2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering

vulpix

Forgot to mention a bag of toy stuffing given to DD2.

 Tinned food and toiletries to the food bank.

 A few things in, but given to me so I feel ok about it. A single duvet and a pillow. I did get rid of loads of bedding a couple of years ago but we have more beds at this house so they are needed. I was given them with some cushions but I think they will go to the chazzer. They are lovely but I can't seem to get on with cushions. I have also bought some fabric to make a roman blind in the spare room, not very high on my list of things to do atm!

 Mr V's Birthday today, he has gone for a meal with man shed then we are off out food shopping later.

 It is our Christmas tomorrow as family are coming and staying overnight. Today I have sweets, chocolates and biscuits to make to give as gifts.

 The house is decorated mostly with Christmas decorations that we had. I wanted some battery fairy lights for the porch tree but left it too late as the shops have very little choice in lights left. I have got some battery micro lights from when it was Mr V's 60th and we had a bbq in the garden and the lights were in kilner jars on the garden steps. I can use them as it is a tiny tree with tiny teddy bears on it. Batteries on the shopping list.

Hope you are all fending off any winter bugs. The Southern component of the family have all been very poorly with it. We have reverted to a lot of hand washing. So far so good.

 Hugs for anyone in need Vx

TC77

Loving the Xmas tree photos.Vulpix looks lovely and homey.
@daisy_1571 you made me laugh out loud- I probably have nearly 50 little plastic bags but hadn't thought of counting individually! 
Some dental stuff out  1887
Realise I have 6 nail scissors and  4 tweezers, may have more in first aid kit and sewing box. All slightly different and maybe useful in different scenarios, toes, fingers, splinters, eyebrows, sewing etc.
Had planned on some quite urgent frogs tonight but work drinks which meant plans fell apart.
Work tomorrow and a wisdom tooth out late pm, hadn't thought about how close to Xmas.
 

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

Thursday has been a miserable cold wet day. It has rained on & off all day with some heavy showers - thank goodness I had the guttering cleared 😊 High of 12°C (feeling 4° colder) low of 11°C. Sum total of activity today has been to descale the kettle, write a shopping list & do some knitting. DH & DSis went shopping - quite busy but not yet frantic 😉 Most of the groceries have been put away & we have the meat for Christmas Day - turkey, venison steaks & duck breasts. Dinner was gammon shanks, oven chips & baked beans + a fried egg for DH & me. Wudupa

2334 - 2335 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - recycled 

2336 Kitchen detritus - binned 

Green_hopeful, so lovely that your Lonely Jar Club Christmas presents were so well received ☺️ Perhaps next year your DS will make pop up cards with his children 😉

TC77, great work tidying your hall 👏 

Excellent work _Dolly_Rocker_ 👏 Good luck exchanging the pyjamas 🍀

Excellent decluttering of a large item TC77 👏 Fingers crossed that DD1 & your cousin can help you bump up your numbers 🤞

Liverpool_Anne, you have been busy & have done some excellent decluttering & tidying 👏 I am especially impressed with your repacking of foodstuffs from 7 boxes to 3 🤩 a medal🏅 is on its way. Wonderful cheerleading 😊 especially your very encouraging comments for _Dolly_Rocker_ 🥹

Excellent decluttering GrannyKate 👏 Fingers crossed that DGD3 collects her birthday cards & also that you can fit in a trip to buy & collect the desired chair 🤞I love your tree 😻 there are some gorgeous ornaments & all the better for not being mass produced 😊

Green_hopeful, great work clearing the utility are 👏 Please, please be very, very careful with the garage door 🙏 it might be time to get someone in to repair it 🤔 

daisy_1571, I agree that 2025 has gone by really fast 😥 almost feels like the blink of an eye 😧 Thanks for the round up - you have had a very successful year all round 👏 and in acknowledgement a Gold Star ⭐️ is on its way.  I am blushing ☺️ at the lovely compliment, thank you. Also a lovely thank you to our Declutterati family 🥹

Lovely post suzeesu2000 😊 and yes I will be “mum” again for 2026 🙂 I am currently working on the content of the opening post of the 2026 Thread.

vulpix, lovely tree  & the bay window is a perfect spot now that the window seat has been removed ☺️ A belated Happy Birthday to MrV  🎂🥳  hope he had a great day 😊 Wishing you a great Christmas with your family tomorrow 🥹

TC77, hope the wisdom tooth extraction is as painless as possible 🙏

All caught up. Sleep tight 😴 

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Decluttering Target 2025: 2336/2025

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £677.00

MadamMim2013

Morning everyone 👋🏼 

Small shop for veg to be done this morning along with a stop in Lidllys for odds bits..
Thats us done then except for bread/milk early next week.. 😮‍💨

Tip run to be done today, lots of large cardboard to go..
Charity shop drop planned.. have 10 puzzles 🧩 (more from Ma)  & a box of gibble along with a bag of clothes..
Also have a backpack with a coat, jumper and small sized jeans in for the homeless shelter..

Here’s hoping the weather plays ball, it’s flooded in lots of places around me so fingers crossed travelling isn’t too treacherous!

Loving the festive trees🎄 A sparkly tree always makes me smile 🎄☺️

Soontobeoap

As others have said. Thank you Mrs DD for all of your support
 So glad that you are happy to be mum again next year. I am done now as going away today for Christmas. I won't be around in January but will return mid Feb when I really.hope.to knuckle down and start on cupboards.

Merry Christmas everyone. Relax a little if you can and enjoy the festivities 

GrannyKate

Morning all.  I posted earlier but it disappeared. Hectic day but I have half an hour gap for tea and bacon sandwiches.  @vulpix - love the tree. I have bay window envy - in 6 homes I have never had a bay window.  I have been to hairdressers, checked out a horsey shop but they didn't have what DD is looking for, recycling dropped off along with bags of plastic and textiles. 

1216 Load of cardboard dropped off at recycling
1217 Bag of batteries to recycling
1218 Bag of textiles to recycling
1219 Plastics to SM
1220 Last Christmas cards to hairdresser and neighbour
1221 DGD3 picked up her birthday cards and took Christmas cards for her family

Right two hour round trip next but lovely day here.  A very Happy Christmas and New Year to anyone off away this weekend for the holiday. 

Foofoopuppy

I have dealt with a utilities frog, that was on the verge of turning into a cane toad, for the third and hopefully final time.
I also decided to donate a bunch of Christmas decorations that we don't use, and those went to someone in the community. 

TC77

Mrs SD , how wonderful you're prepared to lead and cheerlead us again, so pleased and grateful. 🙏
It's such a fab supportive group you've created and I will join with the aspirations of getting to maintenance mode at some distant time.
Tooth decluttered and decided I will catch up.on dramas.
Have sold , packaged with newspaper, bubble wrap, box and wrapping 8 glasses so counting as 10. ( +1) 1897
Frogs not tackled but hopefully over the weekend. 

Happy_Kitties

Haven’t been about much, been working and fitting several social events and trips away around everything. Things are now slowing down and had a quick cat nap this afternoon as I was so tired. Had several pages of posts to catch up on and spent yesterday and today catching up. Quite abit of decluttering done. 

No more neutral items out, need to pop up a final total but i have been parcelling some items up ready to send out after Christmas, they will go in my 2026 start. Generally, 

671)-672) items x 2 sold on V
673) Finally found a collection point that takes bags of used coffee machine pods. They have driven around with me for about a month, me asking at various stores and just by chance yesterday I found a recycling point so they were disposed of
674) lots of soft plastics recycled at local supermarket recycling point
675)-679) items x 5 into the rag bag and picked up 
680) put the new kitchen to good use yesterday, cooking up items that I had freezer stored for ages for an event. I now have space!
681) small plastic tub not returned from the event so will pop the lid in recycling. It was only a small takeaway tub that had been kept just in case.
682)-684) items x 3 from fridge disposed of and packaging recycled including an extremely old jam. 

685) lots of tablet packaging put into the recycling point at Bo ots. Didn’t do the recycle at Bo ots as I find it a faff, just popped the strips into the recycling point.

Neutral items final total for the year.

Bag of care packs handed over with Dun elm Bags of Joy 1267+1 =1268
The final 2 Dun elm Bags of Joy (which made 52 bags handed over) completes the neutral item total of,
1268+2=1,270 

suzeesu2000

Very pleased @Mrs_Salad_Dodger that you are hosting for 2026 thank you, apart from what’s lurking in the loft, I don’t have a ton to declutter but I love being part of this amazing group of people. 

1 item sold on Vinted. That’s it. Oh and a ton of flipping plastic packaging.
Have to share this with you. My chiropodist came today and he was so happy! His wife has just won a HUGE prize in a competition  consists of £25,000 cash, a new car, a quad bike, an electric bike, a load of Ninja things, new iPhone 17, a load of Lego, £500 in Argos vouchers, £500 in supermarket vouchers and a ton of smaller bits and pieces. Isn’t that just wonderful for them? They have been desperately saving for a deposit to buy a house and now they have it. I think it’s wonderful and what a lovely way to start their new year.
Have a great evening all, sweet dreams xx