2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

TC77

6 items this morning . Then got dd2 to let me help  in bathroom,  10 minutes at most, about 20 toiletries v old and most perfumed teenage stuff ( dd has eczema so can't use them but had tried) etc , 5 items to pharmacy, 3 lots of paper,  flat tennis ball  bin, 3 dvds charity bag, charger to donation hub bag, 3 pens too old, packaging x 3  
45 to add 
Frogs are piling up as too hot to focus. 
Take  care i9n this weather 

oceanspirit

Stayed indoors out of the sun today.  Made a start on the next bag of papers from the living room - several recycled and a few shredded.

florianatwobob

DSis and I completed a surprise attack on the cupboard under the stairs. It was a surprise to both the cupboard and us as we didn’t realise it was happening until there was ‘stuff’ all over the front room floor! 😂

However there has been stuff put to one side for charity, some shredding shredded and associated envelope & bumpf into the paper recycling. 

TC77

Morning, I was in another part of se london for appt yesterday and popped into the local.cs (plural), saw an unusual 50s.italian coffee set which I gave to charity about 4 years back and resisted buying it but succumbed to some  plain glass expresso cups, a turquoise glass vase and some travel books.  All can go as donations if I don't use but it meant I looked out more to declutter so 5 small and medium paint test pots out so reached 50 as not counting ins.
Finding it hard to resist ins and have travel books from the past couple of weeks- travel  is a plan for next couple of years and I assume.key places won't have changed if books are this century. When I get these  from the library I never get to read and these  I can use sticky notes etc.
Hope to do a couple of frogs before going to a NT place with friends-  too hot really but we have free tickets and debating if too mse!

GrannyKate

Hello all - checking in between my two holidays.  I had a great trip to Edinburgh with DGS1 and we saw lots of things.  We had a lovely hour to view a portrait of my 5 x great grandfather in a restricted area of the Uni which I had an arranged and we shared information with the curator.  Toured Royal yacht which was actually really worthwhile.  I managed to fall on the first two days so DGS1 got very strict with me about my stick coming everywhere with me.  Lovely flat at back of Holyrood Palace looking across the park and Arthur's Seat.  Top floor of a tenement block but I was ok with the stairs.  

Filling garden pool up for DGCs - hopefully only once as we are strict with filters, keeping it clean etc.  Sox is viewing it with great suspicion. he moved to sleeping on my bed while I was away - that was where my son found him when he called in every morning.  He has continued since I got back.  Lovely gardener came yesterday so more money decluttered so everything looks great.  New neighbours organised fence and it looks really good.  

Busy weekend as DGD4 was 13 this week.  Out for tea later as my treat. I need to get motivated but it is too hot.  Everything washed and put away from last week but now I need to pack for Portugal next Sunday. 

591 Money decluttered for my share of fencing and gardener.
592-4 Three jackets of DGS4's to CS bag 
595-601 Six more shrubs stripped out of garden and taken away along with all their roots by gardener
602 Cherry tree cut down for 15 plus feet to about 10 and pruned into shape - looks good. 
603 Two bags of cuttings and weeds to recycling
604 Potting shed tidied - two bags of plastic pots and general tat to bin 

I walked 75000 steps in four and a half days away but still seem to have put weight on again.

After and before in garden (They loaded the wrong way round). There is lots of very thick reinforced concrete to left of shed which will probably need to stay so I plan to use that area for pots. 

Wednesday2000

That accident with the chidren getting hurt by that tree branch in the park was right by my house. I saw the air ambulances go over my garden and wondered what had happened. One little girl died, sadly. I'm in that park every day normally, but it was so hot that I didn't yesterday.

I haven't been doing any decluttering at all, but I did get a letter from a local charity shop saying how much my donations have raised and I have started making up another donation bag. It spurred me on to take action and I will take it next week.

It is so hot here again today. I have been using a neck fan at home and they are really quite effective. I only heard about them at a class the other day.

Soontobeoap

Lots of traveling yesterday by boat, bus and lots of walking so having a little rest today. One bedroom blind binned. I can't seem to get the damp stains off of the lining so having treated all of the damp and buying dehumidifiers I am going to make some curtains for our bedroom window. 

Floss

@GrannyKate I did the Britannia tour over 20 years ago. What struck me was that even the Queen had emergency chairs tucked away all over the place! 😂

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

Sunday: Up at 09:00 - already hot & sunny but set to rise to 30°C with a low of 19°C - not a wisp of a breeze 🥵 I put the last wash-load on & brought in yesterdays 2 loads which I had left out overnight - folded but not put away. Spent the afternoon clearing down TV programmes - started from 52% capacity left & went up to 67%. Salad for dinner & unlike Saturday night (DSis washed up & left to dry) I wudupa. Discovered that DSis did some decluttering & dropped a bag of stuff at the CS + some recycling 🥳 I am counting as it is ‘stuff’ that has left the house 😉

1073 - 1096 Playmobil ark, 10 Playmobil figurines, 3 figurines, 10 DVDs - CS

1097 - 1115 Cardboard boxes x 15, 4 plastic bottles - recycled 

DSis has done so well that I am awarding her a Gold Star ⭐️ 

My decluttering today: 

1116 - 1119 Kitchen recycling, newspaper, glass bottle, plastic bottle - recycled 

1120 - 1121 Kitchen & lr detritus - binned

I was so lethargic today that I can only manage a bit of cheerleading, starting from Thursday:

vulpix, excellent work with the packing 👏 Good luck selling the duvet sets 🍀

Lovely post Dizzycap 😊What a busy early Friday morning 👏 Hopefully it was cool enough to take babyface for a walk 🤞

YBR, hope you had a lovely weekend with your Godmother 😊 Excellent work in the garden 👏

Lovely post Soontobeoap 😊

vulpix, I see what you mean both about ‘good bones’ & the seller having a lot of packing to do 😉 I hadn’t realised you had only been in your current home for 4 years - with the amount of work you have done I thought it was longer 🤩 Just wondering if you are hiring a van & doing the removals yourself 🤔 Loved This “Anyway, this won't knit the baby a new bonnet” 😊

Lovely pictures regnbue 😊 It would appear you had some lovely weather & hopefully not too hot 🤞 Love the sign - useful & witty 😅

Lovely post daisy_1571 😊

Excellent decluttering Rootle 👏

QueenJess, I am in a state of shock 😳 Excellent work on your “Use It Up June” challenge 👏  I am looking forward to seeing what you decide on for your July Challenge 🤔 

Lovely to see you ionafan 👋 What a brilliant result in your quest to declutter boxes & bag 👏🥳

Florenceem, hopefully we will see you later 🤞

TC77, I do hope your scan went well on Saturday 🙏  Some excellent decluttering 👏 Hopefully DD2 will have a flurry of activity & declutter loads before she heads off to Australia 🙏 Fingers crossed that you get to view the potential new house 🤞 even if it is just to see what is out there 😊

Just noticed the time so will post & run. Cwtches to all 🤗 Sleep tight 😴 

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Decluttering Target 2025: 1121/2025

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £228.00

Dizzycap

Morning all  I really hope everyone & their fur babies are managing to keep cool! 

Up at silly o'clock after 1 hours sleep and took babyface for her early morning sprint / run / walk and managed to get back before it got far too hot at 18 degrees by 5am and 22 degrees at 6am  Loads of dog walkers about at 4.30am and in the park aiming to get back before 5am CRAZY! Back doors and all windows already open with 2 loads of washing decluttered & pegged out on the line which will probably be dry by 9am  The usual decluttering parcels to go but as its so hot today, the postie's is coming to collect as I've got 2 very large heavy parcels to post amoungst others and I would need to do 3 delivery office trips, but I just haven't got the energy 

My sanity for today is that it's the start of Wimbledon & babyface & me will be having a nice tepid shower; seperately   before slobbing on the bed from 10am with the lovely cooler fan on enjoying the matches    We might even throw in some strawberries and cream during the afternoon matches -  Not that I'll get much of a look in! 

Wishing everyone a lovely cool day - Take care & ta-ta for now xxxxx