2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

tiddles

I have only decluttered 314 items so far this year, so I am now going to try a lot harder to achieve this year’s target of 2026 things.

“Could do better” - this reminds me of some of the comments on my school report 50+ years ago, when I was rather lazy at times!

regnbue

My January numbers:

Part of my aims for 2026 were tackling the huge pile of unread newspaper supplements from 1-2 years ago. If I hadn't read them by the end of 2025 they needed to go straight into the recycling I'm pleased to say I finally knuckled down and over a week got through the last of them by early January.

Some using up of in date and slightly expired pantry items along with old make up items as I haven't worn any since lockdown.

A massive cull of emails deleted as my email provider is cutting back on my storage allowance. Also decided to keep a tally of never seen films and never read books along with keeping a record of daytrips out for this year.

1 uud ood hot choc powder

2 uud v.old hair oil sachet

3 uud ood giant jar peanut butter

4 ood crispbread packet binned

5-7 read all remaining newspaper supplements (counting as 3)

8-11 4 travel brochures

12-16 5 local magazines

17-18 2 x ood popcorn

19 ood raw popcorn 2024

20-22 uud 3 tins rice pud

23-24 uud 2 tins soup

25-30 6000 emails deleted (counting as 6)

31-40 100+ papers recycled (counting as 10)

41 uud beauty product

42 box of matches

43 many tealights

44 rubber gloves

45 cleaning cloths

46 packaging

47-55 9 make up items

56 uud pen

57 shredding

58 darning

59-60 2 bin liners of fuschia cuttings carried to my friend's garden bin on other side of town

In: 2 notebooks, mini oven

Decluttering: 60/100 Cleaning products:0/11 Nail polishes: 0/10 Hair mousse: 0/6

Beauty face masks: 0/6 Bags dishwasher salt 0/3 Puzzle books 0/12

Books read: 2 Films watched: 2 Daytrips 0

Ins: 3

"The only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing" Ava Gardner

2026

2025 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🏅🏅💐💐

2024 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🏅💐

2023 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🏅🏅🏅💐💐💐💐

Keep going everybody!

dND

Evening all. 😁

Tempus fugit at an incredible rate! I still wonder what I do that takes so much time yet produces very little evidence of change. But when I stop and really look I see the incremental improvement. I have begun to accept that I have so many plates spinning I can't spend long on any one, so actually I'm beginning to feel a lot more relaxed about them all.

I've nudged on a few more frogs although each nudge seems to result in another tadpole being thrown my way but the general direction is forward.

In the garden, and I can't believe I'm saying this as I live in S Wales, there has finally been enough rain to fill a couple of my water butts and the 2 mini ponds. A quick trip out yesterday and a native, non invasive oxygenator plant has been purchased and divided between the 2 ponds. Plants will follow as and when I see good offers - the whole garden is devouring money hand over fist at the moment. 😱 I have however picked and devoured my first strawberry of the year. 😁

I've not got any further with the catio/patio apart from sweep up some of the pressure washed dirt and dump it in a bucket, drilled with holes as I use them for tomatoes in the greenhouse. I looked out of the window yesterday to see this.

Gino is definitely crazy. 🤣🤣

Tomorrow I should be taking delivery of an outdoor litter tray then Gino won't have to resort to this to avoid coming in and have to stop shouting at the birds.

Please excuse the mess, I stack stuff for washing and then the wind gusts through.

I had another go at the brambles in the hedge and have 2 bags of chopped bramble to go out on Friday morning. It's slow and confined work in the hedge but inch by inch I'm determined to get rid of the bramble.

As for the house, well that's inching forward as well. This week I have the assessor of the assessors coming - to make sure that the company subcontracted to do the assessing did their job!!! Then next week I have the technical surveyor who will figure out if what has been proposed by the modelers can actually be fitted to the house. After that I will either be given a date when work can begin or we go back to the design stage. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ But I guess there has to be an accountability trail for government funding. So I'm still in limbo but as I said, I'm a lot more relaxed about it this time. 😁

Take care everyone, well done all, hugs to those who want and love to you all. Dxx

vulpix

dND, I completely understand the cost of house renno and making a garden. Materials are so much more expensive than you anticipate.I gave the side garden/ drive a very good tidy up a couple of months ago. I have noticed the brambles are back with vigour. I am like you ,spinning plates and when I have the time to do anything in the garden, the weather is just too wet. I have done very, very little in the back garden. Just a few plants dug up and given away and a lot of rubbish taken to the tip. Mr V and DD1 dragged an inherited 60's concrete planter onto the drive for me the other day. I have bought a pink Cordyline for it. I am hoping it will look groovy at the front of the house near the steps. Or not,time will tell. My cats are enjoying the dug soil in the front. I will have to resort to sticking branches in to keep them off when the garden is planted.

Pleased you may have got to the right amount of pain meds Florenceem. Long may pain free continue.

I have given away a big bag of empty jam jars to someone who asked on FB. Jars being reused and giving a bag away too. win, win.

Sadly my favourite mug with Shetland puffins has a big chip, I have been strict, it has gone in the bin.

Vx

TC77

@some papers out and a v scratched chopping board. 674