The Great Declutter - 18 months on

hollyh

Hi,

This is from today and yesterday. I'm doing a car boot sale tomorrow so i'm hoping to shift a load more then.

In

3 new winter duvets
Groceries
Birthday presents for Dsd1
Trousers for me

Out

Bin
Razor
Bubble bath bottle
Rein attatchment for reins i no longer have
Recycling
7 Cardboard boxes
3 magazines
12 old text books found in attic
3 pieces of junk mail

badkitti

I'm joining you. Just moved back from a gap year and got all our stuff out of storage in a friend's house. So far I have a clothes mountain (needs washing as smells musty) and boxes we have yet to unpack two weeks on - most of them!

Slowly uncluttering as I go. 5 carrier bags to charity so far.

Out
1 old broken toaster, long may it rest in piece
Newspaper etc. from unpacking (kept bubble wrap)

In
Hair products for new job
Skin care stuff and foundation for same reason
Stationery again for new job

ThinkingOfLinking

Great thread, just discovered it now.

I've moved house 4 times in the last 12 months, and keep trying to declutter along the way. I have loads of books listed to sell on Greenmetropolis.com and am hoping to get rid of some of the huge overspill of stuff that way.

This week, I've thrown out/donated to charity/sold:
1 single 13.5 tog duvet
1 single bedsheet
1 polo shirt
2 cardigans
1 DVD
1 jug
2 Monopoly sets
2 books

But have had to buy:

A cutlery set
A pan set
2 sets of bedding and sheets (I had none for my new double bed)
Crockery

And am planning, when my Argos giftcard comes through, to also buy:

4 pillows and 1 duvet, which will mean I throw away 2 old pillows and donate my old duvet to charity.

Once a month, from now on, I plan to go through my things to get rid of things I don't want any more as I seem to have a huge amount and keep finding things I don't remember having so never really needed to begin with.

debidoodle

IN

3 Ebay parcels


OUT

Cleared bathroom cabinets loads of half empty plastic bottles etc
Vegetable peelings to composter
papers/tins/plastic milk bottles to recycling bin

ThinkingOfLinking

In: Newspaper and some food shopping.

Out: Newspaper, magazine, 3 old cardboard boxes, a large bag of rubbish...

And that's just so far this morning...

wilf55

in

milk
2 ampshades
6 tins paint


out

dd2 boyfriend for 1 week
large cardboard box
large aldi bag of books
loads of tat - wheelie bin overflowing - bin men tomorrow
loads of recycling - wheelie bin overflowin - bin men tomorrow
2 pads for ds1 for college

Gers

In:

• More rubbish which needs cleared out

Despair about the amount of stuff still cluttering up the house

Out:

• Big bag of unwanted clothes - to recycle bin later today
• Sending more unwanted but scanned in photos to various family and the RE Museum
• Unwanted/unloved/unused kitchen gadgets to recycle place

I have really gone off Freecycle, some group Mods are so unhelpful and restrictive and I fear that a lot of what I've given has gone to boot sales or dealers. Whilst that's in line with Freecycle ethos it's not what I want to do with my stuff, I'd rather it went to help those individuals who need it and not line the pockets of dealers.

hollyh

Hi,

I did the car boot sale this morning, i sold about 1/3 of what i took and made £15. There wasn't a lot of people there so i'm hoping the one in 2 weeks is better.

In

New Bt phone book
Skateboard, Guitar & tshirt Ds1 bought at car boot with the money from the stuff he sold
Dr Who drawing set for Ds2 for Xmas

Out

Recycling
Old Bt phone book
OH's skip
Old broken stair gate
Car boot
Highchair
Books
Games
Toys
Toddler toilet seat

I've got 3 black bags of stuff to take to the Charity shop as well.

Callisto

Not much out this week, but have some time off work starting next weekend, so hoping to get more done then.

I've just found loads of cosmetics/face stuff in a bedroom drawer which I've transferred to the bathroom, otherwise it will never be used up. I have enough moisturiser, face masks and nail varnish to last a loooong time - absolutely no buying of cosmetics until I've used up what I've got!

In

Three pairs of socks and a pair of bargain trousers (for running) from Matalan.
Five scarves and three tops from my sister.
Book borrowed off Mum.

Out

Pair of holey socks and pair of laddered stockings into 'rag bag'.
Shrivelled up blemish stick and manky nail varnish binned.
Last season Argos catalogue and one magazine recycled.

Pending

Two belts, small handbag and a decorative notebook into charity bag. Now have a carrier bag full, so will be taken to charity shop this week.

Callisto

Just been browsing https://www.clutter.co.uk - inspired me to have a quick look through the shelves next to my computer to see if there was anything else I could get rid of. Found 9 videos and 1 CD to go into the charity shop bag. We don't even have a VHS player any more! There are more videos, but these belong to OH who is a worse hoarder than me, so I doubt he'll get rid of them until we replace them on DVD!