2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

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 😴 

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

DH Awards: 🏅🏅🏅🏅

DSis Awards:

Decluttering Target 2026: 831/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £165.11

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!!

Florenceem

I took my shopping trolley full of donations to the charity shop and asked for help getting the very stuffed bag out.

Got a bus home and after tea to warm me up - cold today - I started on the wardrobe in the large ROD. Not many of Mr F's clothes but lots of mine.

My shopping trolley is stuffed full to take to the charity shop tomorrow.

I phoned the summer house company - they reckon 9.30 to 10.30 arrival. I have no idea how long it takes to build the summer house.

I will be able to put my table and chairs in there to make my craft room tidier.

I hung the clothes I want to keep in the wardrobe in my bedroom. I had a tidy up of the bottom of the wardrobe so I could put 3 pairs of boots and 4 pairs of slippers in there. The slippers are all new - my daughter got me slippers as a Christmas present for a few years. I have been wearing a bootee type of slipper that I bought from a friend - much warmer around the ankles.

I did move some bags of fur fabric into the craft storage room and have now decided enough for today.

I have ordered some white emulsion paint as J thinks we need more.

Decluttered - notebook, cello bag, 6 pairs of trousers, instructions leaflet, 2 tee shirts, 4 blouses, pair of slippers x 2, fur jacket, fur shorts, 8 shoe boxes, pair of sandals, tissue paper, carrier bag, labels, 3 paper pads, fur waistcoat, bottle bag, embossing folder x 2, hat, skirt, knitting needles, denim skirt, beaded waistcoat, clothes covers, receipts, paper bag, jacket, 8 pairs of shoes, 3 plastic bags, pair of jeans, dress, fabric, 4 skirts, 3 coat hangers, pair of stockings, 2 bars of soap, tablecloth, pamphlet, wire binding, top, blouse, fur coat and lots of paper.

Yorkie1

Hope you and babyface are feeling better today @Dizzycap

Well done on the templating @Green_hopeful

I've slept really badly the last couple of nights. My fingers keep going to pins and needles. Lots of yawning at work today!

I decided to make a greek lemon yoghurt cake. I'd measured out all the ingredients but then realised that the recipe didn't say either what size cake tin, nor what oven temperature to use. I do not have confidence that it will come out all light and fluffy like the photos show 😂🍰