2024 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

JingsMyBucket

Hi @Mrs_Salad_Dodger thank you for running this thread again. I started with you last year but fell off the wagon or was rather sporadic. I’m feeling the crush of STUFF this year especially. Might as well start again. 🙂

First items decluttered / put away this evening 

1. suitcase and clothes after returning this past Friday from vacation 

2. hair products gifted to me by a friend 

3. dry laundry instead of letting it clutter up surfaces 

4. packaging from deliveries tossed or recycled

We some items to list on eBay this week and I have a few tables and bookcases to declutter so we can rearrange our living room also this week. Those will be my challenges for the week. Good luck everyone! 

Happy_Kitties

And I’m off!

Today I started this year’s decluttering journey.

1) further job lot of take away plastics kept just in case (and never used) -recycling
2) extremely ood cake box mix, contents binned and box recycled
3) third of  a sauce mix in the fridge, disposed of (mouldy), jar recycled 
4) last year’s calendar-recycling

Neutral items wise

30 items are now on the way to the organiser, that has created some space

peony40

Hello,

I’d like to join you all this year.  We downsized in 2015 and I still have crates of stuff in the house, plus garage and shed.  Now, with both my parents having gone into nursing homes I have acquired boxes of their paperwork and stuff and we are running out of room to put it anywhere.

A start was made today by decluttering cardboard boxes, and putting bits into a charity shop box ready to drop in.

DundeeDoll

waves to everyone - 24 minutes in bathroom done (I've kept my medals and stars from last year @Mrs_Salad_Dodger  cos I am very proud of them )

Suffolksue

I have a bag for the charity shop and a bag of rags for the one that accepts them .
A lot will be decluttered this next week as my lovely gardener who does decorating during the winter is coming to paint my hall ,( long as I live in a bungalow) 
she came today ,I was showing her an old chest of drawers that I need to get to tip ,it needs up cycling and I don’t need it .She would love it and a lot of the notepads and blank paper collection  for her grandsons to use ,
there is a lot !
will also have to empty the bookcases so will finally sort them .
Think I will feel better after 

ilovetea

Happy New Year.
Off to a fairly good start. Decided to sort the kitchen drawers.
What  a load of junk n there.
 Lemon squeezer. Not squeezed a lemon in years. Pastry cutters x 4. Never bake anymore.
Catnip seeds. She doesn't like catnip!.
In all 31 bits got rid of to recycling, bin or charity shop. The later are in my friends car as she is taking them for me.
Took decorations down. Threw one away that wasn't very nice and recycled cards.

 So todays total is 33. Quite proud of that.

          ilovetea  xx

short_bird

A day of pottering around.
2-3: 50 emails and 1 GB data deleted
4-25: items to recycling (had a small blitz of paper items)
26-34: items to bin (finishing things off in fridge)
35: document to accountant, she's tidying up before the end of the financial year...

Washer is being stuffed so it can be started tomorrow morning: sod's law usually declares I want to pack half the stuff in there. Time for another cup of decaf tea...

TC77

Happy New Year all, I've jumped on board again!

Another reminder about using things up. Out with friends last night and wore make up for the first time for months and then used eye make up remover - must have been years old and made my eyes sting so took it with old medicines to chemist 7. I have another  make up remover - posher and about a year old  keeping for best ! Not sure that you keep these for best but clearly some odd thinking going on!

I bought myself a posh(ish) new walking coat/parka and wore it straight away - not keeping things for best anymore.

Had a tidy up (superficial of bedroom) and old make up brushes and few bits out.
Counting as 7 to chemist and 3 for small things (10).
Back to work tomorrow, some frogs to tackle and some items to return and hope to be regularly reporting back.

Looking forward to hearing everyone's journeys, and remember it can feel like 2 steps forward and one back, but chipping away is ok, and spending time in the TLC carraige

charlies_tribe

Thanks @flamingo747 I was thinking almost 3 years may be too long.
Just popping in to say we'll done everyone! After the pantry shelf, I have done absolutely nothing! Well I have, we sat for hours doing a jigsaw but had to put it away as tge light in the conservatory isn't very good and by then it was almost 6 so had to do dinner.
I did fill the garden waste bin with rubbish from some boxes in the week up to Christmas but not counting it until it leaves as I'll probably forget its there until we need the bin next year.

basketcase

Happy New Year all!

Lots of great work going on here, plus lots of great relaxing!   Hope all the poorly, stressed and overwhelmed feel better for a stay in the TLC carriage.

Tomorrow I'm off down to Edinburgh, where my DD's just bought a flat.  So today I've been gathering stuff to take down.  Being able to return her stuff to her will be a major boost to my decluttering.  The first load will consist of 12 assorted containers - bags, boxes, Lakeland 'hoover' bags etc - with clothes, (60) coathangers, pans, crockery, bathroom scales, belts, crisps...

For curiosity I counted and weighed them and there were:
12 bags
containing 187 items
weighing 290 lbs

And there's plenty more yet!