The Great Declutter - 18 months on

pigpen

I LOVE weekends!!

In..

nothing!

Out..

Smelly muck from the bunny cage!
6 binbags to charity shop
2 binbags of rubbish
6 ebay parcels posted!.. 3 more to go!
box of recycling
tub of compost stuff

heaps of dirt as I had a crazy cleaning frenzy

skint_spice

In:

Groceries
(will also need to buy DS some new school trousers but two pairs went out this month!!!:mad: )

Out:

Lots of packaging left over from xmas deliveries
One Lush hatbox type thing that I was always going to do a hamper with - never gonna happen so may as well get rid!:o
Lots of broken toys...do kids have to keep everything???

Unfortunately my recycling bin is now almost full and it's a fortnight till they come for it, think some squashing may be required!

TraceyJ_2

This looks like the perfect thread for me. I'm currently overrun with clutter but really struggling to know where to start.

Just wondering if things are still selling ok on ebay in the current climate? I guess it depends on the items really so probably a silly question!

Thank you :beer:

Shelley3774

I am going to start decluttering my guest room which is being decorated this week and both my boys rooms. Can't wait to get rid of stuff. Does anyone else feel soooooo much better when they declutter??? Theres no feeling like it - my motto is tidy house tidy mind x

liuhut

OUT

Did a car boot so almost a car full of stuff went, didn't have much left at the end but what is will be sorted tomorrow to go to charity/tip!!!

In
erm....wine and chocolate as I'm tired from the early start!!

Money_maker

My ds had a bit of a spruce up in his room - put loads of stuff on the staircase so feel as though I'm getting nowhere. I have discovered a kitchen surface I had nearly given up hope on. A good 2 hours ironing will help as the basket is overflowing. It does feel sometimes that you are pedalling in treacle.

In:
Saturday newspaper, few groceries

Out:
New car seat installed in car.
Usual refuse from kitchen. Have listed a few items on ebay but at this rate, will be around 10 years before I can get it all listed.

Hope no one else is struggling.

Palm_Centro

Thank you!! Here I am reporting for duty!

bikerchick1066

IN
absolutely nothing!

OUT
2 books via Amazon
1 book via ebay

angelavdavis

Welcome to the newbies!

Well I have 28 items listed on ebay with about 7 watchers at the moment, so fingers crossed I might rid of some stuff.

Out:

2 carriers of bricabrac to the hospice shop
1 black sack of coathangers that had been languishing on my top floor landing for months! So glad I found a home for them - I really didn't want to chuck them out!

In:
Bag of carrots for supper

I have paperwork to do today (got to get the tax return in today or tomorrow). I can then finish the filing in the office at last.

FiL has asked us to put together some flyers for his new self-employed carpenter status so I will work on this later too.

Just need to stay off MSE! Have a good day everyone!

greent

IN:
brand new (with tags) baby clothes from freecycle
books for DS2 from friend
brand new forensic science kit and crystal growing kit from freecycle for DS1
bag of clothes for DD from freecycle and some from a friend
books (DD bought some with xmas money)
super mario DS lite game (DS1)
cuddly toy dog (DD bought with xmas money)
couple of baby items (all packaged) given to me rescued from closure of a certain well known big store recently (were going to be thrown in skip!)
full face cycle helmet for DS1 (unwanted gift of friend's son)
men doing loft conversion
3 new veluxes in my roof (2 more to follow)
7 new fire doors re loft conversion
3 bottles of antibiotics for DD -currently off school with an infection
new soft touch PC keyboard
brand new forensic science kit and crystal growing kit from freecycle for DS1


OUT:
3 old internal doors (damaged) gone for firewood
cardboard (inc from veluxes) to recycling
3 x PS2 games and 1 x ds game to CEX for part payment towards above DS game
some clothes from freecycle which were holey and or stained (recycling)
2 bars of soap to homeless shelter
bottle of wine from garage to friend when we went there for dinner!
old PC keyboard (worked perfectly but got brand new one for free) via freecycle


PENDING:
couple of paperbacks added to pile to take to WI next month
small aount of clothes sorted for NCT sale next month


Oops - just seen how much more 'in' than 'out' I've achieved in the last week!!



It's our local council's 'Zero Waste' week this week, so I'm trying to create as little landfill waste as possible whilst clearing out - shall see how I get on!!!

greent
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