The Great Declutter - 18 months on

liuhut

IN

One lovely CLEAN new carpet in my lounge

OUT

One very grotty old lounge carpet

brummiebabe

IN:

Pressies/wrapping paper for DD's 2nd birthday
2 DVDs (bought by my DSs with their pocket money...)
2 pairs of trousers for DD

OUT:

A car load of rubbish to the tip:j - it's only been in the garage for 18 months:rotfl: - my Dad came took it for me today - thanks Dad x
1 bin liner into car (to go to charity shop)
1 huge box paper/1 box plastics & tins - collected by council recycling

Have been doing bits & pieces of decluttering for some months now....will try & post on here more regularly...hopefully to help keep the momentum going!!

wannabe_sybil

Over this weekend we managed to get rid of four extra bin bags of rubbish, which the bin men actually took!!!

Nothing in yet, apart from some groceries.

essexgal

Sorry - I've been missing in action a bit lately (wasn't buried under piles of clutter though in case anyone was worried:D )

DD2's birthday last week so lounge looks remarkably decluttered - now trying to keep it that way. Unfortunately OH's idea of tidying means actually moving the clutter to the garage - however that will have to stop as there's no more room:o

Daughters bedroom was decluttered by means of scooping everything up that was on the floor and putting it into black sacks in the loft - to be sorted one bag at a time.:o

But on the plus side I tidied 2 kitchen drawers - why have we got FOUR boxes of matches (all full) and two Linda McCartney freezer scrapers...:rotfl: and three and a half sets of salad servers - the half is the set I really like :eek: - no idea where the other half to it went - shall have to hope it turns up as I do the kitchen.

Off to check my ebay account - have sold 8 out of 58 and over a day to go.....:j

Happy decluttering everyone.

essexgal

Yorkielass

I really need to get back on track with this . We're doing some work in our bathroom atm so it's all a bit of a mess in our house - hopefully will finish it all and tidy tonight.

Then have some visitors for a few days but next week I'm going to really get back to decluttering, we did get a shelving unit in IKEA last week for all my craft bits, which I've now almost sorted and my craft area is now looking so much better so that's something.

pigpen

In

Inspiration... I am shifting large electrical appliances around this afternoon and having hubby put up some coat hooks behind the door in the back room at the weekend.. and maybe a few shelves for shoes

I am also going to hit the bedrooms today.. after the electrical stuff is moved about.. I WILL have some junk gone before Santa brings a whole load more!!

I will also be looking at a new desk and shelving for the bedrooms..

I have ordered loads of christmas presents so I will have to make room for those in my room before Friday.

Out

2 binbags of stuff DD1 is taking round to the charity shop when she surfaces
I have an empty wheelie bin to fill as well which I am aiming to get done today with junk from the bedrooms.. that won't be difficult!!

Potentially.. 3 children who have spent the last 15 minutes arguing.. job time for the 3 of them I think!!

loveday69

Hi All,

Ok, finished lurking, time to declutter so can I join in too please?
Better late than never. I keep decluttering and it keeps coming back - must be boomerang clutter. You've all done so well, I'm hoping I can keep up!

Present state of affairs:

In: Too much

Out: Not enough but I have gathered some stuff to list on ebay, just need to find the time (and the will) to list it all.

pigpen

hello and welcome loveday... I wanted to call DD1 Loveday.. she got Lily instead..

In this week...

Couple of boxes of christmas presents and a sweater for me!

Out..

2 wheelie bins of rubbish
1 pressure cooker.. donated to my sister
several useless plastic tubs & lids
2 binbags to charity shop
several jars of deceased and diseased food stuffs.. even I wouldn't eat it so it must have been bad!
1 packet cheesecake mix.. scarfed.. few months OOD but we ain't dead!!
23 ebay items.. .. FLING!.. money used to buy christmas presents for the children.

I am gradually working my way around the kitchen cleaning the cupboards and throwing everything out.. I will be entirely decluttered one day!!

luxor4t

IN:
- groceries
- couple more Christmas presents
- more clothes (went shopping with our guest)

OUT:
- charity shop backlog
- finally delivered old tv to new home
- small bag of junk from bathroom cupboard
- pile of stuff to DD in college house

House is significantly clearer & far easier to deal with, but I still don't feel 'clutter free' .

I think I need to be a bit more radical (eg go through the book cases methodically) and also start to list what is in each cupboard as 'stock control' - we had 8 bottles of mouthwash, enough binbags to last till March but ran out of loo roll!

hollyh

In

Xmas presents
Groceries

Out

Pile of paintings
Bag of underwear
Pile of magazines
Chipped mug