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The Great Declutter - 18 months on

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  • candyblue
    candyblue Posts: 640 Forumite
    Having a mass sort out today as have no money and the heating is on the blink, so keeps me warm!

    Out
    Coffee machine
    Broken bread maker machine (that I kept saying I would fix)
    Large Fan
    Sorted out 4 kitchen draws and thrown out 3 bin bags of rubbish
    10 large carboard boxes
    some old xmas decs that I never use
    Old bottles of sauce that were way past there sell by date!

    In
    Nothing
    £23366/ £39206.92 DFD Nov 2016
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    In

    NOTHING!!!

    Out

    4 binbags to charity shops
    2 binbags of rubbish.. and a few empty boxes.

    34 things still on ebay, 2/34 with bids and 14/34 with watchers.. quite a while left so hopefully some more will shift. 1 item sold on BIN so was posted yesterday. I have a few more bits to put on which I am hoping to get organised later this week.
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • candyblue
    candyblue Posts: 640 Forumite
    I have also just sorted out the tupperware/pots cupboard and matched up all pots with lids and if they havent got one out they have gone!!

    Another 3 bags of rubbish out and a fruit bowl
    Also a chipped flower pot

    You would think after all I have thrown out today I would be straighter but it doesnt look like I have done a thing all day even though I have spent four and a half hours sorting! Still cant see the floor in the lounge, bedroom or spare room :(
    £23366/ £39206.92 DFD Nov 2016
  • mary43
    mary43 Posts: 5,845 Forumite
    In - nothing

    Out - one battered photo album for rubbish
    one photo album to charity shop

    Re-organising photo albums (umpteen of them.............lol) took all morning to sort one out !!
    Mary

    I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
    (Good Enough Member No.48)
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,769 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    IN:
    2 DS Lite games for DD & DS1 from Zavvi sale
    2 pairs school trousers for DS1 (£4.90 for the 2 from Tesco - bargain!)
    some loft boards for the garage
    a lamp for working in the little attic (has no elec)

    OUT:
    old work bag with my ex-ex employers name on
    bag of old school shirts and polos which are no longer white (recycling)
    sports bag (freecycle)
    parasol for pushchair (freecycle)
    bag of boys clothes (freecycle)

    Also lots of clothes/ books/ toys sorted for NCT sales.
    Clothes for DS2 and new baby sorted into ages and labelled in their boxes!

    Still lots of sorting of stuff from big attic to do - although attic is now empty. Contents are, however, over my bed :( - so cannot sleep tonight until they are shifted. Am now kn***ered adn hips playing up (SPD) so will get hubs to help shift them off and sort tomorrow. Urgh!


    greent
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • Lemon_Tree
    Lemon_Tree Posts: 10,202 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    did well yesterday,
    out
    skip full of rubbish from garden and house
    bag is growing for charity shop

    in
    nowt yet.

    have a lovely kitchen, bathroom and hallway now just need to sort out the two worst rooms. my policy in the living room is to clean and only put back on/in something what i want to be there, then the rest will have to find a new home or leave home for a new life with someone else.
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    In..

    NOTHING

    Out

    1 binbag rubbish (I swear that stuff BREEDS!!)
    Another binbag sorted for charity shop

    3/34 ebay bits with bids.. one ends in just under 3 hours and it currently £17 .. :D (I only paid £11 4 years ago)
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • luxor4t
    luxor4t Posts: 11,125 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    IN
    nothing

    OUT
    normal rubbish but starting to work our way through odds & ends in the cupboard now that the little Luxors are back at college eg I have 3 part bags of pasta :rolleyes:.

    Had to get something out of the garage earlier ....:eek:
    Now I know why DH doesn't want me in there, it is 100% junk. A LOVELY Easter project for [STRIKE]him[/STRIKE] us :D
    I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.
  • mary43
    mary43 Posts: 5,845 Forumite
    Out - 4 old photo albums


    Still in a right muddle sorting them all out but I'm getting there.......4 done - another 12 to go:eek:
    Mary

    I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
    (Good Enough Member No.48)
  • HomeSpun
    HomeSpun Posts: 349 Forumite
    :hello:

    IN:
    Nothing :j

    OUT:

    2 bags of childrens clothes to go with recycling bin collected tomorrow (they take clothes here too, if correctly labelled blah, blah, blah)
    3 bags recycling
    1 carrier of non-recycling

    :D Good day today :D
    "I married beneath me, all women do." - Nancy Astor 1879-1964

    Studying with the OU - MU120 (CMA 41 & 42, TMA01(i) & (ii) done :D) and also M150 (02/09), DB123 (05/09), MST121 (09/09) and T175 (10/09)
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