2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

Yorkie1

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81906671#Comment_81906671

I still remember my Dad telling me, when I got my first car, that they liked to be driven. Since then, even though I don't do many miles - and most of them are short distances - I do try to take it for a blast along a local dual carriageway. It had a trip out just at the weekend 😁

Florenceem

Decluttered today - lead x 3, radiator knob, booklet, identity card, birth certificate, school reports, letter, death certificate, disc, battery x 3, box of staples x 2, rubber stamp pad, camera, pair of glasses & case, money bags, exercise bands, envelopes, tie, box of badges, memory stick x 3, sellotape x 3, flat sale paperwork, calculator x 2, pen x 7, army ID card, book x 3, plastic bag x 2, CDs, note book, box of vintage Christmas ornaments, ruler x 2, bubble wrap, royal wedding souvenir, plastic cover, post office book, school reports and glasses & case.

purplevamp

Long time since I last posted. I've had a horrible cold that lasted two weeks and then life just got in the way with not much decluttering. But here's the few things that have been tossed:-

35 - 2 x trading cards

36 -Girls Denim skirt - Vinted

37-40 - 3 x glass bottles + box

41 - Cough syrup from 2018

42 - Small plastic game piece - ebay

43 - Very old mascara dye kit

44 - Packaging from door curtain (recycling)

45 - T shirt (etsy)

46 - Spare game pieces (etsy)

47 - Half a box of suet used up for dumplings (just OOD but still edible)

48 - Jigsaw puzzle (ebay)

49 - Pack of cards (ebay)

50 - Bottle of rancid dressing

51 - Set of vintage Disney toys (etsy)

Not sure how to stop the big spacing between lines now!

mehefin

@Green_hopeful The Dpf light on my Honda kept playing up. A quick blast down the motorway didn't regenerate it so I got it cleaned out in the garage thinking the problem was solved. Within 6 months it got so bad it cut out on me whilst driving so I returned to the garage in limp mode. It turned out that one of the igniters was faulty, so the diesel wasn't burning properly and hence clogged up the dpf.( think of the black smoke you see coming from poorly maintained diesel vehicles). One igniter changed, and a clean of the filter and everything is now ok .

May be worth having a check on yours if the problem keeps re-occuring.

Mehefin

DundeeDoll

#37 unexpectedly one of the drawers in my new glass cabinet - i had put some cans of fizz on their sides and a couple had emptied themselves - no visible hole, very strange - drawer being very well made was pretty much watertight - some interesting moulds! anyway turns out several of the cans were rather out of date so they have been decluttered

#38 & 39 - 5 boxes from the office - best find, 2 incense cones, 1 now burnt.

and tonight was immediately able to locate rosin for dd1 who is due here tomorrow

TC77

@Soontobeoap love the snuggle chair

@BlueJ94 glad you've treated yourself.

One item sold and packaged up 240

Have bag to go to cs but injured my back 3 weeks ago so will wait for dd1 to help.

DB staying a couple of nights which is good.

Brambling

I'm soorytohear about you mum Suzeesu

My friend has decided she won't be able to go home again, I'm glad she made that decision as it was looking as it would have been made for her. I'm not starting any major sorting in her flat until she confirms with the social worker when we meet on the 10th, her delirium is a lot better but she still has her moments! I went into her flat today to look for cat protection paperwork for her cat and see if I could find her home content insurance paperwork as she can't remember who it is and I should advise them the flat is empty.

I threw away a large bag of paperwork and tackled some of her food cupboards she stopped cooking her main meal in 2022 and there were loads of packets of stuff with use by dates in 2022 / 2023 including chicken, lamb, beef, fish and vegetable stock pots (such a waste). I filled a black sack and washed out her glass storage containers there's still a little more food stuff to do and her freezer. I brought a bag home of in date food which I'll drop of at the food bank tomorrow. I've had three phone calls from her today the first before 8am I may break out my emergency gin before her flat is emptied 🍸🍹🥃🍷🍫🍪🍩🍰 she wants a care home closer to our home town and not one half hour away where she is, hopefully that can be arranged 🤞 then we can look at her new room and work out if she can bring some bits from home her current room is too small for more than clothes.

I don't feed the birds here but have brought home two packs of fat balls and some bird peanuts to put on the free FB page and two boxes of dog biscuits she used to feed the foxes which I'll drop off at a charity which has a pet food bank.

Please add lemon drizzle cake to the carriage!

DundeeDoll

@Dakota_Rose your note re. spelling mistakes reminds me of a very good film I saw last year Der Buchspazierer (I watched it with subtitles!) where one of the characters likes to find typos in books.

I got to church early so did some more hunting for the Dundee A-Z street art - I found a keys, watch, an x'ray and a pair of spectacles or they might be glasses - I need to find the other S or G! Went to a talk on Stations of the Cross (very talented artist friend has made a set for our cathedral) so that's S in my Christianity A-Z. And yesterday we had mussels for lunch so that's M from my protein foods list. Read Rosetti's Eve poem which adds another 7 to my various lists. A good haul!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. Daily To Do List - written the night before
2. Sort out sleep patterns - initial targets: bed by 03:00, up by 10:30
3. Don’t put it down, put it away + deal with mini tasks as soon as they are noticed e.g. refill olive pourer or salt cellar, stitch up a hole in a garment etc.
4. Commence ‘Operation Financial Frog Tickling’ using the acronym - I.R.I.S. (Identify, Research, Implement, Sign Off) - One per quarter
5. Continue to keep kitchen clean & tidy - before going to bed
6. Plan & Execute ONE Major Project - 2026 New Bathroom
7. Target 2026 items out

Monday continued: forgot to mention that DH has started his walking again 🙂 He had been prepared & willing to walk in the cold but not the wet 😉 I actually left the house at 14:05 & caught the bus to CW - visited the bank & banked my February PB winning cheques + withdrew cash. Then dropped off DSis’s ood meds & uu inhalers (414 - 415) at Boots pharmacy. Bus home & was back indoors before 15:00. Updated my accounts & filed my one piece of mail - letter confirming my State Pension  increase 🙂 Watched a couple more programmes from the planner. Dinner was slices of beef in gravy, mash & green beans. Wudupa.

416 - 420 Kitchen recycling, newspaper, glass jar, plastic bottle, drinks cans - recycled 

421 Kitchen detritus - binned 

Ernie wasn’t kind to me this month but DH won £125. 

Florenceem, when I read about the 3 hours you spent counting SA money, all I could think is that the SA would collapse without you 😞 

Brie, great news about the travel insurance 😊 with the added bonus that you had such a pleasant member of staff to deal with 🥳

Green_hopeful, I will keep everything crossed that the problems with your car can be sorted out quickly & at minimal expense 🤞

suzeesu2000, perhaps some sort of cactus 😉 Excellent work with the spring cleaning 👏

BlueJ94 great work taking apart & cleaning your Vax Carpet Cleaner 👏

Wise advice from your dad Yorkie1 😊

More excellent decluttering Florenceem 👏

purplevamp, sounds like more than a cold 😔 Hopefully you are now fully recovered 🤞Excellent decluttering despite being so unwell 👏

mehefin, very useful information 👏

Excellent decluttering DundeeDoll 👏 Yikes to the leaking cans 😱

TC77 sorry to hear about the injury to your back 😞 but pleased to hear that you are resting it as much as possible & allowing others to help you 😊

Brambling, relieved to hear that your friend has managed to make her own decision about not returning home 😮‍💨 Excellent work in your friend’s flat 👏 such a lovely thing to do ☺️ Hopefully you won’t have to resort to the emergency gin 😉 other than to make a toast to completion of the task at hand🤞

Sleep tight everyone 😴

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Decluttering Target 2026: 421/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £73.00

GrannyKate

Morning all. Hugs to everyone having difficult times. I have a meeting this morning but already have 5 apologies so no idea if anyone will actually come. I may be talking to myself and drinking tea on my own. I actually rang my new bank yesterday to check on something and a real person answered listened to my question and said he could check that out for me straight away as it was a generic question so I needn't go through security questions. Two minutes later I got a response. This is the one Martin often recommends as they have the best scores for customer service. Hopefully I will get the switch bonus in due course. I found receipt to take back curtain rail for a refund (still in packaging).

Plasterer and joiner came yesterday and we have a plan for the work in small bedroom, inner hall and also to relocate the loft hatch with a new ladder. There is an issue with the ceiling being bowed where the hatch will go so this should sort out two problems at once. The current hatch is at the back of a long thin cupboard and has a horrible narrow metal ladder. I will be able to make better use of the cupboard as well but will just leave the old hatch where it is. I don't use the loft a lot but have boxes to sort up there and stuff stored for DS2. It was a lovely day yesterday but breezy but I managed to cut the front lawn - I had left it too long in the Autumn and of course all the rain has just kept it growing. I need to do edges but guess DS2 has my strimmer.

Finished off paperwork for next week and sent out. I plan to drop some bits off at CS, get a small shop (this month I am determined to hit the grocery target), return curtain pole to Mr D and I may go and look at bikes for DGS4's birthday. He got into his preferred school where his brother and sisters go. This is good as technically neither of his parents live in catchment although his dad is very close to edge. My house is in the catchment area but I think the main thing is having three siblings there. None of them in primary school after September and oldest two are both 21 this year. I was saying to DD it seems literally yesterday that DGS1 was getting ready to go off to uni and now he is doing finals. Just remembered to ring hairdresser as I managed to lose appointment card before I put it in diary. I paid off last of Portugal flights on CC but the plan for Cyprus in July may need looking at. We've only paid a deposit on villa so far.

262 Drawer full of shredding done

263 Front lawn mowed

264 Random weeding done and recycled

265 Receipt box sorted through and most in shredding - they were mainly xmas gifts which have long gone

266 Committee papers sent out

267 Holiday paid off.