The Great Declutter - 18 months on

skint_spice

In: some xmas pressies

out: yet more books to the book bank and more shredding.

candyblue

In

Groveries
Hand Blender
Dirt Devil (given to us, soon to go to OHs mums)
Masher
Some storage boxes

Out
2 bags of rubbish

Not really a very good decluttering day!!

Kaz2904

In: 2 new lamps (needed & in place already). 2 lavender plants, 1 rose bush & an anemone (all planted yesterday). 5 bags of plaster (1 applied to dining room ceiling yesterday) 1 bag of cement. 1 fire spark guard. 1 plate designed by DS at a party. Few slices of leftover meat from MiL (will make pie tomorrow). 2 pairs of school trousers. 1 lovely new pairs of boots (in box). Groceries. 1 weekly planner. Packet of paper chain loops. 1 shopping list pad.
Out: 4 dining room chairs. Old gas fire. Lots and lots of sacks of rubbish. Front flower bed cleared, all plants gone and replaced. 1 bag plaster. 1 birthday present and card.

greent

In:
Book for DD from Cheltenham Literary Festival
Sunday Papers
2 goody bags for big kids and book for toddler from Christening party

Out:
Sunday papers (recycling)
Christening card & cheque (didn't want presents, but gave money for CTF account instead)

Pending
11 items listed on ebay (no watchers/ bids yet :-( )
4 items put in garage for next time a charity bag comes through the door (usually every 2-3 weeks)


today I must do better

valk_scot

valk_scot wrote: »

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.

Update:

Swapped wardrobes etc between rooms and even DH admitted that the time to sort through his clothes was when he had them actually out of the wardrobe. So he managed to pull out a binliner of clothes that he did not want, though DS ran off with a couple of items from the pile plus a pair of trousers and jacket (both horribly worn and fit only for rags) has been put aside for a Halloween zobie costume.
Did the same for DD's clothes before they went back in the wardrobe.

No trips to the dump yesterday but the car is full again, so I'm counting these bags as "outs" for today.

In:

Two bags groceries.

Out:

Two suits, overcoat and a lot of old shirts and such from OH.
One carrier bag of outgrown clothes from DD's wardrobe.
Two recycling boxes of card and papers.
One recycling box of mixed bottles, metal and plastic.

Today's Plan. (Monday.)

Attic things.. Up, down, tidy, move and generally rearrange the loose stuff in the house.

pigpen

In

food!!!

Out

1 bunny she died at some point overnight
1 binbag of rubbish
1 batch of sanity!
1 carrier of used shoes to recycling
2 text books back to the college library

Hubby just cleaning up some sick in the girly room and then DD2 (who is off school being sick) and I will do some tidying and flinging from up there too!

bikerchick1066

Out

Old sky+ box via ebay
1 book via Amazon
Dead rat (thanks cat!)

In

Nothing - only left the house to go to work all weekend

skint_spice

Sorry about the bunny Pigpen.

I didn't feel like doing any decluttering when I got home today but someone on another thread suggested getting rid of ten things a day and I've been sticking to this so managed another ten without much effort in half an hour! Ten a day over a year = 3650 or 3660 depending on the year so that's a lot of junk.

Todays included:

Broken halloween bowl
Out of date "grow your own chives"
out of date diet stuff - adios to old adios!
Some old boxes and papers too.

hollyh

Hi

In

Nothing:j

Out

Baby monitor ( Ebay )
Dressing gown ( Ebay )
2 Books ( Ebay )
Binbag of assorted rubbish
Pile of magazines ( Recycling )

nicki_2

IN :
18 library books :eek: (12 on DD's ticket as she devours books - she's already read 2 of them and we only got home at 3.30! Then 3 for DD on my ticket as its information books on witches and stuff :rolleyes: and 3 for me to help with my studying...)

Out:
11 library books
my motivation - my NVQ work is so boring, I'm dozing off trying to type it up