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2017 - No Clutter To Be Seen

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  • blubella
    blubella Posts: 514
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    40. 2017 calendar CS
    41. Biscuit tin CS
    42. Basket CS
    43. Hoody CS
    44. Handbag CS
    45-46. 2 x bra's CS
    47-48. 2 x pillowcases CS
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  • Broomstick
    Broomstick Posts: 1,648
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    137-139. 3 pairs of trainers (shoe recycling)
    140. new sweatbands (clothes recycling)
    141-148. 8 items of sports kit (donated/sold)

    Bx
  • kscour
    kscour Posts: 665
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    Hope you don't mind if I join in :) Hopefully I will keep going this year rather than just shutting the doors and pretending the clutter isn't there :o

    So

    1) Manky mouse mat
    2) old dead computer - skipped
    3) pile of papers - shredded and recycled
    4) bag of recycling
    5) huge calendar that is never going to get used

    well it's a start I guess!
  • Fiasco55
    Fiasco55 Posts: 1,347
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    90. Can of hairspray from stash used up, recycled
    91. Card given from stash
    92. Library book returned
    93-95. Supermarket mags recycled
    96. Delicate laundry gel used up, recycled
    96-99. Bottles recycled
    100-105. Bags full of bf stuff sent off with him
    106-110. Medication boxes recycled
    111. Reciepts filled
    112-115. Contact lenses solution bottles boxes recycled
    116. Large box recycled
    117. To do book taken into work
    No buying toiletries Graduated May 2017
    Decluttered 2016 2469 items, 2017 1580 items :j
    2018 3060 items
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  • purplevamp
    purplevamp Posts: 10,297
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    edited 17 January 2017 at 10:11PM
    purplevamp wrote: »
    19) Yellow pages (recycling) :D

    20-21) ebay sales
    22) empty dry shampoo can (teenagers never let you know they've used things up do they?! :cool:)
    23) Broken headphones
    24) Squash concentrate bottle (thought I'd find some use for it, never did)
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  • kscour
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    6 & 7 2 brandy glasses that we have had for over 20 years and never used
    8-12 5 old faded glasses that I'd be ashamed to let a visitor drink out of
    13-16 4 wine glasses that are huge & we never use
    17) empty bottle of orange squash - now recycled - why was that still in the cupboard??
    18) out of date blackcurrent squash - emptied and recycled
    19) old aquarium testing kit - binned
    20) old list of work phone numbers/extensions
    21) unused diary from last year
    22 & 23 - two glasses cases
    24) old car phone charger
    25) little tub of instant snow that I've kept for about 12 years but don't use because it's such a pain when it's wet - why have I kept it????

    that's 5 cupboards in what I thought was a clutter free kitchen sorted :T
  • eandjsmum
    eandjsmum Posts: 465
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    I very old phone recycled.
    box recycled.
    2 blankets recycled
    1 shirt. buttons removed and shirt binned
    1 Magazine donated
    3 magazines recycled.
    1 shower gel used up and replaced with another from stash.
    onwards and upwards
  • I'd like to join please - I think I'm quite minimalist but over the last year more has been creeping in. OH has finally moved all his crap from his parents in as they moved. We've been living together almost 10 years and he has golf clubs, snowboarding gear, old games consoles that don't work on our tv and endless clothes he does 't wear stashed in our spare room. I want him to get rid of them but he says he needs them even though none of them have been used for a decade!!

    I want to declutter some books (we have a shelf full of them that probably won't be re-read), computer games (we have several boxes of them he doesn't play), kitchen supplies we don't use as we're getting a new kitchen, clothes, and craft supplies.

    I already decluttered toiletries, travel supplies, and paperwork over Christmas, and plan on scanning in documents I need, but not physical copies. It just feels like once I get one area dealt with another seems to get worse and I don't feel like I'm making progress
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better." Paul Theroux
  • somerandom wrote: »
    89. dead slippers - bin
    90. bottle of (very nice) - left over from a party 2 years ago :O - given as a gift

    91. dvd sold


    - I also returned an item, sent off some info to a bank & posted a birthday card. Not adding to total but I was just pleased with myself for getting around to it. (I had delayed the bank info for weeks....) :o
    Shifting my energy for 2020 :heart::heart::heart:
  • Saver-upper
    Saver-upper Posts: 2,336
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    Tonight I spent just under 2 hours decluttering papers.
    With 4 kids,and maybe just life in general,I get an awful lot of paper in this house.I always have "a" box/basket/wicker thing/plastic box/something else " to put papers,with a view to deal with later,or because it needs refering to,say ,over the course of a school year.Problem is,papers just linger there.Eventually box gets so full,I need to start a new box.Previously,I have been so overwhelmed with these papers breeding in my house,I have moved old boxes to the loft,never to be seen again :eek::eek:.
    Alot of paper/notes were recycled,some kept for future reference,some set aside to put in my "filing cabinet"(actually a filing box,by the Really Useful company.You can hang papers in it,filing cabinet style.)Probably won't get around to that for a while-am going away for most of this weekend.Besides,I still have another 3-4 boxes of papers sitting arount the house to sort like I have tonight :eek:.
    So I am counting that as item 162
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