The Great Declutter - 18 months on

champys

greent - how awful! especially as none of it was clutter..... and it is such a nasty thought that people got to your house and helped themselves to your belongings.

Otherwise, I'm still struggling with the decluttering. I have a big cardboard box standing in front of me which is my next decluttering project, but haven't started on it. And tomorrow is a working day again....

A few things came into the house today, but not clutter: we visited an elderly couple in the village and came back with a tub full of lily-of-the-valley blobs to plant in the garden, 6 freshly laid eggs and a giant, but really GIANT parsnip!

Money_maker

Hi all,

Sorry to hear about your garage being raided greent, hope the police do catch up with them.

Just to make you smile, my dad always said if we were burgled then with our clutter they would think someone had broken in first

Quiet for me again this week

IN:
Groceries for all next week.
Toy for LO's 1st birthday.
Pressie for DH's birthday (have 4 b/days in space of a week this month :eek: )

OUT:
Bit paperwork.
Usual refuse.
Only 1 ebay item.
Recycling.

Looking forward to planting some seeds next week (tomatoes etc.) so will need to declutter windowsills to reclutter them with pots!

greent

Morning all!

Thanks for all the thoughts re the burglary. Police visited for descriptions and we had SOCO out (there were some things they'd obviously picked up and discarded) They also took the kids' Easter eggs (b'stards!) and some stuff belonging to builders we have here - a £300 planer (which was in bits and they took the time to collect it up from about teh garage and pack it away! - cheeky gits!) and a brand new unopened boxed set of screwdrivers and a big brand new carry case of screws. Builders were a bit miffed, but we pointed out to them that they did leave the front garage door unlocked, so they didn't have a leg to stand on (I personally believe they entered through side door, but an unlocked door means no claim whatever

Anyway, small amount to update:

IN:
1 present for Xmas (found in sales)
12 Xmas tags (for 18p!!) to match paper I already have
1 present for mothering sunday for mil

OUT:
Foodstuffs - I decluttered and tidied pantry and food cupboards - got rid of a few severely ood items which noone will eat, made sure other stuff in order and gave away a batch of stuff which we have too much of, don't fancy etc (Inc some free samples and a jar of homemade jam we were given which noone likes the flavour of) Much tidier
1/2 bag of clothes to recycling bin - trousers with holes in, shirt with worn cuffs/ collar, etc
few broken toys
small pile of kiddy magazines (cbeebies type) which toddler has destroyed, so can't pass on but put in recycling


Will hopefully get rid of the builders this week - next week at the latest - yippee!! Can then get on with painting/ tiling/ carpeting etc new rooms ready for us to move into (10 weeks until babe's due date) and then start it all in the other rooms. Will take ages - hubby has new job offer which means he'll be out from 7-7 and will be tired on an evening (new jobs always seem exhausting, even if not physical!) and I'm not much help right now!

I should have some more ins/ outs today (hopefully)

greent
x

zarazara

hope your feeling ok greent.

today:
IN = nothing
OUT= a shelf unit from the kitchen
pending out= some kitchen stuff and some Laura Ashley curtains, also a new ride on toy for grandson.

greent

Police phoned at midnight last night (thanks for that!!) - they found some golf clubs locally & wanted to check if they were DH's. I gave a description for the 3rd time (!) and they weren't. Took me ages to get back to sleep.....

Anyway, saw some friends yesterday & went to WI last night, so:

IN:
Pair of jeans & denim skirt for DD from friend's DD
Easter eggs for kids from a friend as their's were taken (aah - nearly had me crying!)
book from friend
nightlight from friend
BN rucksack from friend (have a v similar one which is getting past it and needed to buy a new one, so fab!)
Small amount of money from WI sales

OUT:
BN set of 4 espresso cups/ saucers - sold at WI
Small ornamental jug sold at WI
small game - sold at WI
3 books - sold at WI
some of builders' rubbish (i put as much as i could fit in our bin as it's building up again and annoying me!)
3 items of clothing to charity bag (being collected Monday)
1/2 carrier bag clothes for recycling (lots of pants & socks from kids and a couple of skanky tshirts)
Birthday card to friend
Usual rubbish & recycling collected by refuse men today
Pile of books lent to a friend (so only out temporarily)

Want to tackle something 'large' at weekend - but not sure what! Have lots of toddler activities and a midwife appt today, so don't think I'll get anything done today. May attempt some filing tonight (think the filing pile is decluttered - just needs actually filing now!!)

greent
x

charlies_mum

Greent, sorry to hear about your burglary. We have been burgled, and the worst thing is knowing someone has been in your house, touching your things.

The way I tried to look at is was that no-one got hurt, and they are only possessions.

Yorkielass

In: food so that won't be staying long! and some stuff OH is sorting out for someone - won't be staying long and we're helping with their decluttering so that can't be bad :rolleyes: (just looks a bit of a mess in our house atm)

Feel I need to get rid of some more bits, but at least encouraged not too much is coming in.

bigdaftkid

Hi Everyone. I am off work today and all next week so have decided to finally sort out my spare room. I moved in my house 6 months ago and the small spare room is piled with stuff. I have been promising to do this since the day I moved in. Reading your posts has inspired me so wish me luck and watch this space x

nodwah

Out: A kitchen!

In: nothing!

I'm a bit of a lurker on here but I just had to add that!
my New units wont' arrive for a fortnight so we have some time just cooking with the micro oh dear.

Apart from that I'm going to be really sorting through all the kitchen stuff so my new one doesn't get filled up with garbage like the old one

dorry_2

nodwah wrote: »

Out: A kitchen!

In: nothing!

I'm a bit of a lurker on here but I just had to add that!
my New units wont' arrive for a fortnight so we have some time just cooking with the micro oh dear.

Apart from that I'm going to be really sorting through all the kitchen stuff so my new one doesn't get filled up with garbage like the old one

hi nodwah :wave: popped on here for some inspiration and saw u xxxx