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2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

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  • QueenJess
    QueenJess Posts: 4,426 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 30 June at 10:07PM
    Final post of the month and the final result were 54 items used up in the month!  For July (and as I also have holiday), I've decided to go for more use ups, but 5 in each of the following categories:
    • Kitchen cupboards/freezer
    • Bathroom supplies
    • Stationery/craft stuff
    • Packaging
    1 - colouring book used up (recycled)
    1 - activity book used up (recycled)
    3 - puzzles (Buy Nothing/charity shop)
    1 - colouring pencils used up
    1 - packaging used up
    1 - very greasy moisturiser that doesn’t work (binned)
    1 - packaging recycled
    1 - Sticker sheet used up

    New total 2,397
    Use it up total 219
    Mini kitchen challenge 43/50

    June - Use Up Challenge:
    1. Screen cleaner
    2. Packaging
    3. Whole almonds
    4. Frozen candied orange juice
    5. Frozen mango
    6. Almond milk
    7. Floss pick
    8. Cotton pads
    9. Seed packet
    10. Floss pick
    11. Packaging
    12. Packaging
    13. Packaging
    14. Stationery
    15. Kitchen cleaner
    16. Packaging
    17. Packaging
    18. Packaging
    19. Chia seeds
    20. Seed packet
    21. Seed packet
    22. Seed packet
    23. Seed packet
    24. Stationery
    25. Moisturiser
    26. Packaging
    27. Stationery
    28. Stationery
    29. Stationery
    30. Seed packet
    31. Stationery
    32. Stationery
    33. Stationery

    34. Alternative flour
    35. Stationery
    36. Stationery
    37. Stationery
    38. Packaging
    39. Stationery
    40. Seed packet
    41. Seed packet

    42. Whole almonds
    43. Frozen blackberries
    44. Moisturiser
    45. Stationery
    46. Stationery
    47. Packaging
    48. Packaging
    49. Packaging
    50. Seed packet
    51. Stationery
    52. Stationery
    53. Stationery
    54. Stationery
    55. Stationery
    56. Stationery

    57. Seed packet
    58. Packaging
    59. Packaging

    60. Sun cream
    2025 decluttering: 2,397🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅
    2025 use up challenge: 219🥉🥈🥇💎
    Mini kitchen challenge 43/50
    2025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎100 🏆250
  • TC77
    TC77 Posts: 2,250 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    1135 from weekend.
    2 items sold at weekend so parcelled upwith lots of packaging.4 cards written. 
    1143
  • Mrs_Salad_Dodger
    Mrs_Salad_Dodger Posts: 5,671 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    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

    Monday: up a lot later today having stayed up so late watching the finals of Countdown - worthy Welsh winner - first since 1997 😊 It is another hot sunny day with barely a cloud in the sky, no sign of a breeze & temperatures set to rise to 31°C 🥵 (only went as low as 18°C in the early hours of this morning). I had thought I might go to the CS today but I will wait until Wednesday at the earliest when temperatures are set to fall slightly to 24°C with a chance of rain🤞Took the last of the washing in off the whirligig & folded everything. Also repaired rips in the attached petticoats of two skirts. Rest of the afternoon was spent clearing down more programmes from the TV planner - now have 78% recording capacity. Whilst we were in Scotland DH discovered one of the rear lights wasn’t working, so today he replaced the bulb + cleaned the brake lever which had been sticking. Dinner was lasagne. Wudupa.

    1122 - 1128 Kitchen & lr recycling, 2 cardboard boxes, cardboard & paper packaging, plastic bottle - recycled 

    1129 - 1130 Kitchen & lr detritus - binned

    Excellent decluttering YBR 👏 Well done on being almost done with 6 weeks still to go before you move 🤩 Very impressed at your preparations & how organised you are 👏

    Lovely to see you wishus 👋 Excellent & steady decluttering 👏 & well done on the charity run 😊 Keep up the good work 😊

    Muddy_Walker, not surprised that you fell asleep after work 😉 the heat is so enervating 😪 Pleased to hear that you are enjoying watching The Handmaid’s Tale 😊 As you say ‘brutal’ but also compelling TV 🧐 

    Floss, sounds like a very well organised move 🤩 Well done on continuing to refine your possessions & decluttering even more stuff 👏


    Hope everyone had a good day & managed to stay hydrated 😊 Sleep tight 😴 


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    DH Awards: 🏅 ‘Squirrel Whisperer’

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    Decluttering Target 2025: 1130/2025

    1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £228.00
    Be Kind. Stay Safe. Break the Chain. Save Lives. ⭐️

    2025 Savings Pot Challenge: As a monthly amount, running total = £228.00
    Jan £5.00 Feb £12.74 Mch £23.26 Apr £32 May £43 Jun £50 July £62 Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec  Grand Total £0
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