2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

vulpix

Green hopeful, I would be in hospital if I tried to put an outfit on Fomo.🤣

Upstairs is ship shape and Bristol fashion. Even tidied the bottom of my wardrobe where I have been putting bags with new clothes in. All hung up now.

I saw on the telly the other day, the average number of clothes each UK adult has is 112. Pairs count as 1. I am not average that's for sure. When I have a sort out, I will count them all. I can't wear some atm as I have put weight on. A stressful year last year and unfortunately I am a stress eater. After Easter, I will have a go at weight loss.

Soft plastics recycled.

We are off shopping whilst Lovely cleaning lady comes. It makes us be tidy at least once a week!

We used to have "tidy up and chippy tea." the night before our cleaner came. Now it's tidy up and food shop." Not quite the same incentive!

Vx

Florenceem

Morning all.

BlueJ94 - love the flowers.

Builder J is here - working on the skirting board.

Nigel from the blinds shop has been to measure up for vertical blinds in my craft room. It will be about 2 - 3 weeks before I get them installed.

I have a delivery slot of an hour for the Ike. delivery.

Dry here this morning.

I had a really bad night again with pain. I will increase the medication tonight. After 2 I can phone the surgery for my blood test results - I have looked on my records and they are back. It seems the anemia is sorted by the iron tablets. There were 2 abnormal results but they may be due to being low in vitamin D. I will ask for an appointment to see the Dr when I am on the call.

daisy_1571

Vulpix I've just watched Stacey- 2 adults 5 young children 3000 items of clothing !

Wonder what i have ?

BlueJ94

I have a question how many bath towels and bedding do you own? Im curious as i counted my bath towels yesterday and its seems excessive for just myself and OH so im wondering what the "norm" is 😂

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Afternoon everyone

@daisy_1571 , I watched that too! I wouldn't like to count all my clothes, especially jumpers as I love knitwear.

@BlueJ94 - I have 7 duvet sets for me, one is brushed cotton so used when it's very cold & 2 are Xmas theme. They are all at least 3 years old and I like all of them! I have 4 bath towels for one person but I inherited one from my daughter when she finished uni.

I live alone so having extra bedding/towels etc means I'm not doing loads of washing all the time! That's my theory anyway 😃

@Florenceem , sorry you had a painful night.

I've decluttered one piece of work that's been hanging round for weeks, one more to go …

love to all

Deni

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Florenceem

BlueJ94 - I will tell you when I get the airing cupboard emptied to sort.

Delivery of the insert boxes for the Ike. cubes have arrived.

Then more boxes were delivered - meant to be arriving on 7 April.

I have filled in an appointment request for the Dr's surgery.

GrannyKate

Not doing much as painter is in hallway - although I did get to loosely start to pack a suitcase. The gloss paint smells horrible but a bit too cold to go outside. DS2 reminded me I need another birthday card for April - not on my calendar but will add it now. On 11th which is my wedding anniversary. I went into town to the Chinese shop with DS2 to get some cooking ingredients and frozen seafood. He loves the shop and they are very friendly and helpful - this morning she pointed DS2 to a much cheaper option which she said actually had a better flavour than the more expensive one.

I put one dress in CS bag whilst packing so I have a full bag which I can drop off tomorrow at hospice shop as I park nearby for quiz. I am going to try not to buy any food except milk, fruit and bread until after I have been on holiday as I have lots in the freezer. There will be a bill to pay for decorating, carpet laying and new radiator. I also need to buy a new single bed at some point. Need to investigate further. I also have to plaster the outer hall, lay flooring and sort decorating of the hall area. Then there is the lounge and last of all the loo and bathroom. I am thinking about going for a dark colour in the toilet. It needs a new toilet and a small sink in there and I plan to put a second toilet in the bathroom which is just next door to current toilet and quite large. I have set aside one savings account for the bathroom which will not be cheap.

375 Dress to CS bag

376 Washing up rack to CS - new but I don't like it so it was using cupboard space

Floss

@BlueJ94 I have 4 duvet sets, of which 1 is brushed cotton, so deepest winter only. I have 4 sets of towels but 1 is kept for guests so isn't in my rotation. Hope that helps!

I'm definitely not average when it comes to numbers of clothes... I daren't actually count! I know I have double figures of both hoodies and sweatshirts which are my staple uniform now I'm not working, and probably 20+ pairs of jeans... 🤭

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

Wednesday is a dull overcast day with a forecast high of 14°C (feeling just 1° cooler due to a light WNW breeze) & a low of 9°C HH waste wheelie has been emptied & new bin liner put in. 

584 - 585 Cardboard box, 2” paper - recycled 

GrannyKate, all go there with the renovations & decorating 👏 Sounds like everything is proceeding well although not as quickly as you wold like ☹️ Excellent work finding various frogs to deal with whilst the work is being carried out 👏 Good luck keeping Sox away from the paint 🍀

Florenceem, sorry to hear that you had another pain filled night 😔 Please, please try to get an appointment with your GP 🙏 Fingers crossed that builder J gets all the skirting board fitted in a day 🤞

Lovely to see you CRANKY40 👋  Seems like 3 years at uni has gone by very quickly 😉 Fingers crossed for a good class degree 🤞 Yikes to the expensive month 😱 I hope you didn’t suffer too much pain with the snapped tooth 😣 Excellent work decluttering the kitchen 👏 especially as you donated everything to CS so quickly 🥳 A Gold Star ⭐️ is on its way. Thinking back to my funny turn, you might be correct 🤔 It could be an allergy as I had eaten a peanut butter sandwich for the first time in a couple of years. 

Deni_debt-free_dreamer, sorry to hear RL is so busy 😞 so great work keeping up with the day to day decluttering 👏 Good luck clearing the emails 🍀

End of a page, so will stop here. DH has started his walking again. I am heading off to the P.O. to buy stamps before the price hike. Hope everyone has as good a day as possible 😊 See you later 👋 

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Decluttering Target 2026: 585/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £73.00

Soontobeoap

So just popped in to say that nothing much has happened here.

You wouldn't think I had decluttered at all if you looked at my house right now! I am amazed at what 3 young lads bring with them but when you take into account swimming trunks, clothes for all weathers, 2 prs of trainers each! 🤷 As well as their cosmetics and tech stuff it amounts to one large and one small suitcase! 🤣. I wouldn't have it any other way. Managed a small tidy up and clean round today including a pile of washing so that I can send things home clean to Mum. Went to theme park with them yesterday so shattered today. We are all off out in a minute to walk neighbours dog to get some exercise . This morning we went into town.

2 new chest of drawers for bedroom are arriving next week so I will have to get a move on after the weekend.