The Great Declutter - 18 months on

Gers

OUT:
1) A huge pile of paper, some to the shredder and some in the brand new shiny blue wheelie bin left by the local council last week.
2) More unwanted kitchen items just cluttering up cupboards and drawers. I've found a good home for most of this stuff so don't feel bad about 'getting rid'. Lost the will to live with Freecycle!
3) Unwanted clothes which were living in the bottom of the wardrobe,

IN:
1) First food shopping for 10 days. Fridge almost totally empty apart from the wine rack!
2) Two new tops from Sainsbury's
3) Nothing else....

:j

pigpen

miserly_mum wrote: »

I know I shouldn't ask but...............how did you manage that?

The freecycle suspension??

I said they are not allowed to store personal info in unsecured home computers as it is in breach of the data protection act.. and they didn't like it!

pigpen

Spendless wrote: »

I'm in the North East too, just the southern most tip in Yorkshire. The other week I contemplated getting rid of dd's summer stuff but was talked out of it on this thread. Yesterday I put a jumper on in the morning and had to change to a t-shirt by afternoon and today has been the same. I've had washing on-line.

You can't be far from me then!

In

1 book

Out

1 binbag of rubbish
several pieces of wood
a small box of clothes for my cousin

skint_spice

Hi, I'd like to join too this time - I want to move next year and don't want to take all this junk with me!

I think I'll have to start in DS's room though...

System

hello i have come to join in with the decluttering :j

i have just signed up to make £1000 in 100 days, which starts tommorrow, and I am hoping to make cash and declutter at the same time, and live happily ever after in an anthea turner style home

- not likely as i am a chronic jumble sale addict :rotfl:but my plan is to get in the habit of things continually flowing out at a similar rate to them flowing in, before i end up in a sea of stuff like my parents (i am only 24 now but the mountains of junk are piling up fast already)

i have a week and a half off now, im between finishing work and going back to uni, so i am trying to get stuck in

i have taken all my books off my 2 bookcases this morning, cleared off a huge pile which looks like it is enough to fill one and.... i only have one empty shelf! :rolleyes: ahem they may have all been doubled up and crammed in before

oh well i have a theory that you need to go through things 3 times before they are properly decluttered, first you remove all the stuff you really really dont use, 2nd time the stuff you dont use but think you should use, and third the stuff you dont use as much as you thought you did

luxor4t

I blinked and the house was full....

DS1 has moved out (yes, really, he is not lost in the clutter!) & both DD and DS2 are now at uni.

Starting from 1st October we will be alone at home for the first time for 23 years :eek: . (Well, until the Xmas holidays )

I am planning a room by room mission: if it is not bolted down, useful, attractive or vital it is OUT. Maybe DH had better watch out :rolleyes:

Shall keep you posted!

miss*whisper

luxor4t wrote: »

I am planning a room by room mission: if it is not bolted down, useful, attractive or vital it is OUT. Maybe DH had better watch out :rolleyes:

Made me laugh! :rotfl:

I've decided to do the same here... gonna do 1 room at a time I think otherwise it'll overcome me (the size of the task, not a combined attack of junk!)

Cos can't really nag DD about her room being a tip when our room has all the camping equipment and boxes of stuff "that we can sell" just... lurking.

My options are now Ebay, freecycle, bin or keep - if keep, will find a home for it and not leave it there for "later" cos have found from experience that later never happens!

thriftmonster

chardonnay wrote: »

might be a stupid question but have you checked the dvd players etc and other dvd boxes or video games boxes?

Unfortunately yes and it's not there:mad: However we did find other dvds in the wrong boxes so that was a bonus. And because we agreed to pay they cancelled the account this weekend so we didn't have to make the next monthly payment on Mon - so it's a bit swings and roundabouts - if we had spent any longer looking we'd have tp pay another £9 anyway

Thanks for the idea though:D

Piquant_2

I've made great progress through, what laughingly could be called, the to do basket of papers. Some of the papers are four years old . Masses shredded and now on the compost heap, quite a bit filed and some in another box called cards and paper. I found quite a few of the birthday cards I've bought then been unable to find. Yes, they were in the to do basket I now have plenty of cards and paper for birthdays!

I've also got a pile of tops for Oxfam, will take them down next weekend. I can now shut one drawer without doing a warm-up routine.

Glittermonkey

I really need to join!

My garage is bursting with stuff. I have kept my DD's stuff for 6 years "just incase", well "just incase" is never going to happen so it has to go now!

I've listed some stuff on netmums that Im hoping will go very soon and I'm ebaying one black bag at a time, whatever doesn't sell can go down to the charity shop.

GM x