2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

Muddy_Walker

The cake was a success! It was very much enjoyed and the taste was lush. And now I can’t post a picture…..never mind!

suzeesu2000

At long last, the raised beds are finally both empty. Nearly killed me doing the last bit but now it’s done. Just got to get DH to dismantle them now!! 

Just packaging thrown out today and the inner tube of a roll of wrapping paper and cash to DGNeice for her 3rd birthday. 

Dinner from freezer, Have got a goodly bit of space which I am hoping to fill with the cheaply veggies next week. 

Sewing tonight.
Have a good evening all, sleep tight xx

Chocolatedrinker

I am back with another massively long list of decluttering:
1181 - ood large bottle of gaviscon binned
1182 - collected book club book from inpost
1183 - 6 toiletries used up
1187 - xmas cards written
1188 - xmas card kit ordered and collected
1189 emails unsubscribed
1190 - receipts scanned and recycled
1191 - present ordered for mum's birthday
1192 - 1202 batteries recycled
1203 - 1224 - items to foodbank / bin from cupboard sort out
1225 - 1232 - items to charity shop
1233 - 1234 - items to foodbank
1235 - 1246 - out of date spices binned (some were over 15 years out of date!)
1247 - cat medication ordered
1248 - 49 juicer and charger for old walkie talkie recycled at tip
1250 - 55 cardboard boxes recycled
1256 - 1312 - pens to charity collection
1313 - cat medication collected and given to cat
1314 - 15 holey clothes binned
1316 - 23 assorted items to charity shop
1324 - bra to smalls for all
1325 - 6 candles used up
1327 - moisturiser used up
1328 - pterodactyl kit made up
1329 - 43 books sold and box used to send
1344 - 50 xmas presents wrapped
1351 - shower gel repurposed as hand wash
1352 - emails unsubscribed
1353 - receipts scanned and recycled
1354 - 58 - toiletries used up
1359 - 70 - assorted items to food bank
1371 - magazine recycled
1372 - parcel sent
1373 - 77 xmas presents wrapped
1378 - 96 - toiletries used up
1397 - santa ornament mended
1398 - old damp pillow binned
1399 - 1408 - old clothes to recycling
1409 - sharps bin to chemist
1410 - magazine recycled
1411 - 14 toiletries used up
1415 - used up pen binned
1416 - perfume used up, bottle recycled
1417 - 19 - ripped clothes binned
1420 - candle used up
1421 - 25 - parcels sent
1426 - perfume sample used up
1427 - cardboard packaging recycled
1428 - 35 cuddly toy & other items to charity shop
1436 - fabric pumpkin to friend
1437 - old pen binned
1438 - 42 - items to charity shop
1443 - parcel sent
1444 - badge sewn onto uniform
1445 - candle used up
1446 - old clothing binned
1447 - emails unsubscribed
1448 - fimo to charity shop
1449 - birthday card sent
1450 - packaging recycled
1451 - receipts scanned and recycled
1452 - 60 - candles used up
1461 - 2 dried up lipbalm and toothpaste binned
1463 - 75 books sold and packaging to send
1476 - magazine recycled
1477 - easy thread needles (useless) binned in sharps bin
1478 - paper recycled
1479 - 84 - clothes to recycling
1485 - 91 - duvet cover and pillowcases recycled
1492 - 1500 - sleeping bags, tent etc to charity shop
1501 - 1610 - gift bags, cards etc binned / charity shopped / recycled
1611 - 15 holdalls to charity shop
1616 - shower gel repurposed as hand wash
1617 - receipts scanned and recycled
1618 - emails unsubscribed
1619 - 27 - pillows. duvet, mattress etc to tip
1628 - 31 packaging recycled
1632 - 36 - bags of rubbish to tip
1637 - magazine recycled
1638 - pyjama top recycled
1639 - broken pen binned
1640 - candle used up
1641 - half used bottle of bath salts emptied and recycled

Chocolatedrinker

and to continue (couldn't risk losing previous post):
1642 - perfume used up, recycled
1643 - 47 - candles used up
1648 - 56 - toiletries used up
1657 - receipts scanned
1658 - 62 magazines recycled
1663 - 70 - candles / wax melts used up
1671 - emails unsubscribed
1672 - book club book read and sent on
1673 - 77 toiletries used up
1678 - foot check booked
1679 - reed air freshener used up and recycled
1680 - 4 - toiletries used up and recycled
1685 - 90 - items bought for secret santa swap
1691 - 2 wax melts to friend
1693 - 1708 - books etc to friend
1709 - 1714 - cardboard packaging recycled
1715 - badge sewn onto uniform
1716 - 1720 - candles used up
1721 - 1727 - bedding to textile recycled
1728 - 1750 - toiletries sent to friends
1751 - 58 - skeins of wool sent to friends
1759 - 65 - toiletries used up
1766 - 76 - tip run, bags of rubbish disposed of
1777 - badge sewn onto uniform
1778 - receipts scanned, recycled
1779 - 81 - toiletries used up
1782 - school open day ticket booked
1783 - badge sewn on uniform
1784 - 1808 - candles used up
1809 - old paperwork shredded
1810 - perfume used up
1811 - 1814 - wax melts used up
1815 - 1822 - items to charity shop
1823 - emails unsubscribed
1824 - perfume used up
1825 - 31 - parcels sent
1832 - 36 magazines recycled
1837 - shampoo used up
1838 - 43 leftover bits of conditioner amalgamated into one
1844 - old oil burner binned
1845 - candle used up
1846 - 47 - parcels sent
1848 - 53 - old toiletry bottles recycled
1854 - 1860 - bags of rubbish to tip
1861 - 63 - parcels sent
1864 - hair appointment booked
1865 - perfume used up
1866 - 7 - boxes recycled
1868 - roll of packing tape used up
1869 - 71 - xmas presents used up
1872 - emails unsubscribed
1873 - 2133 - lanyards taken into the office for distribution
2134 - candle used up
2135 -6 parcels sent
2137 - 44 cardboard boxes recycled
2145 - receipts scanned, recycled

and that's it for now!

Chocolatedrinker

Muddy_Walker

Chocolate drinker that’s is one impressive list!

TC77

Wow @Chocolatedrinker amazing 👏

Been out for another Xmas meal and one friend gave us all homegrown and made jam and gin ( miniature bottle) which will be consumed.
Had 2 address books so now one out and some addressed and people decluttered from my life (and me from theirs), some unsubscribing and paper but need to rethink how i organise kitchen/ hall dining room so doesn't get chaotic so quickly. 
Mixture of reducing quantity, giving things a home and then putting them there!!!

vulpix

Epic,chocolate drinker. You have got to feel better for that!

Happy Fluffy Christmas. 

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

Saturday was a dry & cold day - high 11°C low 5°C. Started knitting a scarf so completely distracted & haven’t done any cheerleading. Dinner was the defrosted bolognaise sauce with a cheesy potato topping + green beans. Wudupa

2289 - 2292 Kitchen recycling, 3 small plastic pots - recycled 

2293 - 2294 Kitchen & lr detritus - binned 

Liverpool_Anne, what a busy Thursday despite having the dentist appointment cancelled 🤩 Good job you were contacted before you set off 😮‍💨 so your day wasn’t wasted. Very pleased to hear that your DSis is recovering well ☺️ What a lovely thoughtful present for your DSis 🥹 Great cheerleading 👏

Lovely post London_1 ☺️ Very impressed at how organised you are 👏 Lovely thoughtful gifts for DD’s ma-in-law 🥹 It sounds like your family well & truly appreciate Christmas & all of you give ‘thoughtful’ presents 🥹 Loved This “My family know I have one absolute NO NO when it comes to presents, and that's slippers.” 🙊 I would say you are SABLE  with slippers 😉 Hope DGS Henry & gf are having a lovely time ☺️

GrannyKate,hope you enjoyed your Christmas celebration on Friday 😊Love the tale of Sox & the Christmas tree 😊 Another one of our Declutterati family who is well organised for Christmas 👏

Liverpool_Anne, thanks for the recipe which sounds rather tasty 🤤 

ionafan, very impressed with the amount of shredding you have done 👏 & even more impressed that your shredder coped so well 🤩

Muddy_Walker, the curling ribbon sounds like a perfect finishing touch ☺️

A little bit of cheerleading but I have fallen behind again 😔 I will make a concerted effort tomorrow. Sleep tight 😴 

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

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

DSis Awards: ⭐️ ⭐️ 🏅

Decluttering Target 2025: 2294/2025

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £569.00

London_1

Good morning chums ,
                                     well DGS Henry and G/F Jade arrived on Friday evening, and what a lovely lass she is.
 I heartily approve of her ,she seems to adore our Henry as he does her.

He always said to his Mum he would only bring a g/f home if he was very sure of her, and she felt the same They have been courting (now theres an old fashioned word ),for 6 months .
She's very pretty but also very down to earth and friendly, and is like Henry and is familiy oriented. We went out to dinner at Goddards Brewery which is really nice and very interesting, and had a lovely meal.

My DD and son-in-law had a pre booked dinner to go to, which had been booked several months ago so it was just Henry ,Jade and I, but we had a really lovely meal, and when we came home we sat and nattered and played cards.
I said you two should go out and have some fun, and she said no we like to chill out and just relax and neither of them are bothered about noisy places full of people

I chatted to her while Henry went to get some drinks and asked her if her parents liked him and she said I think my Mum wants to adopt him, she said they both love Henry and his quiet steadiness and how polite he is. 

She's a nursery teacher and really loves her job and by the look of things feels the same about our Henry. 
A sensible down to earth lass who loves the bones of him and even her Mum keeps sending him extra meals when she cooks as she said he needs looking after

He is 6'2"tall and slim and bless him has hollow legs
I think her Mum likes to spoil him.:)  I can see good things ahead for them both. So three of my DDs sons are all courting nice lasses

 Just need our gentle Jack to find the right girl now. he's had a few, but none seem to last very long Somewhere out there is a girl who will fit the bill I'm sure. He too is a kind caring young man and sadly has had a couple of girlfrinds who are not keen on a nice lad ,they seem to like it for awhile, then leave for a bad lad.

I guess it doesn't help that where he works is deep in the Kent countryside and he lives on site at the boarding school where he teaches, so is often on call, and his social life is a bit limited. Its around two miles to the nearest village even. 
DD and my son-in-law also likes Henry's  girlfriend and says its nice that he's taken his time to find a person similar to him in outlook and ways.
 I'm so pleased to see how her four lads have all grown up to be hard working decent young men. I think the media tend to forget there are millions of young men just like them yet they portray a lot of millenials as  workshy or troublesome The good guys never get a mention. But I suppose its the bad ones that sell the papers  

Jade is also interested in waste not want not, and has similar ideas about making use of stuff as we do. We were talking about how much is wasted in the world today, and I was telling her about decluttering and how landfill is the last option .

I like to find a good home for unneeded stuff before actually going to the tip, and we both agree that far too much stuff is binned.
She likes what she's seen so far of the Island, and says its so nice to be away from the bustle of Kent and all the traffic and noise.
I said she must definitely return especially in the spring, to see how beautiful it is but to bring her wellies as if its been raining it can get quite muddy on walks.
She like to get out of the town as does Henry and they go for long country walks at weekends.
 I'd give her a 10/10 and I had a short chat with him on his own, and said she's a nice lass and I definitely approve

He just grinned and said 'I knew you would Nan, as she has similar ideas as you have '
 Bless him I know him so well, as I helped bring him and his siblings up for 15 years when his Mum had to go back to work when his youngest brother was 2.
After all five children under 11, and four of them boys, meant their shoe bill alone was eye watering  

Sadly this afternoon they are off back to the medway on the 3.00 pm ferry but I feel sure they will be back again .We will probably take them and the dogs for a walk along the beach this morning to blow the cobwebs away its due to be dry today at least.

Tomorrow afternoon I have my U3A Christmas social at Arreton which will be nice as everyone that can come will do from all parts of the island, so you get to meet more folk as well as having a Christmas quiz and some nibbles. 

Decluttering renews on Tuesday as there is paperwork to be sorted and shredded

Onwards and upwards chums 

JackieO xx

GrannyKate

Morning all.  Moved things around to accomodate Christmas tree and think I now have two tables/desks which I will not put back.  May see if DIL can sell them.  I'll get a picture and some dimensions.  Yesterday started with a literal cat and mouse game as Sox came in with his first mouse.  Pretty little thing and seemed unharmed although probably terrified.  After a bit of a chase I caught it in a teatowel and released it away from the house.  I hope it survived.  Sox was very unhappy and spents hours searching for it.  Seems to have forgotten about it this morning.

DGS4 here yesterday and overnight and spent hours playing football outside on his own - he is quite self sufficient.  Then we baked some cakes - I had to hunt for where I had put baking things and realised I have no colouring and very few decorations.  There was a pot of red things with tiny gingerbread men so we used those.  I just broke off to make him a cooked breakfast with a bowl of fresh fruit as he was starving. His dad is doing roast lamb this afternoon so we will take cakes for pudding.  DGD4 came and hoovered through and washed kitchen floor yesterday morning for which she gets some pocket money.  I need to get on with a few small jobs like emptying dishwasher and washing machine and tidying up.  There are things to go away which have a home to be in.  Microwave needs a clean as well.  Debating whether to hang washing out or not.  I may just hang things which can't go in dryer and be lazy with the rest. 

1197 Last of Christmas cards posted 
1198 More presents wrapped and sorted
1199 Small Christmas tree for DGS4's windowsill.  He decorated it and I found some battery lights.  
1200 Small item ordered from MrA for DGS4
1201 Free standing dressing table mirror bought for DGD4's room here - hoping DS2 is putting the dressingtable together today. Packaging out.

Hoping to finish last off shopping on Tuesday with DIL after work.  I need a cup of tea then I will get on with things.