2015 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Casati · 26 January 2015 at 6:26PM

Oops I nearly forgot, went to the Post Office via the clothes bank so waved bye bye to

275 & 276 two pairs of jeans, worn to death and suffering from crotch blow-out
277 pair of knick-knacks with tatty elastic

jillbe · 26 January 2015 at 9:31PM

308-312 t shirts - clothes bank
313 assorted leaflets, paper - recycling
314 plastic Pepsi bottle - recycling

Fiasco55 · 26 January 2015 at 9:41PM

Work has finally begun on my ensuite :j

205. 2 bin bags worth of clothes to recycling
206. Large bottle of conditioner used up
207. Pair of jeggings binned got a hole in them
208. Started a button box to collect all of the loose buttons from clothes
209. Box of truffles to a friend.
210. Recycling done

bubblegumcola · 26 January 2015 at 11:42PM

Managed a little bit more this evening

3 disposable razors -binned
2 empty toothpaste tubes -binned
2 cardboard boxes - recycle bin
1 empty ice cream tub-washed and into recycle bin

I think after Xmas I've realised I need to have a proper gutting of my bathrooms. Between me and the kids we got loads of lovely shower/bath sets, I'm sure there's a lot of ancient stuff I could part with lurking in the cupboard and baskets-yuk-tomorrow's project possibly.

lynnejk · 26 January 2015 at 11:52PM

happytails wrote: »

Hi all, please may i join in?

Im currently trying to sell anything decent i get rid of, so far ive earned £19 this year and after a while i will take things to the charity shops.

If you have a look at the 'make £10 a day in January' thread on here you will find lots of ideas of where to sell things - or ask if what you're trying to sell is not listed

Sarah x

Oh and welcome to the thread.

Busy day today.

Cleared out table with shelf under TV and binned all rubbish
Sorted collection of tokens/old shopping lists/receipts in kitchen and binned rubbish
Put away notebook and associated paraphernalia
Unpacked new printer ready to set up tomorrow
Sorted heap of papers/magazines/letters etc. Small pile left to read, some filed and/or shredded and rest to recycling
Went through two shelves of food stock cupboard and put out one ood pack of pizza bases

and put everything else in date order.
Amalgamated half used things like vinegar into largest bottles and recycled little ones
Refilled the anti-bact handwash in bathroom and kitchen
Found a jar for DH's brown sugar for kitchen shelf
Sorted lo chicken joint. Some sliced for sandwiches the morrow, rest trimmed and sorted to make soup and stock same. Rubbish binned.
Froze rolls and bread for rest of week and white for cooking.
Went through stuff in bathroom cupboard and put ends to front.
Put two read paperbacks into cs bag
Put out all recycling paper/plastic/glass

Both our mobiles are playing up so they are going in for repair tomorrow. Spent some time checking all contacts and photos are on the sd cards and also everything saved to lap-top. It took ages as I had to find out how to do some of it first - I'm so not a techie :rotfl:

Hope you all have a terrific Tuesday

Lx

S-Iam · 27 January 2015 at 12:58AM

Hi all,

I'd like to join in too please. Boy! Does the house need it. You'd never believe DH and I both prefer living in a clutter free environment.

My incentive, as well as a more calming environment, is that we are hoping to start our house extension this year, which will mean packing up the whole of the house and moving into rented accommodation for the duration. So I don't want to pay, twice, to move stuff unless we really want it.

My aim is to declutter at least an item a day. Today, fired up on enthusiasm I've got rid of 4 things

4 small, non exciting items, but I've made a start and that's all that matters

allybee101 · 27 January 2015 at 1:56AM

A late spurt of energy here.

93. Cleared out 2 shelves in kitchen cupboard and got rid of a load of herbs and spices and suchlike. One jar of garam masala was over 12 years old

I know this because I remember buying it at uni

It was a big jar, but clearly if not all used by now then it needed letting go. Lots of stuff gone but not listing individually.
94. 3 lots of undies sorted from the clean laundry into the bin - past their best. Need to do a sock audit soon too.

Right, night all

115K · 27 January 2015 at 9:11AM

57. I'm using up some brown skinned bananas with almond milk today to make lovely smoothies.

58. I used a free towelette thing from a restaurant to wipe down my kitchen counters.

[Deleted User] · 27 January 2015 at 11:05AM

Everyone is doing so well, I'm in awe:A.

Please can anyone help with an urgent problem I have. It's mice in my food cupboard:eek:. I say 'mice' in the plural, there may just be one with a hearty appetite,but I have discovered lots of nibbled bags/boxes and some shredded paper from a paper bag that was in there. This is very recent damage as I know exactly what food is in there and don't have big stocks of 'old' stuff. Most of what's in there is eaten by the end of each month. It/they have nibbled through a couple of plastic packs of pasta shapes and a new huge plastic bag of porage oats but the holes are not massive so I hope I can salvage most of the contents as the packs were new and unused. Being very strapped for cash and finding even providing food each month from a very tight budget a major problem I can't afford to toss away edible food:o

I have had a good rake out of the cupboard and there are no visible mouse-droppings in there and I have given the shelves a good anti-bac clean. I'm also going out to get a couple of mousetraps today too. I shall have to put all foodstuffs like pasta etc into sealed plastic containers so buying some is another unwanted expense I'll have to take on board today:(

My question is, is it safe to eat food from the packs that the mice have nibbled small holes in but haven't obviously 'got at' yet, or do I need to bite the bullet and get rid of the lot?

Incidentally, in all the years we lived here (in the country) we NEVER had mice in the house. It's only since getting a cat that they have appeared:rotfl:. He catches lots of creatures in the garden/fields(rabbits,birds,mice etc) but never kills or eats them. He drags them fully alive and unmarked through the cat flap and chases them round the house. When they escape from him and scurry behind something like the washing machine where he can't squeeze himself he just loses all interest in them. I saw this happen four times (as well as times when I've chased him off before he's dragged a creature through the flap)and managed to catch 2 baby rabbits, encouraged a bird to fly out of the door and have trapped a mouse in the hallway. I thought that was all for now. There might be others in little nests all over the house as a result of his antics that I don't even know about:eek:

Thanks for reading, I hope you can help. Maybe another thread may be the best place to put this request but I thought I'd try here first.

allybee101 · 27 January 2015 at 11:07AM

Squeezed in 95 & 96 this morning before work, a carrier bag of recycling and recycled a pile of leaflets from a talk I did a while ago that can't be re-used.

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