2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

TC77

@suzeesu2000 lovely hearing about your mum's knitting for the hospital and the trauma teddies. I do want to knit again.

I felt I hit a brick wall this morning, going from room to room moving things from one side of a room to another and then to another room. I have so much packaging but still hope to sell some things and know DD2 wants to try to when home so should just have left this well alone.

Then decided I had to do something so did 2 washes and sorted out bedroom drawers and a little tidying elsewhere.

Yah! actually put things in main bin - a fabric container that I used a drawer divider but had marks on it, and a broken shoe tree and v small old plasters which looked they could be used for a small toddler with a minor little finger injury! Also a pair of smart trousers and a bedspread in the CS bag. Unsubscribed from a couple of things and a little paper decluttering. Yesterday tried to sort out some financial stuff and start a spreadsheet. Counting as 8 so new total 563. I think I will struggle to get anywhere near the 1000 I said for the end of the month. If I get to 750 I will be ok but think that will be difficult, not because of the lack of stuff in my house! 😀

Forgot 2 poor quality packaging out 565.

Dizzycap

Morning all xxx

Just popped in for a quick catch up 😂.

@ Florenceem - Loving the latest gloves 🤩😍.

@ dND - Great going with the gardening and most of it is prep and calculation when creating a functional working masterpiece outside 🤗. That's the whole enjoyment of being creative. You turn what's in your head / what's on paper into something awesome using often unconventional but practical ideas. I remember a few years ago having their bathroom ripped out and keeping their old bath tub which their son; who had never shown any interest in gardening, decided to turned into an absolute masterpiece of one awesome 'living' semi-raised rockery 😎🤗. The only thing he regretted was that they hadn't kept the sink 😂.

@ Yorkie1 - 😂😂 I would say that's more cluttering up on mint matchmakers, rather than decluttering, but I'd be splitting hairs, obviously 😂🤣.

@ suzeesu2000 - Lovely to hear about all the knitting your mum used to do and all the lovely things made for others 🤗. That brought back some lovely memories of my grandmother 🤗😋💖.

It's certainly been busy here with decluttering a number of appointments, cluttering up on 2 home delivery shops as babyface won't eat Mr. Sains meat, so I put my order in with my local butcher and pay over the phone then he drops Missy Minks's meat off on his way home - Not that's she's spoilt or anything 🤣-Miss Queen Fussy Cow 😂🤣

I've done several piles of washing and hung out on the line over the past few days ready for the coming rainy weather over the next few days and it's rainging now. It's also been very Autumnal and it's been cold with a frost over the past 2 nights with the heating coming on early morning which is just as well as I seem to be feeling unwell for the past few days and ended up giving in and taking some emergency antibiotics which are doing the job, even though I really do loathe having to take them 🙄😣. I've also been pottering around the garden and managed to fill up the garden waste wheelie bin already 😂. I've also been doing the usual daily HH bin decluttering and cleaning, and I've really been enjoying the office/artroom since I put all the organised paperwork I needed to keep in labelled arch file boxes and put them up on the shelf above the desk rather than the paper racks; which you would have thought would have been easier to find, but It's made such a difference when I need something, it's available in moments 🤗.

Babyface has been back to her garden and house crazies after I decided to bite the bullet and take her fully off her steroid medication, but she's over done it and given herself backache - typical! So I've had to make her rest along with giving her pain medication late afternoon's so that she can heal. If it's not one thing, it's another 😂🤣😅. I'm now managing to get 4 hours sleep each night but it's split sleep of an hour at a time, but far better than the very little sleep I was getting due to pain 😮😥.

Times ticking and I need to go back to bed for a couple of hours after babyface woke me up for the loo which gave me the excuse to have a mug of coffee 😂. Take care all, sweet dreams, and toodle-pip for now xxx

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: I spent an hour sorting out the 5 shelves in my wardrobe. Nothing decluttered as yet but a complete rearrangement of the clothing - 4 shelves have been completed & there is still space on 3 of the shelves.  I have a laundry basket full of mostly biking gear to sort through & one completely empty shelf. One thing I did notice is that my one pair of jeans has gone AWOL 😱 DH phoned 15:20 & 18:30, eventually getting home 21:15. DSis has had a headache all day & a bit of a dicky tummy so only had a small dinner - lightly fried chicken & boiled new potatoes. Wudupa.

828 - 829 Kitchen recycling, magazine - recycled 

830 - 831 Kitchen & lr detritus - binned

Florenceem, another busy day for young J 👏 Hopefully the rain will stay away long enough for J to finish painting the fence 🤞Good luck filling the CS bag 🍀

Brie, are there any pictures available of your crocheted catnip mice 🙏

Excellent decluttering Florenceem especially sorting boxes & bags from the large RoD 👏 Love the gloves 😊 Just wondering if you can point me in the direction of the pattern 🙏

You are very welcome Yorkie1 😊

Excellent work in the garden dND 👏 Sounds like you thoroughly enjoyed yourself on Sunday ☺️ Yippee to the new pressure washer turning up 😖 & great work cleaning the patio 👏 I will keep my fingers crossed that you get enough rain to fill the little ponds 🤞

Yorkie1, I would definitely count as decluttering ☺️

suzeesu2000, what wonderful neighbours ☺️ I do hope your DH drills the holes immediately to hang up your lizard ornaments as recompense for not letting you have gerbils 😉😅 Great work decluttering all the washing, drying & ironing 👏 What wonderful knitting projects 🥹

TC77, you might have felt like you “hit a brick wall this morning” but you certainly made up for it in the afternoon 👏

Lovely post Dizzycap ☺️ Very pleased to hear that you are managing to get a little more sleep & that  Babyface is still doing well 😊 Although I see she takes after her “mum/slave” by doing too much 😉 Excellent decluttering & tidying 👏  Sorry to hear that you have been feeling unwell 😔 but hopefully the antibiotics will set you on the road to recovery 🤞  

Sleep tight 😴 

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Florenceem

Morning all.

Mrs SD - I use a normal glove pattern but shorten the length of the thumb and fingers plus cast off instead of completing the knitting of a digit by decreasing and tying off.

I struggled to go off to sleep last night which is unusual. It could be that I had no fresh air. I had pain in the night - had to get up twice for a fresh freezer pad.

I have a pot of tea made.

I want to go out before any heavy rain.

I had an email about my sofa - it will be arriving the first week of June.

Today I plan to empty the clothes out of the wardrobe in the large ROD. I also want to empty out the stuff in the bottom of the wardrobe.

I agree with my bestie - when that room is finished - my new lounge - I need to attack the old office. This room is full with stuff from the craft room, craft storage room and large ROD. Whatever can't be fitted in the craft storage room or craft room - leaves the house. Bestie said - then when you are on a project - you only buy what you need. I told bestie - I will not need to shop for craft stuff - I will shop from stock/stash.

Deb4

Morning all

Hope everyone is well, I have really been missing in action over the last few weeks but I have been decluttering and sorting things out.

I had some kids coat hangers on Facebook marketplace so they went over the weekend happy they went as been on for awhile, I do have some more thing to put on Freegle.

I have sorted out some of DS's toys and put some boxes in the bin still more to go though but do find it overwhelming so I try to do a bit at a time.

My mum has brought some new denby pottery set and I have been selling it on ebay which will help to pay for new set and I have been using boxes for the package.

I've sold a few bits but it's very quiet at the moment, I have also downloaded a app Recycle at boots so I will take the blisters packs tomorrow, I do have a few more to scan but I will do them for next week.

I have been doing some more crafting so I have been using my stash up that I had for a while, just not sure what to do with the finshed projects.

Think that's everything for now, and I will try and post more often

Hope everyone has a good day

2Scratters

DH decluttered a couple of frogs (to him) which were simply ordering the plaster boards and bonding stuff needed for the kitchen renovation which had almost come to a stop. They are being delivered by the company this week and nephew S will be completing the task a week on Saturday for us. The kitchen designer is calling next Monday to keep DH gee'd up as there is a wall that needs 6 sockets fixing to the wall it is a matter of getting the location of the electrical items a bit more defined so they won't be needing to be moved once sited. It really has been getting me down as I can't move forward with anything nor get much cooking/baking done.

Rant over

We are moving forward

2 Scratters xx

BlueJ94

Afternoon all, Not much going on today besides work. Ive bought a LOT of clothes to resell and ive sold a few but my room of doom is now an explosion of clothes 😂 so im going to sort and pack them later this evening.

Green_hopeful

i am not sure what a frog is but i think i have decluttered one. We had our kitchen knocked through 8 years ago. We reused our old kitchen just on different walls. Very money saving. Our cooker wasn’t built in so i got a couple of shelf units made. Well its only taken 8 years but i have templated and fitted the granite work surface. The granite on the rest of the kitchen had been ‘discontinued’ in the 25 years since the kitchen had originally been fitted but we found some in a granite graveyard where a local company stores its off cuts. The company said it was too small a job for them to template. I was super nervous but it was ok. Picture of my eggs boiling with my new granite work surface.

Green_hopeful

On a less bright note the things in our house keep breaking or giving up. I finally have my car back with a new Turbo, but our Karcher window vac has died and couldn’t be repaired at the repair shop, our electric toothbrush won’t switch on, the extractor fan in the bathroom has given up, our robotic vacuum cleaner has a recurring fault and a clip fell off the bottom. The door on the dishwasher is catching at the bottom. I don’t even understand how. I feel I might be decluttering a lot of money trying to replace all the essential stuff.

Brie

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger

sorry - no pictures of the mice were ever taken. And I've not made any for at least a decade. But…..

I'd simply start by crocheting (all single) to make a small tight circle up to no more than 1.5 inches wide (more than that would be a rat). The long end of the yarn would make the tail so I'd have to continue with that ensuring it was on the outside. Then I'd start slowly decreasing the circumference so that I'd slowly go from the round bottom into a cone shape that would end at the nose. Total length maybe 3+ inches? Of course I'd have to add the stuffing and catnip before I got too far along (maybe where the neck should have been??)

Then I'd use a couple of strands of random different colour of yarn on a big needle poke it in where the cheek would be leaving a couple of inches of the yarn dangling as whiskers, aim the needle to where the opposite eye would be, stitch across to the other eye and then out through the opposite cheek ending by cutting the whiskers to the same length.

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I started making these the year we moved to the UK while I was waiting for our cat to clear the 6 month mandatory quarantine. We had temporarily moved in with my inlaws (for 7 years) and MiL always had knitting on the go so I got myself a crochet hook and started using up her left over bits of wool. A year later I was working and a lot of people had cats so I made over 100 mice leading up to Christmas and sold them for £1 each with the ££ going to RSPCA!!