The Great Declutter - 18 months on

topbargainhunter

poorbutrich wrote: »

Welcome to the thread and happy decluttering! I am terrified of posting on the eBay thread after asking what I thought was a straightforward question about paypal! Much more supportive over here:T

Hi Poorbutrich, I'm not bad on Ebay/paypal as I've used them for years so you can always ask me. My DH has a lot of expensive hobbies that get dropped so we've sold a lot of stuff on Ebay over the years to keep us from drowning in it all (and he's bought a lot for new hobbies:mad:).

debidoodle

trouble is how do you deal with an OH wants to keep everything 'just in case' do you have any tips as to persude him to clear things out??


Iam

The only tip that I have is "Clear it out while he is at work" :eek: well that's what I do :rotfl:

IN

My birthday pressie from hubby, only 2 weeks late was caught up in the postal strike :rolleyes:.


OUT

Plastic, tin and paper to recycling bin.

InaPickle

In:

New deodorant
New cleanser

Out:

Impulse-bought scrapbook brought back to shop from whence it was purchased (one of three - I will actually use the other two)

ThinkingOfLinking

In: New capo for my guitar.

Out: 2 cans of Pepsi!

In and out at the same time: Mail.

cyclingyorkie

debidoodle wrote: »

trouble is how do you deal with an OH wants to keep everything 'just in case' do you have any tips as to persude him to clear things out??


Iam

The only tip that I have is "Clear it out while he is at work" :eek: well that's what I do :rotfl:

IN

My birthday pressie from hubby, only 2 weeks late was caught up in the postal strike :rolleyes:.


OUT

Plastic, tin and paper to recycling bin.

i clear out hubbys stuff when he's at work too! And his obsession with books.....the ones from his degree - 20+ years ago:eek::eek:....however these are being removed slowly (charity bags) along with books about computers we haven't had for 10+ years!

Men!

fedupandskint

IN
Groceries

OUT
Paper recycling

ThinkingOfLinking

In: Free sample of Lenor in the post, small amount of groceries.

Out: 2 bags of rubbish and the crate I liberated from Lidl to carry said groceries home in (later on, when I go out again).

wilf55

in

groceries
cushion cover off ebay - lovely

out
wardrobe
empty tin of paint...another to go soon
2 bags of rubbish

poorbutrich

topbargainhunter wrote: »

Hi Poorbutrich, I'm not bad on Ebay/paypal as I've used them for years so you can always ask me. My DH has a lot of expensive hobbies that get dropped so we've sold a lot of stuff on Ebay over the years to keep us from drowning in it all (and he's bought a lot for new hobbies:mad:).

That's very sweet of you :A thank you.

It was a problem with paypal - which after weeks and weeks of their emails finally has been sorted. I was trying to sell lots of furniture in anticipation of a house move and they froze my account due to "anti money laundering laws" which is a joke as the only money laundering I can afford to do was when I found 10p in the washing machine!

Thanks to this thread though, most of our belongings went on freecycle, in newspaper ads and through car boot sales!

My big clutter problem is magazines and paperwork, so am I trying to stay on top of it rather than let it build up. Again, thanks to this thread and flylady!

wilf55

in

newspaper

out

wardrobe
2 bags of rubbish
newspapers and other paper recycling
bottles and recycling