greent's mfw journey

usa1 · 18 February 2015 at 6:52AM

Sorry to hear of your loss.
Are you selling your BTL?

RoaringTwenties · 18 February 2015 at 9:02AM

So sorry to hear of your loss, as I parent I can't imagine what your friend is going through. Take care xx

greent · 3 March 2015 at 11:50AM

Thanks for all the comments

xx The funeral is this week - I know it will be sad, but am sure it will also be a wonderful celebration of her life.

Decluttering still going well - sold over 100 items/ bundles of items at a nearly new sale last weekend:j Current update is:

88 - 89. presents and cards for 2 birthdays taken from stash (am trying to run this down, particularly the presents)
90. Colour Me Beautiful 'personalised' colour swatch folder - bin
91. Lots of old birthday/ Xmas/ Easter cards - recycled
92. Lots of old love letters from when I was a teenager - recycled
93 -94. 2 more sets of toys sold on ebay
95. A rather perished and deflated beach ball (bought when 17yo DD was 1!) - bin
96. Yet more underwear!!
97. Carrier bag full of clothes rag-bag bin
98. Promotional postcards and leaflets from when I used to do massage - recycled
99. mirror - charity shop
100. keyboard - charity shop
101. gorgeous briefcase - charity shop
102. dress -sold - ebay
103. cuddly toy - sold - ebay
104. 4 pillowcases - donated
105. pretty hand towel - donated
106. 2 cast iron trivets - charity shop
107. pretty vase which no longer goes with any colour scheme - charity shop
108. brooch - charity shop
109. unwanted item of costume jewellery - charity shop
110. more underwear - bin
111. outgrown socks and some pants - to school for their spares
112. outgrown school trousers - to school for spares
113. 10 tubes/ bottles of handcream/ bodylotion - donated
114 - 241 - No of items/ bundles of items sold at NNS 28/2/15 :-)
242. - 252 - Books sold via Ziffit
253. toys sold on ebay
254. jewellery sold on ebay
255. cookie cutters - charity shop
256. picture - charity shop
257. 2 soft toys - charity shop
258. lampshade - charity shop
259. set of Bob the Builder stencils - charity shop
260. Unused Easter cross stitch kit - charity shop
261. LOTS of dried up pens/ chewed up pencils - bin
262. LOTS of recipes from magazines - recycled

Ebaying has slowed down, but I plan on listing about a dozen items on there today. Am slowly clearing out unsold items from my ebay stash to the charity shop or elsewhere. I also have a box of books and a binliner of clothes for the C4C place which I shall do later this month - am going to try and add some more before I go.

Ooh - I have a job! Only exam invigilating - so VERY part time - but it's proper paid work!!!:rotfl: I don't want a 'real' job with regular hours so this suits me just fine! I shall throw my miniscule earnings from it at the mortgage and then towards the new kitchen and boiler

Mortgage balance stands today at £8209 - and I have no more spare funds this month. I would love to knock the £209 off before the month end - hence some more ebaying. £30 is still to come from Ziffit (assuming they accept all) and there will be maybe £10 from C4C. I have no cashback expected this month (or if any appears it will be < £10) I do have some old gold which would do it - if I get it all together and take it into town. It is a busy month, though. Aside from standard stuff I have the funeral, 2 mornings in school for literature/ numeracy info meetings, a PTA event, the post NNS stuff to do, my birthday (:D), mothering Sunday, m-I-l's birthday, parents evenings for 3 children, a night out to see Ian McCulloch (:D), a training day for my new job(!), a presentation evening for Cubs, a trip to see the Octonauts live, PTA meeting, an open day at a uni with DD - and there's other stuff which I also need to do. And I want to do more decluttering!!!!

It's getting addictive!:p

Karmacat · 3 March 2015 at 2:36PM

Thats amazing! Truly, well done on that amount of decluttering and **selling** not just getting shot of it!

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS · 3 March 2015 at 5:33PM

You must be feeling fab x x x x

Congratulations on the job, as well as the decluttering

Best wishes, Tilly 😄

apple_muncher · 3 March 2015 at 6:40PM

Yay to the job - well done! And yay to amaaaaazing decluttering and selling. That mortgage-freedom is soo close!

Firegirl · 3 March 2015 at 6:48PM

Wow amazing selling!!! Well done:beer:

Goldiegirl · 3 March 2015 at 10:02PM

Fab decluttering!

Well done:)

CathT · 4 March 2015 at 7:47AM

Wow, your decluttering list is impressive! Is there much more to go? I dread to think what carp we have lurking in wardrobes!

greent · 9 March 2015 at 7:42PM

And the decluttering STILL continues - there is so much there once you start really looking!!:eek:

I am trying to sell as a primary aim - but have decided not to hang on too long to things which aren't selling - even if they cost ££ and are unused

- they have no value to me, after all, so I may as well get rid and then I can't feel bad about them lurking in my cupboards!:D And someone will hopefully benefit from them from the charity shop

263. Stretched and bobbly jumper - recycled
264. Very OOD packet of tikka mix (was a freebie) binned
265. Corset style top -unworn - charity
266. Dolphin ornament - unwanted Xmas pressie - charity
267 -268. 2 x Mothering Sunday gifts sorted from stash (mainly regifts)
269. pile of unused and unwanted birthday/ occasion cards - charity
270. unused pack of phone screen protectors - charity
271. several large blue IKEA bags - donated to a local charity which uses them
272 - 285. 2 pairs gold earrings, 1 gold locket, 1 gold brooch, 1 gold bracelet, 2 gold chains, 1 gold tie pin, 1 gold tie bar, 2 silver rings, 1 silver bracelet, 1 silver tie pin, 2 pairs silver earrings - SOLD
286. cake tin and large gift box - used to take cake donations to a funeral and left with the donations

287. cake tin (for baking) - charity (do I really need 3 the same???)
288. 4 unused eyeshadows/ eye shadow sets - donated
289. 9 unused body lotions - charity
290. 2 lipsticks in a weird shade - bin
291. unused hair treatment product - charity
292. large stockpot and lid - charity
293. frying pan - charity

'Stuff' isn't important - people are. Too much 'stuff' = time spent on dealing with it when I could be doing more fun/ productive things with/ for other people.

Hope everyone is well - I have much catching up to do (again) xxx

greent's mfw journey

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