The Great Declutter - 18 months on

geek0

OUT

Carboot yesterday too many items to list the rest went to the charity shop :T

luxor4t

OUT:
bag of clothes to Oxfam
voucher from a newspaper (rest recycled)

IN:
£10 wys £50 at M&S voucher

Coming soon to the Decluttering webpages.... the great 'OUT old underwear, IN: new underwear' saga! Can't hold out much longer for the M&S sale and we're off on holiday soon

pigpen

IN

Nothing

OUT

1 box of XH gibble and clothes and junk
1 electric razor from the bathroom window sill.. unused for the last 6 years since it was bought new for him has also been flung in his direction.. just 3 more boxes to go of his stuff!!

ebay...

Everything paid for has gone, though I have 1 NPB.. gggrrrr... Why bid then not pay?!! Morons.. I hate ebay!!. Few bits listed.. 2 with watchers.. nothing exciting happening there.

hollyh

I have been sorting through weeks of paperwork:o so today,

In

Nothing

Out

64 pieces of paper, envelopes junk mail etc - Recycle bin
5 magazines - Recycle bin

chardonnay_2

morganlefay wrote: »

I know this sounds very wet, but can one of you kind people who sound so confident about it steer me towards an idiot's guide to selling on e bay ? I looked on the site (I buy things, but have never sold) and it all looks very daunting and I have quite a few things I'd like to get some cash for. Or is there some other forum I should look in? I'm sure that if I could sell a few things I'd feel more confident and be able to get started on the mountain of stuff which fills my house, but it all just seems too complicated (and I looked at using a trading assistant, but to pay them 30% sounds like an awful lot).
I would be very grateful for any ideas.....

Hiya, there is a dedicated thread to ebay on this board where you might get more help but my top tips are:

get yourself a set of scales cheap ones from a supermarket will do. make sure you weigh each item allowing for packaging then go to royal mails website to get the correct prices. make sure you add a little to the price to cover the cost of packing materials etc.

post outside of the uk - you will get loads of european and worldwide sales due to the economy. just get the price off royal mail international prices and add them to your listing as it will attract buyers.

if the item is just clutter start it at 99p - it's free and you might be surprised how much it goes for.


turbo lister is fab - you'll find a download for it on ebay if you search their sitemap (top right) . this allows you to edit / add listings at your leisure then upload them all at once say a sunday night to finish in 7 days.
god luck

zarazara

In : a couple of plants :-)
Out: some broken glass, 3 bags of old paperwork for recycling
2 black bags of bin rubbish, old furry cusion that was in the cat bed, several old plastic buckets and plant pots

pending: xmas decorations I put on freecycle.Just deciding who
to give them too.

wilf55

In

groceries

out

letters posted
bin men came bin emptied and paper bin also emptied
4 run out pens
driver shaft - sold on ebay
1 parcel - sold on ebay

xx_Jo_xx

In - two pairs of new shoes for DS (he put a hole in his school shoes the last week of term)

OUT - 2 Ebay parcels posted

Pending - two other ebay parcels waiting payment
A single headboard (need to text freecycler to arrange collection)
Bag of hangers waiting to go!

Think I will do another trip round the toiletries to see what else can go! xx

poorbutrich

IN
- more books from a boot sale at the weekend
- fruit and veg - most from market, some from my growbags, and a friend's garden

OUT
- lots of stuff to same boot sale and charity shop - the house is looking a lot better and has become a bit echoey, so maybe I've gone too far!
- A couple of books and other bits and bobs on eBay
- a couple of larger items on freecycle
-two large items of clothing that were way past their best and irreperable to textile recycling.

I have a strange item - not sure how I can declutter it. It's a very expensive piece of underwear that was destined to be worn under a wedding dress - any ideas? eBay has taken one of my listings down recently (for a very innocuous item!), the lady on freecycle keeps issuing me with tellings off (for trying to upload a picture, for trying to offer tickets to an event, and for sending a "taken" message to let people know the item had gone??????), so I am a bit stumped. Any ideas welcome - PM me if you want a more thorough description of this mystery item!!

pigpen

In

2 carseats for the 2 littlies
1 mattress (to be leaving along with the mattress in a few weeks)
1 new single bed for DD2

Out

my last ebay parcel... buyer took a week to pay after being sent 3 reminders and a nagging message yesterday I went on to log a NPB thingy and he had paid... so it was posted recorded... so I KNOW he has got it!!