2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

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

Tuesday is a brighter & warmer day with a forecast high of 16°C (feeling 2° colder due to a NW wind) & a low of 9°C. Straight into cheerleading starting with posts dated the 29th

Florenceem, sorry to hear that you slept badly Saturday night 😔 Is it possible to book an appointment with your GP? Well done on identifying so many reams of paper for donation to your daughter’s school 👏 I hope the meeting at your old Corps went well 🤞

Willowtree222, I do hope your daughter was OK 🤞Sounds like she enjoys your company far more than her dad’s 🥹

Lovely to see you Fizz2015 👋 Sorry to hear about a family member being so ill 😔 I do hope they start to get better soon 🙏 Great decluttering 👏 & good luck with the wardrobe decluttering 🍀

suzeesu2000, well done on tackling the airing cupboard decluttering & tidying 👏 Also excellent work decluttering & tidying medical supplies & medicines 👏  Managing to empty a storage unit & then repurpose it is brilliant & merits a medal 🏅 which is on its way 😊 Good luck with the furniture painting & sales from your listings🍀 

Florenceem, fingers crossed you can get a good night’s sleep as it sounds like you have a busy day on Monday 🤞 Hopefully they start to chaps laying the new laminate will be quick & efficient & also tidy up after themselves 🙏

Brambling, sounds like you have a busy time ahead with such major building plans so please take some time for yourself once you have finished helping your friend & before you start on your own project 🙏  You are truly a marvellous & caring friend 😇 keeping those 2 books which have such a special meaning for your friend is so thoughtful 🥹 With all the work you have been doing I have been very remiss so I am sending Two Gold Stars  ⭐️ ⭐️ + 💐  Please be careful moving so many books 🙏

Yippee, I am starting the cheerleading for the 30th 🥳

Lovely to see you Dizzycap 👋  From your post it sounds like Babyface has been unwell & keeping you busy 🥺 I do hope she is on the mend now & will soon be back to her mischievous self 😉 Meanwhile please, please take care of yourself 🙏  especially as you are also keeping up with your day to day decluttering, cleaning & tidying 👏 Remember the TLC Carriage is always open to you & Babyface 🥹

Florenceem, fingers crossed that the laminate chap turns up soon & that R’s Tip run is the last for a while 🤞 Yippee to finding a bag of clothes 🥳 Good luck with the sorting 🍀

Floss, This “Would it help to make a note of where things have gone so she can look back at it? Not each & every, but groups e.g. Pyrex went to Xx charity shop, bedding has gone to Xx, pink elephants to Yy etc” is a great idea 👏 Please accept 💐

vulpix, great news that the last bedroom carpet has been fitted 👏 Hopefully the carpet off-cut won’t be in the shed too long 🤞 I think our last carpet off-cut was kept in the garage for at least 10 years so I do understand 🙊 Good luck dealing with your ‘drilling frogs’ & finding a suitable place to store your decorating items 🍀

_Dolly_Rocker_, relieved to hear that Luna-tic is on the mend 😮‍💨 Sorry to hear that your car has broken down 😔 I will keep everything crossed that the repair is swift & not too expensive 🤞 

Lovely to see you greent 👋 Not sure I would agree that you “have been rubbish at decluttering recently…..”  After all you are almost on target with your General decluttering, doing really well with your digital decluttering & doing extremely well with your ‘weight’ decluttering 👏 Definitely time to open up my awards cupboard 😊 Winging their way to you are: a Gold Star ⭐️ for digital decluttering & a Gold Star ⭐️ for your weight loss so far ☺️ Sadly I missed out on the chocolate mousse ☹️ that will teach me to fall behind with the cheerleading 😉

Excellent decluttering Rootle 👏 & pleased to hear that your DH is joking in with the decluttering 😊

Green_hopeful, great idea 👏 I hope you forgave your friend …..eventually 😉

Brie, thanks for taking the time to post the comprehensive method of sorting & decluttering clothing 👏 A medal 🏅 is on its way. As you can probably guess, I am another one who needs to do this 😅 

Lovely to see you purplevamp 👋 Great decluttering 👏 I am very impressed that you have inspired your DD to sort her room, so please accept 💐 As an encouragement to your DD I am awarding her a medal 🏅 & keeping my fingers crossed that she will help you declutter around the rest of the house 🤞

Flagging now, so will come back later & do some more cheerleading. DH has spent a bit of time in the back garden - strimmed the grass (I cannot in all good conscience call it a lawn 🙊) & tidied up the clematis 👏

See you later 👋 

MrsSD Awards: 💐 🙏💐💐🌟⭐️❤️💐💐⭐️💐 

DH Awards: 🏅🏅🏅

DSis Awards:

Decluttering Target 2026: 575/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £73.00

BlueJ94

Ive cleaned down the skirting boards today! Ive been listening to a slob comes clean podcast and ive been motivated to get decluttering again!

BlueJ94

Emptied washing basket, all washed and now drying on the line.. off to see what else I can declutter!

BlueJ94

10 more items decluttered from the bathroom, body mist being donated to the ladies toilets at work tomorrow.. no doubt someone will take it 😂 ive decluttered the side unit its only got two photo frames and me wooden flowers i made! Well its basically wooden lego! It was full this morning of crap!

OH has gone out to collect items so im taking the chance on an early night with both the dogs!

Florenceem

I didn't see Grandson J today.

The other day I had a measure to see how much skirting board I would need - made it 31 metres. Looked at J's invoice - 30.3 metres so not far out.

Builder J arrived and set to bringing all his tools into the house. He said he would work until 4 and come back tomorrow to finish it off. I have asked him to hang the mirror in my bedroom too.

J had to get 5 inch skirting as they didn't have 4 inch but it hides all the yucky bits where the old was taken off.

When J left I went into town to buy stamps - there are lots in the house - somewhere! I met someone who hadn't seen me since she heard about Mr F. After talking with her - I completely forgot that I was meant to be getting cash as I had paid J for the materials - £101 and labour. I had gone to the harbour to catch a bus and didn't want to go back into town so cash will have to wait until tomorrow.

Postman brought a small parcel - 2 blouses that I had ordered - looked lovely in the photos - not so good in real life. Hope they look okay on.

My bestie popped by with 4 pictures that had come into the shop. She also brought me a Jasper Conra. coat and an Easter egg.

When J is finished I will sweep and hoover then mop the floor.

Tomorrow I will have builder J working here - blinds chap is coming for a final measure on the craft room blinds and the Ike. delivery.

Brambling

Thanks for the medal and flowers Mrs SD 😊

Those three years went quicky Cranky it doesn't seem that long since he started. Does he know what he wants to do next?

I avoided doing too much today, three big bags from friends flat went to a CS shop today and one embarrassingly large bag of her medication was dropped off at the chemist. I tried to drop it off at my chemist which was also hers for decades but they wanted me to remove all the boxes and just leave the blister packs so I drove a couple of miles down the road and they just took the bag after confirming no controlled drugs or needles. At least i was able to inform her chemist the situation as they usually dropped her repeat medications off to her at home and were wondering.

I'm volunteering tomorrow so will take some more of her books in, I may take some out to lighten the load if need me some may go to the CS where i can drop off outside the door and its less hassle (I'll think about it).

Floss

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger thank you for my 💐

Green_hopeful

Mrs SD its easy to forgive stuff like that. She didn’t mean for it to happen and did her very best to clean it. It was an easy solution and i was grateful that I had kept lots of offcuts.

I had to repair my son’s carpet in his housing association flat. My son’s cat had ripped the carpet at all the doorways. I managed to cut a piece from under a radiator where it couldn’t be seen and repair each corner. It was very cheap contract carpet in an unpleasant brown colour. After i had done it my son mentioned that once piece had the pile going the wrong way. Made me laugh because i quite literally had used every scrap of carpet and struggled with the last piece. I also had to relay the vinyl in the bathroom because his cat had had a go at that. Not much fun to do. On the inspection the housing association talked about replacing the carpet anyway. Luckily he got his deposit back.

His little cat who i totally love has destroyed all our carpets when she stays for Christmas. She is very fond of running up my curtains. Here she is in a Mexican outfit.

BlueJ94

Morning all!

Decluttered a few make up items this morning, im being brutal!

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

Tuesday continued. It got very dark making me think it was about to rain but nothing 🙂 I watched the 2nd lot of 5 episodes of The Other Bennet Sister on BBC iPlayer & thoroughly enjoyed it 😊 + finished knitting another hat. Dinner was my go to of creamy bacon & pea linguine 😋 Takes about 35 minutes including preparation time 🙂 Wudupa.

576 - 580 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, glass bottle, plastic bottle, booklet - recycled 

581 - 583 Kitchen, lr & office detritus - binned 

dND, sorry to hear that you are “spreading yourself too thin” 😔 Please try to take it a bit easier 🙏 So wonderful that DS & DDiL have been able to help out 🥹 I love the catio ☺️ Hopefully you can make it Gino proof 🤞 Btw, absolutely brilliant photo 🥳 Jewel sounds like she is a lady of leisure ☺️ Hopefully she doesn’t get too stressed out when she has her claws trimmed 🙏 I am keeping everything crossed that you manage to get rid of ALL the Spanish Bluebells 🤞I am very impressed with all the work done so am making the following awards: Gold Star ⭐️ for you, Gold Star ⭐️ for DS & Gold Star ⭐️ for DDiL + a medal 🏅 for Gino for his superb climbing skills 😂

BlueJ94, fingers crossed that you got your early night on the 30th 🤞

Florenceem, great news that the laminate was finally fitted 👏 Excellent work getting 2 sacks of clothing put away & also 2 sacks of fabric safely stored in the under bed drawers 👏  You kept yourself busy whilst the fitter was there 🤩 Fingers crossed that you can get the builder in quickly to fit the skirting board 🤞

suzeesu2000, yippee to finding & putting up the net curtain 🥳 Sorry to hear that your DH is suffering 😞 hopefully he will feel better soon 🙏 Please don’t feel that you wasted the day especially as you were sorting out the insurance on your mum’s house 🥹

More excellent decluttering greent 👏

Great decluttering BlueJ94 👏 I like your new method - one month’s grace 😊

Florenceem, love the new colour laminate floor ☺️

Brambling, sounds like a lovely lunch with your old flatmate ☺️ & how great that you picked up where you left off despite the long gap in seeing each other 🥹

I have just noticed the time so will love you & leave you. Sleep tight 😴 

MrsSD Awards: 💐 🙏💐💐🌟⭐️❤️💐💐⭐️💐 

DH Awards: 🏅🏅🏅

DSis Awards:

Decluttering Target 2026: 583/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £73.00