2018 - No Clutter To Be Seen

1. IF I NOTICE SOME SMALL TASK NEEDS DOING - I WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY

2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I WENT IN - WITHOUT HIDING THE CLUTTER EXCEPT for the wardrobe room which is currently the storage room (sr)

Rootle, what a lovely donation :T & I see you are keeping on track :T

Saver-upper, surprising how keeping things tidy helps you feel better even if the decluttering is a bit stalled :rotfl: Unfotunately I cannot lay claim to the mantras - if I find something I can use, I appropriate it & it really helps me focus The Slob Lady blog is great for this :rotfl:
Perhaps the other 5 members of the family should each have a ‘chore chart’ & the one who completes the most chores gets to choose what’s for dinner one night a month :rotfl: As my house still looks like a warehouse, I am still the only one who picks up & tidies - Although DH is gradually sorting out his ‘Office of Doom’ :T DSis is so frightened I will nab her plate & wash it up before she has seconds, that she doesn’t put it down :rotfl::rotfl:

You have done really well on your decluttering :T:j & I love it that you can measure how well you have done by the number of empty plastic boxes Re the boxes, is it possible to sneak any out & use them as your cs donation boxes or has your partner counted them :eek: OR if you have a teeny, tiny wicked streak perhaps put some of your partner’s stuff in the crates & not label them ;) - might concentrate the mind

As it was so hot again today I have just pottered - made bed, swept kitchen, kept on top of the washing up, vacuumed the sofas & swapped round the sofa cushions - to get even wear , indoor bins emptied into appropriate wheelie bins, been shopping & put it all away + have completely sorted my freezer including merging certain foodstuffs & had a teeny look in the fridge

So

B878 - B879 Small plastic pots with mouldy food - binned
B880 - B884 Non recyclable plastic bags - binned
B885 - B887 Non recyclable plastic packaging & trays - binned
B888 - B902 Plastic bag, uu deodorant tin, 4 ice cream boxes flattened, plastic pot, 3 plastic boxes rinsed (the contents were heated up as a quick snack :rotfl:), magazine, plastic milk carton rinsed out, large delivery box broken down & 2 large delivery boxes (left intact & just flattened) - ALL RECYCLED
B903 Small lidded sturdy plastic pot - cs

DH& DSis are currently putting together all the shelving & storage units that were delivered today - one completed, one being put together & then two more to go (but in FOUR boxes :eek:). Apparently everything was measured out so it should all fit :eek: but not sure DSis will be able to move around :eek:

I have a bit of washing up to do then I will complete my puzzle magazine & send off my entry form & make dinner in a little while.

Having bored you all to tears, I will love you & leave you

MrsSD
B903/B2918

End of yesterday and today
760-761 sachets of moisturiser and face cream used up
762- 765 boxes recycled
766 bottle from DS2 room binned
767 magazine given to DH for his work.

I'm doing well in leaving room tidier and feel I should now do as MrsSD does and do small tasks immediately.

Nice to see you back basketcase :T and with such excellent news :T:) Your DD must be soooo happy & I can tell that you are as well :T:T:j I must admit to a fondness for recluttering in a good cause:D & what better cause than a new job :rotfl:
Please give my congrats to your DD

MrsSD
B903/B2018

No I haven't given up and I have a decluttering story for everyone.
First, though, Basketcase - sorry to here about your trials and hope each day sees improvement.
Saver-upper - Hoarding- My DH used to save supermarket plastic bags - we had cardboard boxes packed full and I couldn't see the point as - when would we use them - they are free! Well when we were clearing to come to France I put my foot down and off to the dump they went. Now and then I hear a plaintive comment on the lines of we should have sold them!
Here is the decluttering story.I have been very very busy finishing a crochet granny square blanket for DGD in time for her birthday but horror I couldn't find the little sew on labels that say "Made with love by Granny". I started looking and looking it having been two years since I last used the tiny packet. So a search and then a re-search. Every drawer in the bedrooms, the sitting room and the en-suite. Found the tiny packet in my desk - not in any of the rooms above...!!!8230;..and.....found
277+ 3 unused Tshirts to CS
281 1 nightdress
282 2 prs earrings
284 one wooden candlestick
285 one china pillbox
286one thick wool jumper
287one magazine
288 2 fridge magnets
290 pile of wool
all the above to CS +
pile old used Xmas paper
pile of rubbish
pile old T shirts
all the above to bin or recycling
So, obviously my desk is the really really safe place in our house.
And all roads lead to a decluttered house.

1. IF I NOTICE SOME SMALL TASK NEEDS DOING - I WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY

2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I WENT IN - WITHOUT HIDING THE CLUTTER EXCEPT for the wardrobe room which is currently the storage room (sr)

Saver-upper, way to go - I love that you have 2 separate totals :T The decluttering & posting about it is highly addictive isn’t it? :rotfl:

bit by bit, the decluttering angel is definitely watching over you - buy new books, read & then donate & you don’t even have to take a trip to the cs :rotfl:

retiredinfrance, I love a good decluttering story & that one is a doozy :rotfl: Maybe I should do that when I try to find our birth & marriage certificates which I have somehow misplaced

I was up late again today, third day in a row & had a light bulb moment:shhh: - my bed is the only place I can escape from my DSis :o:rotfl: Anyway now that I know that, I can be a bit more inventive about how I get alone time :rotfl:

Dinner last night was delicious - chicken pieces fried in butter, Cornish new potatoes (the Jerseys didn’t look very nice ) & cooked green beans drizzled in a little olive oil. The leftovers were finished tonight with the last of the salad foods & I got to use my salad spinner again :rotfl:

Just as I was about to continue with this post all the downstairs lights went out & the upstairs lights don’t work either, so DH is in the garage trying to sort out fuses Downstairs lights now work but upstairs still not working :eek: & guess what the fuse is shorter than a normal fuse:mad: so DH is just ordering some now :eek:

That aside, today was another pottering day for me with DH & DSis continuing with the flat pack furniture

My pottering included making the bed, sweeping the kitchen, doing washing up as & when, washing down worktops, emptying inside bins into wheelie bins, finding shelf space for my DSis’s wooden box full of her cutlery, a large pasta pan & a lasagne dish (:p told you I had created space :rotfl::T:rotfl:), cleaning marks that appeared on my cleaned shelves :huh:, dismantling delivery boxes, dealing with post + a trip to the cs & making dinner.

So in the course of my day the following has gone

B904 - B912 RECYCLED - Toilet roll inner; 2 plastic bottles, plastic milk carton & beer can rinsed; 2 large boxes dismantled; magazine; cardboard backing for uu writing pad
B913 - B929 BINNED - non recyclable - 8 bags, 3 trays, 3 pots & 3 pieces of plastic packaging

Prior to the lights going out, I was upstairs & realised that only 4 of the 5 drawers in the CofD had been sorted. Didn’t sort it out but found a lidded basket filled with old (or should that be ancient :rotfl:) make up so an easy win

B930 - B943 BINNED - foundation, under eye lift, 3 nail varnishes, 2 mascaras, 2 lipsticks, 2 eye shadows, 2 eye pencils, lip balm
B944 Cardboard packaging recycled

I have also started a new cs bag

B945 - B947 Two knives (for the cs cafe) - 12” Carver & 9” Carver & an empty earring box with its own mirror

So onwards & outwards on our decluttering journeys:)

MrsSD
B947/B2018