The Great Declutter - 18 months on

shazrobo

i'm going to join this thread, we have so much in this house, that we keep just in case, time for a big declutter, startign tommorrow

debidoodle

IN

Ebay win
Free Globe xmas cards
curry last nights tea

OUT

cardboard, plastic, paper & tin to recycling
veggie peelings to composter

Spendless

After a disastrous few weeks where everyone wanted me to be doing something other than what I wanted to do, I am trying to get back oon track.

Things weren't helped by a friend asking if I'd like '2 bags worth of clothes' for my (average sized) 9yo son. Which turned out to be a compedium of 200 games, operation game (broken), monopoly, 2 enormous stuffed toys, 3 large airfix models, k'nex, a photoframe and a guitar complete with stand and about 30 carrier bags worth of clothes all aged 14. (I kid you not!)

Very nice if you want it, but not exactly what I was expecting or needed. I had also finished tidying the downstairs that day and was aboout to move onto the upstairs when this lt turned up to clutter my hallway!

Anyway 8 sacks worth of various items went to the 'bag2school' this week as we also went up the attic.

I also have some books and toys to be put aside for the kids xmas fayre at end of the month

Callisto

Aaaagh, just spent almost an hour in the spare room and only have one carrier bag full to go to charity shop so far. Half of the room is taken up with various boxes of junk!

At least four of the boxes are stuff that I want to sell on Ebay and several of the other boxes I am going to use for packaging for sold stuff... so will *try* and make a start on that...

In

One Christmas present
Hairbands

Out

Small box and paper recycled

Pending

One pair of shoes, two soft toys and three books to go to the charity shop

ThinkingOfLinking

Out: 1 top and 1 bag of rubbish and also that free copy of More magazine I got the other day.

I'm going clothes shopping today though and envisage coming home with up to 3 dresses and a coat!!

Also waiting for a delivery of Ugg boots I ordered online which should come today.

blushingbride_3

well yesterday was quite busy except for DH refusing to help! :mad: how do you get your husbands to help?!

well i was joyful it didnt rain here yesterday & set about in the garden!

I filled a big sack with rubbish, slept leaves & cut back the budlia!

Also planted my winter hanging baskets & some violas for a bit of colour.

In the house:

Out:
Bin full of recycling to be emptied today

Sorted:

Box of christmas goodies sorted, shopping bags unpacked.

In: Nothing!:D

Also pending:

Bags and kitchen bits to church charity shop :T

blushingbride_3

Also remembered, i made a start in the garage conversion which has become a slight dumpin ground!

Cleared out some bits to be recycled, moved all the dvds into my new (freecycle) storage footstool along with lots of magazines.
Sorted my blanket box & have made more room in there for storage!:)

wilf55

in
nothing

out
bag of golf mags freecycled
golf trolley freecycled
blind to dd1
bag of carp from before she moved out back to dd1
bag of ebay sales posted ( or will be at 3)
wheelies emptied and loads of recycling gone

blushing bride - you cant you will have to learn the motto - if you want a job doing (properly or not) do it yourself now say it after me....

huston_kw

In

Nothing :j

Out

Three bags of rubbish
two bags of stuff taken to charity shop from DS room
and going to take via school run two bags to charity shop from DD room

When I get back from school run I'm going to make a start on our room and hopefully hall,stairs & landing doing out the cupboard as well. Fingers & toes crossed as I would like the upstairs finished today, so I can start tomorrow on the down stairs.

Spendless

blushingbride wrote: »

well yesterday was quite busy except for DH refusing to help! :mad: how do you get your husbands to help?!

well i was joyful it didnt rain here yesterday & set about in the garden!

I filled a big sack with rubbish, slept leaves & cut back the budlia!

Also planted my winter hanging baskets & some violas for a bit of colour.

In the house:

Out:
Bin full of recycling to be emptied today

Sorted:

Box of christmas goodies sorted, shopping bags unpacked.

In: Nothing!:D

Also pending:

Bags and kitchen bits to church charity shop :T

ha, ha, I don't. Otherwise we would have even more clutter.
I was accussed by him of not even knowing where the tip was last week....little does he know.;)