The Great Declutter Part 2

cannp123165

Hi I would like to join in too! We really need to declutter our house! Already doing eBay, but need to keep on with it.

Kitchenbunny

I agree with Hypno, it's quite nice from an emotional point of view in clearing things out. I'm currently going through old books to give to charity (as sadly they don't seem to fetch much online) but it is going to take quite a lot of time as I have to carry them all to the charity shop and don't have a car. So it'll be a few at a time on my way to work. Slowly but surely, eh?

In: 2 x HDMI leads (which will get used)
1 DVD box set (an investment for when we move house and won't be able to afford luxuries)

Out: Old calendars, some old cross stitch magazines and prepared another bag to go to the charity shop - old books this time. I'm taking it fairly easy today but will be doing my New Year tradition of old - having a bath. Getting myself clean and shiny as close to midnight as I can, and kind of washing away the old year and getting ready for the new.

Kitchenbunny xx

ClaireN75

Tootsiepops wrote: »

Hi, i often posted in the last thread, but this year i'm going to get the house & garage sorted, been to IKEA today and bought 12 yes 12!! different sized storage boxes for my photos and other sentimental things .

Hi Tootsiepops and the rest of you (and me) who are tidying and decluttering the sentimental things in life! As I'm the family archivist :rolleyes: I've got a book detailing how to properly archive "stuff" - anything from paper to toys to wedding dresses to everything else in between. If any of you would like some help in properly storing those undeclutterable things then just PM me (or post here) and I'll see what me book says!

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

i have started by decluttering my e-mails - none are now unread and many have been deleted. So pleased was i that i continued and decluttered my favourites on the computer.

What a great idea, thanks.

IN
Nothing

OUT
Pending: 2 mangos which have been transformed into desert for tonight :j
Pending: 3 of the ebay items have sold :T
Pending: Toiletries, which will be gifted to a friend tonight as a belated birthday present

pollys

IN

Nothing

OUT

Loads of paper for recycling, at last I've got my work files sorted. All sorted for start of term on monday.

Took the tree down ready for a fresh start for the new year and cleaned out all the boxes/bags we store decorations in. Managed to get rid of loads of stuff, decorations now fit neatly into 2 small boxes.

Happy New Year everyone and Good Luck with the decluttering.

Alison_Funnell

Tigger888 wrote: »

We are four miles up a single track road and the snow is still pretty bad - I could get out if I really wanted to but if it's stopping me spending money that's a good thing!

Sounds perfect to me.

Welsh_Poppy

In

Boots delivery of next years chrissy presents

Out
3 carrier bags of rubbish

alice-mary

I'd like to join this challenge too please! I'm a maths teacher so I have collected HUNDREDS of text books over the years which I know I will NOT part with BUT a lot of the paperwork HAS to go! I made a good start in the summer and borrowed the school's heavy duty shredder over a weekend... 14 (yes, 14!) black sacks full of shreddings were recycled, (unfortunately local PDSA couldn't use it as there were staples in there) and it was SO therapeutic just knowing that I didn't have to look at it again! I hope to borrow said shredder again very soon!

My other main problem is that, according to my DM, I am always in SIEGE MENTALITY and seem to have food and toiletry supplies that could last for months! Now, to me this isn't a bad thing but I realise that storing these supplies takes so much space and I do need to sort it out before the end of 2010, hopefully by July! Then I can enjoy living in an organised house next academic year!

Wish me luck please and GOOD LUCK to everybody else on this thread!

Alice

Tigerlilley1980

HI everyone, I would love to join in aswell please. We just got married and hot loads of lovely new housey things, but now I don't know what to do with the old!! Also, there is mounds of washing in every room that I can never get completed!! x

Welsh_Poppy

Alice- I adore books and collected them for years and years and cant part with them.....i tend to collect cookery books(ooh lovely...garden book(oooh pretty flowers)running books(ooooh nice but how mush after 6 years running dont you know about injurys training nutrition etc)
BUT in the NY I will declutter my books
I have so many my bookcase broke under the weight of them all!!

debidoodle

IN

2 x Boots deliveries (pressies for birthday's & next xmas)
Post
2 x parcel's for DD



OUT

Brown bin emptied
paper, tin, plastic to recycling