2023 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD

Florenceem

Still getting the numbers up - on 169 as against day 9 total of 45.
Decluttered - Carrier Bag + Magazine x 11 + Egg Boxes x 16 + Packet of Food + Leaflet x 2 + Bottles x 34  

Blue_Doggy

@roundtuit very sorry to hear about Sweetie.
 

I can’t remember when I last posted. I’ve been reading along but had to have some quiet time in the TLC Carriage - there are too many sad anniversaries for me at this time of year, so I was a bit down.

 

I don’t think I wrote down my goals for this year, so, in no particular order they are

 -bring my stuff back from ridiculously expensive storage unit
- declutter & deep clean hall and kitchen so I can get my washing machine replaced (it died two years ago - I have a caravan-sized twin-tub but not plumbed in so have to carry bowls of water about, I also use the nearly-local launderette when I can combine it with shopping etc)
- this will also enable me to get the front door replaced 💨
- declutter garage and bring in the display cabinet top for my sideboard (if still useable - it’s only been there under a tarpaulin for six years) 
- deep clean living room and rearrange furniture to accommodate ex-storage unit stuff and display unit
 

Never mind the clutter, so much needs deep cleaning because my eyes have been getting bad so I couldn’t see the dirt until I started wearing glasses around the house 😢
 
Some actual decluttering has happened:
Thursday
- 3 books returned to library (unread)
- new calendar and diary bought (half of already reduced price)
- old diary put in shopping list box for unused pages to be used 

Friday
- front door wreath taken down, greenery into garden waste bin, frame into rubbish bin (not added to the collection of unpicked wreath frames this year!)
- Christmas greenery & wreath removed from parents’ grave, replaced with fresh evergreens and winter jasmine
- Christmas  decorations (just a garland this year, Christmas Cactuses making a lovely show this year) & and returned to heap in Room of Doom
- Christmas mugs washed and put away, ordinary ones brought out

- candle & tealight holders washed and put away
- poinsettia plant into garden waste bin (not kept this year “to see if it will grow on the kitchen window ledge”)
- Christmas table linen added to Laundry-in-Waiting
- cards down, checked against book, some people decluttered, new list written (time to turn the page in the book); cards bagged, labelled and in RoD 
 
Weekend/today
- continuing to declutter Brexit/Lockdown/COVID/Christmas goodies food stores into useable meals 
 

Apologies for the long post. Frogs to do tomorrow (just the nearest couple of them).

QueenJess

Just a quick check in. More progress decluttering digitally whilst I was sorting out my inbox earlier:

148-55 - digital bookmarks deleted
156 - unneeded app deleted from phone
157-58 - digital notes deleted
159-70 - digital documents deleted.

My inbox is also down to below 80. Slowly getting there!

Floss

@Dfw38 maybe your mantra could be
"to finish my 40th year feeling finer,  fulfilled & fitter than I started"

ilovetea

Evening everybody. Hope everyone is well or getting better if you have had the lurgy.
Not posted for 5 days as just not up to doing much.
Managed to put rubbish and recycling out everyday (10)
E-mails deleted every day (5).
6 newspapers to neighbour(6)
Hairdresser called and gave me a good trim (1).
Decapitated Amarylis, :-( Now in bin (1),
Make that 21 so will add to my last total when I find it,
Take care all,
  ilovetea  xx

joanie

@dfw38.   Oooh I got goose bumps reading your post. I know you have health concerns and wish you well with that, but I found it so motivating hearing your strength and determination for the coming year. GO YOU! So much of what you said resonated with me and I feel inspired and motivated by your post. Thank you. 😘

roundtuit

Thank you a ❤❤💔

I've had enough of today. I'm decluttering myself off to bed.

Rxx

DundeeDoll

Natty68 said:

DundeeDoll I love the idea of 23 minutes do you mind if I borrow it from you please 👍 I may not feel so overwhelmed 😃

Not at all. Today's 23 minutes just completed - moved a small 3 drawer cabinet out of mum's office (plastic, will go in the shed when we've had the shed built, sometime in 2023) and the 5 drawer chest of drawers into her office then moved boxes into the room of requirements having moved the broken piano stool out and into the garden then emptied the bins and moved books into DS's pile and some more items into the CS box and the alarm went off telling me my 23 minutes is done! The landing is again clear hooray. Now having a cuppa with mum and will soon be going to bed. One day back at work and I am shattered! (managed to end the day 148 emails down on where I started so another mountain being chipped away at).

Keiths_Mum

Well done everyone! Despite being back at work or having other responsibilities such as caring for elders or children, everyone seems to be going great guns. Nice to see there's such a range of different types of declutterers, there's a nice ebb and flow as you read through the posts, it's very motivating.

Today I have only managed paperwork decluttering, but have got to the end of the first box, yay! Only 5 more to go, boo!

Shredded 84 pieces

Recycled 17 pieces

Have already set the next box down by the shredder so I can get on with it tomorrow evening.

short_bird

134-147: items to rubbish (supermarket delivery day, I get rid of as much additional packaging as possible)
148-156: stuff sorted to recycling 
Deferred decision 3 sorted resulting in a batch of laundry tonight and some vacuuming tomorrow. 

Good grief, is that the time??