The Great Declutter Part 2

Glamazon

muchowing - enjoy your surprise weekend away

OrangeFairy

Evening all

This is my first post on MSE. My partner is addicted to searching through the MSE forums and as a result has purchased a bread maker and slow cooker to save us some pennies in the long run. So very proud of him being active in saving money :j

I hope that you don't mind me joining this Declutter Thread, even though i am a bit late starting. 2010 is about us decluttering and saving as much money as we can to pay off debts. A no spend year if poss. We are only doing a couple of camping trips this year and that is it on the holiday front.

Since november i have been decluttering. I have sold a lot on ebay. In nov/dec i reckon i got rid of about 50 items on ebay and the money paid for our childrens main presents for xmas which was pretty satisfying.

This year i am continuing the good work. So far i have sorted my under stairs cupboard and in the last month i have listed lots of items on ebay. Some books are not shifting but i will just keep relisting and they will go eventually. We have raised £180 this year so far selling our stuff on ebay. £95 has just been used to purchase our dehumidifier which our house really needs. This is going to be our last big spend (hopefully) So now any proceeds will go towards paying off my NEXT account.

This week

IN
Slow Cooker
Gifts for my daughters 7th birthday tomorrow :mad:

OUT
20 items sold on ebay
2 binbags from under the stairs of old paper work and broken folders etc

My next challenge is DF's wardrobe and the shed!!

I hope everyone is enjoying decluttering!!!!

inaminute

Morning everyone and welcome newbies....

I had a really productive day yesterday sorting, filing and throwing away paperwork!
I found some bank statements of mine from 1998 :eek: why on earth I had kept them for so long I don't know. There is a little bit more work to do which I plan to do today but apart from that I'm really pleased with the results. OH couldn't believe how tidy it was (office / spare room) when he got home yesterday, his job now is to burn/shred important documents sometime over the weekend as I've done the rest.

In: nowt apart from post (food shopping will follow later)

Out:
Plastic storage box full to the brim of paper to be recycled
Plastic storage box full to the brim of paper to be burned / shredded
Bag of books taken to the charity book shop
Lots of pens, broken pencils, general carp from the office = bin!

Pending:
Another few hours sorting the final few bits in the office.

Have a good weekend everyone!

apardion

Hello to all declutterers

More sorting out boxes of books for me today and tomorrow. We are hoping that today we will have thinned out to the books we are keeping for the move.
Thanks for all the inspiration from everyone

I hope you don't mind but I follow a few good simple living/decluttering/minimalist blogs etc and wondered if you would be interested in them too as I find them really good for motivation. They are:

unclutterer.com
simpleliving.net (good forum)
thenonconsumeradvocate.com
simpleorganizedlife.com
missminimalist.com

Have a good weekend to you all.
I should stop looking on MSE and start sorting (I will, I will, I will)

apardion

debidoodle

IN

New make up/brush storge bag
Junk Mail


OUT

Manky make up thrown
Junk Mail to recycling



Washed my make up brushes today :eek: note to self must do it more often

Made a start on DD's scrapbook, have run out of clear plastic holders, so will purchase more on Monday

verynewmoneysaver

I was saving some conservatory furniture we got off Freecycle in the garage, but it doesn't look like we'll be having a conservatory for some time, so have now donated it again. The garage looks much clearer now.

Sunny_Donny

Hi

In 2 books and some Sanctuary bath soak from mothers (free)
Shopping from Netto

Out one ebay parcel
one large bag of rubbinsh - emptied all the bins
Line of washing this morning, although cold it is airing and drying

Pending 2 items on ebay have bids - finishing tomorrow
(come on the other 30 items I gave listed!!)

Have moved everything portable updtairs to make room for the house clearance stuff tomorrow. Will let you all know how much stuff (cr*p/junk) comes in later tomorrow night!!!!

jollymummy

Woohoo, I've cleared three sacks full of stuff for charity shops, 2 bags of rubbish for the bin, popped 3 items of clothing on Ebay and sold them all this week. It feels good

misshighlander

Haven't posted on this one for a while.
Most ins, outs & pendings have been from the past 2-3 weeks.

In:
Birthdays cards/presents from family/friends for me (today)
DVD (Terminator Salvation) bought earlier today.
Some food
Junk mail
Couple new tops
1 new jacket/coat
2 cats picked up from cattery & now home
1 Scotland/France 6 Nations Rugby program
1 handheld Dyson hoover thing
2 frames to hang up prints (which I bought about a year ago)
New washing line put up (one I had broke due to weather over winter)

Out:
Junk mail/magazines/cans into recycling box
Newspapers to local SSPCA animal centre
3 amazon sales
2 cats to cattery
Rubbish bin emptied
Money to Vet (have 1 diabetic cat)
1 letter mailed to friend in Austria


Pendings:
One growing pile of clothes & other stuff to go to charity shops
More things added onto Amazon for sale - just waiting for sales

debidoodle

Happy birthday misshighlander.