The Great Declutter - 18 months on

hollyh

Hi,

Today i have

In

Batteries for Ds2's game

Out

Broken tv to tip
Broken tv stand to tip
Bag of shredded paper for recycling

greent

IN:

• new (deep) sheets and pillowcases for new bed (mattress deeper than old one) - 25% off at Debenhams
• 2 Christy beach towels (£9.45 each, reduced from £18 each)
• cute outfit for new baby (reduced in Debenhams) - only the 2nd new clothes thing I've bought for it
• 2 bottles of lancome eye make up remover - only one I've found which doesn't irritate - 10% off in Debenahms, got a 'free' gift and used a voucher which I had for ny birthday 2.5 months ago
• wrapping paper for my mum's bday pressie
• crinkly caterpillar toy - present from my mum for baby
• 2 feeding bras from m&s (25% off )
• nail gun to repair bannisters which were removed in order to get mattress in loft!
• £100 from selling old/ broken gold jewellery - towards holiday spending fund. Now at over £400 from ebay, surveys, quidco etc and this )

OUT:

• more packaging/ recycling
• pAIr of school trousers returned to M&S - didn't fit DS1
• Beavers log book to freecycle (DS1 now in cubs and never completed it)
• lots of magazines etc to recycling
• old/ broken gold jewellery sold

Have spent most of weekend decorating, rather than decluttering. Am very tired now. Due date tomorrow - but other 3 were late, so am not expecting anything different with this one:D General tidying/ cleaning in order this week, I think, rather than anything else. OH finishing bannister repair tonight and sealing new shower.

Right - off to chase children for school run!

greent x

victoria_ice

Hi, I have a house full of stuff and have now decided that enough is enough and I am going to start getting rid - Ebay, car boots, charity shops etc. with an aim to being more decluttered by the end of the year, and hopefully make some money along the way. Anyone else up for the great 2009 declutter?

I have read the Enough is enough - the great declutter up to page 145 and would like to start a new thread for the ones of us who are just starting out on the decluttering journey.

Hopefully the ones of you who are near the end of your decluttering can pop along and give us your support and tips.

Penelope_Penguin

victoria_ice wrote: »

I have read the Enough is enough - the great declutter up to page 145 and would like to start a new thread for the ones of us who are just starting out on the decluttering journey.

The current declutter thread is only up to page 57 (page 29 if you have 40 posts per page ). Board Guides have been advised that threads can run to over 4000 posts, so I'll add this post to the existing thread.

If you're unhappy with this policy, please contact abuse, whose e-mail address is in my signature.

Penny. x

victoria_ice

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

The current declutter thread is only up to page 57 (page 29 if you have 40 posts per page ). Board Guides have been advised that threads can run to over 4000 posts, so I'll add this post to the existing thread.

If you're unhappy with this policy, please contact abuse, whose e-mail address is in my signature.

Penny. x

I didnt say I was unhappy with this policy.

I was only saying I thought us newbie declutterers would like somewhere that was uncluttered to talk about our journey into a clean and clutter free house. Sorry if I offended with what I said, I didnt mean to upset anyone.

Penelope_Penguin

victoria_ice wrote: »

Sorry if I offended with what I said, I didnt mean to upset anyone.

No offence taken

Penny. x

victoria_ice

In

NOTHING

Out

1 binbag of rubbish
1 carrier of kitchen scaps for compost bin

PENDING

12 items in Turbolister ready to be listed on Thursday

essexgal

victoria_ice wrote: »

I thought us newbie declutterers would like somewhere that was uncluttered

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

this [STRIKE]oldie[/STRIKE] perpetual declutterer would like ANYWHERE that was uncluttered.:D

However in the past couple of months or so it has got slightly better:

OUT
metal high sleeper bed + pine junior bed - to furniture recycle scheme.
Pine effect wardrobe, four drawer chest, five drawer chest - to sister.
two small single wardrobes - to tip as couldn't dismantle them easily and they sort of fell apart.......:eek:
4 black ash bookcases (donkeys years) - to freecycle
2 part sets crockery (one of which was an engagement present over 20+ years old....:o), glasses and ice bucket, odd glasses, girls melamine plate and bowl - freecycle
Riverdance video - to sister for a joke present for a friend...:rotfl:
stacks of cardboard/paper recycling
some clothing bits, scooby doo odds and ends - to friend for her kids.
useless tin opener
old carpet (20 years old:o) - to dump

IN
metal shorty bunk beds
sliding door wardrobe + 2 chests of drawer and dressing table unit
new curtains, laminate, skirting board and paint for small bedroom.
4 beech effect bookcases
new pillows (stuffing from old ones to be washed and recycled into gifty things for Christmas fete), pillow protectors, fitted bedsheets, 4 new duvet covers (one to be made into pillowcases as they weren't included, one to be resized from superking to king), 7 matching cushion covers (down from £16.99 each to 99p each....:T)
New everyday crockery + matching glasses - finally found something we both liked....:rotfl::rotfl: OH has been moaning about mismatched plates for at least two years.....:o
new placemats
new tin opener
brand new skirt (Adams) for DD2 - from charity shop

PENDING OUT

Old bedding now surplus to requirements (double fitted sheets, ancient duvet covers, etc) - probably freecycle or charity shop
old curtains from small bedroom (must have been up at least 14 years)
Some books - new bookcases don't hold so much but then again don't take up so much room..... - to school summer fete bookstall
outgrown clothes/shoes - ebay, charity shop, recycling depending on condition.
old placemats - pta white elephant

probably loads more that I've forgotten but am trying to implement the one good item in = two (or more) items out.

Must try to get back to posting each day.

essexgal

Karmacat

OUT:
- loads and loads of garden rubbish - 5 or 6 supermarket bags.
- old passbooks and credit cards, cut up - half thrown away, waiting to throw the other half until after the next bin collection, for security's sake.

LameWolf

I'm a good girl - I went to the local pagan moot last night, and took some stuff for the bring'n'buy table that I'd had sitting around for years gathering dust.

In fact, so "dust-gathering" were the two items, that I had to search for them for 10 minutes before I found where I'd stashed them!

And I didn't buy anything else to bring home!:A LOL

I don't often contribute to this thread, but I'm feeling pleased with myself.:p