The Great Declutter - 18 months on

fedupandskint

OUT
Plastic milk bottle for recycling
2 seed packets direct sown in garden
One garden plant pruned and plant trainer set up against it
Garden sweepings
One Easter Egg (just disappeared ! )
Paper into recycling

IN
4 Pop up waste bags from £land for potatoes and veggie growing
2 climbing rose plants from £land
chicken for tomorrow's curry from butcher

PENDING
6 Ebay parcels for posting on Sat
2 QVC parcels to return

More garden decluttering tomorrow if weather holds, quite slow declutter progress this week as concentrated more on the outside this week

candyblue

In
Nothing

Out
3 bags of rubbish
1 bowl of scraps for the compost heap

kaz665

This looks like a good thread for me as I am always trying to get rid of the accumulating junk in our house. Basically we moved here nearly 2 years ago and my OH is still in the framemind of keeping stuff 'just in case' as he is RAF and therefore we used to move around every couple of years.

Anyway hi to all, here are my ins and outs for the last 2 days:

In
New LG Cookie Phone (yay I managed to get a new contract at less than half the price of the old one).
Phone case
New pen (to encourage studying)
Groceries
Easter Eggs (for DH and DS)
Book (instead of egg for me)

Out
Old mobile - sending to MIL
Parcel to SIL

Think I'll make a conscious effort to have a proper go at this tom.

luxor4t

Thought trusty cross-trainer was only fit for the tip, but Dear-old-dad repaired it :j

Rowan9

I would also like minimal possessions and am working to get there. Emotional ties to 'old' stuff proves hard for me but |I am making progress.
Anyway,
Out:
2 bags to charity shop this week - clothes, books
1 envelope with necklaces to charity shop today. This was a biggie as a couple of oldie sentimental things but they didn't make my heart sing

In:
2 pints milk and 3 newspapers (sounds excessive but one was a national, one a local weekly and one was free with the weekly. I don't often buy newspapers so this was a treat)

Taking myself out into the garden to ponder things

zarazara

IN nothing
Out just some rubbish

fedupandskint

IN
New wooden post to replace rotten one
New corrogated plastic sheet to replace broken one

OUT
Rotten wooden post

nicki_2

IN:
NOTHING :j:j Not even any junk mail yet!

OUT:
To a freecycler:

• 2 binbags of clothing/shoes/bags
• 2 boxes of misc junk
• 1 box of videos
• 1 large suitcase filled with more junk :j:j

2 binbags of rubbish in the wheeliebin

mandragora_2

In
Me, alone for a week while prize hoarder - aka husband - and son off for week's skiing


Out

A shedful of crud, taken to the tip, including: dead microwave; patio heater cover - gnawed while in shed; stacks of wood to be dried out for the woodburner (getting soaked in the shed, due to collapsing roof); old guttering/pipes/facsia board - kept on the grounds that 'it might come in handy' and a horrible, broken and bashed up oil lamp that 'will be useful when we go camping' - well not in the past three years it hasn't, as it has sat outside the back door for at least that long, and never once been with us on a camping trip in all that time....

A mountain of old papers that had accumulated on the bookcase sorted through and filed or burnt or recycled, according to type!



Tomorrow I'm getting into the back bedroom to have a fling out of the stuff that's accumulated in there. I have my eye on an old pair of skis that came from the tip with a view to selling on ebay, but which turned out to be worthless......

brummiebabe

IN: Nothing:j

OUT: 1 Roboraptor (Freecycled - my DS never played with it & I couldn't be bothered to Ebay it:o)
1 broken play garage - in the boot of the car to go to the tip!!