The Great Declutter - 18 months on

moneytree1

In
Food for next month

Out

1/2 bin bag

fedupandskint

Weekend update and today
IN
Reduced favourite perfume and matching bath salts
Mascapone cheese
Hair dye on offer
2 chutney jars from mum for making more later on!

OUT
Broken bit of shed
lots for compost bin for veg peelings
Rubbish into bin
Brother's birthday hamper and cookies and card
Jar of chutney to mum

That's better than I thought! Thought more in than out originally

Marru

Hi,

Can I please join you. I moved here (Somerset) from London couple of years ago and chucked then an awful lot of stuff away. There is still fair amount of stuff that I didn't have time to sort through and it is now residing in my garage (and my wardrobes and understairs cupboard). To make things worse I started buying books to sell just before the recession so now I am stuck with five and half thousand of books. I have just applied for a job about 100 miles away and if I get it I will be in serious trouble if I haven't managed to get rid of huge amount of stuff by the end of August.

My aim is to go through the whole house and categorise each item into one of the following categories:
- Love it
- Need it/use it
- Sell it
- Freecycle it
- Recycle it
- Chuck it

I will be starting on Wednesday and if I am not here on Wednesday evening telling you about my progress then please shout at me.

Thank you!

Rainbowchild

OUT
Old pc to freecycle (collected this evening)
Old audio tapes (can't find out if they can be recycled)

PENDING
CD and DVD's in bag ready to go to charity shop

IN
Nothing

pixie1

Out

Loads of general rubbish all sorted and recycled where possible.
Had to throw away one cat bowl and one cafeteaire that the unaccompanied bagage people kindly SMASHED during transit


In
A brown, multi layered wooden box for my Hubs to keep his cuff links and watches, loose change and bank cards in, for on his bedside table. $50 AUD I know this wasnt a budget buy but he just throws things in a mug at the moment, they fall all over the floor, go up the hoover hose etc etc. It drives me mad :mad:

We are moving to a smaller property in ten days time so we need to use careful storage so that the place isnt cluttered.


ok i think ive just about justified my purchase lol

Pix

debidoodle

In

Ebay win


Out

5 Ebay parcels
papers for recycling
Kitchen bin rubbish
veggie peelings for composter

poorbutrich

zarazara wrote: »

Poorbutrich, report the person to the freecycle moderator. Thats well out of order.

Ah that's nice of you, but it's probably my fault for being too impatient. I have no doubt that if I reported it, it would be me who gets the telling off, such is the freecycle group I am in! There's no way I could wean myself off freecycle really, so will have to learn some patience! :rotfl:

Marru wrote: »

Hi,

My aim is to go through the whole house and categorise each item into one of the following categories:
- Love it
- Need it/use it
- Sell it
- Freecycle it
- Recycle it
- Chuck it
QUOTE]

I think this is a marvellous idea! Am already mulling over which category my partner goes into!!:T

Calephetos

SugarSpun wrote: »

In:

Out:

Nothing, although I'll be rinsing out the Lush pots today and putting them with the others for recycling.

Y'know, they now give you a free face mask when you bring back 5 black pots. In case those were the ones you were recycling.

(Although, you probably know this already... Hmm )

Yorkielass

Two pretty full recycling bins went out this morning
Foil taken to the bin in Sainsburys car park too for local preserved railway


In:
A couple more small really useful boxes which already have a purpose in mind next weekend

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

In: Nothing:D

Out:
Ruined Laminate flooring and underlay from utility room (wrecked by slow leak from washing machine - only discovered yesterday:mad:)
Loads of things dug out of the back of our wardrobes ready to do a car boot sale this weekend.
Four items of clothing listed on Ebay - finishing this weekend