The Great Declutter - 18 months on

tudorfan22

In

Paint for spare room
2 bags top soil – promptly went on the garden though so it doesn’t count
Paintbrushes
Filler – which went on the walls so that also doesn’t count
New winter coat
2 magazines
Food shopping

Out
Big bad of magazines to sisters
Old paint pot – used it up rather than buy a new pot
Pair of curtains I found in airing cupboard - ebay
3 duvet covers for our double duvet – seeing as we have a king size now we cant use them – ebay
2 old winter coats – ebay
Cross stitch kit – ebay
Bag of chicken feed
Dirt from conservatory floor
Old paintbrushes

Pending
Double duvet being picked up tomorrow
Ebaying a LOT of stuff
Finding car boot fodder all the time
MIL birthday pressie going out on weds
Plan to make an apple crumble with some sorry looking apples at the bottom of the bowl and some left over sugar and flour

Had such a productive week that I feel like a super hero!!! This board has inspired me – also managed to save £120 as I wanted a wall in our lounge plastered as it was lumpy and bumpy in one section, it was driving me mad, but I thought id first have a go at skimming it myself with filler, a trowel and a damp sponge – and now its fine, not perfect but definitely livable! Saved a packet!

Eltee12

Hi all

I've been lurking around MSE website for ages and am gradually joining in some of the threads.

Are there any declutter 'rules' I should know (apart from stop cluttering the place up!).

From the posts I've read so far - this happened Fr/Sa/Su


In

1. Tesco delivery (everything I ordered was either half-price, bogof or threefers AND all stuff we regularly buy - even taking into account delivery charge, saved £18):T
2. Veg box delivery
3. Eissman delivery

Out

1. shredded tons of letters / old bankstatements etc. with personal info on
2. Empty used envelopes (took to work for internal use)
3. Filled up paper recycle bin with non-personal paper/catalogues etc.

am lined up for the summer & autumn/winter switchover too.

charlies_mum

Hi Eltee

Welcome to the world of decluttering. Sounds like you have made a good start.

More in again this weekend than went out, but it is stock so doesn't really count.

Anyone remember Mr Trebus, at least we're not that bad .... yet :rotfl:

debidoodle

IN

Small amount of food shopping


OUT

Bag of magazines to my auntie
Papers, plastic and tin recycling bin
2 Ebay parcels posted
Loads of booze bottles to the bottle bank

misshighlander

Over the past week or so

In
New ironing board
Food shopping
Framed picture - now hanging up on wall in living room
1 dvd bought from Amazon
2 books

Pending to go out
1 Amazon sale (sale currently pending)
Cardboard (which ironing board/picture were delivered in) & to go to recycling

Out
3 Amazon sales
Recycling bin - full of shredded paper, newspapers/mags, cans/tins

candyblue

In
Shopping
A car full of stuff to be unpacked(all my clothes etc from the weekend away,just needs unpacking)

Out
2 bags of rubbish

Pending out
Large fish tank, if we can ever get it down the stairs!!
Ipod station - sold on ebay
PS game - sold on ebay

Gers

IN:

1) oh, various retail therapy items :j ranging from technology to clothes
2) books, to be read during our winter week away in late October (will be passed on afterwards)


OUT:
1) loads of work related items - gone to the office
2) a HUGE bag of unwanted/unneeded Tshirts to the clothes bank
3) bag of empty glass and plastic bottles
4) more clothes to homeless refuge
5) piles of books - some to friends and some to be sold to local book shop
6) more and more and more clutter - given away, thrown away or returned to rightful owner

Can now see the end in sight :j bedroom will soon return to a state of bliss and calm, so tired of opening drawers/wardrobe and stuff falling out. Am now a the ruthless stage and it feels goooooooooood.

ThinkingOfLinking

Today: In: No mail, but my new guitar came and I'm going to buy some fizzy sugary crap masquerading as a drink later, eg coke, sprite, fanta, whatever's cheapest.

Out: The mahoosive box my new guitar came in and another box of rubbish.

I'm sorting through a mountain of clothes today and going to be ruthless as my wardrobe is bursting at the seams and there are things I just don't wear any more.

mippy

Hello! I desperately need to declutter. Well, I've been doing it for a while - gone from one 40sq. ft. storage locker and an over-full room to just an over-full room. But it still needs to go. It seems to be mainly clothing and 'misc. items' - things that don't have a home, but seem useful every time I go through them. MrMippy is saying it needs sorting so we can plan for moving in together in the future. And in the meantime, my room is not a nice place to be..in fact I stood on a sewing needle on Saturday and pinned my jeans and sock to my foot!

fedupandskint

Good luck mippy with your declutter. I used to think I had a use for everything I owned. Once I started decluttering via ebay and freeshare (old freecycle) I realised that I didn't miss one thing that left

Then when I became more ruthless with it and felt freed from all the junk.

Take babysteps first and chuck out what is broken, give away or sell what you really think you won't miss or ever use and I'm certain you'll get used to it!

Now everytime I notice more space I think "I'm nearly there, closer to my goal of decluttering" and decorating! Freeing for me, moving away from consumerism.

Ebaying takes some time obviously with the listing, then selling and waiting for payment and posting however I have found it a huge help with decluttering.

Onto me now

IN
Candles for Christmas presents

OUT
Recycling collections

PENDING
5 items sold on ebay today with a few more finishing later on today and in the week!