The Great Declutter Part 2

Yorkielass

Yesterday:

In:
more medication
radio times
stuff from Ikea (I was restrained though!)
2 copies of catalogue - goodness only knows why OH decided we needed two....
1 flower, 1 candle holder and 6 picture frames - all on my list as addtions for things I already have :A
2 more shelves and a height extension for Billy bookcases to house more books on the ones we've got!
various bits of a storage system OH is planning for the garage - but it was reduced so cheaper than we planned

So I went to Ikea and came away with everything I wanted and paid less than expected :eek: (and had a free meal after bad service last time so decluttered the meal vouchers too!)

Out:
Old medication to the pharmacy.

Thankfully don't have much planned this weekend so it will be assembling Ikea stuff (which OH is very good at!) and doing more sorting I think. Some stuff needs to go to the tip first from the garage but it's OH's so he needs to sort it!

415SanFran

I cannot do another thing until the binmen have taken my recycle bin, the reason? The little boxes that come with Approved Food orders are a nice little shoe box size, I have been saving these "just in case"
Well 1 or 2 makes good sense,,,,,,but did I need 46 of the things!

Now I am just waiting till I can be as good with the American style paper grocery bags, the thought with them was that if I filled them with scrap paper they could just be plonked in the big 'bag an all' but it has come to the point now where I have bags of bags.

Reading this thread is really helping but it is a good job I do not know where anyone of you lives, whenever I see someone getting rid of something on freecycle I sit here thinking ,,,,OW I COULD USE THAT.

Welsh_Totster

Hello! Just found this thread and it is rather inspiring. There's not much left to declutter in my house at the moment, as I found the best motivation to declutter is moving house! I cannot believe what we have got rid of over the last 6 months or so because we dont want to have to pack it up and move it to the new place then unpack it. Ive Ebayed furniture, books and nik naks, given stuff away to charity shops and freecycle, recycled lots of stuff and thrown away the worst junk that I couldnt do anything else with.

Its a very liberating experience I must say and I have no intention of buying more stuff to replace it either. I thought long and hard about it all and realised thats its just stuff, we dont really need it. Its like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders when things were leaving the house. I even extended my decluttering to the garden too getting rid of stuff that wasnt required anymore!

Keep up the good work people!

Yorkielass

lol 415SanFran - I've had to keep taking extra cardboard and plastic bottles to the recycling bins at the tip as my boxes that are collected couldn't cope!

Welcome Welsh Totster - I know what you mean about moving house. I lived in 4 places in 5 years whilst I was a student/just starting out in work and had limited space in year and so was pretty good at not accumulating - then I moved to a bigger house and have been there over 3 years now and I almost miss the decluttering side of moving - hence the need for this thread!

craft-a-holic

Yorkielass wrote: »

I think with clutter there often needs to be a trigger e.g. not being able to find a really important piece of paperwork...

Too true!!!
Last night I had to empty the whole filing cabinet to find OH's driving licence 'cos it wasn't where it was supposed to be! Having done that it seemed pointless shoving it all back in again so:

OUT
Loads of old papers to be shredded (will take to work and do tomorrow in big shredder), receipts, instruction books for things we no longer own, etc.

Doesn't make a difference visually to the house - but I know the inside of the cabinet is tidy and paperwork is now filed to within an inch of its life :j

Oh and OUT too, three eBay packages to be posted on way home tonight!!

ThinkingOfLinking

In: Mail.

Out: Another bag of rubbish and some food I've eaten. Too busy to declutter much today...make that at all!

Lefs

Slightly off topic, but I decluttered my laptop this morning. I was thinking I'd have to buy an external hard drive, or new laptop because was running out of space, but managed to free up 15gb - a quarter of the whole thing!

Yorkielass

craft-a-holic wrote: »

Too true!!!
Last night I had to empty the whole filing cabinet to find OH's driving licence 'cos it wasn't where it was supposed to be! Having done that it seemed pointless shoving it all back in again so:

OUT
Loads of old papers to be shredded (will take to work and do tomorrow in big shredder), receipts, instruction books for things we no longer own, etc.

Doesn't make a difference visually to the house - but I know the inside of the cabinet is tidy and paperwork is now filed to within an inch of its life :j

Oh and OUT too, three eBay packages to be posted on way home tonight!!

Well done - and now when you get a piece of paper into the house that you need to keep you can file it straight away without fighting with old instructions!

Welsh_Totster

Lefs wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but I decluttered my laptop this morning. I was thinking I'd have to buy an external hard drive, or new laptop because was running out of space, but managed to free up 15gb - a quarter of the whole thing!

Oooh yes, good one! I did this a few weekends ago as I do a lot of photography and editing, my laptop was chugging along v slowly as it was so full. I cleared out stuff I didnt want, transfered the stuff I did want onto my external drive, did a disk clean up and de-fragged it and its running like a dream. It was certainly very satisfying even though it was a virtual de-clutter!

Well done you!:beer:

I never used to be a de-clutterer but now my life has been transformed and de-cluttering is a way of life and it feels flippin great:rotfl:Its like being set free, quite an odd feeling but its marv:T

Lefs

Welsh_Totster wrote: »

Oooh yes, good one! I did this a few weekends ago as I do a lot of photography and editing, my laptop was chugging along v slowly as it was so full. I cleared out stuff I didnt want, transfered the stuff I did want onto my external drive, did a disk clean up and de-fragged it and its running like a dream. It was certainly very satisfying even though it was a virtual de-clutter!

Well done you!:beer:

I never used to be a de-clutterer but now my life has been transformed and de-cluttering is a way of life and it feels flippin great:rotfl:Its like being set free, quite an odd feeling but its marv:T

Mine was running like an old cow - now like new, it's brilliant!

Just need to start on the rest of my life now. This thread has inspired me to chuck some books onto Amazon marketplace. Not so much for making money, more just to get rid of them!