2023 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD

Siebrie

Congratulations on the wedding anniversaries!

Thank you for the stars and halo, MrsSD!

dd1 has also cleared out her own room! now the landing is full, but I plan to sort that this Saturday.

dd1 and I went to Ikea last night to buy a wardrobe, which came in 3 large flat boxes; we'll assemble it tonight. I had a €10 discount voucher, valid until next Thursday

Baxtersmum

Hello all, hope you are all well and happy, I’m sorry that I only dip in and out, I feel like I’m missing out on such a supportive and kind group. I’ve been updating my signature as the thread chugs along and I’m at my final 275/2023 items decluttered. 

I’ve been selling on eBay, sending any unwanted craft bits to a local arts and crafts charity and charity shopping and food banking. 

Yesterday I went through all my Christmas decorations and found lots of impulse buys among them. Seeing myself declutter and seeing what used to be money has meant I am much more conscious of my impulse buying. The money I’ve saved off selling stuff will be spent on a Mrs Harris goes to Paris kind of dress for my sons wedding. This is a really conscious spend, something I’ll wear over and over, decided not to go formal but go with fit comfort and repeat wear potential. 

Have a lovely day all and keeeeep decluttering xxx 

vulpix

Hi chums. I am presently in bed. Bored with sitting in the car! I have plenty to do but I have a cold and don’t feel like it. 

 Well done for rehoming your snake. I told my son he could have every pet he asked for when he had his own house. Strange there is an absence of snakes, lizards, parrots, stick insects, rats, and wolves at his house!

 A plasterer is here. What a hero. Our builder forgot to book him! Not surprised when he has 2 other big jobs on. Plasterer has reorganised his work so we don’t have to put the kitchen fitter off. We have given him a bottle of JD as a thank you.  

 I condensed all my recipes to just a few cards. They were mostly special things I only make at Christmas etc. tbh very little cooking has happened in the past couple of years, and I quite like it! Sick of cooking after over 40 years of it. 

 DD1 is passing through on her way to a gig in London.She is here a couple of days and will go and see my Mum who has been poorly. It does seem very odd that my Mum is poorly. She has always been crippled with arthritis but as hard as nails. 

 New total 857 including the trousers I bought in March. Now massive 😃

Vx

~FlowerPot~

@Brie ~ congratulations on your wedding anniversary, you chose a good day to get married !!

Alevel results received *A/A/B = 1 very happy boy. And well deserved he worked very hard. He can secure his uni place at Manchester to study biochemistry and then defer it until next year. not managed to do much in flowerpotHQ today yet. Alevel boy has gone off to celebrate on a 50 K bike ride (bonkers!!) Tidying and cleaning are on the cards for the rest of the day plus a trip to the dentist for DD

Crazycatlady2

The rabbit hutch and run gas gone 🎉 patio looked massive now 

other than that I’ve done some prepping towards emptying our bedroom ready for new bed as we going from a double to a king 

other than that not much going on…cat not come for his breakfast and no one else ill….yet 🤞

Brie

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Brie, belated Happy 36th Anniversay - apparently the gift is Antiques 🤷‍♀️ 

Well I suppose we could have given ourselves to one another.....  no probably not a good idea.

I got a new lovely little leather handbag and he got a book and a bouquet of sweet peas from the garden.  

Suffolksue

congratulations to son of Flowerpot !

~FlowerPot~

Suffolksue said:

congratulations to son of Flowerpot !

Thank you! 

So this is what his sister made for him to celebrate his A level results.  😂😂😂
She said she didn't want him to get to big headed!!     😂😂😂

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

Already Thursday - what happened to the rest of the week 😬 I have only just got up (noon)😔 but DH has been busy 😊 He has managed to book a telephone appointment with the surgery for Tuesday for my DSis - really quick as she only gets back from France on Monday 👏 He also received his 17:00 phone call before noon. The doctor was a bit concerned about 2 of the results from his recent blood test - a liver function result & the size of his red blood cells 😔 DH will be having another blood test in a month. As I was feeling a bit guilty about getting up so late I had a sort out of both freezers. I have taken out meals for DH & I for our last 4 days of just the 2 of us 😉 So there is actually some wiggle room now in both freezers 🥳 I am managing to keep up with Mantra 4 & dealing with all my mail on a daily basis 🙂 DH has ordered my new recipe book which will arrive on Saturday.  Wrote a shopping list for DH & he went shopping at 19:00. Whilst he was out he got a text from my DSis saying that she has a face to face appointment with her doctor on Wednesday 🥳 Wonders will never cease 😊 Packed away shopping whilst dinner was cooking - linguine with lo parmigiana sauce from freezer 😋 Wudupa.

1820 - 1823 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, plastic bottle, newspaper - recycled 

1824 Kitchen detritus binned

Siebrie, DD1 is definitely on a roll - one more Gold Star ⭐️ for her 👏 Good luck building the wardrobe 🍀

Lovely to see you Baxtersmum 👋 Excellent decluttering & as you are counting down from 2023, I owe you 2 Gold Stars ⭐️⭐️ I love the idea that monies raised from selling your items is going to be used to buy a ‘Mrs Harris goes to Paris’ type dress 🤩 

vulpix, sorry to hear that you are unwell 🤧 I did have to smile at the story about your son 😉 perhaps you should treat him to a pet lizard 🤣 What a wonderful chap your plasterer is 🥳 Very impressed that you only have a few recipe cards 🙂 My issue is not so much the cooking but having to come up with the menu plan with not much input from DSis or DH 😔 It will be nice to see DD1 even if she is only passing through 😊 Sorry to hear your mum is ill 😔 I hope that your weight loss is intentional 🤞& if it is well done 👏 

~FlowerPot~ excellent A-Level results achieved by your son - congratulations to him & I hope he enjoys his gap year 😊

Crazycatlady2, great news that the rabbit hutch & run have left the premises 🥳 Enjoy your new king size bed 😊

Brie, lovely anniversary presents 😊

~FlowerPot~, great cake made by your DD 👏 a brilliant sentiment 😂

It has been another sunny warm day - long may it continue 🤞 

Off to bed now, sleep tight everyone 😴 

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

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

Decluttering Target 2023: 1824/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £299.00

TC77

@~FlowerPot~Well done to your son and a relief all round. Love the cake.
  Dd2 got accepted at Birmingham , had been texting me clearing options at 3 in the morning the night before. Went for a Japanese meal with dd1 and dd2 and then dd2 decided to go to a party. Has promised to help me Saturday. 
Major frog which has been the last weekend , most evenings and late last night , with stuff sent to ex / Court, been going on for years but several stages with the end in the autumn. Feel can breathe and refocus. 
Going to look at things dd2 can take with her ! And others can go to cs. More frogs to do dd1 pip appeal, forms , paper tidy after other frogs! 
Congratulations on the anniversaries. 
Enjoying reading along and inspiring and love how people are using their £ from clutter, finding space and time from it all. 
Must also get cooker and other things fixed, the house and garden have been neglected.  DB is looking at putting our dads house on market which will force us to do something ( hopefully empty)and may get dnephew or dniece's boyfriend who can both drive vans to help with moving stuff to mine. Haven't put bookcase brought back a few weeks ago together or dd1's excess furniture moved out yet so going to aim to up my nos by 500 at least before stuff from my dad's moved in seriously. 
Last no I can see is 950 so giving myself 980 as stuff had gone to cs etc .
Did get compliments when wore a dress to work, new to me jaeger shift dress from cs when I took things to my dad's local cs! Hadn't been sure of the colour but sets a good standard when I go through summer stuff in a month or so.