2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

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Oh boy did we get the storm on Thursday night about 10 minutes before we were leaving for our meal in the Village Inn at Shanklin the heavens opened and emptied I think
we had to paddle out to the car on the drive and my nice cut and blow dry I had done earlier in the afternoon got err…. Soaked
we arrived at Shanklin and as my son-in-law was parking started to walk down to the pub
i foolishly said ‘ oh it’s not bad here as the roads are dry 🤣🤣🤣🤣with that it started to rain and we got soaked again 🙄
but the meal was lovely and Mikey plowed through the biggest mixed grill I’ve seen. I swear that boy could eat for England and there’s not an inch of fat on him it’s so unfair 🤣🤣🤣

Ben and Imogen arrived yesterday and she’s lovely very pretty and they both seem to be very happy together
Shes very polite and seems to adore Ben as he does her
they had lunch and he took her for a walk to the local beach at Appley

He texted me while she went to the loo in the coffee shop and asked what I thought of her, bless him he so wants us all to like her as much as he does and I said I thought she was lovely and both his Mum and I liked her. 

Which is true she is really a nice lass and even DGS Mikey said after they had gone down to the beach ‘ ‘ ‘Wow Nan she a bit of a cracker isn’t she, Bens done himself well with this one’ which from Mikey is praise indeed. 

When they got back we all sat in the conservatory and played Uno and his Dad by then was home from work and he joined in as well. My son-in-law isn’t easy with people he’s not met before but he was chatting away to her and he said later
’ The lad’s got a good one there’
so she’s scored a hit with us all.
we are taking her on a tour around today as she’s never been to the IoW before 
She is family oriented and that scores well with us. Plus she likes dogs and my DDs two dogs seemed to like her as well. My DD is a dog lover so they had long chats about them 🤣

I think she maybe ‘The  One for 
 Ben I do hope so as he’s a such a nice east going chap and is also very family oriented bless him

right time to get a wriggle on


JackieO xxx

YBR

TC77 said:

@YBR you sound so busy, have you moved yet? 

We move in 10 days, I was working part-time until Thursday and am volunteering at the Greatest Gathering yesterday and tomorrow - I go as a ticket holder with my family later today.

This morning I have started taking my desktop apart - two computers with KVM switch, and more headphones, speakers, cameras, etc than I remembered. All rather dusty! It's taking longer than I thought waiting for back-up onto a hard drive to finish. 

I have run out of boxes so will be off to the shops shortly ...

TC77

@Mrs SD have a good sleep!

Just taken a note book apart for recycling with 3 pages added to scrap pile (bull dog clipped) for notes.
I do a lot of scribbling notes to remind me of things, or get things out of my head.
A sharpie out - I left the top off!

florianatwobob

@vulpix the Bayeux Tapestry is on my list for next year too!

Cartier was hard on the feet yesterday and the exhibition was down in the vaults of the V&A so not as easy to access as some of the other exhibitions. 

What I did spot though for anyone that might benefit though are borrowable wheelchairs at the V&A. 

Fortunately my trainline runs straight into Blackfriars and then a short hop onto the District line to South Ken and then along the tunnel to the V&A so not too much navigation of the tube needed. 

I love a tiara too Mrs SD! I wonder if anyone would notice if I wore one during the day……

oceanspirit

OH is back tomorrow after being away for a fortnight.  He’s had a lovely time and wishes he could stay for another week however he has things he needs to be here for in the coming week.

Haven’t achieved as much as I would have liked whilst home alone however things have left the premises plus others have been cleaned, tidied and put away.  I think OH will notice a small difference.  Finished another library book - I took too many out at once so lesson learned there and will order just one at a time from now on.

QueenJess

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

QueenJess, it sounds like you need a holiday to recover from your holiday 😉 Great work continuing your ‘use up challenge’ on holiday 👏 What a fabulous use it up total 👏

Definitely!  There's no relaxing on holiday with a high maintenance 4 year old in tow!

Got woken up this morning by DD coming in saying "I don't want this anymore".  She then wanted to declutter her room, but I needed to do the food shop.  By the time I got back she'd filled up a couple of boxes of things she doesn't want anymore, so that will be my job to sort through for later.  Clearly holidays have the same effect on her as me.  DS on the other hand is delighted to come back and be with all his stuff 

Dizzycap

Good morning all & I finally managed to find a sane 5 mins to sit and have a lovely mug of coffee  

I'm loving all the holiday & stress decluttering taking place. @ QueenJess - Love the relaxing seaside pic  Thanks for sharing xxx Great going with the weight loss everyone. Personally, I don't worry about weight I concentrate on feeling well, so if that means a change in diet or exercise etc, I do it without the weighing scales or the need to have a daily / weekly weigh in - I just listen carefully to my body 

A Crazy Week & a New Month:

Well, it's been an utterly crazy decluttering week with the washing line being with 4 wash loads a day and then being put away; mainly Missy Moo's bedding & blankets with the odd fluffy toy thrown in for good measure, keeping the house decluttered & clean, decluttering decluttered sale parcels, cluttering up on Mr. Sains free flatpack boxes, cluttering up on babyface meds & lotions, cluttering up on Missy Moo's walks with a visit and a typical Daxie crazy fruitloop run around in the woods yesterday; a welcomed relief & lovely joyous sight after Missy Moo being off her legs for almost a month  , cluttering up on 2 Missy Moo's Vet appointments, cluttering up on Missy playtime & her strutting about in the back garden as head gardener & helper; even though I was retraining her to use her ramps slowly as she'd lost her confidance, but she's having no problems whizzing about on them this morning. All I see is the flash of brown as she hurtles by the windows

Just taken a break to take LuLu for a potter sniff walk along the long hedge to the neighbours & back again.We've just watered the front garden pots and decluttered deadheads & cobwebs around the porch. Now it's definately coffee time while babyface has her elevnsies before her num nums content sleep.

Having been up since silly o'clock  decluttering, cleaning, washing, gardening, watering & waiting to clutter up on babyface supplies which should be arriving soon, I'm ready to finally have a welcomed shower & put my weekend PJ's on  I've also arranged an appointment for Gorgeous Gorda to have her nails clipped on Tuesday    whilst also requesting to pick up a seditive for her on Monday ready for her Tuesday Vet visit as she usually gets exceedingly destressed with nail clipping, but I'm hoping that her last very positive experience will put her at ease a little more.

I'm now posting links online for a loving, very caring & secure forever home for a rescued blind street dog called Nour. If I hadn't got babyface, I'd have him in a heartbeat  :

Blind dog who cries when he gets lost needs new owner to guide him

I know there's the perfect home out there for Nour  but I'm also battling with myself as to whether I could realistically cope with 2 dogs with completely different needs. It's a difficult decision as I know babyface & Nour would both get on like a house on fire but it's more about how I would physically cope looking after the 2 of them with equal attention. Ok thinking coffee time 

I hope everyone has a fabulous relaxing decluttering day! Take care & ta-ta for now xxxxxxx

GrannyKate

Morning all - off to airport to pick up DS2 and family. The fortnight seems to have gone quickly.  I conducted a burial for a pigeon which was dead on my front path.  No sign of injuries - perhaps Sox frightened it to death.  Not fair really as it appeared whilst he was locked in over night.  He will be very pleased to see DS2 who always gives him a treat as soon as he enters the house.  No builders to do bedroom 2 - I had hoped it could be done whilst everyone was away.  Room is completely empty (except for clothes horse) They just say a couple of weeks.  Lovely man cleaning next doors roof said he would check my gutter which was suddenly overflowing like a waterfall.  Culprit - the missing new tennis ball which DGS4 was very vague about where it might have gone.  

673 Plastics to SM
674-6 Three large bags of garden waste to tip recycling
677-678 Two large garden pots (plastic) which were split to tip
679 Car valeted - well worth the £25 it cost
680 Monthly banking done 
681 Airport parking booked for today
682 A few small frogs eaten up - lots more to do over weekend

I have eight bags of bedding in and on top of my wardrobe - the plan is for these to be stored under new double bed in bedroom 2.  I am fairly certain I have far more than I need so I plan to go through these during the week.  I can check in with DD as to whether anything is needed by DGS1 and DGD1 who are both of to Uni in September - DGS1 is in final year and DGD1 is just starting.  Latter is equestrian course so horse is going to - the logistics are complex. 

daisy_1571

florianatwotbob thanks for sharing those wonderful photos.   Oh I do love me a bitta bling!  Im with you, Amy Farrah Fowler and Mrs sd, LOVE a tiara and in fact anything I can walk about with on my head - I can confirm that if you go to answer the door with a headband featuring a 3d furry hamster people will notice... but won't say anything 😆 😂  if I see one of my novelty headbands lying around I often shove it on rather than tidy it then I get used to the feeling of whatever Ive stuck on my bonce and forget its there 😆 

Well I'm delighted to explain that I decluttered just under a grand on my house insurance yesterday.   Why am I delighted with that eye watering sum?  Cos I thought it might be about £1600 at absolute lowest price judging by what we paid last year and the movement in insurances since then.  Sadly for the rest of the country but happily in this instance for us, inflation on building materials and costs seems to have meant insurance companies have upped their maximum rebuild costs so we can now insure with some of the normal insurance companies rather than be limited to specialists.   Yippee.  Never been so happy to whop a 900odd figure onto the old credit-card-used-to-build-points-card knowing that for once the amount I've saved over the year for an insurance is well over the amount I've to pay 😀 

Im definitely noticing there's a lot less stuff in the house so we are getting somewhere with thinning things out.   I'm off to tidy the last of the paperwork molehills while mr d watches the final match of the lions Rugby tour.  Paperwork always seems like something I can get done in 2 minutes but takes hours somehow.   We have 5 insurances to deal with over a  3 month period which is good cos I hate doing renewals so once they are over I can relax  for another 9 months or so but bad cos I end with paperwork piles everywhere.  Add to that mums tax affairs, my recent tussles with various pension and the ni conts people and not dealing with the paperwork immediately and you can imagine!!  Now I have to read everything again to work out what it is, time I wouldn't have to waste if I just did it at the time grrr.

Keep on trucking folks, 

Dxx

Ps loving the sound of the two young lovebirds,  they sound well matched jackieo 

vulpix

Wow, taking your horse to Uni, that's brill. What an experience for your Grandaughter and the horse too.

 Floriana, I think the time is approaching where I need to admit that I need a mobility scooter. I can't say it's one thing, my back, my arthritic feet, my knees. I have worn my body out and I still need it!

 Dizzycap, I have always had a dog and sadly couldn't do the walking a dog needs these days. I have walked miles and miles and miles in the Peak District with a succession of beautiful companions, Jet,Rolo and Jess. Jet was a black lab, Rolo a chocolate lab and Jess a Springer spaniel who you couldn't tire out!

 I know what you mean about disposing of creatures if you have no where to bury them. All our gifts from the cats go in the green bin. I have to admit that, that was what happened too when one of my hens died. I didn't want wild animals messing with it.

TC, sort your repairs out and come up to Sheffield on the train. We could make a weekend of it. I will have a proper sized guest room at the new house.

London 1, it sounds like you need to be buying a hat.

 Gotta get a wriggle on. Vx