2024 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks + a weekly Jettison Junk in January

2. Sort out sleep patterns - target bed by 2:00 a.m. & up by 9:00 a.m 

3. Deal with mail & email on a daily basis

4. Don’t put it down, put it away + deal with mini tasks as soon as they are noticed e.g. refill olive oil pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc

5. Commence ‘Operation Frog Tickling’ using the acronym - I.R.I.S. (Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off) - One per quarter

6. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

QueenJess, you might have less time now you are back to work But you are still decluttering for England 👏

Brie, good luck with your kitchen cupboards sort out 🍀 I had a quick google about barley flakes - apparently good for clearing algae from ponds 😉 So now I am wondering if you have a garden pond 🤔

Floss, I think our bullet train is equipped with a ‘Warp Drive’ 😂

EnergyShifter, pleased to see that you managed to leave the TLC Carriage on Thursday 🙂 Well done on persuading DS to help you fill the Hippo bag - sounds like you enjoyed it - you got fresh air, some exercise, satisfied your desire to declutter & then rewarded yourself with a shower & some pottering 😊 & on top of all that you had a brainwave 👏 All in all an excellent day 🥳

TC77, hopefully other members of the declutterati will have some suggestions re kitchen appliances 🤞 as sadly I have none 😉 

Welcome back Dfw38 👋 and a Happy New Year to you too 🥳 Good news that your Dad’s house was sold in November & all the siblings are still talking to each other 😊😅 I have made a note of your targets for 2024 & can see that you are already off to a flying start 👏🤩 I love the idea of Frog Freeing February 😊 

Lovely steady decluttering FlacosFloozie 👏

Lovely to see you Pennypincin 👋 No apology needed - just pleased that you have managed to get aboard 😊 An excellent start to your decluttering & what a useful WhatsApp 👏

Floss, thanks for replying to TC77’s question 👏

JingsMyBucket, I am always so happy when there is another declutterer in the house 😊 Although it sounds like you & Mr. Jings have two totally different ‘Styles’ when it comes to decluttering, from initial perception the 2 styles seem to complement each other 🤞👏  You also seem to be getting on really well with the 10 minute sessions 😊 Fingers crossed that the ‘anxious hives’ stay well away 🤞😉

pixtotts, target noted & what a great start 👏 Way too cold to be trying on clothes & sorting wardrobes 😉 Hope you are enjoying your weekend 😊

No worries ilovetea 😊 You need to be in a particular frame of mind when it comes to tackling ‘Cupboards or Rooms of Doom’ 😉 Excellent decluttering 👏 Don’t you just love the rigmarole of unsubscribing 😂

charlies_tribe, hopefully as you work through your digital decluttering the daily inflow will lessen 🤞Excellent work on the 3 storage boxes 👏 & lovely to see that you are making good progress on both your categories 😊

Excellent progress sorting the music sheets DundeeDoll 👏 Your 24 minutes a day is working really well 😊 Perhaps once you have the pile of your friend’s music sheets, you can start planning a visit to America 😉 After all it would be lovely to see him 😊

bamboo_socks, that sounds like a lovely day 😊 & well done on resisting so much temptation 👏

Another page caught up 🙂 Everyone is doing so well 👏 DH made an excellent job of the fence repair - I was suitably impressed 😉

MrsSD: I AM A ⭐️ - 🥇 🎖️ 💐 🌟 

DH Awards:

Decluttering Target 2023: 18/2024

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £

Florafauna

Musical biscuit tin decluttered to visitors as they took it home filled with our baking efforts. Bag of left behind stuff decluttered back to daughter's. More Xmas cheese decluttered down my throat 😁🧀🎄

BudgetingBelinda

Don’t stop me now.. I’m having such a good time…! 🎶 
Replenished toilet roll and found 3 old toothbrushes and two mini toiletries 🗑️ it’s addictive! 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks + a weekly Jettison Junk in January

2. Sort out sleep patterns - target bed by 2:00 a.m. & up by 9:00 a.m 

3. Deal with mail & email on a daily basis

4. Don’t put it down, put it away + deal with mini tasks as soon as they are noticed e.g. refill olive oil pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc

5. Commence ‘Operation Frog Tickling’ using the acronym - I.R.I.S. (Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off) - One per quarter

6. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

You have been busy Deni_debt-free_dreamer 👏 Some excellent decluttering & how great that your XMas stuff has already been collected 🥳 URGENT - submit invoice for work done 😉😅

Excellent & eclectic decluttering Florafauna 👏

TC77, not sounding flaky at all, just slightly overwhelmed 😔 I am another who gets really confused with cables for gadgets 😳 It doesn’t help that DH has them scattered all over the place & has at least 2 crates worth in his office & I am convinced there is probably another crate in the loft or garage or heaven forfend both 😧 Fingers crossed that the large cabinet has already been collected 🤞Great decluttering & your numbers are moving along nicely 👏

Great work Brambling - 4 of 4 ‘24 minute decluttering sessions’ 👏 Hopefully the bag is in the car 🤞you know you want it gone 😂

You are definitely “in the zone” shabbychic12 🥳 Some excellent decluttering 👏 The age old conundrum - “do I finish this task or do I get distracted”? 😉 Unfortunately I don’t have the answer as I thought you were writing about me 🤣

vulpix, talk about minimalist kitchen gadgets 🤩 I not only have my own but a few of DSis’s - no wonder I have no room in any of my kitchen cupboards 🙊 Sorry to hear that you are still in the TLC Carriage although it would appear you managed to get out & do an excellent job of decluttering your under-stairs cupboard 👏 + doing the laundry & using up all your vegetables 🤩 Are you sure you have been in the TLC Carriage 🤨 Hope DD & her bf have recovered from such an horrendous ferry trip 🙏 

Just stopped my timer & had a mini break. Read an article in this weeks Take a Break called “How to Beat The Attention Crisis” There are 5 steps of which I am doing 3 at the moment. I still need to work on my diet & my sleep 😉 Just noticed that it has started drizzling & there was me thinking today would be a completely dry day 😂

Anyway back to monotasking 😉

Liverpool_Anne, sorry to hear that OH was still testing positive yesterday 😔 Kudos to you for not going into ln’s house 😇 Hmm, OH is determined to sabotage your attempts to empty & defrost the freezer 🥲 Thanks for the very useful observations about kitchen appliances 👏  & Well done on keeping your decluttering numbers ticking along 👏

TC77, I understand your confusion about cooking appliances - we are spoilt for choice & are in danger of overload 😳 The gadget I want has yet to be invented other than in TV programmes like Star Trek Voyager 🤣 Excellent decluttering 👏 & hope the weather stayed fine enough for your visit to the CS 🤞

Another page done - shame it has taken me so long to realise that monotasking & sitting at the table results in quicker cheerleading 🤣

MrsSD: I AM A ⭐️ - 🥇 🎖️ 💐 🌟 

DH Awards:

Decluttering Target 2023: 18/2024

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £

nannywindow

I'm back again, that's twice in one week ! All the decorations are down but have only made it as far as into boxes and up to the spare bedroom, they'll be put away in a cupboard till next xmas, probably tomorrow now. I did 2 loads in the wm too so the basket is empty.
Out today a broken plastic takeaway tub and lid, an empty Ba*leys bottle, the last of the liquid was thrown out as OOD. 5 mini flavoured gin bottles gone too and the dregs thrown down the sink, they haven't been touched since DD bought a stack of them for DH as a xmas present 2 years ago....... and they both got rather merry on Boxing Night ! 🤣
Gone into the recycling the TV mag, xmas edition and now OOD, the last of our cards, 2 cardboard savoury biscuit tubs, plus their plastic lids as they both only contained crumbs. A choc biscuits box has hit the recycling bag and the contents have been emptied into the biscuit tin.
Take care all and happy decluttering no matter how slowly it goes.
nan

daisy_1571

that'll be a replicator Mrs sd ?  I'd like one of them too.  Plus beaming technology and cloaking technology.   😀 

Daisy xxx

wishus

Gers said:

Here's an interesting and funny article about decluttering.  https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/06/i-was-a-hopeless-hoarder-until-i-was-forced-to-throw-out-50-things-i-own

Thanks @Gers - I'll read that later!

I love how proactive we all are so early in the year!

I did count what was in the chazza box in the end, and we just delivered it to Cancer Research, and I've signed up for a Gift Aid card. Every little helps!

As well as the  toys, DVDs and comics mentioned earlier , there were 8 cookery and fiction books, 15 items of clothing, a typewriter and a mini sewing machine. Hope someone else can make use of that!

BudgetingBelinda

I just can’t get over it 🤣🎉

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks + a weekly Jettison Junk in January

2. Sort out sleep patterns - target bed by 2:00 a.m. & up by 9:00 a.m 

3. Deal with mail & email on a daily basis

4. Don’t put it down, put it away + deal with mini tasks as soon as they are noticed e.g. refill olive oil pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc

5. Commence ‘Operation Frog Tickling’ using the acronym - I.R.I.S. (Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off) - One per quarter

6. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed

My fellow declutterati, quite a few of you have expressed concern that I am spending so much time cheerleading. However, I would like to put your minds at rest by explaining that for the last couple of years I have been mulling over how to make my cheerleading more efficient & have FINALLY come up with a system that will work 😁 Although I had not quite grasped how long it would take to set up 😉,  I am very excited as it is already starting to work 🥳 So no more scraps of paper, just smooth & efficient cheerleading. Once set up, I will get back to some proper decluttering including dispensing with some rather large Frogs 😊 Thank you all for your kindness 👏 with Cwtches 🤗 & 💐 for all

Timer is on for a mini session of 24 minutes 😉

Brambling, thank you so much for such a succinct & easy to understand explanation of the 15 to 1 multicooker 👏 I am almost tempted…………. although for the time being I will resist 😉

Moorviews, you devil you - having a lie-in 😊 & being lucky enough to have some sunshine 🤩 The ‘decluttering bug’ seems to be as contagious as the current iterations of both Covid & flu/cold viruses 😉 but at least it is a friendly & useful bug 😅 At the rate everyone is going we will all feel so ‘light & free’ that we will float away 😂 Ah, other generations of family possessions stored in lofts & cellars bring its own unique challenges - sentimental as well as financial/practical 😔 However, with all the building up of Decluttering Muscles it should be easier than if none of your own decluttering had been done 🤞🙏  It might be a slow start to your 2024 Decluttering journey But you have decluttered one of the more important tasks of the year - getting the car through its MOT 👏 🥳  Like you I am “looking forward to giving the fridges a good clean” 😉 necessary or not 😂

Siebrie, not sure I could ever be that brave - but having said that what a great idea 😊

Timer has just gone off, so mini session done 👍 

MrsSD: I AM A ⭐️ - 🥇 🎖️ 💐 🌟 

DH Awards:

Decluttering Target 2023: 18/2024

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Evening all
I've put my C-mas cards & wrapping paper in the recycling plus shredded lots more notes that also went in the recycling - in empty cat food boxes
Put all decorations away and labelled the boxes for better organisation next time
Put a few things in the CS bag but won't count them till delivered ...
Love Deni x