The Great Declutter - 18 months on

zarazara

OUT a large item collected by a freecycler. a bag of clothes to the charity shop.

Welome Miss Wouldbetidy. I find if i'm stuck abut where to start I begin by getting a carrier bag or bin bag and ,staring in the corner of the room i am in, simply throwing stuff in to throw away. Can be a toffee paper or an old cardigan, ANYTHING is better than nothing. Then , once i have collected 30 items I take the bag out to the bin and PUT IT IN THE DUSTBIN. There, stuff gone, out of the house, right away . Then taker a 10 mi n break, drink a glass of water. Start and do something ,eg another 30 items for the dustbin, or take a cardboard box or something and put into it 30 give away items. Take straight to the car and put in the car to drop off at the charity shop. Keep going like this for an hour or 2 then STOP. very important to stop and go and do something else like a walk or watch telly for half an hour otherwise its over facing and sickening. then, congratulate yourself on what you have achieved and set aside 3 or 4 days a week to decluttering, no more than 2 or 3 hours a day. in no time at all it will look very different. Also my lightbulb moment was when I realised if it dodnt come IN the house it didnt ever need to go OUT the house.
Its very exciting and good fun,enjoy , if in doubt ,chuck it out is my motto.

Broomstick

:jOut today:

More cardboard and paper into the recycling boxes
Two manky pillows
A load of ancient and therefore redundant music syllabuses for recycling

:jand in the boot ready for taking elsewhere:

Two drywipe notice boards that have been cleaned so often the surface has gone (dump)
A carrier bag of clothes (charity)
Some beginner recorder and piano music (charity)

nicki_2

No interest in the polystyrene...the question is do I bin it (bin day tomorrow) or store it under the stairs until next week

The girl who was looking for a fridgefreezer of freecycle is sending her hubby tomorrow night for mine :j I've got it defrosting as I type and I'm going to give it a good wash down inside and out before they collect it. :j:j So tomorrow although I'll have a few bits coming in the house, I'll also have something large leaving :T

wilf55

in
cushions

out

3 bags to charity
large bag to post office ebay sales
rubbish recycled

pending must go tomorrow

stuff to tip
rowing maching
charity again

cyclingyorkie

sneaked a load of bits into a charity bag yesterday - given that the kids are all at home I did quite well......luckily bag was collected by 9am - ie before most of the kids were up!

tudorfan22

Rent money – always nice!
New doormat – investment really cos the old one doesn’t get the mud off your feet and makes the carpet dirty – this one is coir and funky bright been wanting it for ages and selling my stuff on ebay has finally paid for it! Yeahy!
Pizza – promptly eaten!
Newspaper – then out to recycling

Out

Book sold on Amazon
Magazines – big bag to sis
Another book on Amazon
5 packages to ebay
Managed to use up old foundation, moisturiser and talc, created a space for the next line of toiletries to use up!
Paint to garage
4 bags of garden waste for the tip
Window insulation went onto windows, no draughts now!


Pending
Clothes – loads on ebay
Must put another book on Amazon

Potential in – just phoned up to get a quote for subsidised cavity wall insulation and loft insulation so technically its an ‘in’ but I think it will be worth while in the long term!

zarazara

OUT 28 bags of garden tidying for the compost bin-van tomorrow.
3 roller blinds,1 radio cassette player and around 10 cassette tapes, an empty cardboard box, an old face flannel,a bag of paper bags for the compost bin-van,a curtain pole and rings,a log basket,a mop bucket.
IN -NOTHING

fedupandskint

OUT
Lots of paper into the recycling bin

IN
One ebay buy

wilf55

in
bag if clothes from mum
twigs from mum

out
rowing machine
stuff to tip
other crap
3 bags to charity
3 books to mum and dad
wallpaper to mum and dad
books to sis

zarazara

OUT 2 bags garden stuff to the compost 6 bags rubbish rubbish to the tip and 1 old curtain rail.
IN one son for the weekend