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

Hope everyone is OK 👌 All I can think is that my fellow declutterati were all too busy to post 😉 I finished the 2nd scarf & have started on a third 😊 DSis & I were rather annoyed at the judges scoring on Strictly 😖 Dinner was oven chips, baked beans & gammon for DSis, added a fried egg for DH but I had an egg instead of gammon. Wudupa.

2178 - 2180 Kitchen recycling, glass jar, drinks cans - recycled 

2181 Kitchen detritus binned 

See below for pictures of the scarves

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

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

Decluttering Target 2023: 2177/2023

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £469.00

Moorviews

Those scarves are beautiful Mrs SD!  I am very impressed with your knitting skill for more complicated patterns and the speed of completion. It takes me months, or even years, to finish knitting something.

dND

Lovely scarves Mrs_SD.  

Happy_Kitties

The thread has still been moving so fast.
Haven't had chance to catch up-RL getting in the way but I’ve still tried to declutter where I can

*279-282. Old phones x 4 hanging around the house for a few years, I took them to the local phone shop for recycling if they could not be sold. They did buy them, didn’t offer much but it was something donated to charity and they are out of the house. 

*283 Another broken mug, bounced down the stairs quicker than the stairlift!

*284-290 presents x 7 dropped off yesterday. Nice to see the desk upstairs clear again.
*291-293 items x 3 out of DDs room and into recycling
*294-302 items x 9 dropped off for DD yesterday including an early Christmas present for her padded out in one of the lovely Christmas boxes I picked up very cheap post Christmas. With DD being ruthless with budgeting she will reuse the box so will def get my monies worth from that box 
*303 lots of cardboard out of the house
*304 while looking for something else I got rid of a lot of paperwork. Very happy with this.

Have also cleared and cleaned the first freezer drawer, slowly running down ready to stock up for Christmas. I have a ‘F@@d Warehouse’ in the next town, very spacious and much better for a wheelchair so have been topping up my Iceland card ready to get some things from the store
 

GrannyKate

Morning all.  Busy few days working on operation move round.  I now have a study shared with a sort of utility pantry and tumble drier and some other stuff in adjoining garage. Not much smaller than proper study which will now be bedroom 4.  Temporary arrangements now at 20 months so time for re-organisation.

1508 Plastics to SM
1509 History class done and papers to recycling
1510 Canvas bag  to CS (will fill it with other things to go)
1511 Toy to CS
1512 Spare trousers to school for sale
1513 Plastic boxes with no lids to tip
1514 Three plastic boxes freed up for reuse
1515 Garage moved round to make space
1516 Unsubscribed to emails
1517 Wet suit to CS
1518 Large sieve to CS (not been used in at least 5 years)
1519-1524 Sets of coffee cups and mugs to CS
1525 Electric milk warmer to CS
1526 Egg boxes returned to farm shop
1527 Empty folders to CS
1528-1532 Books to CS
1533 Small tool case to CS
1534 Electronic thingy in box to CS (no idea what it is but never used)
1535 Random paper to recycling box
1536-1545 Cables to recycling box
1546 Photographic paper of late DH collected up and one of his photography friends will collect
1546 Electric fire to recycling
1547 Random wooden oddments in car for tip
1548 Large cardboard box to recycling
1549 Large amount of tat from all over in bin
1550 Ten items put away
1551 Pens and pencils sorted at least 20 binned
1552 Wooden railway bagged up for DGS4 to take to his mums

Onward. 

daisy_1571

Gorgeous scarves Mrs sd

leftatthetrafficlights

Love the scarves @Mrs_Salad_Dodger!! Very impressed!!! 👏😁

Well, the wine has been tested and all I can say is 🤢🤮🙄🤦‍♀️ they have been disposed of down the sink - I just hope they're not toxic to aquatic life!! 😂

Freezer inventory has been done - 11 boxes of UFO's (unidentified freezer objects) so we shall do two boxes a week until we get through them - hopefully there's nothing too random and I will be able to add stuff to adapt the flavours if we open two of the same stuff on any given week 😉 I'm doing a menu plan today so that i can use up what is in the freezers and save money buying more stuff - I think we will probably have them empty by the end of the year (exactly 10 weeks away!! 😳) and then they can be defrosted and refilled with the bargin veg the supermarkets do during the chrimbo period!

Tomorrow I will start taking the demijohns to their new homes, and may tackle what remains in the understair cupboard in case there is stuff in there that can go to the CS....

I'm feeling quite motivated at the moment - probably because my 'new year' starts at the astronomical midway point between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice which is on 7th November this year so only 16 days away and I like to get everything organised/sorted/planned before I have a reset...fingers crossed that I can keep the momentum going!! 🤞

Floss

@leftatthetrafficlights I have several foil dishes of UFOs - I took the lid off one yesterday & it had grated cheese on top of mashed potato, so I think they're either fish pie or cottage pie 🤷‍♀️ but at least I know they're not rhubarb crumble 🤣

QueenJess

A little bit of food using up to declare.  Progress is definitely being made, but still lots to go as the freezer is still more than half full (it started out completely rammed with us not being able to get a single thing into it and it's a chest freezer!).  I've almost completely cleared the fridge prior to a few days away though.

Been trying to declutter my parents loft remotely so they only bring up what we can use.  They sent me a zillion photos that I've been through and commented on.  I foresee boxes of books for the kids in my very near future, although I am forever encouraging DS to read and I'll try any books to find the ones that works for him as he's picky!    Worst case scenario is they go into my loft for DD until she's older and then go to the charity if she doesn't like them.  Also some games coming my way, but I am happy to make space to play games together as a family which I enjoy.

I'm still enjoying the decluttered cleaning cupboard and it makes me smile every time I open it.

33,639-33,641 - cupboard overstock used up
33,642 - craft stuff used up

daisy_1571

Thats an interesting concept leftatthetrafficlights, is there something that goes along with this or just something you do?  Just curious,  you don't have to go into detail if you don't want to 

Daisy xx