The Great Declutter - 18 months on

pigpen

In

2 deodourants for the 2 large girlies
DD3's prescription
1 shirt for hubby
1 sweater for hubby
6 carrier bags of tat from my gran.. most of it will be in the bin over the next few weeks as it breaks etc
4 bags of food
1 outfit for DS1's GF's baby
1 dress for DD4
1 book for DD1

Out

DD1's excess eyebrows!
1 binbag of rubbish
1 carrier compost
1 carrier recycling

Not had time to post the ebay stuff but it will go on Monday and 2 haven't paid yet.

taka

Operation gut/declutter flat is underway!! Kitchen 1st including all cupboards and the walk in cupboard from hell... :rolleyes:

In:
Nothing so far... Still nothing...

Out:
[strike]1[/strike] 3 sacks of rubbish :eek:
misc recycling - mostly cardboard from electrical purchases from the last decade + more recyclabe stuff


I'll update this post as I go today... the list is going to get longer if it kills me... :rotfl: Wish me luck... :eek:
Kitchen/kitchen cupboards now looking MUCH clearer but still not finished How much crud did I have in my kitchen?? Its the biggest room in mt flat so it is a general dumping ground for clutter. Now having a break for tea then starting on the paperwork mountain in front of the telly!

greent

In:
small amount of grocery shopping (on hols in a few days, so mainly milk/ juice)
xmas present for DD
unsold items from NCT sale
christening card (out again tomorrow)


Out:
49 labelled items sold at NCT sale (just under 60 items in total, as some were 2/3 items sold together):T :T
some broken coat hangers from unsold items
magazines (recycling)


Pending:
13 of the unsold items being listed on ebay today - fingers crossed!!

And DS1's bedroom has remained tidy for 24 hours :T :j Amazing!!

greent
x

valk_scot

valk_scot wrote: »

Today's Plan.

Going out this morning to visit a friend and see her new kittens. NO I WILL NOT BE GETTING A KITTEN! We have two cats already and the second of these only came from the cat rescue three weeks ago (he's a real hairy hippy love bug) and two cats is enough! Then we are going to Ikea (Alert!! Danger Zone!!) for lunch, a wardrobe rail and some storage boxes. Then this afternoon I will clear of the detritis in the hall and consolidate my decluttering achievements so far.

Update on Yesterday:

Two triumphs...no kitten (though was sorely tempted) and only spent £12 in Ikea.

In:

Four plastic boxes.
Strainer widgit for sink.
Rail for wardrobe.

Out:

Box of Lego Racers.
Bag of old Barbie clothes.
Box of children's story tapes.

Today:

Didn't do a lot to the house today as was out at a class and it's DD's birthday. Have to say that I only spent £5.99 on her birthday pressies over the last month as everything else had been bought in sales etc last Christmas or even earlier and kept in attic since then. (She got a row of Playmobil shops, two Barbies and outfits, stuff for her baby dolls and various other bits and bobs including craft bits and a pair of Monsoon shoes reduced from £25 to £3 in the sale, yeah!) So does that all count as stuff in or stuff out??? Or is it a neutral given that it just changed rooms? Neutral, I expect.

Plan for tomorrow. (Sunday.)

Still need to swap wardrobes.

Tidy attic and bring down (I SWEAR!!) at least three boxes of the toys that I sorted out last year to go to the charity shop then totally forgot to do anything about.

luxor4t

Not too sure exactly what has come in recently other than food

out:
OH has delivered the charity shop boxes - :j

We still have a heap of books to take to the Oxfam collection point, a mobile to post off to Tesco for points & CDs waiting for the Music Magpie envelope

I must blitz the kitchen before MiL arrives at the end of the week, so I can hide in the nice empty cupboards

M.E.

No one will be surprised that the cardboard boxes are exactly where there were.
We didn't manage to get to the tip.

However
We did manage to blitz the front garden and as a result the large compost bin is full, with shredded honeysuckle that was well past it's blooming date, moss to make Ireland into a bog AND because it was a glorious day all the neighbours stopped to [strike]gossip [/strike]talk.
We also ate the mushrooms from under the tree with our stir fry.. lovely

nicki_2

In:

• Bottle of Zoflora
• Writers block on my assignment.....again

Out:

• Kitchen blind that was damaged (replaced with a replacement one I bought for DD's room that was too short - a little bit of juggling things and both windows have blackout blinds now )
• broken dowelling
• 2 damaged baskets
• bag of carrots that had gotten "lost" on the veg rack and gone black
• Binbag of various rubbish items.
• My sanity :rolleyes::rotfl::rotfl:

luxor4t

Sunday IN:
nothing :j

OUT:
- bag of rubbish eg broken kitchen tools, grungy birthday candles, etc
- bag for charity shop
- very out of date soft drinks (recycled bottles)
- large bag of paper (recycling)
- plates (back to little Sis )

Shall spend a fair amount of time wiping down shelves etc now, but feel we have done the worst bits now, especially as I have got rid of the birthday napkins & stuff bought for my party that didn't happen - couldn't face 'using them up' so just binned them.

Spendless

AND I'VE FINISHED!!:j :j :T :T :beer: !_party_ _party_ :dance: :dance:

DH did the paperwork,:A I just kept putting it off and couldn't motivate myself.:o He did it yesterday and I finsished the handful of bits off today.

This has taken 4 years.:eek: Hubby's cousin had just had her 1st baby and I had a baby layette box that I had been given when pg with my eldest. I filled this up with bits and pieces for her, in date unopened boxes of baby rice, full bottles of baby toiletries,scratch mits and bibs that had never been used. I knew then that we had too much stuff and needed to start getting rid. It has taken a long time as I've done it very gradually, initially round a child still at home and later around college hours.

I will still have on-going stuff to get rid of, such as when the children out-grow clothes or toys. For example tomorrow the children's school has a rag bag collection, so later tonight will be sorting out-grown clothes into 3 piles, school, recycling and pass on to cousins child. I'll also have to keep a check on things that come in, whilst I've been typing this hubby has returned with some spoons from a relative cos they've noticed we have a lack of tea-spoons, very helpful apart from they've sent Soup spoons and grapefruit spoons.:rolleyes:

Will still keep on posting on this thread occassionally to keep me on top of things but for now I have kids clothes and spoons to sort out.;)

miss*whisper

IN: groceries, 2 hand towels (for xmas hampers so out soon!)

OUT: 2 speakers, 1 pc tower, umpteen bags (marked Benidorm, Tenerife etc) , 2 bags of clothes, 2 children's games and a wedding dress. A half-dozen empty beer bottles

Am getting there, OH is a hoarder and everything I try to rid us of he says, "but...." so have learned to seal rubbish sacks else he re-distributes
the contents around the house :eek:

We will get there!