2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

TC77

@brie for the knives is there a charity which helps people being housed,  moving from being homeless or from temporary accommodation. This may be on the Council website.
At my dad's and some things will be dropped off at mine by DB next week when he comes to stay. 

GrannyKate

Hi all.  Glad you got moved @vulpix - looking forward to hearing your new adventures. Busy but fun weekend with DD including a day in York with afternoon tea.  I actually bought myself a few needed items - shoes, pjs and a jumper.  DD had a long list of jobs and things she needed and we cleared it all. DGD2 came on train yesterday to stay for three days (she is 17) and DD went home after dinner.  DD did some jobs round house for me as well.  All ready for new bed to arrive tomorrow for bedroom 2.

978 Bills paid
979 Random rubble from garden in next door's skip - they rang and said feel free to use it as not full.
980 Plastics to SM
981-994 Games to CS shop - only kept the ones we use
995 Box of DD's stuff to CS
996 Toothpaste ordered on line
997 Painted over marks on wall.  I have concluded Sox must have attempted to jump from wardrobe to door and slid down wall whilst I was away.  There was a space where my suitcase would normally be so I guess he got up there.
998 DD put up three pictures in bedroom 1 for me
999 Nice shirt which just did not fit so never worn - given to DD 
1000 Some oddments taken home by DD

I may get half way to my total this year.  Some frogs waiting to be done but planning some stuff with DGD2 until Wednesday. 

vulpix

 Spiky, the sock blanket is a new concept for me. Well done in making it, I think it has turned out rather well. I would not have the patience to make one,that and the fact that all our socks are black would make for a dull blanket. Well in retrospect it would be nice if rainbow wool was used.

 Brie, I think your friends idea for the thimbles is inspired!

 I actually started some knitting last night, first time for weeks.

 The car is at the dealership having a service today. His nibbs has been warned not to come home with another golf umbrella!

 I have booked a carpet and sofa clean for next week. The carpets are not my taste but actually good quality and good condition, if minging! No carpets downstairs. Floorboards. Even if they were refinished I don't think they are for me.

 My builder sent a txt to say he would come to see us this week. We need a shed base making and then some sheds bought to get rid of all the stuff in the dining room. A lot of the boxes could go in a built in cupboard in there ( Christmas and shiz) but you can't get at it at the moment. I would like the sitting room fire place taking out if he can squeeze it in before Christmas. I also want a little window bricking up in the bathroom to accommodate a shower cubicle. Little jobs to get his toe in ! I am undecided about taking the wall out between the dining room and kitchen. Probably will. Don't want to spend a lot of money on this house though. At least it doesn't need a new roof like the last house.

 If I write my intentions for the day here ,I will have to do it. Clean down the back of the radiators now I have found the duster on a stick. Wash some more net curtains for the chazzer. Put laundry away. Do more laundry. Find homes for the  pile of stuff on the kitchen worktop. Hoover upstairs and stairs. Phone the hospital and cancel an appointment. There is still a dressing table buried in the dining room. I will need Mr V to extricate it and take it upstairs. Enough to be going on with.

 Vx

ruby_eskimo

Congratulations on being in the new home @vulpix - hope the stress is over now and you can just enjoy making it yours!

Managed to sort one of the cupboards of doom at the weekend so now things don't fall out every time I open it!  Decluttered a pineapple corer in the process (it was a "present" from my mum, used it once, not a big pineapple fan) and then a couple of pairs of pyjamas that have got a little too big for me or I find the fit irritating.  Followed all of that with a trip to the recycling centre to drop off our old dining chairs as the new ones are arriving this afternoon I hope!

Happy_Kitties

The kitchen has been cleared out quite abit and is developing an echo, so I know I am doing well, esp as I am going away just before it all happens.

486) sports drink powder, it was rock hard. Soaked it to remove the contents and packaging into recycling bins
487) unbroken elastic bands posted back into post box
488) another item sold on V
489)-519) I’m sure there is more than 30 items disposed of into recycling. Sorted out a drawer of ‘odds and sods’ which included old diaries, filled notebooks and pen lids all going into the recycling. Really pleased one drawer down, one to go but will do the other drawer once the new kitchen is in. 

520)-523) items x 4 dropped off at the charity shop which included a bag, candles and storage jar
524) sharpie pen that just gave up-recycling
525) lots of tablet blister packets, into Boots recycling. Didn’t bother to do the 100 point thing. 

526)-535) items x 10 into rag bag and picked up this morning

@vulpix glad to hear the move went ahead okay, even if it wasn’t without its stresses

oceanspirit

1 frog done from start to finish.

Emails down to 150.

TC77

On way home with small wheelie suitcase from my dad's  
2 trips to cs and lots for dB to take to tip. 

Soontobeoap

So just got in from trip to mainland to baby sit Grandchildren Have managed between us to wrestle.2. sofas and a dining room table out of the house and into the front garden ready for collection tomorrow. They have to be kerbside by 7.o clock in the morning and there is no way after our long journey that we are getting up at that time! 

I am collecting subs at singing tomorrow but after that I will be able to start putting out home back together again.

London_1

Took DGS Ben to the Pearl place on the Military Road just before Freshwater yesterday and we had a good mooch around and he decluttered some cash to buy his girlfriend a present as she was not with him this trip down.
 I treated him to an all English breakfast which he enjoyed and we sat and chatted and he said 
"You know Nan I bet there has to be a good few bob in this place with all the beautiful pearls here" 

So we sat and worked out how, if we were so inclined you you do a heist and get away  Its got to be a good 20 minutes if not more from the nearest police station and I said" Hmm that's a point" ,then he said" but if you had a boat you could leg it to the beach and get away across the water to Bournemouth from here" 

I said "Ben you could be right but my days of clambering down the cliff to the beach especially the cliff as unstable as it is round here means we would end up either breaking our necks or legs and get captured"  

"Hmm you could be right there Nanny" he said  
Ben you have a very criminal mind for a primary school teacher  so looks likeour day of being heist artists are over
Ben and I have always got along, as when we sit and natter we come up with some daft conversations  but he is such good fun, and I shall miss him when I declutter him on the fastcat boat  tomorrow at Ryde back to his life in London as a school teacher in an inner city school.
telling DD when we came home she just looked at us shook her head and said
"I don't know who is the daftest of the two of you "

Ah well maybe being an honest old lady is a better bet, and our Ben would look rather silly in a convicts outfit of arrows. I think its because we both have a sense of the ridiculous   

Have a good evening chums 

JackieO xx

SpikyHedgehog

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger thank you for the lovely welcome!   I am being gentle on myself - I've got scoliosis,  and the advanced spinal care physio assures me that spine replacement is off in science fiction still 😁 

@ruby_eskimo it really was an adventure!   My mum used to send middle sister and me off to the launderette in the summer holidays with baby sister's pram laden with duvets to get them washed and dried.   As an adult,  I decided to use the service wash when I could afford it. 

@daisy_1571 oh crumbs,  what an adventure!   Glad I didn't have to sit in the neighbours' house in their dressing gown 😁 - I'm more buxom than either neighbour,  so I'd need to double up on dressing gowns like hospital gowns 🤣  

Elder Son moved the ladder into the downstairs toilet so while I'm safe,  it's not quite where I wanted it!   It also meant that the empty dog food sacks I was keeping for Justin were on show,  so they have been moved into the soft plastic recycling bag and will go to the supermarket,  so I guess we can count that as a decluttering positive?   The sacks are handy when someone asks me for a sack for clearing rubbish or refilling with compost,  but I guess that's another thing that I don't need to store for other people.

Green_hopeful oh goodness,  thank heavens you could reach the fuse box!   

Had to stay home today as we had a smart meter fitted.  So my mum came round for coffee instead of us meeting somewhere. 

I made cake using up an ood jar of mincemeat and half a small bag of cocoa nibs, delicious.   And enough left for when my friend comes round tomorrow!   

Remembered to give mum back a clip that was on the bag of grated cheese Younger Son brought back from mum's last time we were there.   (Mum's vegan,  so though she buys cheese for the grandchildren, she doesn't want to keep open bags to go off.)  And a carrier bag full of 2 garden trays that had held plants from mum's garden to come to mine,  and as many dry plant pots as I could fit in the bag.   Fear not,  she's going to put plants in them for my sisters so they won't be at hers for long! 

Rubbish bin out to be emptied tomorrow.   

Elder Son brought home 2 loaves of bread,  and I had to jiggle things round in the freezer to make room for them.   I discovered he had not only a bag of veg scraps to make stock with,  but a tub as well.   Which had chicken bones in it as well as veg.   This led me to look more carefully at the bag, and find that also had meat scraps in it. 

Now, making stock is a good idea.   But I, being vegan as well as mum, am not going to make or use meat stock.   So the tub and bag were emptied into the bin liner and put firmly in the bin. I'll have to carry on using the stock cubes that we already have.