2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

Muddy_Walker

Hellooooooo
I spent ages catching up thinking I would post…..then spent another lot of catching up!

I don’t really like October - too many bad memories- so hoping it nods along quietly.
Feeling a bit (ok a lot) overwhelmed at the moment- trying to pace myself then by the weekend allll my energy has gone. So then I get frustrated I have done so very little….
Jab week this week so perhaps that has something to do with it.
Anyway love to all xxxxx
Stay safe

regnbue

Posting my numbers for August which can be summed up in one word - PAPER (argh)

The following items have left the house:

2 emery boards
2 electric leads
packet dried up wipes
40 expired meds to pharmacy
3 local mags
3 x rubber gloves
5 random kitchen drawer items
book
20 coloured pencils
packaged swim cap
moisturising socks (these were a gift from a friend about 5 years ago.  Very soft plastic so not what I was expecting and did feel nice to use but wouldn't have them again).
120 papers (counting as 12)
20 unused zips
photo frame
soft plastics
4 x slightly out of date food
broken kitchen timer
broken clothes peg
uud cleaning product
3 batteries
2 pens
trainers (counted as 2)
unused tea tree oil
nail buffer
11 bits and bobs

Lost 8lbs (2st 3lb gone in total since I left work in April (I've got a year off))

Frogs: deep cleaning lounge
Applying for Australia visa
Finally managing to watch the film War Horse (had to do it in 25min sessions over a few days - still made me cry)
Major sort out of pantry shelf and cupboard 
3 x darning
6 x 20 minute shredding sessions

Given to a friend:
Dad's clock radio
Stain remover
Magic eraser
4 food items

Ins:
2 packs pasta and a catering size box of foil (not actually that big) from a friend
Free bunny plaque from a "free stuff" box I went past on a walk - it's now hanging in my kitchen

Without planning to I actually had a spend free month which was a lovely surprise.

Decluttering 557/500     Nail polishes 8/28        Cleaning products     4/22    Hair mousse    0/7   

Make £350 in 2025   £132/£350        Sell 50 items fleabay/FB   15/50      Items in 114

Beauty face masks 3/9     Bags dishwasher salt 0/3      Puzzle books 0/12

2025 ⭐️ 🏅💐💐⭐️⭐️

2024 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅💐

2023 🏅🏅🏅 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 💐 💐 💐 💐

regnbue

My numbers for September:

2 x bottles hand sanitiser
38 x items slightly out of date food (fridge/pantry)
7 rubber gloves
very old exfoliator
kitchen scales
unused pencil with cow topper purchased in Canada in the previous century given to friend
105 x papers sorted (counted as 10)
magazine
darning
3 food items to a friend
pen
3 batteries

Lost 2lbs

Ins: cat paperweight to join the other 3 in my collection
Combination wire brush/metal scraper

Decluttering 628/500     Nail polishes 8/28        Cleaning products     4/22    Hair mousse    0/7   

Make £350 in 2025   £132/£350        Sell 50 items fleabay/FB   15/50      Items in 116

Beauty face masks 3/9     Bags dishwasher salt 0/3      Puzzle books 0/12

2025 ⭐️ 🏅💐💐⭐️⭐️

2024 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅💐

2023 🏅🏅🏅 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 💐 💐 💐 💐

suzeesu2000

Reading about the gold leaf ice cream and dog with Christmas tinsel made me chuckle. I used to make cards and Jazzy insisted on cuddling up next to me while I was working, sat on the sofa. One evening, I sneezed whilst holding an open tub of fine glitter. Jazzy became a very sparkly furry girl. We had sparkly poops for days! 

Today was a lovely autumnal day and so quiet here. 

Spent a lot of time trying to find a detail or a link or something so I can unstick myself on my great grandfather’s line. I know he was born in1812 in Suffolk in a place called, I believe, Haltham. His father was William. That’s it. Apart from his descendants and his name, That's all I have to go on. I will get it, it’s just frustrating.
Dinner was totally freezer and yummy.
I emptied a top cupboard too, pain in the neck as I can’t reach the top. I found 2 drums of Marvel dried milk powder. Or dried milk bricks. Totally solid. Both went out of date in 2020. Think it’s time to let them go! 

Have a good night all, sleep tight xx

TC77

@Soontobeoap fabulous fireplace and I love the colour of the walls  - you must be so pleased.
@regnbue the Japan trip sounds fabulous, I've wanted to go since a Japanese family came for a year to Leeds with the dad working with mine and they had 2 girls around my age (9/10) and was fascinated. 
I've booked a trip to Taiwan - well the flights and have no idea where I'll be going..... 
DD2 may now come out when I'm there and she's unsure when I should go to Australia, hopefully talking to her this week.
I item sold, packaged and posted. Dropped off textile recycling to H&M, and files and folders (adding some dividers and wallets) to the bank of things - also toiletries and memory stick. Some counted already. 
Used up a shampoo left by DD2.
Looked out some fleece blankets and bedspread and deciding how many to give away..... (can feel I want to justify keeping everything). 
Checked if CS will take a couple of vintage items and they said yes, but will check again when I take them in.
1690

TC77

@suzeesu2000 is it you that has recently acquired a little black and white cat? Sorry if it is another fellow declutterai.
Anyway thought I'd post a photo of our big cat Mylo enjoying the scaffolding (glazier measured for.replacement pane wrong so it will be up longer) an one of little and big cat. Not great photo but captures the difference.  

suzeesu2000

@TC77 I have a Tuxedo boy, Frankie. Goodness, your Milo is very like him. We’ve had him since December 2023, he was about 6 months old when he came to us. Poor little man had a rotten start being born into a cat hoarders house, she discarded him when he ceased to be the “cute little baby kitten”, sadly she is a regular Declutterer of black cats. He’s ours forever now even though he scratches the furniture, has clawed a huge amount of wood off one of the newel posts, talks constantly and is obsessed with licking plastic - little weirdo. I couldn’t love him more than I do. 

TC77

@suzeesu2000 , Frankie is still very cute and handsome! We collected mylo from a rescue during lock down and had only seen a photo so abit shocked when we saw him as he's 3 x the weight of our little older cat. he was 4 then and hid under dd2 's bed for several weeks

weenancyinAmerica

@suzeesu2000 - Our youngest kitten keeps eating plastic, including chewing several things open. 

weenancyinAmerica

@suzeesu2000 - the only Haltham I can find is in Lincolnshire. But there is an Aldham in Suffolk you might want to try (knowing how people add or drop the H all of the time and d's and t's are interchangeable. Good luck.