2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

Floss

@Green_hopeful if you get no joy on Ebay maybe consider Fb marketplace?

Florenceem

J arrived and finished painting the fence to the front wall.

All my cardboard was taken by the refuse men.

I carried on with moving stuff from the small ROD to the old office. I am throwing stuff and putting aside bits for my bestie's charity shop + daughter's school. I also have a bag on the go for a town charity shop.

N came and fitted vertical blinds in my craft room - they go well with the feature wall colour.

I decided to go out for air after having a day at home yesterday.. I fed the birds on my way to town and took a bag of donations to the charity shop. Then I decluttered money at the blinds shop.

Hopefully J is coming here tomorrow to paint the wall in the garden.

Decluttered - perpetual calendar, set of egg cups, bag of colour catchers, 2 packs of card verses, pkt of white card, 3 pkts of photo paper, plastic bag x 2, booklet, envelopes, crepe paper, 2 pkts tissue paper, file sleeve, 2 pkts gift wrap, carrier bag x 3, 2 pairs of boxers, tie, roll neck jumper, wipes, basket lining, neck cushion, 9 hankies, packaging, file storage box x 2, floor wipe, gift bag

BlueJ94

So as my room of doom is pretty clean i can now actually get to my plants.. my Christmas cactus is enjoying his home hes flowered!

oceanspirit

2 large jars, a dozen coat hangers, a DVD, 3 books, 2 plates and 2 bowls ready to go in car for CS.

A few more papers off the reading pile and into recycling.

Made a difficult phone call this morning and dealt with the ensuing mess. Hopefully all sorted now - will not know for certain until next week. V pleased I didn't allow it to become a frog.

dND

@Dizzycap Thank you and I'm rooting for Babyface. It's so worrying when you know they are chronically ill.

@vulpix Those spinning plates from the weekend variety shows of our youth have so much to answer for. 🤣 Funnily enough, Rollo, as a diminutive for Roland, is a name I'm considering for the ginger cat (which I managed to feed this evening). 😁

Thank you @Yorkie1 Today has been much more relaxed if not more productive yet.

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger I am always in awe of the cheerleading you do. I'm far more relaxed now that the ball is rolling as the saying goes and am looking forward to seeing what they propose to do. It's still not a given but there is a lot that they can do if the modelling can show a 12% improvement in efficiency. I've got up to an 8 week wait for the decision but I'm very happy to get on with the garden in the meantime. 🌻🌻

@BlueJ94 I love Christmas cacti 😍 I'm gradually building a collection of different colours. My friend is bringing me a cutting of her variegated tradescantia at the end of this month which I see you have as well.

Today I decided to take myself to Mr L's and purchased a large garden storage box which I'm hoping will help keep the garden tidier. It can get windy here and the bags for garden waste recycling, despite being weighted have been blowing around the garden along with the large but empty flowerpots. I'm hoping this will keep them all in one place.

On route, I decluttered a reel of wire back to Scr3wfix and then got 2 'free' bags of sugar from FarmF00ds. 😁 Basically they had the cat food I use for £23.99, I added their offer of 2kg of sugar for £1.70 which took me to £25.69. That meant I could use their £2 off a £25 spend with the final spend being £23.69. 😁 Thank you MSE for tutoring me in this. 🤣 The sugar is being stockpiled ready for the next round of jam making.

The rain today didn't disperse as early as forecast so I popped over to DS1's and decluttered a large bag of plaster and some jointing tape to him ready for when he redoes part of his kitchen ceiling. His property was flipped before he purchased it and he's had to have the roof replaced on an extension to the kitchen. In the process it was discovered that there was no insulation at all in the roof space which explains why the kitchen is so cold in winter. So getting insulation in there and replacing damaged plasterboard is his upcoming 'holiday' job as they spent the holiday fund on the new flat roof!

I have fingers crossed for a pleasant day in the garden tomorrow declutter yet more weeds and finishing pruning the camellias. I was hoping to get more compost today at Mr L's but they'd sold out again. I'm hoping that they'll get more in on the Sunday delivery.

Hugs to all who want and love to you all. Dxx

BlueJ94

@dND I think i have well over 50+ plants last time I checked! 😂😂

BlueJ94

Morning all!

Last day in work before I can have a rest, im only in until 12. We had agency workers "help" us yesterday which put us 4 hours behind everything! So today we get to play catch up 🤣

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

Friday continued: DH has a project lined up for tomorrow - he is going to clean, repair & varnish our wooden garden furniture. Dinner was trout fillets, boiled new potatoes & peas for DH & me whilst DSis had quiche & boiled new potatoes new potatoes. Wudupa.

709 -711 Kitchen recycling, magazine, drinks cans - recycled

712 Kitchen detritus - binned 

I watched the last episode of Missed Call - unexpected & surprising ending 😉

Excellent work in the garage Green_hopeful 👏 Good luck with your listings 🍀 Shame about ‘decluttering’ the large Kilner jar 😞 

Florenceem, more great work by J & more excellent decluttering by you 👏 Pleased to her that your vertical blinds have been fitted 😊

BlueJ94 love the plants ☺️

Excellent decluttering oceanspirit 👏 & well done with the phone call 😊 Fingers crossed that the issue is done & dusted 🤞

 Lovely post dND ☺️ Very pleased to hear that you are more relaxed now 😊 Sounds like you have made a good purchase with the garden storage box 👏 Fingers crossed  you finally managed to to get more compost 🤞

Sleep tight 😴 

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Decluttering Target 2026: 712/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £165.11

Florenceem

Morning all. I had a better night - no need for pain killers or a new freezer pad.

Wet start here.

Felt strange coming downstairs to a dim room because the blinds were closed. I do like the blinds.

I will carry on with emptying the small ROD. I had forgotten what colour the walls were - they are pale pink. I will have Timeless on 3 walls - not sure what colour on window wall which will be the feature one.

J is doing something for a neighbour then may come here - I would like the outside wall painted.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi everyone

Not much decluttering going on here but I have accelerated my digitial decluttering by permanently deleting over 3.5k emails! My email provider has warned me I soon won't be able to send or recieve emails as they are limiting mailbox size in a few weeks - I can't actually see what the limit is. I need my personal email account for some self employment so was in a panic yesterday!

Trying to make sure I delete 100s a day - boring but necessary.

I am building up a pile of stuff to take to the tip but won't count it till it's gone.

Love to all

Deni

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