2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

purplevamp

Hello strangers!!

So many pages since I last posted.  I've done hardly any decluttering.  But the new door curtain and pole are finally up.  Wonky, but up and solid!

Made some soup with the butternut squash from last week, it's very yummy.

Decluttering:-
23-25 - Book + box + poly mailer (Ebay)
26-27 - Book + poly mailer (eBay)
28 - 6 x coffee pods and ground coffee to work
29 - 3 x empty ibuprofen packs

In:-
Some large hooks for the curtain pole to rest on (technically free as I had an Amazon voucher to use)

Other than that, no spending has taken place, but my ink has run out on the printer so I will have to buy some more.  Hopefully I'll have enough Amazon voucher left to get it.

weenancyinAmerica

@QueenJess - Have you checked to see if he is ADHD or even on the Autism spectrum near the top. My roommate has the same problem and that's what she has (both together). I have problems in that I really declutter in spurts -- fortunately a couple of times a week, but my mind is elsewhere. At least once a week I have to go through a stack of paperwork with books mixed in.

QueenJess

weenancyinAmerica said:

@QueenJess - Have you checked to see if he is ADHD or even on the Autism spectrum near the top. My roommate has the same problem and that's what she has (both together). I have problems in that I really declutter in spurts -- fortunately a couple of times a week, but my mind is elsewhere. At least once a week I have to go through a stack of paperwork with books mixed in.

Nope - just lazy with his head in dream world…. The life of an 8 year old boy 😂 He can do all these things but chooses not to. Why put anything away when you can do it later? 

He also had to be strong armed into toilet training. No problem with it at all, but as he said at the time, he wasn’t interested because it “cut into his playtime”.

London_1

Good morning all,  gosh so many of you are so similar to myself in our saving stuff and using everything up.

 I never waste anything if I can help it .Despite all the rain lately, our diningroom doubles as a conservatory as its always fairly warm in there as its south facing and covers the whole of the back of the house. When ever we eat our dinner in there in the evening I always, if I have water left in my glass, use it on the plants on the window sills. We start our seeds off in long throughs in the conservatory in the spring then they go into the greenhouse then into the garden once big enough. 

My late OH worked in the Sudan in the 1980s and when home on leave every three months impressed upon us all the importance of water. He had to live on bottled water in Khartoum and Port Sudan to even clean his teeth. To this day I never waste water, and even boiled stuff from the kettle gets used to wash the cutlery up after dinner.

So keep those tips coming as even small differences add up.

I have a small dental bridge that I use a denture cleaning tablet on every night I've found they get just as clean if I break one in half to go into the denture pot, and 20 tablets last 40 days .I even throw the discarded water from the pot down the loo Every little helps  

Old scrap paper gets used, old envelopes for shopping lists, I have xmas wrap tucked away in the bottom of my wardrobe for next Christmas pressies along with some repurposed xmas bags,

My son-in-law has stopped using sugar in his tea/coffee so I whizzed what was left of the granulated stuff up in my blender, and now have an extra bit of caster sugar for cooking with.

Past their best veg gets turned into soup for lunches and broken scraps of pasta at the bottom of the big pasta jar gets thrown into soup to make it a bit heartier. cut off crusts or the first and last bit of a loaf gets turned into croutons after the roasting oven is cooling down for adding to lunchtime soup on Mondays.
all small savings but its become a habit over the years that I don't even notice now My late Mum would have loved this site I think bless her. 

Onwards and upwards chums 


JackieO xxx

Green_hopeful

@London_1 I can’t believe how much water people waste. We are careful with our water and reuse bath and shower water in the garden and washing machine water in the summer. We are in a very dry part of the country so we are always struggling. When people come round they run the taps at max and don’t even think about it unless its my kids and they see my face. Our water consumption triples if anyone comes to stay. Even if they don’t care about the money they are literally flushing down the drain what about the environment. 

2Scratters

@suzeesu2000 that's a win win re opting for not getting a soup maker as you have the tools. Have you thought of saving the pennies you would have spent?

I'm doubting myself if I am getting much out at the moment as I am working on clearing space rather than objects being written down. Perhaps I should write down the items that can't be seen as they get to be registered of their removal. Bay of e is messing about as it has decided my post code is not genuine    I'll give market place a go instead. Thinking about it I have gifted 4 bags of rubble for someone who was having to sort a drain instalment into their garden they had asked for some. General rubbish bin collection is due tomorrow will drop another piece of rubble in it. They are good lads. The stuff from inside the house that DH puts out is moving away slowly so I am rotating the clutter into the general bin. DH  has also finally got to grips with bits of other stuff that can go that way too.

Our new oil filled radiator finally arrived it took a full week - goodness knows why. Vonhous sounds German to me. It has 3 output settings on it where the instructions are to use at the highest 2500, then it has 2000 and 1500kw. We are not in a rush for it to get to temp so it runs on the 1500. I'll see what happens when I send in my meter readings next week  We have moved the old one into the loft where my den is  the place that needs emptying slowly and recycling some funds hopefully. There is my own stuff and some that I "rescued" from parents house over 12 months ago. 

Have a good weekend all

2 Scratters xx

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, not posted for a couple of days, sorry 😁. Thursday I met my friend S for early lunch which lasted right through until the evening 😂. S lives in Paris and I thought it was over a year since I had seen her but it turns out it was 3 years since we last saw each other, where does the time go? We had a lovely time catching up and putting the world to rights 😁 but I didn't get home until after tea, eaten in a new to me vegetarian cafe so £££ decluttered but worth every penny 😁. Decluttering wise the kitchen recycling was emptied and 1 LDFPA was all that got done 😂. Yesterday the kitchen planner came to measure up and we had a conversation about what I want. I asked about 4 things, 1 is impossible as it doesn't exist, 1 he is going to investigate to see if he can find and the other 2 though not possible as I wanted them we can work a compromise possibly so he has gone away with a list of things to look at and hopefully will report back when I see him again 😂. I spent a lot of the day looking at kitchen catalogues 😂. As it was bathroom day I did spend about 15 mins giving it a wipe and tidy, as it was so sparkly from last week it was very quick so the work put in last week definitely paid dividends yesterday 😁. I also deleted some photos from my phone, getting full again so needs a look at and finally uu a tube of hand cream which I am counting as I have a bit of a stash 😁. 

Loving the conversation about not wasting things, the reason the hand cream took so long to uu was because I had cut the bottom off the tube to get the very last bit 😂. I stick the last sliver of soap on to the new bar even if it's a different type of soap which OH finds very strange 😂. Paper is reused and gift bags etc. Most of my clothes get worn to death, only being fit to go in the bin or more likely the rag bag to be used to death again, some things which no longer fit or were bought as gifts that I know I will never wear have gone to the cs or been passed on in other ways. I must admit to not being as frugal with water as I probably should be but living in the wet West of the country my garden plants rarely need watering and atm I don't have a lot of house plants. The plants in the porch get put outside in the summer and need very little water in the winter. Until I got the conservatory rebuilt a few years ago I used to collect the water from the roof and had a system to pipe it down the garden to a water butt, but the new system doesn't allow for that but I am exploring a new water butt system for the new downspout arrangement although as I say the garden really looks after itself water wise. Quick showers are the norm here rather than baths so that does save water 😁. As others have said it becomes a way of life. I also learned a lot from my Mum and Dad. Mum was renowned in the family for being able to stretch food, probably learned during the war and from necessity. The best thing that happened for her was when my Dad got an allotment and they got a chest freezer, she loved having a selection of veg all year, she cooked from scratch every day, was a great baker, made the best pastry I have ever tasted and also made marmalade and jam from spare fruit and made fab pickles 😁. Having said all that, that is part of the reason I have so much clutter 😂, trying to not waste things can be a 2 edged sword.

Right I need to pop to the sm for bread and milk and bananas 😁 so I better get weaving
Hugs to everyone who would like one

134 kitchen recycling
135 LDFPA
136 photos from phone deleted
137 hand cream
Take care everyone
137/2026

ladybird1106

Not declutterred much this week due to being ill. Today replaced 4 batteries with ones that had come from when I emptied dad’s house. We have rechargeables, but waste not want not. Sold another item on V. So another 5 items, although the first 4 are stretching the idea of decluttering 🤨. 

Love 🐞

tibawo

Been procrastinating and not doing in much and have quite a few pages to read in my break times today to catch up!
Motivation just isn’t there to do a deep dive into the big clutter.
I have relented and bought some small plastic storage tubs. These are to put my crafty bits in. Mainly so they can be all stored in one place as i have discovered loads of packs of cello bags dotted around that i’d forgotten i’d bought. There are so many that i think i’ll have to put some on vinted.
Also at the stage where i’ve not quite enough to make a car boot worth while but so much that it is now taking over the corner of the room and irritating me!
I’ve also found a stash of empty wine bottles that i was going to decorate for Christmas but with mum being rushed into hospital did not have time. Think i’ll keep three and recycle the rest. 
Right. Big girl knickers on. Let Saturday decluttering begin!

DundeeDoll

I've been away with work so a few days missed - I've just done '19th January' and hoping to get another 26 min stint in. This morning was the piano stool and the left hand side of the desk (cupboard with 2 shelves). Best find - card i bought last summer for DD2's new home card - they haven't found anything yet but it's now safely in the 'new cards' basket upstairs.