The Great Declutter - 18 months on

hollyh

Todays efforts

In

A painting Ds2 did in nursery

Out

A bag of shredded paper
Loads of toilet roll tubes
Wrapper off a bunch of flowers
Old pair of ripped jeans

It all went to nursery for their craft stuff.

charlies_mum

victoria_ice wrote: »

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.

This is what I originally started the thread with in February 2007

"Right, I have a house full of stuff (4 beds and double garage full), and have decided that enough is enough.

I am going to start getting rid - Ebay, car boots etc. with an aim to being more or less clear by the end of the year, and hopefully make some money. Anyone else up for the great 2007 clear out ? "

It's one thing trying to pinch my thread, but you could have at least used your own words :rotfl:

Yorkielass

Welcome Victoriaice :wave: no matter how hard I try I don't ever get to the end of decluttering and I don't thing anyone every does - but posting on here and reading what others have done does really help whatever stage you're at!

Karmacat I have the same problem as you but with cards, birthday, Christmas, congratulations etc etc I like to keep them all. What I am trying to do is keep them all for one year and then the following year I keep all of those and go through the ones for the year before and take out the special ones from my OH, parents, grandads etc and just keep them and recycle the rest. Most of my correspondence these days is by email, text and facebook so not many letters lying around.

Lamewolf - well done :A definitely deserved.

Making a start with my week off work, more decluttering happening slowly - will report back when I've got a bit more done. But nothing in today apart from Tesco clubcard vouchers and a leaflet from the BNP which went straight in the recycling :T

Karmacat

Yorkielass wrote: »

Karmacat I have the same problem as you but with cards, birthday, Christmas, congratulations etc etc I like to keep them all. What I am trying to do is keep them all for one year and then the following year I keep all of those and go through the ones for the year before and take out the special ones from my OH, parents, grandads etc and just keep them and recycle the rest. Most of my correspondence these days is by email, text and facebook so not many letters lying around.

Thanks Yorkielass. I do still keep special cards - tho what I tend to do these days is scan the pix of cats, and throw the rest out :rotfl: its the letters that I'm confused about. There's a really big box - I've got one pack that dates back to 1980!!! We had phones, but we didn't really use them to keep in touch in those days - we mostly wrote - and I had a flash job in London at the time too! It sounds like a different planet ... I think I'm going to do a weeding kind of thing first - I want to keep some from my sister and my mum, but friends I've lost touch with, and notes about this and that can just go.

Thank heaven for email, is all I can say.

fedupandskint

OUT
Pair of boots which were ruined

IN
bag of peanuts and raisions
Not much else

Have slowed down this month on decluttering and will pick up the reigns again shortly to restart the ebay declutter mission. Need to clear the front room of ebay stash and spare furniture to get ready for decorating!

candyblue

Today when I get home from work its the great clean and tidy before everyone comes round on Friday, the house is a tip and I intend to get rid of a lot of clutter.Already before work I have got rid of two large bags of rubbish, more to report later

Yorkielass

Well all the recycling has gone out and been collected, the stuff we don't get collected is in the boot ready to take later.

All the useless post received in the recycling/shredder pile.

Nothing else in, just a radio times that came in the post, so that's good.

nodwah

Hi all, I'm still trying to declutter..

I'm actually off sick today (oops) so I've been sitting on the couch shredding paper - shredder's on fire!!!

We have a 2 drawer filing cabinet that is still overflowing with paper I just can't keep on top of it

zarazara

In; loads of food
Out; bit of plastic rubbish

Patchwork_Quilt

Out - pending Freecycle collection - old wooden blanket chest (sob!) as we have no room in this house
also, a Quality Street tin for a friend's bird food, a tin she gave a scrumptious cake to me in and her Bag for Life

In - nothing