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

Dinner was delicious - DH made a creamy pasta sauce - onions, garlic, bacon, chicken, grain mustard & crème fraiche with tagliatelle accompanied by baby spinach 😋 

1083 - 1086 Kitchen recycling, plastic bottle, drinks cans, cardboard box- recycled 

1087 Kitchen detritus binned

TC77, I do empathise with your situation - my DB & yours share a gene ‘we, meaning you should sort the house in my time frame’ 😂 The useful thing is that you are aware of your ‘foibles’ when it comes to decluttering so you will be on your guard 👏 Excellent work dealing with paperwork 👏 Re old mobiles, laptops etc DH tells me that if you reset to ‘factory settings’ all personal data will disappear. I am sure there are threads on the main MSE to check that his understanding is correct or if anything else needs to be done 🙂

Excellent garage decluttering Florenceem 👏 Good luck with the SA table sale 🍀

Great work stellata 👏 Space & money - a win-win 🙂

Excellent post Foofoopuppy 👏 More good advice for all of us - especially the idea of ‘repeated cycles of decluttering’

Excellent decluttering of RD Select Editions roundtuit 👏 & yes, they do multiply in the dark 😂 Lovely to hear that the current discussion is being so well received 😊 Good luck working out an approach to dealing with your first priority 🍀 Plus I love the picture you painted “But I'm going to use the activity to squelch the hovering cloud of depression which is circling again. Mental image of large hobnailed boot squelching on a large green blob. Splunch!” 😁

Florenceem, what a magnificent amount raised from the SA table sale 👏 You seem to have wine racks breeding in your garage 😅 Hopefully the 3rd one is the last one 🤞Excellent garage decluttering 👏

Excellent gardening work Pennypincin 👏

Yippee another page caught up 🙂

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

DH Awards: 🥇🏅⭐️💐🏅 perseverance medal 🎖️ 🥇 🏅🏅 

Decluttering Target 2023: 1087/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £74.70

Soontobeoap

@Deni_debt-free_dreamer that is an amazing accomplishment. Congratulations. I would like to send some 🥂 💐 for you to enjoy in your very own home. 10 years ago we downsized and cleared our mortgage and I will never forget that feeling of freedom!

@Mrs SD so sorry to hear of your loss. Thank you for my star. I am feeling smug to be over half way already.

 Been at hospital tonight for urgent treatment for a UTI so hopefully that will be decluttered very soon. I did manage to clear out a load of takeaway lids because I had used the bottoms for seeds. 

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

Wudupa.

weenancyinAmerica, sounds like you have been enjoying the discussion 🙂 Hopefully your printed copy of gettingthrifty’s reasons for decluttering will help you ‘persuade’ your roommates to assist you properly in your quest to declutter 🤞Sorry to hear that Di didn’t listen to you & is now unemployed again 😔 The thing is that if she can hold down 2 jobs even for a short amount of time, then she really should be able to help you with the decluttering 😉 Keeping my fingers crossed that her confidence has grown & that she applies for another job asap 🤞 Sorry to hear that roommate G is still having problems with his legs 😔 Although it is nice that G is cooking, it would be even nicer if he cleaned up afterwards rather than leaving it to you 🤞 I did have to smile about your description of the ‘invisible’ roommate 😁 Is roommate J ill or swinging the lead 😉 It would appear that you are the only person who ever completes a task 😔 Pleased to hear that the vinegar is working at least partially 🙂 I really do not understand how anyone can still insist that climate change isn’t happening especially when LA has had probably several years of rain in the past few weeks 😱 I do not know how you find the energy OR the time to do so much week in, week out - you are amazing 🤩 Hope you enjoyed the Mystery Authors luncheon on Sunday 😊 & that the food was good 🤞 Also sounds like Monday was a very busy day dealing with so many frogs 👏

Florenceem sorry to hear about the lost filling 😣 Hopefully you can get a quick appointment at an NHS dentist 🤞

There was you thinking you could have Saturday off, QueenJess 😅 Very impressed that your DS is so keen to declutter 👏 Perhaps you should get DS to work with your DH first 😉 to get some practice, before hiring DS out as a professional declutterer 😊 I think we all need a touch of ‘immediate decisions & ruthlessness’, although I can see how it could be terrifying coming from a 6 year old 😱 Excellent decluttering 👏

Liverpool_Anne, you had a busy weekend 👏 so I am hoping that Monday was a quiet day & relaxing day 🙏 Your method of dealing with priority tasks by breaking them down into smaller & smaller action is absolutely wonderful 🤩 I really do need to take a leaf out of your book to get some of my bigger tasks done 😉 Excellent decluttering 👏

Wow you were up early Florenceem 🙂 Fingers crossed that everything you put out on the drive was taken & that someone has claimed the sun loungers🤞

Floss, I was curious as well so thank you for asking 👏

Florenceem, ah now I understand 😁 Justin can be very persuasive 😅

Great decluttering roundtuit 👏 Sadly I have never found a Sudoku book in my cupboards - if I buy one I try to do all the puzzles over a couple of days 😉 Shame I cannot apply the same method when I am decluttering 😂 

Look at that, another page caught up 🙂

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

DH Awards: 🥇🏅⭐️💐🏅 perseverance medal 🎖️ 🥇 🏅🏅 

Decluttering Target 2023: 1087/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £74.70

weenancyinAmerica

Started Sunday doing my laundry as I had run out of everything. Usually do it on Monday, but couldn't wait as I have decluttered too many tops do to holes lately. Went to let out my sister's dog for a "run" in the backyard - dog has to be carried out. He is 17 years old and is having leg problems. Carried him back in and then fed dog his goodies. Met up with friends at the Mystery Author's Luncheon. It was wonderful to hear how the four authors write their books and what motivated them to start. And the free to us luncheon (the major perk of the job of being on the Friends of the Library Board, next to getting first choice of books coming in) was delicious. Later, friend brought by enough chicken dinner for all of us and the neighbors (there are ten of them, so when I can I like to share what we get - three boxes of food last week from the church, no way we can use up three heads of lettuce for one thing before they bring us more next week).

We had rain overnight and are expecting two or three days of it  - with snow in the mountains here. People are still able to go up and ski - amazing.

Today I took roommate G to get an x-ray and used the time to add to my outline of a speech I am giving next month on Self-Publishing Your Family History - on PowerPoint. Using what I have learned in class again.

Worked on yard (swept some more) and did more family history. Went to the library to get books ready for the jail (the person comes the first Monday of each month to pick them up). Got twelve boxes of paperback books ready to go and then emptied twelve boxes of donated books onto carts for next book sale. We get a lot of donations, probably five to ten boxes a day. Except found out one of our branches cleaned up their shelves and are sending 25 boxes over in the next day or so, so after class on Wednesday and on Friday will need to go and sort those by subject.

Then did homework for two of my classes. One of my assignments for PowerPoint is "My Ideal Trip to England and Wales", planning a two week trip with added animations and a video and all sorts of things we need to try like adding music. It takes exactly five minutes, to the second, right now and that is our limit. 

Trash day tomorrow, so roommate G helped clean out the refrigerator. Got out three boxes of recycling and several bags of non-recycling. Two very full trash cans out. 

So sorry to hear about your uncle, Mrs. S_D. But glad you had a good trip to France. 

Hope everyone has a better week this week than last week (try to be an optimist)..

Florenceem

84 items added to my total decluttered today.
I wrote a list/plan for the day last night before I went to bed.
Someone asked for an item on Freegle after I went to bed so hopefully I can arrange a collection and they turn up.
I have to heave a stepladder out of the garage this morning to give away - we have 3 stepladders in the garage!

Siebrie

To those of you getting rid of large suitcases (especially the ones with wheels): maybe you know a family who visits their relatives in their home country. They often take a lot of gifts (clothes, toys, electronics) home, but often don't take as much back to the country they are living in. In other words: they are looking for suitcases to leave behind.

I'm currently at my parents' for 4 days. My Father is definitely receiving palliative care now. A Nurse comes every morning and every evening to wash him and get him ready for the day or the night. In between (even in the middle of the night!) we can call a Nursing service to help out, they come within 15 minutes. The GP is visiting every other day, the current pastor and the former pastor of their church visit once a week. My Father has been given medication to make his life easier, but not longer. His mind is still very clear; we are arranging the funeral service, going through admin, discussing the taxes, and life. The biggest problem at the moment is that he feels absolutely useless, so involving him in his own goodbye is doing him a favour.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Soontobeoap said:

@Deni_debt-free_dreamer that is an amazing accomplishment. Congratulations. I would like to send some 🥂 💐 for you to enjoy in your very own home. 10 years ago we downsized and cleared our mortgage and I will never forget that feeling of freedom!

@Mrs SD so sorry to hear of your loss. Thank you for my star. I am feeling smug to be over half way already.

 Been at hospital tonight for urgent treatment for a UTI so hopefully that will be decluttered very soon. I did manage to clear out a load of takeaway lids because I had used the bottoms for seeds. 

Thank you very much! 
It's been a long slog from achieving debt freedom to then become mortgage free. The MSE forum family has been really helpful and supportive. Now I need to build some savings (starting from a very low base !) then I can give up my FT job and live on my income from my PT job/self employment/casual work

love Deni xx

Florenceem

I have decluttered this morning then popped to SA with a bag of clothes recycling.
Then I walked to the charity shop - 3 bags of stuff out of the house.
I got Mr F some crossword/word search & sudoko books in £lan.
Back home now to crack on again.

Floss

Siebrie, it's really hard isn't it - both my parents were on similar care. Big hugs x

bit_by_bit

Ouch@Soontobeoap 
Cool corner @Dfw38
Hugs @Siebrie Tough time ahead.

As usual you are doing sterling work @Mrs_Salad_Dodger As usual I am in awe and award a 🏅 for your kind and considerate efforts. Big hugs too. Life has chucked some rubbish your way lately. 

Well I half cleared and sorted the car yesterday when DH decided it was time to start work on the camper van. We bought it a few years ago and have used it lots to move thing but not slept one night in it. We ripped out the bed as it wasn't right for us and now we have started constructing a better one.

I have other jobs I want done but that is the major one.

So a few frogs today and finishing the car.  A busy week ahead as planning for a family weekend for the coronation plus a few birthday thrown in. Take care all.