The Great Declutter - 18 months on

Hollyberry

I keep slinking back to this thread, embarrased at my lengthy absence, but resolving to somehow get more stuff out of the house... Anyway, I've had a reasonable clearing session this week, having taken out all the clothes off two of my rails, and sorted them out.

IN:

• Large bag of salad, so we can pretend it's summer
• Bottle of champagne for a friend

PENDING:

• 20 items for sale on eBay, on turbolister and ready to be listed on Sunday

OUT:

• Three jackets, two skirts and a pair of trousers which are all beyond repair - to cloth recycling
• One pair of boots, two pairs of shoes and one pair of flip flops
• 19 eBay parcels
• 1 Amazon sale

pollys

On holiday this week so hoping to get some cleaning/decluttering done. Will post the results at the end of the week.

Happy decluttering everyone.

Yorkielass

Bad day for incoming today :o

Went to Ikea and bought a dressing table, some plant pots, and a couple of cleaning products so could (and has) been a lot worse.

Then a few reduced plants and a couple of other bits from Homebase on 10% off day with vouchers and will either go on window sills or in the garden over the weekend.

essexgal

IN:
Nuthin' (except special award certificate for DD2:D)

OUT:
Nuthin' yet - but will list listing stuff on freecycle this weekend.

So, not bad, could be better.......

essexgal

calleyw

Right today

IN:

A newspaper and lottery ticket (better be a winning one :rotfl:)

OUT:

Bin liner full of plastic bottles, juice cartons and cardboard. All walked over to the recycling centre.

This afternoon went to my mums took up a load of newspapers, a novel, a loaf of bread and some pre-sliced baps and some pastry and two boxes of choc ices.(all food items where frozen)

Yours

Calley

essexgal

IN:
new extractor fan/ducting/diy type stuff
2 new buckets + packet of 5 sponges
vegetables for tonights dinner, french bread and yogurt

OUT:
masses of spiders from shed.....:rolleyes:
old broken extractor fan - tip (before neighbour said we could use his skip:j)
old paddling pool (with huge hole in bottom ) - skip
4 old garden chair cushions - beyond redemption:o - skip
1 old piece of foam - skip
2 v. old fold up garden chairs - v. rusty - skip
1 v. old rusty bbq (at least 10 years old) - tip (as wouldn't fit in neighbour's skip....:D)
1 length of grotty extension cable with no ends....
1 old ripped holey tarpaulin

toddlers slide, seesaw and coupe - freecycled

PENDING:
hopefully more freecycle stuff to be collected tomorrow + listing some more tonight.

essexgal

paybacktime2008

Hi all,

I'm on the start of a very long decluttering journey along chaos road to neat and tidy organised land!

But today..

Out.

4 bags of 'rubbish' old paperwork, junk mail etc etc.


In

Some nifty containers for the rabbit food, dog food etc
shorts, t shirt and sandals for ds


Hmm I thought id had a great day but looking at the above i wonder if thats so!

Yorkielass

paybacktime2008 - just think if you hadn't got rid of those 4 bags of paper they'd still be cluttering up your house, if you get rid of that much stuff every week it will back a big difference :T:T

In:

A couple of pieces of post
A bag of compost

Out:

• 2 more cosmetics items and some sachets used up :j
• Lots of plants and planters etc into the garden that were in the dining room and garage - all looking lots better and lots of veggies growing
• Dinner was leftovers from the freezer

essexgal

IN:
'posh' tablecloth + runner (from freecycle) - stone-coloured linen with mother of pearl squares stitched on - really beautiful.
remainder of pizza hut meal out.... (hungry work looking at bbqs and new sheds:D)

OUT:
strimmer + flymo extension lead (to freecycler)
one car load of stuff from second shed (all mouldy/rusty/broken/split - needed chucking but never got round to it at time....:o- all to tip:j
the shed now has stuff boxed/bagged up ready for ebay / the white elephant stall at the summer fete....don't think there'll be a lot left in there after that....:A

essexgal

nodwah

OUT:

2 bags of past it clothes to the scout's rag bag appeal

1 big bin bag of small boxes that I offered time and again on Freecycle as I thought they'd be good for an ebayer's packaging - thought wrong no-one wanted them, finally in the bin!