The Great Declutter - 18 months on

essexgal

IN:
free copy of moneywise magazine
2 flatpack bookcases (beech)
karcher washer (sort of in - lent it to Dad and now it's back....)
steamer (was in shed but has now made it into the house)

OUT:
old steamer - to Dad - he has same model but his trays are cracked....:rotfl:

Daughters also cleared out the rubbish that has been accumulating in the car :A- didn't get round to washing it though...:o

essexgal

fedupandskint

In
Spices for cooking from scratch

OUT
Recycling paper and plastic/glass

Not much else!

Yorkielass

In:

Few bits of post
Food shop
2 veggie plants from a work colleague

Out

Most of the bits of post into shredder/recycling bin
Mug and tissues back to work
3 ebay parcels to post office

LydiaJ

Can I join?
I am a hoarder by nature, and single parent to two children who seem to find getting rid of even obviously useless stuff even harder than I do.
Today I am having a particularly bad day with clutter, because I haven't just got too much of it, but it's all over the place. I was avoiding dealing with it and then I saw this thread...
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OK so since typing that I have symbolically thrown something away - a stupid board game that wasn't much fun to play (even for the kids) and hadn't got all its pieces anyway.
In the morning (well, it is morning now, but YKWIM) the kids and I are going to try to have a house sorting out day for half term. I'll post to say what we manage to get rid of.
Lydia

essexgal

Good luck Lydia

Don't know how old your children are but my youngest is 7, and what I've found works best with her is if we sort through (for example) ALL the cuddly soft toys - and for every two she keeps, she passes one on - and then at the very end she's allowed (as she's been so good), to take one back out of the 'passing on' pile. She feels she's gained an extra (and I feel that we've thinned them out considerably). I now have a sack of cuddlies in the shed ready for the school fete....:j (we had over a hundred....:o:o)

I recently had a good book sort out too - we got rid of four boxes of books/videos at the guides jumble sale - and bought one really nice dinosaur book (30p:D) as our 'exchange'.

essexgal

paybacktime2008

Good luck Lydia. I am the same. Like mother like son. Two hoarders living together.
We have come up with a plan! We are going to carboot the old toys/clothes etc and I have told him I will double the money it makes (could be an expensive mistake) and he can spend that any way he pleases.

Good Luck with you sorting today...I'm finding it very therapeutic.

yukkibear

I really need to get back into this thread. I have clutter everywhere in my house and it never seems to get any better no matter how hard I try.

Today I haven't brought anything into the house but nothing has left either, so will try to rid the house of a few things tomorrow without buying more.

paybacktime2008

Someone might find this useful.

http://www.flylady.net/pages/FLYingLessons_Declutter.asp

IN

wood cleaner
dishcloths
freezer pots
whoopsies for the freezer


OUT

Various spiders abodes (sorry spiders)
1 bin bag of assorted tut (in the woods of Sir Alan Sugar)

zarazara

in a fish supper
out nothing :-(

allydowd

In:
Replacement Freeview Recorder
Jigsaw puzzle from charity shop

Out:
Old, useless, paperwork in my maiden name
Recycling
Jigsaw puzzle to charity shop