2024 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

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@bit_by_bit couldn't resist responding  have 2 manual and 1 electric typewriter at my dad's and 2 1940s/50s early calculating machines, cine and early cameras etc. Oh, and I do have a smaller 30s desk so not shortage of nostalgia... I have put my monitor and keyboard on the new to me desk and slowly putting things in the drawers. This desk is for working and the other one for decoration and storing other nostalgia. I was looking at bringing one typewriter back- I learnt to type on it.
I need no encouragement to keep things!
However, I do like working on the dining table as overlooks the street and I can see life going on, but when I have a smaller table will be less incentive and working in my 'study' will be further from the fridge and kitchen cupboards which should be good. 
Getting home late but going to put timer on for 20 mins to at last rehome things from surfaces within the house, and hope something will make itself to the recycling bin or CS.
Some big numbers being reported here, but remember anything away or out is progress x

GrannyKate

Just a quick post.  A bit nervous about the prospect of moving but now I've said it out loud it will happen.  This was the fifth property late DH and I purchased together but never done it on my own.  Collecting information and ideas at the moment. More stuff will have to go.  I am actually quite excited about the idea now. 

192 Sandals which are uncomfortable in CS bag - not worn for at least three years
193 Filing done before pile fell on floor
194 Another 1000 names deleted from Family tree file - reduced by 30 % I am hoping I can get to 50% 

BudgetingBelinda

Cordless vacuum purchase is ticking the boxes here in the house vs me comp. Decluttered two hoover receptacles of dust bunnies from edges of rooms and skirting boards! 

Mamaofmanybudgets

Wow! Thanks so much @Mrs_Salad_Dodger ! I didn't even realise I had the first medal! I must have missed it! 🙈

Thank you so so much 🥰🥳

*Runs off to update signature

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Have made 80 pounds so far in February selling bits - am quite pleased because I had mostly given up selling and found it easier to just give stuff away, but I am enjoying spending the money 😂. I have bought myself a new handbag, and some clothes for LO.

the kitchen is looking exceptionally tidy. LO is helping with washing, unloading the dishwasher and prepping the food! Everything takes a bit longer but it’s all good skills for the future🤭

short_bird

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Of course it was a double edged sword as my number one favourite song of all time was playing & distracted me from the task at hand 🤣  I listened to it a couple of times & thought how prescient the song has turned out to be (from way back in 1969)  …………. Any guesses ………. there was no chorus & every verse was different………. 😉 

Peter Sarstedt Where Do You Go To My Lovely? 

ilovetea

Evening . Got rid of a few bits today. Still plenty left to go though,
293.  pile of kitchen recycling.
294. Jar from used up candle, washed and given to a crafty friend.
295-323  E-bay items posted. Still a lot more in the cupboard of doom.
324. surveys done and deleted.
325-326    43 e-mails unsubscribed.
327.   39 e-mails deleted. Seems a never ending job. But I will win in hte end.

Take care everyone
  ilovetea  xx

Dizzycap

Welll done everyone for all your efforts. LOL @ the 4 year old jam!

My last bit of a total declutter has had to be abandond until next week due to an emergency hospital appointment and then it chucking it down. I have scheduled the dreaded shed in for next week after the rain, winds, snow, gails, storms........I did manage to get the gutter cleaned out again, cleaned all the windows, cills and frames down, and the front door, step, and pourch before it checked it down this afternoon, so it's not all bad on the clutter free front!

Nice to have a clutter free home at last and just selling off a black bin liner of good quality tat and then its all gone - !!!!!!!

The 2 month old brand new expensive office chair finally gave up the ghost and just dies with broken wheels etc. today, so will have to take it to the tip next week, as it's utter useless. The business who sold it was far from helpful and used delayed tactics in the hope that I would run out of time to get a refund. Shame! I went to my card providre yesterday evening and got my money back within 10 minutes. Now on the hunt for a chair but will see if anything is available on the local freecycle or at the recyling area of the tip first. Sometimes they have some virtually brand new stuff where people have had to move quickly and don't have the space to take it with them:-(

Managing to keep the house tidy, clean, and junk/clutter free

All my challenges are going well so far this year, so well chuffed! All the cleaning and clearing out has helped me with my no spend days challenge, as I just haven't got time to go out or get online to spend anything, which is handy

Good luck with tomorrow declutter tasks everyone!

weenancyinAmerica

Bin bags are excellent packing material. Can wrap china and other bits in them instead of newspapers.

Haven't floated away yet. Wasn't so sure when I went out this morning to feed Mitt. One of those torrential downpours. Three of my 4 pair of trousers are soaking wet now just from going out to feed the cat. Trying to dry them out. Parts of Southern California are collapsing, but we aren't in the hills. My father refused to even consider it, though my mother wanted to move to a certain town and live in the mountains. They've had several forest fires and several rock slides there just in the last few years so I am glad he said no. Still raining - expect more tomorrow as well. On and off the rest of the week. 

The books I checked out on saving money and ecology, including a couple from the UK. Making a list of others to order. Always looking for more hints. As long as the place I was in had a library or a bookstore or a charity shop with books for sale, I didn't care where I needed to go for clients. 

Would love to sneak a few books in to your library, mehefin. Our book sale is next week. It will be inside so we can put out more books for sale. Weather supposed to be dry by then. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Hope spring is on the way. 

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, felt rough today. Not sure if it is still a hanger on from covid or if I have got something else. Sinuses painful, ears aching and the dreaded cough is worse. Not much done but I have emptied the kitchen bin and put another load of washing through the machine. I found an old pencil case so have tested the pens, 3 binned, and put the rest with the others,, though I haven't actually tested them all so I will do that tomorrow if I am still feeling rough as it doesn't take much effort . The shopping from yesterday was put away and the bags put into the car boot. After tea I did some knitting

@Mrs SD that is the thing with having a car, you can get loads of shopping in it compared to what you can carry on a motorbike. Maybe it will even itself out if you don't shop as often . As for the song can I have 2 guesses? Pinball wizard by the Who and Hey Jude by the Beatles both late 60s I think though Hey Jude does have a lot of na na nas it's not a chorus

@weenancyinAmerica so glad you are ok, take care, hugs

Right off to take another paracetamol and some sleep . Hugs to everyone who would like one

212 kitchen bin
213 - 215 dead pens
Take care everyone
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