The Great Declutter Part 2

pigpen

In

Nothing

Out

1 binbag rubbish
1 pillow

Pending

2 binbags to go to charity shop
2 dolls prams to go to nursery tomorrow
4 catalogue returns!

Told you I would achieve something today

OH going through his stuff which has been in boxes in our room for 4 months.. bless him, he gets a bit stressed about it and it is overwhelming but he is battling on!

We have 5 months to empty and decorate the room.

Megs_mum_2

Discovered today its not just me thats an untidy whatsit in our house...cleared the kitchen totally during the week and kept on top of it until yesterday then OH put his wallet, keys, whistle, stopwatch and umpiring cards (all of which Grrrr to) on the worksurface near the door! They then bred - reciepts, hankies, dog poop bags (unused!) joined them during the day. I took said items to OH while he was brushing his teeth (captive audience) and lo and behold they were still in the bathroom at lunchtime (with a few offspring like the old loo roll tube ... the bin is all of 15cm away). I said they had made a hotspot and he looked at me like I was mad (well???). So I moved them to his bedside cabinet which is a volcano not hotspot!
Thanks everyone - I feel so much better for posting!
In nothing
Out 12 eggs, miles of bunting, paper, glass,tins and cardboard (to recycle bin.)
Up (loft) Christmas bits, holiday cases, spare storage boxes (previously emptied)

ClaireN75

It's been a busy weekend but I think we're making progress. All the "in" stuff fitted without needing to rearrange anything so I'm feeling quite pleased with my previous decluttering efforts (as I don't class the "in" as clutter - yet :rotfl:)

IN
12 Wine & champagne glasses (wedding present)
Steam generating iron (ditto)
Shoe cupboard (to replace chaotic shoe racks which just attract cr*p)
Clothes - couple of dresses and tops
New handbag

OUT
Last ebay item (to post office)
Boxes (to tip/recycling centre)
Polystyrene (ditto)
Christmas tree (ditto)
Fallen apart pair of boots (ditto)

PENDING
Bag of shoes
Old iron that doesn't steam anymore
2 old handbags
Computer joystick
Ethernet switch
Old satellite dish & receiver

We've decided to give our local car boot sale a whirl so all the pending items are being saved for that (except for the satellite dish & receiver which we've put on the local equivalent of Gumtree). Once we've decided or a date I'll have a run around with some bin bags to pull together stuff for the car boot. I'm reluctant to do that straightaway as then I'll have piles of stuff hanging around which will just add to the mess and chaos in the short term. I am starting to earmark items to go though :T And anything that doesn't sell will go straight to the charity shop.

I also sorted out our cutlery drawers yesterday. I haven't thrown anything (yet - some might be earmarked for the car boot though) but we were wondering whether to buy a new cutlery set and now it's been sorted out I can see we don't really need to.

Janebo12

Well, I posted the other day to say that I'd thrown away a key as locks had been changed on the front door, forgot it was actually the back door we had new keys for so the key I had thrown away was our spare front door key - had to then go routing through the bin bag to find it - gross! :rotfl:

At least it spurred me on to throw away the bag into the dustbin (good job I hadn't done it sooner.

So, over weekend:

IN:
Nintendo Wii - DH got inspired to get one
Book and pen received as party gift by DD1

OUT:
Golden wedding card and gift to friends
Bag of rubbish
Lots of out-of-date, horrible tasting or yucky-type things from the kitchen cupboard - also found a party bag from party DD1 went to before Christmas, with some choccy bars and a half-eaten piece of birthday cake :eek: - choccy bars have gone into the treat box, cake into bin!

PENDING OUT:
1 Ebay parcel (& 2 others if they sell, have watchers) all ending tonight.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

alicemary

So I grabbed fear by the horns and ventured into the garage.
I packed one bag of stuff for recycling *yay*
Then brought 2 bags full of stuff upstairs *headdesk*

These are things that were cluttering my mother's house until autumn last year. She finally changed the furniture in my old bedroom, and boxed up all my stuff. Then she brought it all to my house.
I told her that if I hadn't needed it in 13 (gasp!) years, I probably didn't need any of it now, and it could be thrown out.
My poor mother, stuck with a room full of mid nineties teenager's rubbish.
I think bringing it here was her revenge haha

Aril

Yesterday I might just have bought in 1 or 2 items of new jumble la la la but did manage to get rid of more and certainly books will go again once read and some of the clothing has replaced other worn out bits that have gone out for recycling.

In: Nowt
Out: a freebie DVD and a moth eaten jumper

Aril

Millie2008_2

Productive day

Following my clear out earlier, I sorted another box from the dreaded hall cupboard and added to the recycling pile, then tackled the other dreaded hall cupboard and added some shoes to the recycling pile.

Then (in the middle of an energy spurt ) I decided to tackle the utility room and have rearranged a few things, hopefully to discourage the accumulation of junk

Finally, I went to the recycling place this afternoon to get rid of the recycling pile. Tired now, but feel a bit smug

calleyw

Right not sure when I last posted but reckon it was nearly a week

Ok

IN: The crockery sets I bought the first full week of Jan are now in the house. Due to having passengers in the car. Went to poundland and 99p shop and bought loads. Including 3 books, 1 long handled dust pan and brush. 2 X rose bushes but given one to my mum. 3 X rolls of paper towels. 3 X bags worth of stuff from the boots 75% sale. Some new underwear. 2 X bags of seed potatoes. Full tummy as went out for a meal last night:D


Out: Nothing yet. They finally collected both my normal bin and the recycling this week:j

Back room still tidy after getting caught out by the wheel chair services man last week:o

Need to get down and have a mega tidy up step daughter coming on tuesday :eek:

Well done to everyone keep up the good work.

Yours

Calley

chuggingtongirl

IN
Today nothing but yesterday some food shopping

OUT
two bags of various paperwork/old letters from three drawers which have been overflowing for months.........
A bag for the bin after going through a box of things under my bed - still about five boxes to go through!! but will go through one a day this week I think...
a gift for a friend which has been taking up space in my room since I bought it too early......
a bag of things for the charity shop - well pending as taking monday......also a bag of things to ebay but again pending as dont have time to list yet

I plan to tackle some boxes from under my bed this week after taking a look in them and seeing loads of things which need to go!

JayneC

Afraid I'm not doing a very good job of keeping up with this thread. Can't remember when last posted, but... apart from food this week had a moment of weakness at B&M and in came some storage boxes, a timer, silicon loaf 'tin', salt and pepper pots and garden rake (which I do actually need) !!! Also bought copious amounts of stuff from Boots sale, BUT is all earmarked for gifts through the year.

Out - not that much really, reunited my daughter with her shoes, took a few non clothes bits to charity shop, bag of clothes went to charity pick up, a couple of quality street tins to daughter (to use for cake tins), paper+peelings to compost bin.