ floor I find little pockets of rubbish and useful items that have fallen out of bags or between bags and other items that came from mum's). I took 4 items out of the freezer to eat or make into meals, found a RM I'd overlooked (in their freezer, mine must have been full) so put that in the microwave and ate it. Did a couple of extra grooming bits (I'm not a hairy beast but things like cutting/ filing my toenails takes at least 3 attempts).

I made a list of salads I could put together with things I had in - Waldorf, Bean (tin), potato (tin), Chunky coleslaw, Prawn coleslaw (prawns defrosting). I think I'll give myself 10 points (I decided that on the day as I realised I had lost count/ forgotten to write some things down) so now on 736/ 2023 (2nd quarter).

Sunday was taken up with my hospital visit including hand holding for nervous taxi drivers. The driver who took me hadn't been there before and they'd programmed the Country Club into his satnav, not the hospital. When I phoned for someone to pick me up afterwards, the receptionist phoned me back to say she couldn't find it (she's new and very young). I pulled out the (I might have told you all this before, sorry)

Yesterday was very relaxed (they said my leg might feel as though it doesn't belong to me but I just feel floppy and very very sleepy - I'm just like the little dormouse in the advert) and I think today will be too. I did make a start on finishing a craft project and had an online chat with DS2 about Mothering Sunday arrangements. I woke at 5 am and decided to stay awake until 6 am and take my morning pills in case I drift back to sleep (probably any minute now)