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

Friday continued: DH & DSis left 14:05. I settled down with a cuppa & phoned my bank. One of my bits of mail was my CC bill - hadn’t realised how small my Credit Limit was 😱 So when I paid the actual amount owed I added on yesterday’s amount paid to the dentist as it had taken me very close to my limit😮‍💨 I then checked my transactions & updated my paper records - everything is  tickety-boo 🙂 DH & DSis got back 15:35 & I have put all the shopping away. Only thing left to do is portion up the meat for the freezer. I had just settled down to start the cheerleading when there was a knock at the door - a MOPAC (Mayor’s Office for Policing & Crime) survey. Lots of questions which took about 20 minutes. Then got distracted again as DH wanted to make soup. I gathered together all the ingredients - bottom of fridge vegetables, leftovers including bags of vegetable los from the freezer. Pan now bubbling away on the hob. Further distracted by DH wanting to clean the top oven. I took the inside door glass out & this has been sprayed with oven cleaner. I made up a solution of soda crystals, completely wetted a cloth & laid it on the floor of the oven. We checked the instruction booklet & the shelving brackets can be removed & cleaned but that is for another day. The oven is a bit cleaner now. Just in time for DSis to cook her dinner - quiche & chips. DH & I had pan fried sockeye salmon fillets, with boiled new potatoes & peas 😋 Wudupa.

1939 - 1943 Kitchen recycling, magazine, large cardboard box, 0.5” paperwork, drinks cans - recycled

1944 - 1946 Kitchen & lr detritus, 0.25” shredding - binned

Now I will have a short burst of cheerleading staring with posts dated 15th 😉

Liverpool_Anne, surprising how much one can get done with short bursts of activity 👏 Hopefully you have managed to clear the kitchen work surfaces & have kept the items you love 🤞 Monday was a successful decluttering day combined with a pleasant meeting up with friends ☺️ Excellent work on Tuesday clearing leaves, getting so much laundry done & finding items to declutter items into  a CS bag 👏 Hope your sister loved her flowers 💐 It sounds like your sister has a plan to recover but such a shame that she has to pay for private physio 😔 Hopefully DNiece will put your mind at rest when you manage to speak to her 🤞Hope you enjoyed your meet up with your ex-colleague 😊

Willowtree222, hopefully the builders have or will soon be finished & you can restart your decluttering journey 🤞 I hope you took photos of your first pottery attempts before binning them 🤞After all it would be nice to look back on how far you have come along in your pottery making skills 😊

Excellent decluttering Rootle 👏

Good luck with your frogs/tasks TC77 🍀

suzeesu2000, that chicken dish sounds very tasty 🤤 Well done on getting rid of the plastic chopping board 👏 Shame about having to take a step back on your family tree person 😞 hopefully you will have more success with your DH’s nanny 😊 Not boring at all, I find it all very interesting & I am full of admiration for anyone who works so hard tracking down information on their family tree 🥹

Excellent work TC77 👏 

BlueJ94, I rather like the sound of your breakfast 😋 Pleased to hear that you have started packing 😉  Well done keeping your home tidy 👏 I will probably still be behind with the cheerleading, so will take this opportunity to wish you a very happy holiday 😊

GrannyKate, yippee to to having all the leaks repaired 🥳 Fingers crossed that you won’t need another plumber for a long time 🤞Excellent work with the decluttering & tasks completion 👏 Good luck with This “I need to start getting rid of more things in lounge although decorating that will be next year.  Re glasses I have rather too many on a high shelf of the kitchen larder cupboard.  I cannot reach it easily and I have nothing else to put up there so they can stay - lots did go both when packing and again after the move.  Once I get new bed with storage for bedroom 2 lots of spare bedding can go in there and I can reclaim space in my wardrobes.  There is some stuff in lounge that can go on the spare shelves in my wardrobes. I have already allocated one shelf to jigsaws and will not allow any more to take root that will not fit on the one shelf.” 🍀such  good planning 👏 Excellent work with the 1p Savings Challenge 👏 Hope you have a lovely weekend with DS1 🥹 & that Sox forgives you quickly when you get back 😉🤞

Great decluttering MadamMim2013 👏 Hope you have a wonderful time meeting up with your friend 😊

Great work completing 28/25 classes Wednesday2000👏 A medal 🏅 is on its way 🙂 Good luck with the decluttering, cleaning & tidying 🍀

I have caught up a little & will try harder tomorrow 🙂 sleep tight 😴 

P.S. re the rainbow hat, DH sent a picture to his DNiece S & she as well as her mum & her daughter all really like the hat 😮‍💨 Just hope R likes it 🤞 There were messages flying back & forth but my favourite was from DH’s DSis “At least he will be easy to spot in a crowd” 🙊

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

DH Awards: 🏅 ‘Squirrel Whisperer’ ⭐️🏅🏅⭐️😇🏅🥇 

DSis Awards: ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅

Decluttering Target 2025: 1946/2025

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £469.00

florianatwobob

Excellent point about the xmas deccies to charity. Our local hospice shop has started their Xmas display. I picked up a huge bag of baubles for £4. I’ve kept the red plastic ones I was after for our little hazel tree and….drumroll please….already returned the rest of the bag (mostly silver) to be resold. Our hospice has recently declared a funding crisis so doing my best to support them as they are a community asset.