2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

Happy_Kitties

478)-479) memory sticks x 2 that were always given out as freebies years ago-recycling
480) hand bag mirror worse for wear-binned
481) broke down a damaged toiletry set. The damage meant it couldn’t be used for another charity. Instead I pulled an empty mens toiletry bag from stash, added the items and a few extra bits and popped into a Bag of Joy
482) rosette from drawer I’m cleaning out-binned
483) tea I was brought back from someone’s holiday over 20 years ago-binned
484) another ood foodstuff disposed of, empty packaging in recycling 
485) more medical equipment disposed of

ruby_eskimo

@Brie thanks for the offer of a helping hand at the dentist 😂  DH thinks it's so weird that I hate the dentist but can happily go and observe quite intense surgical procedures at work!

@SpikyHedgehog sounds like an adventure to get the duvet freshened up.  Really need to wash ours at some point soon 😐

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger thank you for the gold stars, will add them to the signature with pride 🥲🫡  I think I'm having a bit of a reverse mid-life crisis; rather than wanting to speed up and relive my "youth", I'm actually embracing the slower side of life.  I've recently really got back into cross stitching (only 1 project at a time, with plans for all of them so not adding "clutter"), have read quite a lot so far this year, made chutney for the first time ever using all the tomatoes that DH grew (despite him being very adverse to eating them) and re-starting my sourdough starter again.  I've even asked for a knitting kit for Christmas because that's another useful hobby I can take up!

On the decluttering front, I've kept count of the little things I've been doing over the last few months and it looks like I've met my 365 item target for the year 🥳  Still a lot more to go and we'll get there eventually. I've managed 2 loads of washing today, just need to get them put away and I want to tackle the kitchen this weekend and get it a little more organised.  

Hope you all have a good weekend!

daisy_1571

omg spiky what fun!  Reminds me of an incident from Back In Tge Olden Days.

I went out back garden and heard the inside hefty floor bolt falling out its catch and into the receiving hole in the floor.  I was outside with only a fairly see-through hip length shirt, I used to sleep in, and my pants.  I had to hide virtually inside the front garden hedge until my boyfriend arrived, luckily he was due in about half an hour and it was summer.  He knocked neighbours doors, one was in and he used their phone to check my grandparents were in and had a key. I didn't know these neighbours well, they were ancient to my 17 year old self.  They were very kind though but I had a very uncomfortable hour in their front room, in the lady's dressing gown !!!! making polite conversation, terriblly aware of my unfettered boots while poor boyfriend got back on his push bike and cycled to my grandmas (probably more than half way back to his house) for the spare front door keys and cycled back!  

Face is red again just thinking about it 😆 🤣   hopefully I'll never get caught in a predicament like that again - at 17 I could get away with it, at 59 NOBODY wants me inside their dressing gown in my scanties 😆 🤣  talk about frightening the horses!! 😆 🤣 


Anyway glad yours ended well too and if it ends up with some enforced ds decluttering then all is definitely well that ended well

Dxx

florianatwobob

Oh @daisy_1571 your tale reminds me of being in my early 20s and my neighbours had to call the fire service one Sunday morning. They had a large gas canister outside the back of their house which had caught alight. The houses on both side of them had to evacuated whilst it was brought under control so Sunday morning saw me stood in the street in a satin strappy nightie, a waist length black wooly cardi and my work shoes very aware that I mustn’t bend too far as I was knickerless!! 

It was very chilly annd breezy and I swore at that point that I was only wearing long leg pjs thereafter!!

Brie

Chieveley said:

Haven't seen Florencem lately? Hope everything is ok. Can't remember where to check when she was last online.

Just checked and she was on earlier today but that was her first comment since I think July.  I am assuming things have not been going well or she was doing a bit of a digital detox.  

@Florenceem
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Green_hopeful

@SpikyHedgehog i got trapped in our cupboard under the stairs by a mattress that was propped up in the kitchen. I couldn’t get out but youngest son aged 13 was watching tv in the next room. I yelled and yelled and yelled but he didn’t hear so i turned the electricity off. That got his attention. But if I had been on my own I would have been stuck until someone noticed i was missing. 

TC77

@Green_hopeful , @florianatwobob and @daisy_1571 thank you for sharing your misadventures..I know I've had some and are very aware of accidents/ incidents but often too late !

Item sold and packaged and posted..finding my posher clothes I don't  wear and can get some.pennies for. Can't remember if I listed my now.none existent  car's  handbook wanted , broken pegs and paper so rounding to 1742.
A frog done but many  others multiplying ! 

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: up very late 13:30 to brilliant sunshine, which quickly disappeared. High 13°C, low 6°C with a very chilly wind making it feel 5° colder 🥶 I have done nothing apart from complete Sudokus 😉 Although I did phone the dentist & confirmed that I would prefer 2 separate clip in teeth rather than having them connected across my palate. It is so cold that we have succumbed to turning the heating on ☹️ Usually we wait until November. DSis bought a toad-in-the-hole for dinner & only ate half. DH & I had breaded fish from the freezer with lo chips from the chippie (heated up). Wudupa.

1987 - 1989 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, plastic bottle - recycled 

1990 Kitchen detritus - binned 

Apologies for falling behind with the cheerleading 😞 I will try harder tomorrow 😉 Sleep tight 😴 

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Decluttering Target 2025: 1990/2025

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daisy_1571

oh florianatwotbob wow, I least my nethers were covered lol, well done standing up straight 👏 😆 

Green, smart thinking cutting the electric, not sure id have thought of that 🤔 👏

Dxxx

Willowtree222

It was my birthday this week so lots of bits given that will need to leave the house again at some point. 

Have already started with devlutteting the wine 😂

Two candles are not to my taste so I will re-gift them. I usually give things like that to teachers or as prizes for the tombola.