A little reset for September challenge

[Septembertodo]

After a really busy summer mixing childcare/holidays/full time office based job, my house is in need of a reset.

So I’m challenging myself to do 15mins of decluttering a day, follow TOM, and set aside 2 hours of admin time per week, for the month of September.

Im hoping that will quell the quiet hum of discontent and overwhelm that I’m feeling today! Feel free to join me

Yes, ready for this now Back to School is done. Had no time for the house over summer… Starting with toys today. DS is helping!

Absolutely love to join although whilst have teens we have had a long spell of ill health so now all on the mend need to seriously up my/our game!

Nice to have some company! I made a start yesterday and chucked a load of children’s random craft bits. Managed to get one child to go through entire wardrobe and tell me what they liked and what could go to charity. I’m focussing the declutter this week on the room I see the minute I open the front door.

And the wardrobe tidy up took less than 10
minutes.

Managed to do a clear out of the coats yesterday. Begone the ones with broken zips that will never be fixed. Today’s declutter is in the same room, and it’s everything that has migrated there over the summer that lives somewhere else. I also managed 30 minutes of admin before work to take away some of the lingering tasks that had been taking up brain space.

Lots to do and not much enthusiasm to do any of it!!
please can I join for a bit of support/ empathy etc?

Yes, come join @Extraenergyneeded ! I’m just doing a tiny bit each day. 15 mins declutter and 15 minute extra clean of an area. Makes a huge difference. If I do too much I lose enthusiasm and generate a huge mess.

Today I did another 15 minute declutter of the first room I see when I get in. It’s mainly returning kid detritus to their rooms! Got a bit of admin done too.

I made myself a list of stuff to tackle in September.

Book carpet cleaner
Book window cleaner to clean the conservatory.
Clean the oven.
Declutter wardrobe and list items on vinted.

I'm working my way through it all.

I’ve decided I’m not allowed to sell on Vinted. I just can’t trust myself not to keep a big pile of clothes and never get round to it. It’s a pity, I have some good stuff. Off to the charity bins/shops they go though, I call it my lazy tax!

Kitchen today. Energy is lacking so I’ll be happy with just 3x cupboards decluttered and cleaned.

Back to it today after a weekend away. Pleasantly surprised that the house was looking pretty decent upon my return. Mildly hungover so the plan is to catch up on some admin (new school has sent around 15 emails in one week) and update the calendar. No energy for lots of decluttering or cleaning.

Back on it today. I’ve dusted the living room and decluttered my dressing table.

I’ll join too…….in the same boat following a busy summer juggling work and childcare……last week I sorted out our box room/office which one of the girls is going to move into so they all have a room of their own. Today I’m not working, so planning to tackle middle DD’s cabin bed desk, which is covered with half finished craft projects.

Hello @sparklyglitterball . We also have a cabin bed dwelling child who uses the end as overflow for arts and crafts!

Today I’ve found another draw of toiletries that needed decluttering. Chucked two tops that are ripped. Wiped down a grotty bathroom shelf and cleaned the mirrors and glass frames in my bedroom.

Another reason for wanting to sort and declutter is to try and not spend unnecessarily in the next month. I’m finding things that need using up!

Well who needs 3 packets of corn flour. 2 opened? Also some custard powder from 2023 (half left).

Tired today so I just deleted 200 photos from my phone instead of doing anything physical.

A great day in the garden. Chucking out broken stuff, putting things away for winter. I’ve even gone mad and cleaned out my spice cupboard. Now I’m going to do fuck all for the rest of the day.

Oh and the admin job was to submit metre readings.

A clean out of the cleaning products. This was great, I found loads of things that had fallen behind the sink. Things I was about to purchase again like food waste bags and bin liners. Also an excessive number of rags. For what? Gone gone gone.

Lazy tax - I love that. Count me in!

Today the decluttering gods spoke to me through the medium of a sick child. Clear out the shite in this medical box they said. So I did.

Low energy choice today because I’ve now got the child’s disease. So a declutter of THE TOP of the bathroom cabinet. Yes, our shit spilleth over. So the next task will be to clear the inside of the cabinet so that it all goes inside. Like normal people.

I’m attempting our bedroom today. May the gods be with me ( slow and steady I’ve already done my make up but I feel today maybe the day I consign the odd socks to the textile recycling).

Good luck @lifeisgoodrightnow . Chuck the odd socks! Buy some nice new ones.

I’m still ill so could only manage a declutter if the car when I was parked up waiting for a meeting to start. The car is actually pretty clean, so it only took 1 minute.

Still feeling rubbish but have decluttered a box of paper receipts. Cleaned the microwave/stove top/oven glass/ dishwasher and one window. Most importantly I stopped. I wanted to keep going but I know that would have ended in sudden exhaustion and absolute chaos on the kitchen worktop.

I DID - so satisfying and I took our downstairs robot hoover / mop up there and even under the bed is now clear. Now to tackle my son’s room of doom and the car both of which are full of detritus not of my making .

next week job I think

I dropped 3 bags at the charity shop today. A lovely man came in and cleaned my oven - very lazy of me but he did a great job. I cleaned out the fridge and freezer.

My job for next week is the wardrobe in the spare room which has various spare quilts and pillows in which I'm convinced we dont need.