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

I decided to make use of Wednesday’s good weather - stripped both our & DSis’s beds as a prelude to washing. First load (our bedding) has been washed & is now out on the whirligig. 2nd load is in - our clothes. I had a lovely surprise today - a letter from my step aunt (92 years young) - I was beginning to wonder if she was still with us as I had been sending birthday & Christmas cards but not getting any response 😔 Both wm loads dried on the whirligig as it stayed sunny all day 👏 & our bed now has freshly laundered bedding 😊 DH filled the bird feeders & I have finished knitting one scarf. The 2nd half of our curries was reheated & just as delicious. Wudupa.

1783 - 1785 Kitchen recycling, cardboard box, drinks cans - recycled 

1786 Kitchen detritus binned

Excellent decluttering Brie 👏 & well done persuading OH to take stuff to the CS 😊 Hope tomorrow’s visit with your friend goes well & that she will take the hat 🤞Well done on getting all your home shredding done at work 👏 It is so great when someone else actually notices & comments on decluttered areas 😊 Seems to give an added impetus to decluttering efforts 😉

weenancy, sounds like you had a lovely but hectic birthday 🎂 You deserve to be spoiled & even the baseball team managed to win - as an extra birthday present 😉 Yippee to the fish tank finally being gone 🥳 all that space to sort out the clutter 👏 Good luck 🍀

Lovely supportive post vulpix 😊 Love that you are using the car as an extra room 👏 perhaps MrV can walk to work 😅 only joking 🙃 Sending lots of good wishes to your friend & her husband 🙂 

Muddy_Walker, practice makes perfect with your resin craft 👏 Sorry to hear you had a sleepless night, hopefully Wednesday night was better & you wake up on Thursday morning fully rested 🤞

Florenceem, sounds like life is getting back to normal 😊

Brie, not really sexist - just an observation 🤣 If I want/need something I write a list 😉 even if it is only a couple of items 😂

Excellent work oceanspirit 👏 Really pleased to hear that your frog box was tamed more easily than anticipated 😊 Good luck with frogs 3 & 4 🍀

Lovely to see you bit_by_bit 👋 You have been very busy 👏 What a lovely & thoughtful gift for DS3 & family 😊 It should make their lives so much easier 🥳 I am awarding you a Gold Star ⭐️ for such sterling work 👏

Lovely to see you Liverpool_Anne 👋 Time flies when RL is busy 😢 Sounds a bit like OH is royalty 😅 - week long celebrations are definitely exhausting especially if you are over 30 😉 Excellent decluttering 👏 The weather has been so dire that I had almost forgotten about ‘flaming June’ & I am still waiting for August’s good weather 😉🤞

Hope everyone gets a good nights sleep & that Thursday is both dry & sunny 🤞

MrsSD (a superwoman) 😇 🎖💐🤩🏅🦸🏅💐🏆 💐🍰🍾🌟⭐️🌟 💐🏅💐🏅💐💐💐🏅💐 ⭐️ ❤️🏅🍾🏅 📣🦸‍♀️💐 ⭐️ 🏅 💐 (✨✨ aka platinum stars) 😇 

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

Decluttering Target 2023: 1786/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £299.00

GrannyKate

Morning all - children back this afternoon for 5 days so need to do a few jobs this morning.  However, its nearly 10 and I only just got dressed.

1090 Pen binned - I keep picking it up to use but it only works occasionally so in bin
1091 More photos downloaded
1092 Treated myself to some death certificates (we family historians are a strange lot) - there are £2.50 digital images available for some early years.  Discovered 4 x great grandmother died when she was run over by a wagon.  
1093 Slippers binned
1094 Small frogs done

Brie

a successful declutter day (ins and outs)

8 boxes of unwanted herbal tea acquired from the food bank (think they're from the Netherlands, no English on the pack which means lots of people won't actually know they are tea.)  Fortunately for me I can muddle through the ingredients well enough to know that these can be shared amongst me and 2 friends and 1 box has already been rehomed.  

4 hand crocheted lap blankets collected from one of the friends who likes the tea and they'll all be dropped back to the foodbank tomorrow in readiness for the cold weather to come.  

Said friend also took the half finished tapestry mom bought in Madeira in 1986, my home made knitting bag given to me by my adopted grandmother in about 1965, all the yarn and Tunisian hooks in it (thrilled she knew what they were!!!) and the little painting I made of her cat.  Not perfect but she likes that I capture the catattitude.

Florenceem

Only 6 items to add to my total today.
Lovely weather here.

weenancyinAmerica

@Brie - you got the attitude right. Good job.

retiredinfrance

Hello again, declutterati chums( with thanks to Jackie 0 for the use of chums).Lots of progress here after a long delayed start by DH on sorting the garage. Thanks so much for our medals, Mrs SD,. I was beginning to think the one for DH was a bit premature as we have had one tidy corner and an absolute mess on the other side of the garage . He got down to it these last few days  and we also emptied the 4 cupboards in the kitchen. I came back from shopping to find the contents piled on the kitchen table. He thought that we could put some of that stuff in the garage. And so it turned out. 

So,
47 books
5 mags 
2 cloths to rag recycling 
1 tea towel to rag recycling 
1 unopened bottle of washing liquid for black clothes. My DSis bought it some  15 years ago and never used it. To CS
4 bottles of aperitifs to CS for their fundraising Christmas Party. Again unopened - gifts from neighbours and we don’t really like or need them. Anyway I was not going to disagree with DH as Out is Out.
1 small pile of rubble from the back of the cupboards which must have got shaken down when the house was replumbed.
I have had a holiday with DS in UK,
3 games for DGC rehired from a granny friend whose DGC were past them.
1 pile of stickers for DGC
And as I was buying replacements in UK,
1 blouse 
1 bra,
1 Tshirt,
1 dress
1 vood deodorant that smelled vile to bin
3 surplus medications to pharmacy. 

So, 
Totals
73+236=309/365
Sorry, forgot to add 
1 Le Creuset - cooking pot- too big and too heavy for me now when full of food. We brought it here as it was “too good to go” to the CS - again being influenced by the cost of the pot rather than its lack of suitability for me as an elderly cook.
Now off to the CS. 

So new total
310/365.
PS The weather here is lovely with lower than normal temperatures but with a serious drought.
Keep safe everyone and lots of hugs for you all . 

retiredinfrance

Rehomed and not rehired.This is a feature of life here. Grannies ask how old are your DGC and the next time you see them , games etc  are offered, ones that their DGC have grown out of. Needless to say, all very little used and of good quality. Everyone likes to have something for them when the family come to visit. 

Floss

@retiredinfrance I like that phrase - rehomed not rehired 😊

daisy_1571

https://youtu.be/vP5cJSOMU74

Just 10 minutes but seems like a nice chap.  Some interesting turns of phrases might resonate with someone who needs his words tonight. 

Hugs to everyone.   Sorry to read recently about rabbit missing his buddy, errant family members, illness or injury or just a bit of overwhelm amongst other things.  Happy to read of the happy news as well.

Take care declutterati chums

Daisy xxx

oceanspirit

Had a day off decluttering today and had a lovely morning with rellies instead.  Spent the afternoon recovering and did a few admin tasks this evening.  Living room being measured tomorrow for a carpet quote and I need to reply to some emails that I didn’t do today plus tackle frogs 3 and 4.