2023 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD

vulpix

 Good Morning, I am up at 6am thanks to Fomo wanting to go out. Fluffy declined the offer. We only have a smattering of snow but still localised blizzard warning and predicted up to 40cm of snow. I have recently developed arthritis in my neck and it is objecting to the cold. I am glad now that I didn't do a garden tidy as I almost did the other day. All my plants will be snug under their old foliage.

 I hope Mr SD has a chat with someone about his heart rate soon.x

 I watched Stacey Solomon programme last night, I am warming to her, I think it's her voice I have difficulty with. What a lovely family. The carpenter guy is amazing. The cleaner and organiser I can live without. Biscuit organisation? If I had to display all my worldly goods for the world to see I think my stumbling block would be clothes at this moment in time. I will give it a few months for life to settle down a little then look at them with fresh eyes. I just can't quite accept that I am not going to lose weight and get rid of all the smaller clothes. They are little frogs quietly croaking away in a corner of my mind.

  Vulpix 0 Rocking chair 1 I was scraping the lumpy old paint off with a veg knife and you can guess the rest. Slow progress but I will plug away at it. I love renovating furniture but I don't know if I have many more renovations in me.

 I have very,very few photographs. I know my Mum has written on the back of all hers from when she did our family tree years ago. I have very few photos of me, a couple from school of me working with children and a couple of me with kids from a children's home I worked at. No wedding photos. All the photos of the kids growing up I gave to them. When they were 18 I gave them both a folder containing their photos and school certificates,pictures etc. At my sons 18th party they were all engrossed in it. Particularly the letter from his friend aged 5 apologising for biting him! DS was the biters best man a couple of years ago. All I have on my phone is cats and nice views.

 TC 77, I have 3 of those types of coffee pots. I use a cafetiere but they look nice on a shelf!

 Today's agenda is more rocking chair scraping then THINK about cleaning before DD1's visit next week.

 Vx
 

 

QueenJess

vulpix said:

 I watched Stacey Solomon programme last night, I am warming to her, I think it's her voice I have difficulty with. What a lovely family. The carpenter guy is amazing. The cleaner and organiser I can live without. Biscuit organisation? If I had to display all my worldly goods for the world to see I think my stumbling block would be clothes at this moment in time. 
 

 

I thought the biscuit organisation was insane. Just think how long it would take to do that… you just want to dump the biscuits in there and move on. Isn’t that the point of decluttering as I there is less organisation required when you have less stuff? They’ve added unnecessary work in there.

I also dislike all the labelling. I’ve labelled nothing in my house as I know what it all is (actually, I did label the Lego drawers for my son).  However, if someone rearranged everything in my house, I’d probably need labels to find it all as well. A small amount of labelling is fine, but I find theirs OTT.

I also didn’t think they actually had that much stuff on the programme. There’s definitely been much, much worse.

~FlowerPot~

Morning, been awol but still following the great progress everyone hase been making. RL here is just really, really tricky at the moment and my health has been affected and Im struggling with so much tiredness and stress im barely able to do the essentials and everything else is just building up.

My plan today is to sort the kitchen, then go to work, then ferry DC around then more work then sort out other child who will hopefully by then be up. Then flop on sofa till its time to cook tea, which should be sausage and jacket pots, but we've already had the sauages - oops!) might be fish cakes and jacket pots - hmm would that work? not with baked beans though!!

Have a good day guys, stay safe in the snow if tou have any. Its just rain here!

QueenJess

Liverpool_Anne said:

@QueenJess, I can relate to digital decluttering being boring. I am looking at emails and saying "why do you keep sending me this dross?"  No matter how many I delete and unsubscribe from they just keep coming

To give you hope, it does get better.  I dedicated myself to unsubscribing to pretty much everything that I could a couple of years ago and I get so many fewer emails as a result.  It feels like a slog where nothing happens and then one day you suddenly realise you are not getting many at all.  Keep at it!

Wednesday2000

To sound very judgemental I think the family in Sort Your Life Out last night were just lazy more than anything! That dirty oven was gross! Lol. I went through my underwear drawer and tidied it up while I had the show on in my bedroom last night. I didn't actually declutter anything, though. I need to do my husband's underwear drawer when he gets up as he has an insane amount of socks and I want to see if he can get rid of some of the older ones. I usually give them to my dog as toys to chew up and play with. Cheaper than buying her new toys.:)

I did try to watch the Nick Knowles show, but I cannot stand the way he talks!

Most of my decluttering has been kitchen stuff lately and I have again reorganised things around. I did drop off a bag to a charity shop with some clothes and a couple of books yesterday, well, my husband did as I didn't go out as it was too cold here.

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Thank you @ Mrs_SD for the medals - delighted. I have not yet mentioned it to LO as she will be expecting it to materialise in person. Once the house is tidy you must come for afternoon tea. LO is good at making fairy cakes with unicorn sprinkles. 🦄

Even though there’s lots to do I am celebrating my accomplishments.

I am now on top of the washing it doesn’t pile up, it gets washed dried and put away properly and drawers are tidy and organised - have to re do about once a month can’t say it’s completely maintained.

the fridge is not cluttered and gets emptied and cleaned once a week

the cupboard under the sink is clean tidy and organised and no longer a cupboard of doom

The kitchen and hallway floors are hoovered usually daily

the dishwasher is put on overnight and emptied in the morning so dishes do not pile up

DH is pretty good at cleaning up if I cook, then I try to fully clean the kitchen tops once or twice a week as well as as we go along. 

post is dealt with as it comes in, so are emails ( apart from big tasks) 

financial admin done daily

recycling is taken outside  daily so it doesn’t mount up

Inside bins are emptied once a week

toilets cleaned regularly

bathroom storage now nicely organised 

Shoes go in the shoe cupboard so hall floor is clear and Coats are hung up on pegs rather than thrown down somewhere. 

LO is tidying her room regularly. 

Areas for improvement ( there are many so will focus on following for now)

Toys and art work in kitchen to be better organised. Need to be accessible but not strewn all over

Deep cleaning of bathroom needs to happen more frequently- I hate cleaning

kitchen and hallway floors to be mopped / steamed more often. I know lots of people easily achieve this once a week but I don’t seem to manage 

Remaining areas of doom - for another time

Loft storage - most of what’s there hasn’t been seen for 5 years so probably keeping it for Justin

 Cupboard under stairs  😩

kitchen pantry cupboard overflowing and disorganised 😟

shed - Full!!



Ok better go do something which doesn’t involve watching others clean their own houses on YouTube 🤪

vulpix

I fell asleep. Let Fomo in from a blizzard. He was cursing as he ran to the food bowl. Hahaha 
 
I thought same about the programme last night. I was saying to the telly, just tidy up!

 I am an IT incompetent. I have been getting an email from Macclesfield Rugby Club for years! I just cannot get rid of it. Perhaps their sights are firmly set on me being their prop forward! 

 Sorry to hear life is full on for you flower pot. X

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QueenJess

vulpix said:

I fell asleep. Let Fomo in from a blizzard. He was cursing as he ran to the food bowl. Hahaha 
 
I thought same about the programme last night. I was saying to the telly, just tidy up!

 I am an IT incompetent. I have been getting an email from Macclesfield Rugby Club for years! I just cannot get rid of it. Perhaps their sights are firmly set on me being their prop forward! 

 Sorry to hear life is full on for you flower pot. X

v 

All emails are legally obliged to have an unsubscribe link at the bottom (usually in tiny font so you can miss it).  If they don't you can usually tell them about it and threaten them with the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office).  I did that once for TFL and they changed their emails very quickly!

Floss

QueenJess said:

I also didn’t think they actually had that much stuff on the programme. There’s definitely been much, much worse.

I agree, I think Stacey tries to get them to see the "why" behind the clutter, last night's mum was trying to be everything & saw physical things as memories.

Oh and Dilly & her labels would irritate the life out of me!

Brie

our boiler is trying to declutter itself once again.  it only was fixed yesterday.  not a happy bunny.  and certainly not a warm one.