2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

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 continued: Dinner was chicken fried in a bit of oil & butter, boiled potatoes, sweetcorn & a very small portion each of the lo dauphinois potatoes dry fried to warm through. Wudupa.

1342 - 1346 Kitchen recycling, newspaper, booklet, glass bottle, plastic bottle - recycled 

1347 - 1349 Kitchen detritus, polystyrene & plastic packaging - binned

YBR, sounds like a great holiday despite having to spend so much time ‘persuading’ your daughters to drink 😊 It sounds like work can’t manage without you when you are on holiday so I wonder how on earth they are going to manage without you when you leave 🧐 Fingers crossed that you can arrange a suitable farewell 🤞 & that you enjoy your welcome to your new role event ☺️ Great work with the packing 👏

Excellent decluttering & tidying suzeesu2000 👏

Excellent work Dizzycap 👏 especially as you get so much done & all by 07:30 🤩 Pleased to see that you remember how much hard work you have already done especially as it relates to the mega wardrobe of doom 👏🤩 must be a relief that Babyface is recovering so well 🥹 & that, for the time being at least, she has decided to stop ‘whizzing down’ her indoor ramps 😮‍💨 

vulpix, thanks for the confirmation that WLP can be a very useful tool 👏 Pleased to hear that you have found time to continue painting your new to you bedroom furniture ☺️ Good luck with the ironing 🍀

Sleep tight 😴 

P.S. Fingers crossed that the recycling wheelie bin will be emptied Thursday a.m. 🤞

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

DH Awards: 🏅 ‘Squirrel Whisperer’ ⭐️

DSis Awards: ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅

Decluttering Target 2025: 1349/2025

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £299.00

Soontobeoap

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger The big butterfly hunt is on at the moment until 18th August . Well worth stopping for 15 minutes each day to appreciate nature and help the environment at the same time. Great activity for busy Mums in the school holidays and there is a kiddie pack to download to go with it I think. @Vulpix give it a go you might get a warmer cuppa! 🤣 My gardening sessions have come off of the back of going into the garden to do it as well so it is a win win. Also a great thing to do if you are having to rest up for any reason. I can't believe how much joy such a little thing has given me. 

QueenJess

Hoping to do a load of tidying today which often leads to some decluttering.  Otherwise I've temporarily stagnated on the decluttering until I have another realisation of where the excess is that needs to be ejected (aside from the ongoing using up of stuff).  I could go back to the digital decluttering though as there's always loads of photos that need to be sorted and I'm not at inbox zero yet.

1 - DD puzzle (Buy Nothing)
1 - suncream used up
5 - DS papers recycled
2 - packaging reused
3 - DS tat recycled/binned
2 - candle over supplies used up
1 - colouring book used up
1 - plastic bag reused 

New total 3,507
Use it up total 299
Big kitchen declutter challenge 83/150

BridgetTheCat

Hi! I forgot to post on Tuesday that my cleaner helped me declutter the mountain of crap off my kitchen table 😀. It’s lovely to have it as a usable space again. We didn’t get to the mountain that’s on the floor under the table though. Maybe next week …

QueenJess

Need to run, so just a quick check in.  I did some tidying round the house and found myself wondering why I had certain items, so more stuff gone.

2 - pen used up
1 - colouring book used up
1 - pen with no lid (binned)
1 - candle and candle holder (Buy Nothing)
2 - plant and plant pot (Buy Nothing)
12 - plastic plant pots not needed (recycled)
1 - discount code card I won’t use (recycled)
1 - DD puzzle (Buy Nothing)
3 - packaging reused
3 - cake/other tins with scratched non stick (binned)
2 - candle holder (Buy Nothing)
4 - glass jars not needed (Buy Nothing)
1 - book (charity bag)
1 - stickers (charity bag)
1 - shirt (charity bag)
1 - cardigan I don’t wear (charity bag)
1 - bathroom supplies used up

New total 3,545
Use it up total 306
Big kitchen declutter challenge 91/150

YBR

Counting down: 2 working days and "The Greatest Gathering" (Rail200 event) to go; 17 days until move.

I need to sort home insurance, a particularly annoying frog as it'll need to be split into contents (moving) and buildings (not)! Procrastinated until tomorrow!

Email backlog more-or-less sorted with 2 possible plans for the welcome event.

@MrsSD: Work have known for over 3 years that I'll be moving on, and I've been doing my best to mentor people for that and longer, so no excuses wash. IMO there are 4+ people as competent as me, who will find their confidence when forced to rely on themselves, there's also a cohort who are sound engineers just needing some more years project experience.

I'm off to do some Ad-Break chores/tidying/packing. Tomorrow friends are taking the DDs out - the excuse is to help with a Risk assessment for a rainbows trip - so hopefully the un-tidying will be less!

suzeesu2000

@Dizzycap “I had to laugh at his Lordship not liking plastic bowls. Babyface refuses to eat off or drink out of anything, unless it's the family best china, Not that she's spoilt in the least!” 

Frankie doesn’t mind the single plastic bowls, he just doesn’t like the connected ones. He has big heavy stoneware ones for his water as he likes to paddle, little weirdo. Our little furry girl cat would only drink water out of my glass on the bedside cabinet and I didn’t mind one bit. I used a plastic bottle. If my “kids” are happy, then so am I 

Decluttered 2 cardboard boxes of their contents. Intents disposed of. One box in recycling other will be used to send some bits to mum. Now have clear access to the big plastic boxes with lids. Am on track for having bedroom done by 31st. 

Hope everyone is doing okay xx

florianatwobob

@suzeesu2000 apparently my neighbour’s cat’s (who liked to sleep in the flowerpot) preferred to drink water out of a jug! We suspect he didn’t like to get his whiskers wet! 

Dizzycap

Evening all  There's some great decluttering & packing going on which seems to put me to shame, but at least I'm keeping areas that have already been decluttered, clutter-free and clean  I have been busy cleaning and decluttering into the house hold wheelie ready for tomorrows decluttering collection. I've managed to send off another 4 decluttering sales parcels along with Mr. Sains free packaging and listed another 12 decluttering items for sale with one selling immediately - Cher-ching! I'm certainly been cluttering up on the pennies for selling all my decluttered items, even if I did decided to offload several more black bags off to the CS rather than keep trying to sell them, which they hadn't and weren't, so off they decluttered out of the house.

Been out with babyface in the doggie stroller although she's much better today and has managed to potter sniff a fair distance before she lifted one of her back legs briefly and back in the stroller she went all wrapped up in fluffy blankets She had a lovely gentle bath & clean up this morning which she absolutely loved and she's also eaten like a pig today but as she's been off her food for a couple of weeks; which has made getting some medication into her difficult & to get it to work; as food was needed, so I've been more than happy to let her stuff her face on & off when she wanted! 

Tomorrow's weather is looking much better, so will be loading the washing machine tonight ready to wash & declutter out on the washing line early in the morning. I'm also hoping to catch up on a little more gardening and deheading before taking babyface for a gentle walk to post some letters & any decluttering sales parcels I might have over night - You can but hope! 

Wishing everyone a very peaceful decluttering & packing up night. Take care all & ta-ta for now xxxx

Dizzycap

suzeesu2000 said:

@Dizzycap “I had to laugh at his Lordship not liking plastic bowls. Babyface refuses to eat off or drink out of anything, unless it's the family best china, Not that she's spoilt in the least!” 

Frankie doesn’t mind the single plastic bowls, he just doesn’t like the connected ones. He has big heavy stoneware ones for his water as he likes to paddle, little weirdo. Our little furry girl cat would only drink water out of my glass on the bedside cabinet and I didn’t mind one bit. I used a plastic bottle. If my “kids” are happy, then so am I 

Decluttered 2 cardboard boxes of their contents. Intents disposed of. One box in recycling other will be used to send some bits to mum. Now have clear access to the big plastic boxes with lids. Am on track for having bedroom done by 31st. 

Hope everyone is doing okay xx

@ suzeesu2000 - Thank you so very much for the good laugh!    I love seeing animals happy & contented and being themselves. Brings back so many lovely memories of past & present fur babies who did extactly what they wanted, when they wanted, and that was and still is fine by me!      

BridgetTheCat said:

Hi! I forgot to post on Tuesday that my cleaner helped me declutter the mountain of crap off my kitchen table 😀. It’s lovely to have it as a usable space again. We didn’t get to the mountain that’s on the floor under the table though. Maybe next week …

@ BridgetTheCat - So wonderfully expressed and it certainly made me laugh, especially the mountain now having been decluttered from on to under the table!