Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

I've got bids on 3 items! YAY!

Struggling with migrain - just about keeping it at bay but having to resort to the medication now However have scattered over the lawn the contents of an unopened box of my favourite muesili that was 2 years out of date! I did try a hazelnut from it but too far gone even for me. So I hope the birds enjoy D*rset Cereals :rotfl:

Think the head has been brought on by the stress/guilt of not getting on with things - aaarrggh a vicious circle !!

Question for you - you've kept birthday/christmas/good luck/congrats cards because they're very pretty/expensive and mean a lot to you. Do you a) keep storing them though they've now served their function or b) recycle them - after all you have your memories?

Um, blue elephant, I chuck them all . This stes from when we had a flood in our loft room and lost our top layer wedding cake and all of the saved cards. It made me feel so bad that now, I apreciate them when they are there and then I get rid of them with no bad feeling. After all, I don't intend to die young and can you imagine the kids coming along to a loft rammed full of not thrown away cards and rubbish? They aren't going to have time to read them all, they'll just chuck them. I won't ever look at them again either so that's what I do.

Blue_Elephant wrote: »

Question for you - you've kept birthday/christmas/good luck/congrats cards because they're very pretty/expensive and mean a lot to you. Do you a) keep storing them though they've now served their function or b) recycle them - after all you have your memories?

I scrapped booked our wedding and baby cards and bits and bobs from those events. Our DDs are a a bit arty crafty and make a montage of their birthday cards with added photos and put it up in frame for 12 months then dispose of it and do it all again with the next lot ( recycling frame of course!) I have done the same with some of their school arty pics and homemade cards which are framed and on the wall - I guess evetually they can have them and do what they want with them and I have a couple of cards that I have kept for sentimental reasons - last one I got from my mother for example - which are just kept in a folder in a filing cabinet - the rest I recycle. I do have some cards/postcards also just in filing cabinet, that belonged to my grandmother and sometimes I wonder how I would feel if they were 'lost' in some disaster! But I am happy to keep hold of them until if that ever happens as they dont take up any space.

I have a box of other things such as programmes from school shows, hand scribbled notes to the Tooth Fairy/FC that the 2 DDs have 'discarded' over the years. I dont think they know I have kept half the stuff - my intention is to make a scrap book for each to be given on 21st birthday( first one this year so it will be a proto type) The reason why? All my childhood memories where disposed of when I went to university by a well meaning but unthinking grandmother and althougth the memories are in my head I am a visual sort of person and quite like 'looking' at memories too!