2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

TC77

Mrs SD, thank you for my medal and I think you gave me a gold star too!

Will have to sort out piles of papers from this morning phase of multi year frog - but have sorted one pile of paper, some old receipts, a file divider for recycling etc. I top in CS bag - decided I'd rather wear a plain navy t -shirt (of which I have more than one) so that will be the new test for tops I think :)

Sorted my SABLE collection of cards (there is another pile somewhere ) into B'day, other occasions, no occasion, postcard and small no of cards to me to keep. Need to label the groupings otherwise will be back to square one. I do still like giving cards but need to stop buying for a bit. Getting a pile of card and their envelopes I won't use to pass on. Only 1 so far.

unsubscribed from a declutter website that sends far too many messages, and redirected some post.

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Soontobeoap

I have done a frog today. Really.easy. don't know why I put it all fd for so long. Posted off today and over 70s driving lic nice should be with me within 3 weeks. No sooner had I done it than DHs arrived through the door asking him to pay £14.00 for his new one so he has got to ring DVLA to enquire why! Another frog in the house!

Didnt get around to tidying upstairs today. Have saved that job for tomorrow.

Also cut DHs hair. I have been doing it with clipper razor thing since COVID. I hate doing it but he is happy and it saves a few bob.

Good to see you back Mrs SD

suzeesu2000

Decluttered a ton of emails, goodness you don’t half get a lot when someone dies and don’t even go on the snail mail! Invoice for mums funeral came this morning so paid it straight away, I don’t like bills hanging about and they provided an excellent service so why make them wait? My sister has booked BHF to collect the furniture left at mums and then she will hand in the keys - don’t know why that makes me feel sad but it does.

ȚHanks for the medal @Mrs_Salad_Dodger glad you’re home safely.

Reading about the cats and human food made me smile. Whenever I made spaghetti Bol, I had to sort an onion free bit for Jazzy, she would climb up on my lap and eat if off my plate - she didn’t get personal space. Little Weirdo always liked minced beef, loved tuna mayo and her special treat was when I cooked a chicken she would always have some while it was still warm. My childhood cat, Pepper, loved ice cream and cheese and onion crisps oh and raw eggs whisked up. Frankie is quite finicky, he came from a hoarder and I don’t think food was plentiful. He gets a choice at every meal and plenty of it. Lots of water bowls around for him and a clean litter tray. They don’t ask for much.

On the family tree front, I found a huge cache of info this afternoon. Documents and photos so I am like a dog with two tails just now. And I haven’t even started downloading all the info collated over the weekend yet!

Hope everyone has recovered from the bank holiday, have a good night, sweet dreams xx

Yorkie1

@suzeesu2000 how exciting to find that treasure trove!

You've just reminded me of the cat we had when I was growing up. Mum went through a phase of home made yoghurt. (Probably the equivalent of Lakeland's Easi-yo from 40 years ago). She left a batch of strawberry yogurts to set overnight. Came down in the morning to find more than one had licks in it!!

oceanspirit

Mrs SD, I’m so sorry I forgot to thank you for my gold star in my last post, so thank you. It sounds like you had a lovely trip catching up with your friends. I hope the soreness from being on the back of the bike for so many miles has eased.

I had to deal with a bit of an overwhelm wobble this morning but managed to pull myself together and keep going - it was technology issues that set it off and the general ridiculousness of the hoops we have to jump through before we are actually allowed to do anything these days. I just don’t have the energy for it. Eventually I calmed down, took a deep breath and laughed at the situation before carrying on jumping through the hoops.

In between the hoop jumping, more old accounts papers were shredded.

TC77

@oceanspirit well done with coping with the overwhelm wobble!

Sorted some paper and bra out 467

Ttomorrow I'm going to try and set aside a couple of hours for frogs and them some tidying.

Clothes wise there is the coat hanger idea where you turn clothes you've worn around so you know what you don't. Thinking that when i use something from a drawer it goes somewhere and then anything left in the drawer after say 3 or 4 months and I can't face wearing goes out . We'll see I'll find a variation on this to do.

Floss

@suzeesu2000 the bill for your mum's funeral would be due from her estate, the funeral directors expect that to be the case so your early payment would be appreciated but not usually expected.

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: stayed cloudy for the rest of the day. DH trimmed the hedge, mowed the lawn & cleaned the car 👏 DSis went out at 15:30 for a doctor’s appointment & then decided to go to As*a. Still not home at 17:40 due to serious delays with the buses 😞 Eventually got back about 18:30. Managed to get the dry washing in just as it started raining. All folded ready to put away. Dinner was sausages, mash, baked beans & tinned tomatoes. Wudupa

796 - 799 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, 2 plastic bottles - recycled 

800 Kitchen detritus - binned 

regnbue, what an interesting way to prevent travel sickness when travelling by car 🤔 

Lovely to see you MadamMim2013 👋 Great work tackling the garage 👏 & well done on the Tip run & making a pile for a car boot sale 👏 A medal 🏅 is on its way.

oceanspirit, great news that you have a buyer for your house & that the survey has been done on your potential new home 🥳 Some great decluttering so far 👏 a medal 🏅 is on its way. 

Dizzycap, you certainly got a lot done before & after your nap 👏 Love that Babyface makes you laugh every day with her daxie antics 🥹

Excellent decluttering from the garden, vulpix 👏 What a common sense approach to driving by DD2, as you say if you live in a city you can generally manage without a car 😊 I hope the trip to the mill antiques place isn’t too onerous 🤞 Your South Wales holiday sounds great 😊 Enjoy your robot building with DGS1 ☺️ would love to see a photo 😉

Florenceem, I was thinking about you as we drove through Ramsgate 😊 DH took a photo of the Monument (next to the anchor) at the harbour side. Pleased to hear that you had another pain free night 😊 I see that young J was busy again 👏 he is a diamond 🥹 Hopefully you had a restful afternoon 🤞

Soontobeoap, excellent decluttering at the car boot sale 👏 So many people in one place is my idea of hell  😱

BlueJ94, nice to see you 👋  Hope you had a relaxing afternoon 🤞

Excellent work Green_hopeful 👏 A busy & successful day 😊

Florenceem, good luck creating space in the garage 🍀 Please, please be careful moving ‘stuff’ from the large RoD 🙏 Those gloves are certainly bright - little chance of them going astray 😉

TC77, excellent & eclectic work 👏 Pleased to hear that you interspersed all that work with watching some dramas 😊 Thanks for the mention of the TLC Carriage & the sleep pods 👏

weenancy, I now have this vision of you racing everywhere ☺️ I am hoping you have added a bell to warn people that you are coming & that they should move out of your way 🙊 

suzeesu2000, pleased to hear that you had a relaxing weekend ☺️ Hopefully the paint rollers will arrive soon & you can start your furniture painting project 🤞 Your roast dinner sounds delicious 😋 

Will continue with the cheerleading tomorrow & will hopefully make more of a dent 😉

Sleep tight 😴 

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Decluttering Target 2026: 800/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £165.11

TC77

Morning,

with the latest phase of mega frog out of the way and no work ahead I have to face the chaos my house is in. Far too much stuff from my dad's from sales and the CS - just glad I stopped wombling. Writing this down to hold myself to account but do not want to have to climb over stuff or have to move piles to get to other things or sit down. A different tack is needed!!!

Thinking I either have to accept more goes to landfill, for things CS can't take (some vintage things) If I don't want them good they go to any home even if I believe that I can get more pennies than anyone wants to pay so just freecycle of put for fewer pennies , and think what do I want to keep rather than what do I want to get rid of , and probably do all of these.

I have arranged for a lamp and 2 bedside tables to be collected by BHF and ringing the computer charity about the 3 spare printers and cables etc. DD1 has now offered me her printer - she got for uni but never set up so I will take it set it up and give it back to her - the exchange with her will be mid June when she moves and I am putting a box of things for her - she's said she'll take large casserole dishes. DD2 is back in 7 weeks.

I have just taken a picture of my dining room, which I will tackle today as lots of papers, some clothes I bought for DD2 as she needs smart clothes for an event the day after she gets home.

I will report back, motivated by all the amazing things being done by the declutterai recognising that surviving another day sometimes is a marvel…

Green_hopeful

@TC77 we find it hard to chuck things away. We did a survey of charity shops and have found different ones are better for different things. We have a retro Sue Ryder that takes stuff i wouldn’t give to an ordinary charity shop. We also have a posh Sue ryder for nicer china and clothes.

I also found people who refurbish or sell old stuff and are willing to take items for the price of the postage. I had a Swedish slide projector with a 500 watt light bulb and a very home made plug arrangement. I found a chap on Etsy who refurbishes them. I offered it to him for the postage. There is no way i wanted to be involved in selling it but he could make it safe. If he makes a bit of profit then fair play.