The Great Declutter - 18 months on

angelavdavis

Well had a result getting rid of some old radiators I had ripped out when upgrading the heating and sold them to the scrap merchant for £28.50! Better than nothing!

Money_maker

That site looks interesting Callisto, will have a look around it later.

Have spent quite a bit of time thinking (!) about decluttering this week, DD unfortunately can be quite demanding and her efforts to 'help' make the job last so much longer. Have done a bit around the garden, tidying up and so forth. Will be looking at my tender plants and planning their spot in the greenhouse this year as last winter I was too late moving some of them and its freeeeezzzziiiinnnnggggg cold in the mornings (I'm in the south-east as well).

My boys are on a decluttering mission of their own in their bedroom. They want me to do a bootsale but I doubt I'll get round to one this year. I may try Ebay again and see if sales have picked up in the run up to Christmas.

IN:
Few bargain bits for Christmas pressies
'New' car for DH
Few foraged bits for the freezer

OUT:
Recycling
Usual bin rubbish
Couple of old pjs where elastic has perished
All our money (on the car)
DH's old car
Plant (freecycled but took several days for freecycler to get in touch - grr)

Hope theres more next week x

Edit - what type of books do you want flipper - you're not far from me!!

candyblue

In
3 fruit pies

Out
2 bags of rubbish
5 books
a load of apples for the pies
40 cabbage plants to the allotment
20 Curly Kale to the allotment
2 pots of compost to allotment
and a load of tulip bulbs also to the allotment

How comes I am getting rid of more things than I bring in but the house is still chocker with stuff?? Still eventually I suppose it will be good

ThinkingOfLinking

So far this morning:

Out: A manky old duvet
A bag of rubbish
An old suit carrier
A McDonalds Happy Meal toy

In: I'm about to go to Lidl for some more Pepsi...

Today will be mainly spent decluttering so I should be able to get rid of loads more soon.

cyclingyorkie

candyblue wrote: »

In
3 fruit pies

Out
2 bags of rubbish
5 books
a load of apples for the pies
40 cabbage plants to the allotment
20 Curly Kale to the allotment
2 pots of compost to allotment
and a load of tulip bulbs also to the allotment

How comes I am getting rid of more things than I bring in but the house is still chocker with stuff?? Still eventually I suppose it will be good

trust me....you are not alone......:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Eager_Elephant

Hi gers

Have you thought about donating your stuff to a homeless shelter or similar organisations that help resettle homeless people?

There is also Women's Refuge's that will accept donations, normally they will come to collect from you for obvious safety reasons.

EE

wilf55

in

newspaper
light fittings x 2 - from freecycle (nice)

out

all stuff from bins in house
all wheelies emptied
dd2 and bf (hers) to gillingham for a few days
ds1 to school
anything that is recycleable out
stuff from one draw in kitchen that is no good
large bramble weed from garden
loads of dead insects from window sill that i need ladder to reach!

ThinkingOfLinking

Out: Big, heavy, lethal old lamp and a crate of rubbish, using the box I used at Lidl earlier and a shower gel bottle and cleanser bottle as I finished both today.

In: A bit more shopping than expected from Lidl earlier but then again, I've half filled another rubbish bag so it's ok...

hollyh

Hi,

Todays efforts

In

New trousers for me
Sawdust
Rabbit food
Sweets for Ds's

Out

Recycling
5 x cardboard boxes
1 x Toilet roll tube
2 x Magazines
Bin
2 x Carrier bags of rubbish from car
Charity shop
3 x Black bags full of cuddly toys, videos & games

zarazara

IN nothing
OUT all pending, not actually gone

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yet. 10 bin bags of rubbish to the bin man, 2 bin bags of garden waste to recycle, a cupboard full of baking tins,and other kitchen things to freecycle