2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

suzeesu2000

Brrr it’s been a tad chilly today.
Friend collected her four weeks worth of newspapers this morning. She uses it for bedding for her rescued rabbits and hamsters.
While sorting the airing cupboard, I came across a piece of net curtain. I know I’d kept it but couldn’t recall where I’d put it. It’s now up at the small kitchen window and the horrid dangly thing is in the bin.
Decluttered a huge amount of time on the phone with insurers this morning. Got to get an unoccupied property insurance to start next week for mums home.
DH dinner totally freezer, mine beans on toast. DH is having one of his frequent bouts of lymphoedema and is quite a bit of pain on moving.
I feel like I’ve wasted today which makes me cross as each day is precious.
Really good that the Easter veg prices are down as I’ve just finished the Christmas ones.
Have a good evening all, sweet dreams xx

greent

Today I've mostly been cleaning/ tidying my bedroom and bathroom - not finished it yet, either! Today's progress (not all from those rooms)

Declutter 2026

474 - 481 - boxes/ packaging recycled (why they were kept, I have no idea!)

482 - 485 - present (2 items) and bag and tissue paper for colleague's bday from stash

486 - 490 - various items parcelled up in pretty reused giftbag to re-gift to someone else for their bday

491 - cleaning spray UU and replaced from stash

492 - broken plastic tiara binned

493 - lid from a can of hairspray found under chest of drawers - recycled

494 - 496 - jumper sold on v1nted and 2 bags reused for parcelling it up (I always double wrap)

497 - pair of very battered and worn out skechers - bin

498 - bottle of stain remover UU and replaced from stash

499 - brush bar from letterbox (broken) - binned

500 - small bag of packing peanuts kept just in case - binned

501 - mattress protector where the elastic had lost it's elasticity and had all stretched out and gone sticky to anything that touched it - bin

Digital Declutter 20026

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includes 12/26 unsubscribing target

Declutter 26lb

running total 11/26

BlueJ94

Okay so 4 items decluttered from the bathroom, half used lotions etc. So my new tactic, anything I pick up and question if i want it/need it im going to think when was the last time I looked for the item or remembered I had it.. more than 1 month? Off it goes!

Florenceem

The room feels warmer with the laminate down. Builder J may be here tomorrow - if not Wednesday.

All the clothes I unpacked from black sacks were keepers - for now - sure there must be clothes somewhere else.

If J doesn't come here tomorrow - I will go out to get a spirit level ready for making shelf units.

Before of the floor -

Now - looks messy because no skirting board. The new stair carpet will be brown.

Brambling

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81942639#Comment_81942639

good ideas thanks Floss.

lunch out today with a old friend I use to flat share with in the late 80's early 90s which turned into dinner, we did our 10000 walking around the park between eating and drinking 😁 she moved back home to Cheshire when she retired. Lovely to not think about clearing friends flat. And even through we haven't seem each other for years we picked up where we left off

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 is a dark overcast day with a forecast high of 12°C (feeling 6° colder due to a brisk NW wind) & a low of 7°C. DH has popped out to bank a tax refund cheque for my DB & to post his old passport. I had loads of mail today which has been dealt with - mostly filing with a bit of shredding. I have again done nothing but watch TV & knit. For dinner we finished the last of the chicken, boiled new potatoes, sweetcorn & green beans. Wudupa.

572 - 574 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, newspaper - recycled 

575 Kitchen detritus - binned

Lovely post Moorviews 😊 Good luck with Mission Paper Decluttering 🍀 Hopefully there is not too much work to be done to complete your craft projects 🤞

vulpix, pleased to hear that fitting the blinds didn’t cause too much angst 😊 Hopefully it won’t be long before the upstairs rooms are sorted & the bathroom reverts to only being a bathroom rather than a storage room 🤞 Well done to DD1 👏

Brie, I always struggle to find socks that fit well - I have fairly large feet & rather thick ankles & ‘chunky’ calves 😔 The cashmere/wool socks sound lovely ☺️ 

Lovely post Green_hopeful 😊

Apologies for falling behind with the cheerleading 😞 I will try harder. Sleep tight 😴 

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Decluttering Target 2026: 575/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £73.00

GrannyKate

Quick post as I need to get dressed and move my car before painter arrives. @Florenceem - the hallway looks nice. Floor is similar to what I have in my kitchen and what is being laid in my hall. New skirting has been cut and left loose until floor is laid. I need to get the outer hall section done and then floor can be laid. DS2 came and removed random electrical and other bits from the hall - defunct burglar alarm and control panels, old phone and internet sockets etc. Still some wallpaper to remove and some wooden plate shelf most of which has gone already. I booked plumber to come and replace bedroom 3 radiator once I return from holiday so I will get him to take hall radiator off as well. He is going to replace that eventually with a tall modern radiator in different place giving me a better place to put a hall unit with a bench or possibly just a bench with some shoe storage. The cupboard can have coat hooks as well as better storage now there is no need to access the loft from inside the cupboard.

I have more frogs to get on with today so I can do those and keep out of painter's way. Children won't be at mine until after holiday so just need to keep Sox away from the paint. Everywhere is dusty but that will have to wait now. I seem to have spent a silly amount of money this month but it needs to be done. Once weather warms up I can get on outside. I took three boxes of cleaning stuff out from under sink cupboards and sorted through. Moved to new boxes which I already had unused, some stuff binned which I won't use and like put with like. I do at least now know what I have under there. I think some of my teacloths could go (I inherited hundreds from mil but most have gone) - guess I will use them and make a decision whether to wash or bin one at a time.

364 Electrical bits all stripped out and in bag for recycling

365 Plumber booked

366 General rubbish and yet more horrible wallpaper in bag for tip

367 Easter cards delivered

368 April birthday cards written and ready to post before I go away. Only two birthdays and anniversary card which I sent to US weeks ago. We seem to currently be running at 4 weeks for card deliveries between US and here although yesterday I got a postcard from 19 March so perhaps things are improving both ends.

369-371 Cleaning boxes sorted through and various items binned from each one

372 Monthly banking done (ouch)

Florenceem

Morning all.

I hope you all had better nights than I did. I was in lots of pain - got up for painkillers.

Builder J has phoned - he is getting the skirting board before he comes here this morning.

Grandson J has to stay home for a delivery but may be round later.

Message from Ike. - storage boxes are arriving tomorrow.

Hope everyone has a good day.

CRANKY40

Good afternoon,

I've been reading along and decluttering but I haven't had much time to post. Ds is in his last few weeks of uni so I've been doing a lot of proof reading as well as being available for lifts to study groups etc. So far this month the dryer broke, one of my teeth snapped and the kitchen mixer tap also broke. Those things required the decluttering of money, sigh. I'm hoping for a cheaper month in April.

Starting last Friday I did a proper kitchen declutter - it took me three days. Most of the cake making related things have gone and I have relocated all food from various cupboards into the pantry which previously held baking supplies, cake tins etc. The few baking bits that I have kept have gone into one small cupboard and I took everything else to the charity shop yesterday after dropping ds off (before I changed my mind).

When I came home I did a small box of books to send off for payment and any that weren't accepted have started a new charity shop bag. The scanned and accepted box went to a parcel locker as soon as they were packed up. By the time I'd dropped things off it was time to go and collect ds again.

Total number of things removed so far this year 460.

Mrs S_D your funny turn sounds a lot like one of my allergic reactions. I hope you don't get any more but if you do it might be worth having a think about what you've eaten or used.

Take care all of you 😊

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi everyone

RL has been busy so I've only managed the regular doorstep recycling at home and taking my soft plastics to the C00p when I go past. I did manage to recycle 4 plastic coat hangers at Sainz last night - I couldn't find the collection box so asked a staff member on my way out and she offered to take them for me but only the Sainz ones!

I'm decluttering emails each day but have a build up of thousands still to tackle 😶

I've got a bag for the CS on the go …

Love to everyone

Deni

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