2023 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD

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 

Saturday I was up at 10:45 & am now having my 1st cuppa. It is overcast & very windy although the sun is trying to breakthrough 🙂 If the rain stays away it would be a perfect drying day as long as the clothing was firmly pegged 😉 The washing I brought in from the rain is dry & folded ready to put away, although I do have one small repair to make……which is now done 🙂 DH is watching MotoGP qualifying races as the season started this week & DSis is in her room. DH left for his walk 11:45 Back by 12:45 having done 5,000 steps. Then got changed for appointment at surgery with nurse practitioner. A complete & utter waste of time - she didn’t know DH had been in hospital nor that his blood pressure was fine nor that DH had had several blood tests with not a single mention of high cholesterol nor that DH’s consultant cardiologist had amended his medication & never once discussed statins 🙄 All she wanted to do was foist statins on DH almost as if being paid by a pharmaceutical company 😖 Makes me so angry 😤 DH left the surgery & went on his 2nd walk taking him up to 15,000 steps. Meanwhile I have done nothing all day apart from clear down programmes from TV planner. Cleared down The Last of Us - very abrupt ending. Caught up with Casualty - very distressing. Caught up with Chicago Med & Person of Interest. Hm soup for lunch, fish’n’chips for dinner. 

877 - 880 Kitchen recycling, plastic bottle, cardboard packaging, drinks cans - recycled

881 - 882 Kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - binned

Excellent decluttering Liverpool_Anne 👏 What a shame about the postponed visit to your friend & son. Sending get well soon wishes her way. Very, very pleased to hear that your friend/ex colleague is doing so well. Congratulations to him on his new job 🙂 I hope you can continue to keep in touch 🤞The new pet area suggested by TC77 is fully operational now 😉 Lovely supportive post 😊

GrannyKate, we will have a supply of proper doggy & cat treats & a book to register what has been given out 😉 We don’t want our new friends getting fat 😉 Lovely memories of your family dogs 😊 

daisy_1571, what a great idea getting carpet off cuts turned into mats & great that you could find a local company to do the work 👏

Excellent decluttering of frogs Siebrie 👏 Ouch to the cost of the Architect’s proposed solution to your downstairs renovations 😣 

QueenJess, lovely to support a local business 😊

Sorry you lost your post grandmanerd ☹️ Excellent decluttering 👏 Hope your back & knees have stopped hurting & that you are taking time to rest in the TLC Carriage 🙏

Liverpool_Anne you did have a busy Saturday 👏By the way what position were you playing in the charity footy match 😉 Good luck getting your mats made 🍀

Great decluttering Brie 👏 Hopefully OH did deal with the piles of ‘stuff’ on the dining room table 🤞 I take it coq au vin is OH’s speciality 😉 🤤

Excellent decluttering QueenJess 👏 What a great way to decide which room needs to be decluttered next 🙂 

Fayolle, sorry to hear that RL has got in the way of your decluttering dreams aka decluttering aspirations yet again ☹️ I have a feeling there will many different breeds of puppies visiting 😉 so I am sure you will get to cuddle a fox red retriever 😊 Great work getting DH to deliver all the accumulated stuff to the CS 👏

Excellent photo/video sorting QueenJess 👏

What a great result from the SA Table Top sale Florenceem 👏 Hopefully you can have a lie in tomorrow 🤞Sorry to hear that MrF’s medication will take so long to start working 😔

Excellent decluttering short_bird 👏 Currently the weeks are travelling as fast the EDT 😂

EnergyShifter, warm Autumn sounds lovely ☺️ Good luck with adding variety to your wardrobe 🍀

Thanks for the comparison photos charlies_tribe 👏 I can definitely see a difference - well done 👏 The frames are wonderful 😊 & should be counted in your decluttering numbers 😉

Another excellent decluttering session QueenJess 👏

Liverpool_Anne, that is what I call a self care day - chiropodist then 2 films - I like Dambusters & have seen it many times 🙂 but Rocket Man just doesn’t appeal at all 😉 

Off to bed shortly. Sleep tight everyone & hugs to all who need one or would like one.

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

DH Awards: 🥇🏅⭐️💐🏅 

Decluttering Target 2023: 882/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £74.70

florianatwobob

Bag of charity stuff to the charity shop yesterday. It appears some if it flew off the shelves as soon as it landed. 

Visited DBro who is still in hospital. Still being treated as Covid + on top of everything else so we had to gown up etc to visit him. 

Decluttered a lot of money on new garden pots to replace those that had their chips during ‘The Great Freeze’ earlier this year. There are a couple more I gave my eye on but I’m trying to be practical and good. But the glazed pots are soooo pretty. 

Today (if it dries up enough) will be attacking the bottom shed. It’s had a lot of stuff dumped in it that needs sorting but also some of the house plants need splitting (they will insist on growing) and there is compost etc in there to do that. Which will mean job of the list & space created!

Wednesday2000

Liverpool_Anne said:

 Chiropodist appt decluttered and my feet feel a million times better 

I need to get that done too, my feet feel terrible after being in socks and boots all winter. I'm booking it next week.:)

~FlowerPot~

Wednesday2000 said:

Liverpool_Anne said:

 Chiropodist appt decluttered and my feet feel a million times better 

I need to get that done too, my feet feel terrible after being in socks and boots all winter. I'm booking it next week.:)

@Wednesday2000 and @Liverpool_Anne
Shame your not near me I could sort you out!! Thats my job!!!!

~FlowerPot~

Happy Sunday guys. Im taking it easy today! Yesterday went into town to get the last bits for DS2 trip to Nepal next week

Although we had to go back in this morning to take most of it back, I think we are now sorted.

Had a good go in the greenhouse this week, cleared one side completely and then worked on the potting table and then sowed my first lot of seeds. Taragon, sage, tomatoes; vine orange and cherry, courgette, and something else, cannot remember!! need to do the cucs soon too.

These are all decluttering old seed packs so hopefully they will germinate!

Also decluttering a shed load of cobwebs dont think the spidys were to happy about that!!!

HAve a good day all, the sun is trying peep through here after a morning of rain and drizzle

Flowers x

QueenJess

A bit of digital clean up for today; just got to do my daily photos/videos later.  Cleaned the washing machine with a cleaner yesterday, so will clean the outside of it and the inner rubber bit, powder drawer a bit later if I get time.  Then need to continue to tidying/decluttering in my bedroom.  Slow progress is being made, which is all I can ask. 

Kitchen and bedroom seem to be an area of concentration at the moment since they are some of the more messy rooms.  Will have to go back to kids toys soonish as DD has received lots of lovely gifts for her birthday and I should see if any need to be decluttered or should be rotated into the attic for now.

Decluttering figures:

10,558-10,658 - emails permanently deleted

10,659-10,663 - bookmarks deleted

I also found my phone keeps text messages forever... discovered the option in settings to delete them after 1 year since I'll never read them that old.

Things may slow down as I need to start doing gardening stuff again, but then I should have another clear out of the shed whilst I am there.. I have a rough guide at the moment for myself of 10 physical things, 100 emails and 5 other digital items to declutter daily.  No big issue if I don't meet those and will be temporary until the digital stuff runs down.  I currently have just over 3,000 emails in total in my inbox/folders/sent/trash.

Brie

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

881 - 882 Kitchen detritus, plastic packaging - binned

Excellent decluttering Liverpool_Anne 👏 What a shame about the postponed visit to your friend & son. Sending get well soon wishes her way. Very, very pleased to hear that your friend/ex colleague is doing so well. Congratulations to him on his new job 🙂 I hope you can continue to keep in touch 🤞The new pet area suggested by TC77 is fully operational now 😉 Lovely supportive post 😊

GrannyKate, we will have a supply of proper doggy & cat treats & a book to register what has been given out 😉 We don’t want our new friends getting fat 😉 Lovely memories of your family dogs 😊 

daisy_1571, what a great idea getting carpet off cuts turned into mats & great that you could find a local company to do the work 👏

Excellent decluttering of frogs Siebrie 👏 Ouch to the cost of the Architect’s proposed solution to your downstairs renovations 😣 

QueenJess, lovely to support a local business 😊

Sorry you lost your post grandmanerd ☹️ Excellent decluttering 👏 Hope your back & knees have stopped hurting & that you are taking time to rest in the TLC Carriage 🙏

Liverpool_Anne you did have a busy Saturday 👏By the way what position were you playing in the charity footy match 😉 Good luck getting your mats made 🍀

Great decluttering Brie 👏 Hopefully OH did deal with the piles of ‘stuff’ on the dining room table 🤞 I take it coq au vin is OH’s speciality 😉 🤤

OH doesn't really have a speciality - not like some blokes who can cook one and only one dish.  He's good at almost anything he does in the kitchen and it's only when requested that I have to do something.  So mostly I do the washing up which I consider a fair exchange.  

And he did clean up the table (but left a few new things out that I might need to tidy away....why???) but he didn't put out the trash which we did as a "couple's activity" this morning.  

So we have what I consider to be at least 1.5 portions of coq au vin available for this evening.  I've suggested adding some more mushrooms that are sitting about and then he can have the more chickeny bits with the last of the sour dough baguette and I can have the mushroomy bits with a jacket potato.  Otherwise he'll want to add another chicken breast which I don't really enjoy in this kind of dish - I always think it needs the dark meat instead.  

Off now to put away the 5 euro note he unearthed from his wallet and review the credit card receipts from the hols to ensure that everything has been charged for correctly and then I can bin the lot.  

fyi - I've got into the habit now of emptying my email bin every day to save from accumulated clutter there.  As is common after travelling I'm getting a huge amount of junk mail - up to 40 a day so need to keep blocking those so they will eventually stop. 

vulpix

Hi, we have had a day off. No rushing about. I have done lots of washing. Lots and lots of tidying and sorting has happened today. Things that have been brought home have been found a home. We haven’t brought much. There are piles of stuff waiting to be distributed to various locations. At the bungalow there are two large boxes waiting to come here and be sorted. Photos and papers. Mr V, his friend and SS will empty the garage on Wednesday. We have ordered a skip. Our church shop has a window display of mil’s collectibles. Mil would be so pleased. 

 I have managed to oust quite a bit over and above usual household recycling and rubbish. Clearing a complete house has made me even more ruthless with my own belongings. 

 I now have about a week to finish the rocking chair before DS visits with a van. I was about to say it will be nice to get back to normal but we are starting on a new bathroom next week. We have to say yes whilst he is free. 

 Huge thanks to bit by bit. She has been an incredible help to me. It’s amazing how we met through this thread, it’s like we have been friends for years. 

 Too much to list individual items but new total is 178.

 Vx

 

Florenceem

No lie in here - I had done a whites wash so ironed SA uniform shirts and blouses before Church. I went on my own - Mr F was going to watch the service online.
Darned a sock and cooked dinner but still tired after yesterday.

Foofoopuppy

New passport received 🥳 was worried it would get caught up in the strikes. Not that I need it, as we are on a holiday moratorium to save up for America next year.

We have thrown about 4 broken food boxes, plus so extra lids (no idea where they came from). We have also bitten the bullet and bought a set of food boxes ready for meal preps which has been going OK. Currently cooking a lasagna which will be divided up and frozen.

Stairs also now all fixed - by which I mean my dad pulled them all out and replaced the entire botch job with proper wood. Saved us an absolute fortune, and now no risk of falling through when the stairs broke. Unfortunately the black bin was nowhere near big enough to hold all the waste so that will be a great joy when it's all gone. 

Good wishes have been sent as I have been reading along as well, I can see there are some tough times at the minute 😔 but I hope brighter times are on the horizon x