The Great Declutter - 18 months on

bikerchick1066

OUT
1 book via ebay
1 book via readitswapit

IN
1 book via readitswapit

essexgal

IN:

(Please bear in mind I went round my Dad's this morning so it could have been far far worse...:o )
2 wooden spoons -
1 rolling pin (god knows where my original one went... )
1 hand pastry blender (probably from the 40s/50s:rolleyes: ) - my Nan's
1 skillet (also my Nan's) oh, and I had my Nan's original Tala measure the other day too:D - can't get much more oldstyle than that.
1 very very heavy cast iron frying pan - but that's to go onto freecycle so it's not stopping....

OUT:

Nothing yet - but there's probably another bin full of recycling for tomorrow.

essexgal

Must Do Better;)

Piquant_2

In
2 library books

Halfway out (ebay/amazon pile)
6 tops
12 books

Out
2 books - amazon sales
7 ebay sales
1 lost library book returned to library!

taka

Well for my first day yesterday...

IN
Food for freezer

OUT
1 bag of rubbish!

Well its a start...

greent

IN:
pair of trousers, a shirt, 2 tshirts & a pair of shoes for me
bracelet for daughter (goody bag gift)

OUT:
birthday present for DDs friend
recycling/ rubbish (more than normal, which must be good, surely!)
trousers & wellies returned to shop
plastic bottles & card to supermarket recycling
2 binbags of cans to loacl scouts/ guides for fundraising (not all ours! - people have been collecting them & dropping them here!)
a waste paper bin of rubbish (various sorts) from DS1s room - he's away so I'm attacking it!


Argh!!! I still need to find lots more items for NCT sale on Friday - guess I'm in the loft when DS2 is at preschool tomorrow pm

greent

it's quiet on here........

nicki_2

In

• Various bits of paperwork
• A project for my placement (scanning pics in :rolleyes: )

Pending out

• Ebay parcels
• The project for placement :rotfl:

Out

• Rubbish

Kaz2904

Update for today and yesterday. Today didn't do anything as it was raining and if DH isn't here getting wet then I don't see why I should (shame on me!).
In: 1 egg borrowed from next door for tea. Few eggs MiL brought with her. 2 bags firewood. Admag. 3 yoghurts. 1 Muller rice. 2 pints milk. Milk bill from milkman. Black sack of clothes for DD from someone at BiL's work.
Out: 1 egg! 3 yoghurts. 1 Muller rice. Admag (used to light) 1 bag firewood. 1 milk bottle. Lots of leftovers from fridge. Made curry yesterday and beef stew with yorkshire pudding tonight. Large pile of shelf storage units that make my understairs cupboard lethal. 1 carrier bag of stuff weeded out of the cupboards as pap. 2 (so far) cans lager which are cluttering up my fridge.

Essexgal, I didn't know what a tala measure was so I had to google it. They had one of these when we went on holiday in our 2nd cottage (France). I was so tempted for it to fall into my suitcase and accidently come home with me! DH thought I had lost the plot completely though!

I hope everyone else is doing better than I am. My only consolation is that I'm not food shopping ATM just trying to use up the stocks I have getting in the way. Then I can clean the cupboards.

hollyh

Hi

I really need to start posting every day again i've forgotton half of it:rolleyes: . This is what i can remember from the last week

In

Coat, hat & vests for Ds2
Oil burner x 2 & mineral eyeshadow from Bodyshop party ( remind me not to take my chequebook when i'm having a couple of glasses of wine:o )

Out

Half a car of stuff at carboot ( made £36 Ds1 made £15 )
Baby gym ( charity shop )
Jumper
Teddy

I'm sure there's loads more but i can't remember.

candyblue

In

An electric bill!
3 Magazines

Out
Nothing yet, just wait unitl later - I have big plans!!

valk_scot

valk_scot wrote: »

Todays plans:

1) Start moving DD's stuff through to our room, via a sorting area in the hall which will cream off unwanted items for Ebay/charity shops/dustbin.

2)Unpack books.

3) Go to dump/charity shops.

4) Craft cupboard that I did not clear out yesterday.

Update:

Well, I got 1, 2 and 3 done. Have decided 4 can wait till next week and I'll do the crafts as a one-er. Must say DD's soon to be new room is looking rather good, so much so that she and I have decided two things, firstly that the rather elderly carpet will do fine for another year or two, given that she does a lot of painting and glueing crafts, and secondly that she really rather likes the walls the buttery cream colour they are so I'm only going to have to give them one refresher coat when it comes to painting time, rather than two coats of the pink she thought she wanted. So that's saved me a couple of hundred pounds for a carpet plus I can get away with a lot less paint and painting. Reduce, reuse, recycle, yeah!!!!

We managed to sort out yet more stuff for the out pile as well.

Out:

One black bag of general rubbish.
One box of videos and cassette tapes for the charity shop.
One small bag of books.

In:

One bag of groceries and 12 toilet rolls.

Today's Plan.

1) Swap over the beds, wardrobes and bedside tables. (This is the last of the furniture swapping.

2) As the wardrobes need to be emptied for the move, triage the clothes before they go back into the wardrobes. Quck and dirty sort will do....but it will make it easier to do a final sort when I have more time.

Think that's enough, given that we have two sets of swimming lessons, Rainbows and Scouts to fit in today as well. Also one of the neighbours drains is looking a bit ominous so I may have to take time out to deal with that. DD's birthday is on Saturday though so her room HAS to be ready for that, which gives me a bit of motivation to complete most of the move today.

Must say the kids are being stars about all this...DD has actually decided to polish all the furniture and big DS is proving to be a great removals man. And they really like the dejunking in some ways. DS wants me to help him do his room soon.:rolleyes: