2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

Yorkie1

@regnbue thanks for the info. I think my downfall is indeed the opening and reading first … !

Green_hopeful

Sold a little chest of drawers over night. Next furniture again.

My mum was going to a party in London yesterday afternoon. She was going to take her very elderly cat, aged 22 with her in the car but she agreed to leave him with me. Sadly he has lost some of his mojo.

Up to a couple of weeks ago he still remembered everything. He would come to stay, remember where everything was and patiently explain what he wanted from me. Now he seems a little lost and hasn’t purred since he got here. Funny he just climbed into the cat toy box to find his favourite toy. Poor old arthritic cat balancing on the edges of a wicker basket. He keeps going back to the basket even though he has his toy. Picture of one of the toys he loves so much. They are the best catnip sardines.

I think it’s his time and i think my mum knows but it’s super hard. Here he is in better times.

Florenceem

Morning all. I was really tired last night but I hadn't been out - had done over 5000 steps.

I had a night with no pain!

When I came downstairs - my craft room was a lovely shade of red from the blinds.

Off to Church - we can't go early to unload bestie's car as we are picking another friend up who doesn't like early.

I will carry on with emptying the small ROD when I get home.

I am hoping J can do filling and paint the ceiling on Tuesday.

J's mums bin wasn't emptied on Friday - granddaughter had put pet waste from her guinea pigs in there - not allowed now.

regnbue

@Green_hopeful thank you for posting the photo of your Mum's magnificent cat.

I've been in that position before with previous cats and it is heartbreaking. At 22 he is over 100 years old in human years so he's had a fantastic long life ❤️🐾

Brie

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81968779#Comment_81968779

I do my emails every couple of weeks. Only got nearly 6k in my inbox going back to 2010 which is presumably when I got my email. Unless I deleted all the earlier ones….entirely possible as I remember a time when I used to email myself work to do at home - there were no restrictions about that at the time.

Anyways - what I do is rearrange things in different ways - sort alphabetically by subject and then by sender, then by size, then by attachments. Each time I go down the list there's always something that I didn't delete a decade back and now I wonder why. Password resets, to and fros of long email trails, reminders to me at home from me at work to do XYZ. I end up with a few hundred deleted and then make sure they aren't left in the deleted folder. Occasionally I find a gem that it's fun to re-read or something with photos that I want to keep and those get filed away so they are safe from future scrutiny.

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

Yesterday’s post: Saturday is a bright sunny day (although we had a little light rain about 03:00) The forecast high is 17°C (feeling 2° cooler due to WNW wind) & a low of 10°C. Thelma recycling wheelie bin was emptied this morning - just 2 days late 😉 DH & DSis both  worked on the garden furniture. They dismantled the two chairs & then spent several hours sanding, filling/repairing & oiling. Both chairs were sanded & filled. One chair had a first coat of danish oil. I finally finished knitting the scarf. Dinner was spaghetti bolognaise. Wudupa

713 - 714 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - recycled 

715 Kitchen detritus binned 

Having caught up with the cheerleading, I have fallen behind again 😔 Must try harder! Sleep tight 😴 

MrsSD Awards: 💐 🙏💐💐🌟⭐️❤️💐💐⭐️💐❤️ ⭐️🎖️🥇 

DH Awards: 🏅🏅🏅🏅

DSis Awards:

Decluttering Target 2026: 715/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £165.11

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81968779#Comment_81968779

Hi

Thank you! I put the emails in sender order then I could delete numerous emails from the same sender - eg certain retailers that I subscribe to, or emails from work contacts for my self employment that are over a year old. I am fairly good at keeping up to date by deleting unnecessary emails every day but I have a huge backlog over the past 20 years :( I also send myself emails from my employed job role so I got rid of lots of those as I will have them on my work laptop too. I have about 15k now - @regnbue I can't find any info about how much over the limit I am now (but I'm not getting the warning at the top of my inbox so perhaps I'm ok …..)

@Green_hopeful beautiful cat 😍

@Florenceem hooray to the pain free night

Love Deni

x

Green_hopeful

@Deni_debt-free_dreamer and @regnbue he had perked up by the time my mum came to pick him up. He walked all round our garden and then ate loads of my cat’s food. My mums cat has kidney failure so he eats nasty prescription food. My cats have raw so they were having minced rabbit. He loved it. I gave him a little bit and he was very excited when i gave him a second lot. We shall see. I have stared preparing the kids that he might not have too long left.

I have had the usual stop starts with selling the furniture. One buyer asked to cancel because they hadn’t read the description properly. Another buyer said she couldn’t come today after all, so i lugged the sideboard back into the garage. A third buyer messaged at 6 am to ask when they could come to collect and then no messages until nearly 3. Anyway they came and picked up their item and then bought the cancelled item for cash.

In the process we have sorted and tidied quite a bit of the garage. It’s still a bit chaotic but better than it was. I have put lots on freecycle and a couple more bits on ebay plus two wheelie bits of rubbish/recycling. We also put an old armchair in the campervan for the tip tomorrow so it’s definitely progress.

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

Sunday is another gloriously sunny day with a high of 15°C (feeling 2° cooler due to N wind) & a low of 7°C DH has moved on to making repairs on the garden table before sanding it. Will start cheerleading with yesterday’s posts

Florenceem, it must have been such a relief to have a pain free night 😮‍💨 hopefully the first of many 🙏 Good luck emptying the small room of doom 🍀 Will keep my fingers crossed that young J finds time to paint your outside wall 🤞 

Excellent digital decluttering Deni_debt-free-dreamer 👏 Worthy of a medal 🏅 which is on its way 😊

Florenceem, well done to young J for getting the wall painted 👏 Fingers crossed that you & bestie can drop off all the CS items, that J’s mum finds time to pick up the arts & crafts bits & that builder J will find time to complete all the little jobs🤞 Excellent decluttering as usual 👏

Green_hopeful, great sales 👏 always nice to get the money first 😉 Good luck renovating the duck house 🍀

Excellent digital decluttering regnbue 👏 also worthy of a medal 🏅 which is on its way 😊

Great decluttering oceanspirit 👏

regnbue, very impressive that you didn’t open & read all those emails 👏

I have caught up a little but need a break. Hope everyone is having as good a day as possible 😊

MrsSD Awards: 💐 🙏💐💐🌟⭐️❤️💐💐⭐️💐❤️ ⭐️🎖️🥇 

DH Awards: 🏅🏅🏅🏅

DSis Awards:

Decluttering Target 2026: 715/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £165.11

BlueJ94

Afternoon all,

Not much going on we went to two boot sales this morning but thats about it. Ive also done two loads of washing and hung on the line.

Im about to clean the oven and later on I plan on making a roast chicken dinner! Which i will use left overs for lunch tomorrow too.

Ive applied for a new credit card, its come with a limit of £1,500 but I plan to use it for small purchases and then pay it back the month later so I can improve my score.