2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

TC77

Mrs SD , we moved offices and wed/fri only days they could offer us.
Too early for me so coffee in bed, but need to sort out how I store things in my bedroom, as existing piles are not relaxing to wake up to.
1714 from yesterday.
Checked yesterday's to do list and realise while I did lots nothing was on the list so alot of frogs to try and get through today or ideally this morning as going out in the afternoon.

TC77

I have a number of french and handmade etc soaps that people have given me, some this year but some probably 10 years old? Will they be ok, some are very pretty and still in fancy packaging so thinking of giving to CS - look ok but don't want to if it good be harmful etc. Could try using myself over time . Ideas?

Taking things off listing and in CS where they can sell them.
Boxed game
New washbag (unwanted gift)
small broken bits - pegs/curtain hooks
necklace and earrings in CS bag  (have a bag for posh CS as they'll get more or some items and one for my usual)
Offered fleece to friend but if she doesn't come back to me will give to CS.
I want more time to live RL and not move things around

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, a couple of lazy days but I had my B12jab yesterday so hoping for more energy today 😁. 

@Vulpix congratulations on the arrival of baby J and hope he is soon out of scbu and well enough to come home and your dil is also recovering well, big hugs

Update on Dsis, she can now get to the bathroom 😁. 

So in the past couple of days I have been trying to sort and empty some of the kitchen units as they will have to be taken out to make room for the new toilet but it has been slow going due to lack of energy and doing other things. On Friday I met up with an ex colleague and his wife who are visiting from Australia. They only had time for a coffee as they are only here for 3 weeks and have lots of relatives to see but it was really nice to see them both again after 20 years 😁. In the afternoon I went shopping for a toilet and a small basin for the understairs. We visited 4 shops. I never realised there was so much choice in toilets 😂. I think we have made a decision but I think I will have to do some careful measuring to check if the basin I like will fit in the space but the shop seems to have deliveries the next day so I will be able to check with the builder once he's knocked down a wall and rebuilt it in a different place 😂. Yesterday I had my B12 jab and had a look at some tiles and other bathroom fittings. So far all that has left is a bag of loose tea that was past it's ub date and a soap dispenser that had gone rusty but I am getting there slowly and every time I go into the kitchen something comes out with me 😂. I also got 4 loads of washing on the line. I should have got them in last night but I had fallen asleep on the couch late afternoon, making decisions is hard brain work for me 😂, and forgot about it until it was dark but no rain so they can be sorted today, although it is foggy atm so they will have to wait until after the sun comes out 😂. The only other thing I have done is empty the bathroom bin 😂.

On the subject of recorders, I still have mine that I played in junior school, I moved onto the clarinet at secondary school which I loved but I always struggled with reading music and the music teacher was very unforgiving so I dropped music completely when I was 14 though I do enjoy listening to music. Recently I have been very attracted to a drumming group that I see occasionally performing in public places and am always enthralled by the bag pipes in a pipe and drum band but I fear the lack of reading music would stop me being able to play the bag pipes, not to mention the neighbours would probably complain 😂. Ukelalies are also very popular around here and there are 2 groups I have seen performing in places like shopping centres recently 😁.

Right time for another cuppa and to find something else to put somewhere else 😂

Hugs to everyone who would like one

1381 bathroom bin
1382 soap dispenser
1383 loose tea
Take care everyone
1383/2025, so far behind target I am really going to have to work hard to meet the numbers this year 🙄

Willowtree222

TC77 soaps are usually good for a maximum of around 3 years dependent on their ingredients. Fresh ingredients are a lot less. They do have oils in them that can go off. It really depends what they were made with but not sure you would know that. They could irritate skin if ingredients have gone off. 

Hope this helps. 

moginstein

TC77 said:

I have a number of french and handmade etc soaps that people have given me, some this year but some probably 10 years old? Will they be ok, some are very pretty and still in fancy packaging so thinking of giving to CS - look ok but don't want to if it good be harmful etc. Could try using myself over time . Ideas?

@TC77. I'd use it myself. I inherited someone's old soap collection, and it was fine. Kept us in soap over 2 years, just a few mini soaps left now. Soap in someways gets better with age, it hardens up so doesn't  disintegrate to mush as quickly. I stacked mine up in the airing cupboard and in a drawer, with instructions to other half where to find it to replace the general use hand soap.
If there are some that smell / look particularly nice, you can put them in with clothes to make them smell nice / they look pretty when you see them?
I can't see that it would be harmful to give away,  if you go that route maybe you could ask at the CS or shelter as an alternative?
** eta. One of the soaps we found had the price on in old money, which meant it was older than me! I wanted it for curiosity,  but I think my mum kept that one herself. Don't know if she's used it though.