The Great Declutter Part 2

Megs_mum_2

Monday morning and I have a lovely clear, clean dining room. Oh its gorgeous! Now I have a whole day to get the rest of the house back in line (its like having a pack of children - when our attention was diverted to the dining room the other rooms took advantage and were realy naughty!) So off I will go with a black bag and a recycling bag and CS bag and see if I can fill all 3 and put anything that doesnt deserve to go in a bag in its allotted place - no place and its in the bag for you m'boy! Coffee first though!
Be strong and good luck everyone.
MM

nickynoo08

Morning,
not been on here for a while as i've been very busy de-cluttering. Did ds(3) bedroom last week, sorted out all his toys and clothes - most gone in vac pacs in the loft ready for bubs due in 8wks, then i braved our bedroom:o Have to say i was pretty ruthless and have sorted quite a bit.

In
2 bags of used baby clothes from my friend - now arranged by size and bagged accordingly.
1 bag of clothes for my ds(3) from my aunty - now in wardrobe, put away for later (larger sizes) and charity bag for anything too small or unsuitable
Food shopping

Out
1 bags of childrens clothes - going to local charity
2 bags of adult clothes - going to local charity to sell
1 unsed yoga set - going to local charity
1 bag of ladies clothes and throw - my mum took
1 really old quilt and cardboard box - recycle bin

Pending
Exercise bike to my mum in exchange for £20:D
pushchair - to my mum for when we go to hers with bubs

Money_maker

Hi,

Been avoiding this thread for a while. Like some of you, I just haven't felt like I had the energy to do anything at the mo. Then I have a binge and do about 2 hours of ironing or something all at once!

Saw a nice cheap dining table on the grabbit thread a few days ago from homebase so sent DH out for it (bit longer and wider than our current one). An hour later he's back with the table and 6 :eek: chairs. So I now have to rehome 'my' chair (comfy one) in the kitchen and find space to store a box of 2 chairs (DD not ready for one yet). Old table is on the patio - help!

I also had this pile of paperwork/my bits (rubbish, basically) by the old table so thats had to go. Its currently all over the kitchen floor and blocking the downstairs loo. Mega decluttering required - particularly before DD discovers it!

IN:
Table and six chairs
Load of £1 tesco easter eggs from last week
Usual groceries

OUT:
Some table/chair packaging
Table onto patio (think its gonna be too big for outside)
My finances, out of the window for the next few days!

I have a bill I remembered yesterday which needs paying end of this week. Dont fancy my chances of finding it in the kitchen...

Miss moneypenny - how I understand the open the airing cupboard door and watch out for the avalanche . We have to use above bed cupboards now and I swear one night they'll pop open and we'll be suffocated in our sleep:rotfl:

Hope to update later today/tomorrow/whenever...

nodwah

OUT: bags and bags of rubbish - why does the house still look like a tip?
1 bag of school uniforms to charity shop

IN: £308 overpayment from BT (YES! that only took about a year!)
Knitting needles from charity shop (39p - bargain!)

Yorkielass

Weekend didn't go quite to plan but did achieve:

• rediscover the settee - the one thing I haven't kept up from my decluttering/sorting last month
• do all the ironing and put away

Judging by the amount of recycling that went out this morning I didn't do too badly generally though.

Height extender put on Ikea bookcase and cardboard in garage.

In:
Food shopping
Some plants for the garden
Some cotton wool pads, pantyliners and carex from Wilkos - all needed and all on offer.

Out:
3 more cosmetics used up and packaging recycled
3 empty Carex bottles, one was totally empty and I combined the other 3 in our house into 1 bottle and put new ones at the other sinks.

Haven't done very well this weekend

Have got a week booked off in a few weeks though so hoping to blitz stuff then!

Kaz2904

Money_maker wrote: »

Hi,

We have to use above bed cupboards now and I swear one night they'll pop open and we'll be suffocated in our sleep:rotfl:

I actually snorted at this! Thank the lord I didn't have a mouth full of coffee!
This is why I can't even entertain the thought of having over head storage in our bedroom. It would be my side that collapsed! (My luck that is not my clutter- I'm the kitchen clutterer so mines all hidden down there)

castri09_2

hi
ive been good got some stuff on ebay more to put on and 2 bags to go to the charity shop. slowly getting there house is looking much better and easy to look after.
castri09

CompletelyLost

This morning had a quick whizz around to find 5 items to be chucked:

-broken laptop mic
-broken calculator
-stained top
-old purse
-old tropicana cooler bag
-plastic rings out of a cracker

So ended up binning 6 items. Why do I keep all this crap in the first place?! I've also managed to fill another carrier bag with rubbish. It's never ending.

Still lots pending from yesterday... will update if/when they are gone!

loopychriss

mineallmine wrote: »

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

Aw thanks.... that's sweet of you to say. I'm glad you're getting on top of your decluttering, it does get overwhelming at times. I feel like that about my craft room: over the past 10 years or so I must have spent thousands on craft stuff, think I must have had some sort of illness that made me buy more even though my craft stash was bursting at the seams. Now I've discovered patchwork and quilting, I've got just the same obsession, only with fabric. And there's not room for craft stash and fabric stash, so something's got to give.

I've been slowly decluttering the craft stash over the past year and a bit, but there's still far too much. I feel really guilty too at the amount I used to buy, as I don't work and it was all bought out of hubby's money. I actually used to hide stuff in the car if he was home when I got back, so he wouldn't see how much I'd bought!

Anyway, those days are over now, I'm not buying any more craft stash or fabric as I have enough to last me for 5 years or so I should think. My problem now is decluttering craft room so we can turn it back into a bedroom by 2012 when we want to put the house on the market. I've put a load on Ebay but it's very slow on there, no-one seems to want craft stuff. I've put tons of bits in a plastic crate and I'm going to seal the lid so I don't get tempted to take anything out, and give it to a friend who makes cards for the local hospice. It's getting there but it's a long job.

So.... we both need to keep going! We'll get there in the end.... !

purpleheather2810

MsHalffull wrote: »

A couple of books I've bought this week, are actually for me to read - "A Life Stripped Bare" - About Living Ethically & the other is "How I Lived for a Year on a pound a day" - I've read that one before but feel I need a motivational top-up. I made a decision about a year ago to work very part-time & to do that I have to keep to a pretty tight budget (considerably more than a pound a day though). Most of the time it feels like the right decision but recently I can feel my resolve weakening & discontentment creeping in - probably as much to do with tiredness & the time of year as anything - so I need a little top up before I fall off the MSE wagon... Fingers crossed that the books will help.

Sorry for moaning - Tomorrow I'm going to do some Ebay listing - in theory...

I know what you mean, I have been following this thread and getting a lot of motivation from it but sometimes I waiver! Like you, I have taken the decision to scale back my work while my kids are small (dds 5 and 2) and most of the time I know this feels like the right thing to do. But sometimes I do get tired of listening to the other mums at the school gates or at toddler group who are jetting off to DUBAI for half term :O and having lots of work done to their big posh houses. Oh well, at least we are happy and decluttered and know that STUFF doesn't matter, in fact t just gets in the way of us being happy. (Can you tell I'm also a flybaby!!)