2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

Soontobeoap

@Rosetta maybe try a local nursery or school with your pans for their mud kitchen.

@TC77 a craft group would love your buttons.we have made button tree decorations and button pictures with a children's craft group. We add buttons to gingerbread men ornaments too. My group is always looking for them.They have so many crafting uses .

oceandreamer

Rosetta92 - your local nursery or school might find use for them for their outdoor mud kitchens.
Have been reading along with interest.

oceandreamer

Oh just seen Soontobeap's comment! Great minds.

suzeesu2000

Well, I am reclined listening to the rain and it’s so cosy. 

As I mentioned, took the 3 big flattened boxes out of the one holding them and they fit perfectly behind the airer in the downstairs loo. The holding box is not good for anything so that’s gone to recycling.
Added more compost to bin today over the course of 2 trips. Each time, I added a couple shovels to the bags.
Spent a lot of time this morning listing on Vinted - which I’ve only ever used as a buyer before. 

I was getting pleased as things started to be added to folks favourites, there were offers and even a sale. Wowzer thought I, this is looking good…..until I tried to get the label for sold item. You don’t get a label that you can print. You get one of those stupid QR code squares. Well, I don’t use a phone for the internet so what am I supposed to do? Can’t carry the computer to the post office. As I’m housebound I use Royal Mail as they collect and I can print the label or they bring with them. Nooo, that’s too easy for Vinted. Only other option for where I live is Evri and I won’t touch them as they are dreadful here. So, sale cancelled and everything removed from Vinted. I decluttered a fair bit of time there. Very disappointing as it started with such promise. EBay is just not moving, taking ages even to get just one sale, so not sure what to do now.
Dinner for us both from freezer. 

Been good with the paperwork thing; been scanning, filing and shredding as soon as I get anything and it’s nice to know I’m not stacking that great pile up again.
Have a good night all, sleep tight xx

Happy_Kitties

455) damaged plug-recycling
456) big squashed envelopes-recycling, collected feom when I did the postal survey years ago
457) half damaged cook book-recycling
458) rusted meat skewer-recycling
459) old paperwork destroyed or recycling

Kitchen slowly coming along with the clear out. 

TC77

Mrs SD, @suprisinglynice and @Soontobeoap and  others , Thank yiu for ideas for the buttons..I think I'll try a craft  club for the buttons.  

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: Arrived at dentist with time to spare. The whole experience was rather fraught 😥 First the dentist needed to take X-rays- right hand side was OK but left hand side caused an issue - 4 X-rays later & it transpired that I couldn’t have a bridge that side. After discussion it also transpired that I shouldn’t have a bridge on the right either as it would have meant grinding down a ‘virgin tooth’ (i.e. no fillings) By this time I had been given injections to numb my gums. The dentist then discussed other options with me - implants which I ruled out as I have bone loss & the second option - a couple of false teeth connected with a plastic brace running across my palate. We decided this was the best/only option. So moulds needed to be made. This turned out to be a nightmare as the first attempt led to me having a panic attack 😱 However, the dentist was very good & we finally got the moulds done. Then another issue - apparently I have a very high u-shaped palate 😞 Dentist contacted the technician who wanted a mould of my palate - more gunk in my mouth 😥 Upshot is she will contact me on Friday & advise whether or not I have to have two separate false teeth or if they can be connected. There is a silver lining……… this treatment will be cheaper than having 2 bridges 😉 To recover from my rather fraught experience, DH & I went to the pub & had several drinks before heading home. We had a long & interesting chat with another pub patron - a young man in his twenties. Eventually headed home & decided to call in at the chippie for dinner. It was closed 🤔 DH caught the bus to a different one & I headed home. Unfortunately DH got wet on the way back from the chippie as the rain started a little later than forecast - about 20:30. We eventually ate about 21:45. Wudupa.

1976 - 1977 Drinks cans, office recycling 

1978 - 1979 Kitchen & lr detritus - binned

Of course I have fallen behind with the cheerleading, so will catch up tomorrow i.e. later today 🙂 Hope everyone had a good day & managed to stay dry. Sleep tight 😴 

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daisy_1571

Im sure the dentist said, but bone loss isn't necessarily an issue as they can build up the jaw bone fairly easily so you can get an implant.   But if you don't fancy them thats of course fine too xxx
Dxxx

Floss

@suzeesu2000 There is a tracking ID in the body of the email from Vinted - you input that into the RM website and I think that can produce the label... maybe try with that sale you cancelled?

oceanspirit

Emails down to 230.  Some old herbs and spices binned and a bag of quinoa I didn’t know I had put on worktop to use next. A Sunday t-shirt in the ragbag along with a pair of summer pjs which really should have gone a couple of years ago but I couldn’t part with them.

A different frog from the two planned done yesterday - I’ll try to get onto the other two today.  Weather is grim and am fighting the desire to hibernate for the day.