The Great Declutter - 18 months on

tattycath

Out:

3 bags of rubbish

In:

Nothing


Quick question if I may... In our house we have 4 beds...How much bedding should we need? At the moment we have a cupboard full of bedding-there's mountains of it. Similarly there are 5 of us in the house and about 30 towels...not sure how we have accumulated so many towels and so much bedding!!!!
Thanks for your time.

luxor4t

Started on the garage... :eek:

OUT: to charity shops
- two black bags of videos
- mountain of books


IN: :o:o
- vintage folding 'director' style chair to paint up for the garden (I blame Cath Kidston!) well, it does have a mug tray on the side;)
- logbox with painted glass lid

Next time I will send DH to the charity shops alone...

fedupandskint

tattycath wrote: »

Quick question if I may... In our house we have 4 beds...How much bedding should we need? At the moment we have a cupboard full of bedding-there's mountains of it. Similarly there are 5 of us in the house and about 30 towels...not sure how we have accumulated so many towels and so much bedding!!!!
Thanks for your time.

Hi Tattycath - I would say 2 sets of bedding per bed for summer and winter so you have a spare set to put to when the other is drying. Then the same for summer which is a lighter one (apparently it gets warm in summer) HTH

OUT
Bag of compost onto potatoes

IN
Planters for garden

Not much going on at the moment, I'm cracking on with it today and having a massive tidy up and declutter. The spare room is a terrible mess again all of a sudden

moonflower_2

Hi Tattycath I have 4 bedrooms and also had an airing cupboard full off sheets and as you say about 30/40 towels .My daughter canme to stay from Canada and really took me hand.I have two teenage daughters that use the towels as if there is no tomorrow.
I have now thrown out about 16/18 towels,some with bleach marks or old and scruffy.
Why are you keeping these MUM!!

Well I have told the girls that they are responsible for their own towels and I was told (daughter said to give them 2 sets each) I havnt gone that far.

I also threw our any sheet that were no longer white .Good luck be ruthless.

Yorkielass

I'm slowly working my way through my cosmetics as part of the 100 day challenge - which is to not buy anymore - and as a side shoot of this I'm trying to use up everything I already have. Working my way through travel shower gels atm :rolleyes:.

Have sold a few things and the money has gone onto a Boots giftcard so when I actually need something (i.e. when I've run out) I've got some money put aside for this. (and a gift card doesn't take up much space )

Also some books I'd borrowed from someone have gone back but have relatives coming to visit soon so desperately need to have a good tidy up/declutter before they arrive - need to start tonight

nicki_2

I had a clear out a week before last but couldn't put all the rubbish in the bin as it was too full. Then I completely forgot to put it in the bin this time around and remembered as I saw the binmen empty my half-empty wheelie bin this morning :rolleyes: So I just dumped it in my bin NOW. I'll have some more to go in there at the weekend once my new bed has arrived and I've recycled what I can

IN:
Nothing except post
Out:
Post for nextdoor put through mine again :rolleyes:
Set of curtains which had seen much better days, stank and were only suitable for the bin
Broken shopping trolley. No idea how I managed it, but thats what happens when things just get shoved into the understairs cupboard
Broken extension lead which I thought I'd already thrown out but must have got caught up with the things to go away

Can you tell I have a uni assignment to do where the deadline is today? :rotfl::rotfl:

Quasar

In the last 3 weeks I got rid of:

22 old books

2 large bin bags full of good clothes - to charity

several items of old crockery

Lots of old paperwork and statements shredded (about 2xA4 boxes worth)

1 pair of curtains - also to charity

16 old videos and DVD and CDs

And there's more I want to get through - lots of half empty bottles of sundry perfumes, hand lotions etc. They MUST be used by 30th June and the bottles dumped.

rosekitten

last year I went through all our towels
kept most of the hand towels and
four bath towels but got rid of the
large bath sheets.

The main reason I got rid of the bath
sheets is because they take up loads
of space and while in the Summer
months they can be dried on the washing
line (weather permitting) in the winter time
its lots of time in the tumble dryer.
So I am saving energy

Mostly we use the hand towels
and they take up less room and
can be washed & dried a lot cheaper

I thought everyone would miss the
bath sheets but I had them hidden
for six months and no one seemed
to miss them.

Also there are animal charities that
will take old towels to use to dry the
animals with so it might be worth
asking around localy to see if they
are any use to them

luxor4t

OUT:
- 5 cds to Musicmagpie
- 4 stacking boxes of assorted bric-a-brac to charity shops
- 2 large carrier bags of odd clothes,books etc to charity shops
- assorted clip frames with papyrus prints, also to charity shops
- piles of dead 'stuff' that DH was hoarding in the garage, to the tip

IN:
- 1 small jug
- 1 unopened jigsaw

I did see a [STRIKE]lovely[/STRIKE] old & tatty armchair that I could do up, but DH managed to drag me away

tattycath

out:

nothing

In:

4 kichen units & one worktop

(free -very mse!!! - from a kind friend/neighbour who is having a new kitchen fitted.)