2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

Brambling

Well done Dolly_Rocker a great achievement 👏👏 do you have people on your Christmas list you can cut back on?

Very little decluttering done today, I've sorted a finance tadpole and sorted six books to take to Petworth on Saturday I may revisit the book shelves tomorrow the cookery books could be pruned

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Write a daily To Do list - only 3 tasks
2. Concerted effort to sort out sleep patterns - Realistic targets: bed by 2:00 a.m. & up by 10:00 a.m 
3. Continue dealing 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

Wednesday: Another dull dreary day with a high of 18°C & a low of 11°C & rain forecast ☹️ I was up at 11:00 but again felt like a wet dishrag 😞 The weather  brightened up a little. Late afternoon/ early evening we had a couple of rain showers. DH had a busy afternoon: filled all the bird feeders, repaired DSis’s headset which had snapped leaving the wearing exposed & finally got around to doing some welding re the Harley Davidson 🥳 (which has now been off the road for several years ☹️) Dinner was gammon shanks, chips & peas for DH & DSis whilst I had fried eggs rather than gammon. Threw the bones out for the fox who was lying on the lawn waiting for something to eat 😉 Wudupa Paid the milkman.

985 - 988 Kitchen & office recycling, plastic bottle, drinks cans - recycled 

989 - 990 Kitchen & lr detritus- binned

_Dolly_Rocker_ I agree with Soontobeoap, so a medal 🏅 is on its way 😊

QueenJess, the orange drizzle cake was delicious 🤤 Excellent decluttering & great work on your “Use It Up June” challenge 👏

_Dolly_Rocker_, good luck with your list for “Use It Up June” 🍀

Excellent work YBR 👏 Love that you got your DDs to declutter the party poppers 😊

Lovely to see you suzeesu2000 👋 Excellent work decluttering kitchen drawers & cupboards 👏 Hope the bathroom renovations don’t take too much longer 🤞

QueenJess, still working on making my list 😉 & I see that TC77 has joined in 😊

Excellent & eclectic decluttering vulpix 👏 Fingers crossed that you get a positive result from the DVLA 🤞 & also crossed that the viewing on your Mum’s house leads to an offer 🤞

Brambling, great work sorting out a financial tadpole before it became a frog 👏

I hope everyone had as good a day as possible 😊 Sleep tight everyone 😴 

MrsSD Awards: 💐 🌟 ❤️ ❤️ 🏅 💐 💐 💐 🏅🥉🏅 🎂 🌟⭐️⭐️❤️ 🍫🐾 😍🥇🥇 💐 🏆 

DH Awards: 🏅 ‘Squirrel Whisperer’

DSis Awards: ⭐️ 

Decluttering Target 2025: 990/2025

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £228.00

charlies_tribe

Good morning. Not much done here. DH did take some bags of clothes/bedding to work with him to see if it would fit in the donations bins and they did, they've been overflowing all week.

Thank you for the trampoline messages. I've been looking at them. As he's 19 and 65kg (and over 6ft tall) we seem to be replacing them every year or 2 as he doesn't actually bounce in the middle, he like moon walks all the way around the edge, killing the springs. This one had already had new surround, mat and springs. Im trying to decide if another cheap one, that we know wont last long, or buying a more expensive one (quiet a bit more) but with almost double the weight limit and stronger springs, would work out better or if he would just destroy that in a year too. Decisions...Decisions 

Im struggling with everything at the moment but DD2 is at the hairdressers later so im going to have another tea and drag myself in the shower. Have a good day.

848  Trampoline metal frame-scrap man
869  21x tshirts
878  9x shirts
879  Sheet
883  4 blankets
886  3 pillowcases
889  3 double bedding sets

TC77

Up soon after 6 and did some email frogs and abit of tidying but realise how much I don't put away despite trying really hard. Moved about 30 items to real home, pens etc mainly, papers, dressing gown, jumper, bags but still had to collect others and just put in my study and would struggle  to say dining room/ kitchen tidy. Dd2 back today and difficult to ask her to tidy/ sort if she feels I'm chaotic  
And managed to leave abit late for work at 9! 
Need a new strategy for rationing items out but have work backpack, one for causal and another bigger one for hikes or if I need to do shopping without a trolley. Narrow hall so not good palce for coats and bags. Have space for couple of jackets bit with changeable weather and still working outside home gets in a muddle.
So lots to work on.  Did empty bins and make phone calls.
 Hope people stay dry, my umbrella was in its home and my headphones so some progress!

suzeesu2000

While tiler is doing the bathroom, I have decluttered a ton of old manky flours. All years ood, I dont bake anymore,  and some speckled with little bits that might be flour weavils so all binned. Re-sited food processor to another cupboard and cleaned cupboard it was all in. That cupboard will be going up into the new bathroom so I have room for all our stuff. Happy me. When it isnt raining there is a box of packaging stuffs which will be going in recycling. Cant put in bin or it will be full but recycling is collected on Monday so will go then. 

Having a cuppa and then time to clean the fridge and declutter as necessary in there too.

Lovely day here, overcast, rainy and cool. My favourite type of weather. Have a great day all xx

QueenJess

A very rainy day today, so I am inside most the day instead of sorting out the garden.  Having a mainly relaxing day, although I took a peek inside the cupboard under the sink that I made a start on cleaning out.  Quite a few bits to use up in there, but many will be a much longer task.  I also have about 1600g of microgreen seeds that are getting quite old now.  I tried to give them away a few years ago with no takers, so it's now going to be a matter of using up as much as I can before they stop germinating.  I've sown absolutely loads on the windowsill and will see if they grow.  If they do, I will weigh the bags and then aim to use a certain amount before the end of the month to keep me focused.  If not, they can be composted.

5 things to declare in, which are all unexciting household cleaning things like cloths as mine are on their last legs.  The kitchen cloths are now relegated to more dirty cleaning tasks and I'm using them currently to spring clean the kitchen cupboards.  They may fall apart after that!

Steadily working my way through my using up items, but slow progress at the moment.

11 - sticker sheets donated to school project
1 - DS tat binned

New total 2,100
Use it up total 154
Net physical things in/(out) -596
Mini kitchen challenge 39/50

No updates for June use up challenge.

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger don't think on your list for too long as it's already 5 June.  No need for perfection and if you want to aim to use something regularly/x number of times, or a certain amount of it then that works as well.  I put in things which I had nearly used up anyway to start me off and will now have more items that will take much longer to use up.  The aim is progress and to use things   You can put 1 item on and add more when you think of them or have a very short list as well.

Floss

charlies_tribe said:

Thank you for the trampoline messages. I've been looking at them. As he's 19 and 65kg (and over 6ft tall) we seem to be replacing them every year or 2 as he doesn't actually bounce in the middle, he like moon walks all the way around the edge, killing the springs. This one had already had new surround, mat and springs. Im trying to decide if another cheap one, that we know wont last long, or buying a more expensive one (quiet a bit more) but with almost double the weight limit and stronger springs, would work out better or if he would just destroy that in a year too. Decisions...Decisions 

Maybe contact a local Trampoline centre for advice? They must buy adult appropriate ones, so might be able to help with sourcing one that's better suited rather than a "play" one. It might not be round though - would that be an issue for your son?

Muddy_Walker

Helloooooooo

on 6 hours a day this week back to full time next week…..😳

I do have a quick question i thought I’d ask here before tiptoeing onto the bank board……if anyone here uses the banking app on the mobile for a bank beginning with C - are you having issues? Not been able to log on for a few days and really don’t want to delete the app and then reinstall it as I haven’t got a clue about passwords and code etc….

thank you!

Floss

Muddy, is it the one where you would run after someone? If so, no, mine has been OK but I only use it for saving rather than everyday current use.

dND

@Muddy_Walker I haven't used it today but I can log in.  I hope you get it sorted. Dx