The Great Declutter Part 2

CompletelyLost

Nothing has actually gone out yet (as I haven't been out all weekend) but pending are:

• £9's worth of pennies to be banked once I get some proper money bags
• lots of paper recycling
• 1 bag of rubbish for bin
• at least 3x parcels for the post office
• 5 pairs shoes, 1 dress & 1 pair jeans to return
• glasses for recycling (grrrrrrrrrr why do I always forget these when I go into town?!)
• huge lot of old dvds (recorded myself) for the tip
• massive pile of misc. junk to be brought down from the loft and taken to the tip

I also have a pile of unlabelled dvds to sort through and find out which are to keep, and which are to be dumped! Not looking forward to that task :S

Mumof2_2

Nothing in but:

OUT: 2 carrier bags of old / broken / unused toys :j

More to follow .....

Sunny_Donny

Hi All

Out 11 bags of rubbish to tip
3 wooden shelves, broken
wooden base of old wardrobe - why it was in the cellar is beyond me
6 cardboard boxes full of rubbish
1 bag of shredding

In Lego for a present and a card
weekly shopping
2 packs of easiyo youghurt mix

pending
2 ebay parcels - waiting for payment then they will go to post office tomorrow
6 books to work for swops
3 wine gift bags for boss (empty of course)

TudorRose

Not done much in the last few days but feel I am becoming more aware of dumping rubbish as it appears rather than putting it aside for finding its way to the bin another day.

IN
Post - mainly dealt with
Food shopping - Tesco had some great bargains in reduced meat yesterday
Newspaper - Tv mag kept for this week. Newspaper read & put in recycling

OUT
Used up a couple of tolietries - bottles from these recycled
Used up bottle of kitchen cleaner - bottle recyled & replaced by one from stash
Emptied kitchen bin
Decided plates I was going to take to CS were not good enough so have now been binned

Started to shift round furniture in living room as I am now getting quite excited about my fire & surround that should be delivered this week.
Have lived in this house nearly eight years since inheriting it from my Mum & have always had the living room arranged as my parents had it. Don't know why I never changed it even though it was all my furniture & not theirs but now I've changed it around I wish I had done it years ago.
I am also going to get DS to put up my new wall lights to replace Mum & Dad's ones. Bought the replacements nearly 3 years ago and never got round to changing them.

debidoodle

Today I decided to move the furniture around in DD's bedroom to create more room, I then decided to try and remove the wax from the carpet where she spilt a candle.

Unfortunately I managed to burn :mad: the carpet while removing the wax with the iron & paper.

On a positive note 14 Ebay sales tonight :j

mineallmine

OOo lots of progress, ebaying and the like.

I've now decided what my next de-clutter challenge will be. To get rid of 140 items in 7 days. So an average of 20 things a day. I need to focus on 3 hotspots - the living room, master bedroom and spare room. I've got rid of about 11 things tonight but will report all the bits and bobs once I've got to 20.

Good luck everyone - every little helps.:hello:

loopychriss

mineallmine wrote: »

I've now decided what my next de-clutter challenge will be. To get rid of 140 items in 7 days. So an average of 20 things a day.

Wow, that's ambitious, especially as you've got rid of 284 already!! But if you've got a very cluttered house, it will be possible. Good luck with that, look forward to seeing the results!

mineallmine

loopychriss wrote: »

Wow, that's ambitious, especially as you've got rid of 284 already!! But if you've got a very cluttered house, it will be possible. Good luck with that, look forward to seeing the results!

Hi loopychriss, all inspired from you! With your idea of getting rid of 100 things in 10 days. The house is really bad. A combination of 'orrible life events has meant that the house was effectively abandoned. I am so aware that the home has an important role to nurture you, to be a sanctary at the end of the day. It's time to get a home back! Plus having a target really helps focus my mind. Thanks loopychriss. Hope to report some good progress. :A

MsHalffull

IN
Nothing
OUT
Garden cuttings
Pending out
40 books to the charity shop
Listed about 5 books on Amazon & 25 items on Ebay - lets hope I manage to shift some of them.

Thanks for the "consumer" link Mineallmine - will definitely write to Head Office.

mineallmine

MsHalffull wrote: »

Thanks for the "consumer" link Mineallmine - will definitely write to Head Office.

Thats great MsHalffull. Dont go into detail about what the shop staff said. Quote the legislation to them, fit for purpose, durable that sort of thing. How disappointed in the quality. Make it clear what you want them to do. Refund etc. Best of luck. :A