2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

Florenceem

I needed some shopping so went out this morning. I went and decluttered money for a deposit at the blinds shop. I took my donations to the charity shop.

I had to wait a long time for a bus to Lid. and then 2 turned up.

Got my shopping and again had to wait for a bus.

I have refilled my shopping trolley for the charity shop. So much is leaving the house but lots more to sort.

My J is 29 today.

Builder J is meant to be coming here this afternoon. As I typed this - J rang - he still has a lot to do on the doors and framework so won't be here until tomorrow morning.

I want to find the stuff I need for my next knitting project so will look - where I think it is. Everything is everywhere. I am keeping to my plan of nothing but food entering my house.

Brie

Gardeners have sweated profusely decluttering one border of huge clumps of "decorative" (in whose world?) grass. And planted some freebie plants that have been threatening to die in the heat over the last week. And I have decluttered their payment already so I don't have to worry about whether I've paid or not at 3 am.

BlueJ94

Hellooo! Been awol for a bit, went to Cornwall over the weekend (Friday until Sunday) to beat all the kiddies at half term and thank god we did.. it was buuuusy!

Weather is crazy hot, 33 degrees here today! Working in a warehouse isnt amazing in this weather.

Off for a haircut after to work tomorrow, i had it all chopped off a while ago and it grows so fast i have to get it cut more often.

anyways catch you all tomorrow x

oceanspirit

Thank you for the weeding tool info @Mrs_Salad_Dodger, I will look it up tomorrow.

Emails down to 282. A magazine off the reading pile and have started another. Not much else done today - hoping for a bit more oomph tomorrow.

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: The previous tenants from next door turned up to sort out the back garden. DH was in our back garden trimming the hedge as he couldn’t reach the wormeries. I decided we would have salad for dinner so we needed to go shopping. DH drove me to As*a - it was packed. Found everything we wanted apart from potato salad & egg mayonnaise 😞 The ice cream & ice lolly cabinets had been practically gutted. Queued for 23 minutes at the only manned checkout. I posted some birthday cards on the way home. It made a pleasant change having a salad for dinner. Wudupa

888 - 889 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans - recycled 

890 - 891 Kitchen & lr detritus - binned 

dND, thanks for the tips about keeping cooler during the current heatwave 👏 I do hope you find a way to square the circle with regard to ponds & mosquitoes 🤞 Great work swapping out winter bedding etc for summer bedding 👏 I will pop round later for some potato salad & peperonata 😉

Florenceem, Happy Birthday to J 🥳 🎂 🎉 I hope he had a great day ☺️ Excellent news that you are sticking to your plan to only bring food in 👏 Fingers crossed that you find your errant knitting supplies 🤞

Brie, excellent work in the garden 👏 This comment “clumps of “decorative” (in whose world?) grass” had me laughing & nodding in agreement at the same time 😂

Nice to see you BlueJ94 👋 Sounds like you had a great time in Cornwall despite it being busy 🥹

oceanspirit, great work on your continuing quest to reduce your emails 👏

A shout out to our Declutterati family members who haven’t posted in a while ☺️ Hope you are OK & it would be reassuring if you could pop in quickly just to ease our minds 🙏 Sleep tight 😴 

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DH Awards: 🏅🏅🏅🏅

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Decluttering Target 2026: 891/2026

1p Savings Challenge Running Total: £165.11

TC77

Morning ,

I would have posted last night but I went for an early evening stroll and put sun cream on that melted and got in my eyes.. usually a minor short lived irritation but they watered for hours despite bathing with an egg cup ( must get an eye bath) and still sore and watering abit this morning. Is high factor cream worse and if its old? Being mse i was trying to use it up.

DB drove up to london last night and brought all the bedding from.my dad's 2 big old suitcases full and v heavy , bags and duvet and blankets loose. I have asked the donation hub if they will collect.otherwise it will be many trips with my trolley. Also some clothes which I'd noticed all missing a button so I had offered to use my button stash as know I have matches - v good but heavy Harris tweed coat / jacket etc before passing on.

Some progress, papers x 3 , 4 pens, plastic wallets, paint, DIY bits, clothing item and packaging, but more importantly things out in the right place , cupboard tidied and more labelled. And the offending sun cream out!

Mrs SD shame the ice cream and lollies were low but excellent idea to have salad in this weather. Dd1 rang proudly telling me she was having one of her homemade lollies remembering we made them when she was little.

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Florenceem

Morning all.

Cooler here today - so far!

J has arrived and is busy up in the now empty ish large ROD. The ish is the covered up chaise longue, sofa bed and octagonal table that was my mums.There is also some stuff on the shelf in the wardrobe. When builder J has done the wardrobe doors and young J has painted them - I will put winter coats on the rail in there plus Salvation Army uniform to make space in the one in my bedroom. I will use the space at the wardrobe bottom for storage.

This morning I have sewn up a finished glove. Still have one to do.

I need to get into the cupboard in the craft storage room to look for yarn.

ionafan

All ok here atm, thank you @Mrs_Salad_Dodger. Following on from me and DH, Rosie the dog took her turn at being unwell a couple of weeks ago but is much better now. I have almost caught up with all the things that were on my To-Do list before DH went into hospital for the first of 3 emergency admissions. He is back to what is normal health for him again (I won't say "well" because he has several long-term conditions) so - unseasonally - "All is calm, all is bright!"

In May I have emptied another 11 photo albums and labelled all that I want to keep from this first cull. The empty albums and unwanted photos have already been collected by the bin men, and I nearly have a clear shelf in the landing cupboard (don't worry, it will soon fill up again with my collection of WDYTYA magazines). Talking of which, did anyone else see the Zoe Ball episode of WDYTYA last night? - an absolute roller coaster!

I am mightily impressed by the decluttering that other people on this thread are achieving, and the wonderful crafts you make. And as for @Florenceem and @vulpix 's furniture shifting… ❤️❤️

My friend is coming here at 11.00 with her daughter - my goddaughter - to clean the bits of my house that I am unable to do, so I must get moving. Will catch up with you all later xxx

Floss

@TC77 best to bin any sun cream more than 12m old as its active ingredients stop working.

TC77

@floss I always thought that was abit of a marketing ploy although aware if left in sun and daylight deteriorates but I think some of mine go back well over a year! Will do a cull later.

Focusing on some admin and papers, and trying to find some emails.

Owning up here to one account having 7795 emails (2191 unread) and the other 12,211 emails with 2003 unread! I have some folder set up and have unsubscribed to 4 things.

Target for year end 1000 emails and no more than 200 unread (some I need to keep but don't need to read if that makes sense for each account. I have no idea if this is realistic but going to record progress at the end of each month.

@ionafan well done on the photographs!