2019 - A Clutter Free Life

savvy · 19 June 2019 at 4:55PM

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Good work Barny1979 & savvy :T Savvy - not sure I would have been so generous with my time - Black bin bags on the drive & if he didn’t pick them up they would have been left for the rubbish collection :rotfl: but then I am the one who sold most of the furniture & white goods from the house I shared with my ex-h for £100 - half each :rotfl: lots of my colleagues paid bargain basement prices :rotfl:

:rotfl: that's well naughty :rotfl:I'm going to try and sell his electrical stuff and fishing things if I can, then the rest will hopefully get dumped at his sisters.

Picklepot wrote: »

Hi to all.
Missing last week due to decorating and then an unexpected pet bereavement .

Awwww no, sorry for your loss, so horrible when they leave us

:(:(

bit_by_bit wrote: »

Well done Savvy. It must be a massive weight off your shoulders.

Thanks, it is, looks so much neater out there, and friends son came and cut the long grass down, so it looks 100 times better out the front and far less embarrassing!! :j:j:j But now the back looks horrible

:rotfl::rotfl:

Cazzatheclutterbug · 20 June 2019 at 11:52AM

Hello, hope you are all well.
Been busy with RL so haven't posted but have been decluttering when I can. Did a 3rd coat of paint on the walls and they do not need a 4th (really good paint but I was covering a mid aqua with a greige and wanted to be 100 per cent sure I was happy with how it looked.) Had a few slacker nights and am going to start painting the woodwork tonight and aim to be completed by the end of the weekend.
182: new bra to CS
183: book -CS
184-185 old make up binned
186-190 kids toys to CS
191-192 kids cup and bowl binned
193-194 old rags binned
195: make up primer binned, was a sample that was !!!!
196-197: hairbands to CS
198: old pot recycled
199-200: cardboard boxes recycled
201: colour pencil with broken lead all through binned
202: unused bottle warmer- CS
203: pre-walker baby shoes to CS as youngest DD is walking properly and got fitted for new shoes Tuesday. First time walking outside she decided to sit down on the floor until she was picked up..... Don't know where she gets her stubborn streak from.....!

Rootle · 20 June 2019 at 1:47PM

25/52 - a bundle of special age birthday cards recycled (counting as decluttering as they took much longer than the usual ordinary recycling cycle!)

Picklepot · 20 June 2019 at 3:39PM

Hi All!
Plodding away here.

Isca82
Welcome, ive only just joined, i think anything you get out of the house regardless of time of year is progress. and Mrs SD is a fabulous cheerleader:T

ailz95 and Savvy
Thank you both for the condolences. You are absolutely right ailz95 some people dont understand, thats ok but it doesnt make it easier. A colleagues partner told me i shouldnt have a pet if i cant deal with their loss:eek: (ooch harsh)

Rootle re: your cards if i find something really hard to let go /keep putting off, then finally do, i count it. Sometimes those decisions can be as hard mentally as taking a sofa to the tip is physically

Slow progress today but here goes:
138 - post dealt with on arrival checked and recycled(it will not add to the paperwork pile!!)
139 - 50 items of paperwork weeded out of study and recycled
140- 50 items of paperwork weeded from garage and recycled
141- carrier bag of legoey bits recycled
142- grubby soft toy- binned
143 - one random glove binned
144 - one car clean cloth bin
145 - box to post office that should have been posted 2w ago

bit_by_bit · 20 June 2019 at 7:27PM

Thankyou Mrs SD. My house is only about 45 years old but I really want a cottage. All the walls are plain plaster and paint and the furniture is nearly all wood. This dresser matches the table very well. The old sideboard was darker and sucked in the light.
Early on living here I had a porch attached to the house and it is now coverred in Wisteria, looks cottage like. The grassy front garden was dug up and is now a wildlife, cottagey garden. Makes the street less boring thats for sure

Two bags going in the car tonight for the CS tomorrow.

TamsinC · 20 June 2019 at 7:38PM

Decluttered around twenty bags of sand, four bags of lime onto the floor - hours of work and loads of back ache - but it is finally finished.

savvy · 20 June 2019 at 7:40PM

Picklepot wrote: »

ailz95 and Savvy
Thank you both for the condolences. You are absolutely right ailz95 some people dont understand, thats ok but it doesnt make it easier. A colleagues partner told me i shouldnt have a pet if i cant deal with their loss:eek: (ooch harsh)

Not harsh at all.........just extremely blinkered and short sighted!! Bide your time and when they have a loss, say the same thing back to them, oh and add on 'suck it up buttercup'!!

All I've decluttered today is some paperwork!
711/2019

Cherryfudge · 20 June 2019 at 8:56PM

A few things decluttered over the last few days:
2 bits of paper
a pair of trainers
a lid
an empty herb jar that's now a full herb jar.
a peach and a banana that had seen much better days - into the compost
a plant tray - binned
a jar of pesto that had been cluttering up the fridge.
2 broken plant pots
a handful of rubbish found in the garden.

I'm now going to replace the trainers but that's another story.

I've also planted up three plant pots, done some weeding and trimmed back a shrub, not to mention potting up a fuchsia cutting that's obligingly grown a root and set off some rose cuttings (2 pots) from trees that I grew up with.

Not sure how to total that lot, especially as the lawn is now littered with plant pots and a box of shrubbery. Maybe one point each?

I think that brings me to 853.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger · 21 June 2019 at 2:55AM

1. SMALL TASKS WILL BE DONE ASAP
2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I ENTERED
3. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT
4. WHEN DEALING WITH CLUTTER I WILL USE ‘Daisy1571’s idea of ‘WHAT WOULD I DO WITH THIS ITEM IF IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE’S ?’
5. IF I WAS STARTING FROM SCRATCH, WOULD I BUY THIS?
6. BE LIKE A POSTAGE STAMP - STICK TO ONE THING UNTIL YOU GET THERE

Wednesday ended up with just a few short gentle showers :T DH got back about 8:00 p.m. Everyone was happy with their bits & bobs - money was proffered but refused

Only needed to make the cheesy mash for the meat mixture & then cooked the cottage pie - again 5 portions so 2 in the freezer for DSis whilst we are away. The other half of the meat will be used for same again tonight - we know how to live :rotfl: According to my DSis it was even tastier

Thursday started bright & sunny but clouded over a bit. Did an sm shop & packed our bags for our holiday. Cleaned both ovens. We had eggs & chips for dinner with strawberries & ice cream for afters. I have just had a long bath & I am drip drying whilst typing

1901 - 1912 Glass jar & metal lid, plastic milk carton, cardboard box, 5 lots of cardboard packaging, 2 empty beer bottles, plastic tray, magazine - Recycled
1913 - 1917 Small bag of kitchen detritus, 2 non rec. plastic trays, plastic packaging, pair of Sunday knickers

- Binned

savvy, can he come back & sort the back garden :rotfl: Well Done on decluttering paperwork - I am sure it breeds :rotfl:

Well Done Cazzatheclutterbug; Rootle; Picklepot (thanks for the praise :T); Cherryfudge - :T

Looks wonderful TamsinC - Well Done on all your hard work :T

Sounds wonderful bit by bit

making your home into a cottage :T even if it isn’t in the countryside

We are off about 11:30 a.m. - so no decluttering (apart from pennies) but I will pop in & cheerlead :rotfl:

MrsSD
1917/2019

Mrs_Salad_Dodger · 21 June 2019 at 11:00AM

Forgot that I descaled the kettle yesterday :rotfl:

1918 - 1919 Kettle filter, uu toothpaste tube - Binned

Will post from France tonight

MrsSD
1919/2019

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