The Great Declutter - 18 months on

longhotbath

Wow - one box sorted and contents put away/paperwork filed/ disposed. - by 10.20am :j. I am going to do a box a day.

I did the childrens reward charts, and did one for me and OH too!!:rotfl:

I have to sort out a box a day, put one load of ironing away, do an hours paperwork, and tidy up the kitchen by 10pm. For each, I get a star:j, and after 6 I get to have candles and a long hot soak.....

On to the paperwork now!!

fabulous_girl

I receive my subscription to this thread every morning on my blackberry and I read it before I get out of bed. It really motivates me, but then I get up and go to work all day and before I know it, its bedtime and I haven't done any decluttering! I did get some ebaying done though so thats a few bits out. Trying to persuade my friend to have a boot fair with me.

I have a couple of new rules clothes wise that I will be enforcing. The main one being, don't buy anything unless you love it more than your current favourite item of clothing. That way you're constantly improving. I have been on a selfimposed clothes buying ban for ages, so when I use this rule I will also adopt a one-inone-out policy because all my stuff is in tatters.

3 Years ago i was packing up my stuff to go back to uni for my final year, and I counted my knickers as they went into my case. I had in excess of 70 pairs most of which were new and pretty decent. I decided then that I wasn't going to buy any more til I needed them, and save for a couple of slipups, I've been true to that, but now I need new ones. So have decided that every week I will buy one new pair and get rid of 3 old ones.

Sweetpeanut

right im back on here again!!! 1 charity bag filled;), 1 bin bag odds & sods for the bin,;), 2 small bags of doggy poop:o, sorry bout that 1,6 mags to the recycle bin, last-nites left over chicken in sauce with pasta, for me & DD2 for dinner, thats all for now:D, but i'll be back soon :D

Patchwork_Quilt

Out
A beloved pair of jeans - but the zip broke - a grey suit (hate grey but it was a freebie from a friend) and a bag of baby clothes passing through me from one friend to another.

In
Weekly food shop, nothing else.

zarazara

OUT 2 sacks of bin rubbish and some glass bottles for recycling
IN a plant pot holderand 6 bags of food shopping.

luxor4t

OUT to Freecycle:
DH's weights, bench, dum- & bar-bells.

Woohoo, got half the garage back :j

MadamMim2013

IN
A large glass whisky bottle (for collecting pennies in!!);)
Various bits of wood and oddments from my mothers shed.... hubbys idea??:eek:

OUT
2 bags for the pdsa (well still to be filled)... technically out??:rolleyes:
various bits for rubbish(currently still decorating)

Still got paper shredding to do and that will mean a LARGE bag for recycling! lol

mandragora_2

In
Broken bird bath bits - salvaged from the back of our son's garden, and already used to repair our own bird bath, which shattered in the worst of this year's deep-freeze winter

Out:
Hedge clippings and grass mowings to the composting skip at the tip.

frugalswan

Mind if I join in with this? I'm trying to streamline a few places and cupboards here, and it'd be good to keep the motivation up.

Out: Bag of clothes I'll never wear again, to go to a charity shop tomorrow

Callisto

Really don't know where the weekend has gone, haven't managed to do much decluttering at all.

In

Two tops given to me by my Mum as they didn't fit her properly

Out

Five flannels given to my Mum, they came with my towel sets and I've never used them

Necklace I've never worn wrapped for my sister's birthday tomorrow and card taken around to her house (very broke at the moment as work through an agency - was off three days ill and don't get paid for being off sick)

Pending

Items still to be listed on Ebay.... ongoing saga... don't ask!