The Great Declutter Part 2

Mumof2_2

This happened the other day but I forgot to post:

IN: Nothing

OUT: 2 baby car seats and bases
1 high chair

Definitely made more space in our attic!!!!

purplevamp

Out

• Small pile of old letters
• Another empty plaster box
• Old computer game (Amazon sale)
• January’s Sky magazine
• More odd bits of paper
• Newspaper from January!!
• Empty packaging from Xmas present
• Old shampoo bottle (last few drops decanted into new bottle)
• paintbrush with no bristles
• a couple of empty loo rolls
• plastic Xmas tablecloth (old and stained)

(Everything (except paintbrush & t/cloth) above went in the recycling)




In

• DS & game for DS1 (kept envelopes and bubble wrap for ebay stuff - put away with other envs)

Have done some ironing (not all of it though ) and put them away. Also matched up some socks after finding their partners!! When DD and DS2 came home from school they started to tidy up a few bits as well.
　
This decluttering lark is a lot harder than I thought! Unless it’s because I’ve got way too much stuff ~ I don’t know where to begin.


MsHalffull - well done on losing your freecycle virgnity :T.

Edit:
Have just found my bracelet I bought on my honeymoon nearly 3 years ago. Gave up looking for that about a year ago :j

miss_clarabelle

MsHalffull wrote: »

Quick post to say I used Freecycle for the first time today - Within an hour I got rid of an old high chair to a nice man who'd just had an "unexpected" 5th child - even got to see a picture of the baby. I'm very excited -:j and wanted to share this with people who I knew would "get it".

I love this! I once got a shelving unit from an elderly couple of freecycle. I really really needed one and was so happy. They were so happy to give it to me and we had a lovely chat about school and education (I'm a teacher). I think they wanted to marry me off to their son by the end of my visit. Such a heartwarming experience and I was the one who got an excellent freebie!

YummyMummy20

Oooooh.. I want to have a go at this! This house is an absolute nightmare atm and I literally don't know where to start. Most of MY stuff is eBayable so 100 in 10days will be difficult with that, will have to start with DS's stuff and possibly some of my mother's, she'll never notice. Going to have a little nosey at the rest of the thread after tea and start Day one tomorrow :)

MsHalffull

Hi All

Still glowing from my Freecycle experience thanks for comments Purplevamp & MissC ( glad you found your bracelet btw Purplevamp)

So since Tues:

IN
Necklace - colleague gave it to me - it wasn't her style
Bravissimo Dress - bought on Ebay- its exactly the same as one I've got already that I wear to death
OUT
Highchair - Freecycle
about 20 brand new mothers day cards - CS
Book - CS
worn old slippers - bin
CD - sold on Amazon
rotten old cupboard door from garden - bin

greent

IN:
external hard drive
thomas engine
2 packs of insulation for loft

OUT:
18. packaging from both the above
19. packaging from new ipod
20. old ipod earphones
21. 2 bottles of essential oil given to friend
22. birthday card to friend
23. sainsbury & tesco tokens and box top tokens to school

wilf55

83 another bag to dd1
84 another bag to charity

essexgal

Since Tuesday night:

IN:
Me..:j (after five weeks in hospital with DD2)
DD2 (can't do jumpy here - she's in wheelchair :rotfl:)
zimmer frame
wheelchair
commode
bath seat thingy
about eight bags of stuff including a stuffed toy mountain, enough comics for the rest of the year, new undies/pjs.
takeaway pizza for first night home
food

OUT:

am gonna attempt the 100 in 10 days as now have 5 weeks worth of housework to catch up on :eek:.

1. old manky hairbrush - bin
2. artro silica gel - no I don't know where this came from either - prob MIL(shrugs) - bin
3. old ice cream tub with fox glacier dark mints which went all sticky in it..yuk - bin
4. about two carrier bags worth of plastic drinks bottles - recycling
5. about two carrier bags worth of papers/card/etc - recycling
6. clutch of 'dead' deodorants - DD1 finally used them up! - recycling
7. food packaging - recycling/bin
8. bottle of chocolate ice cream topper - gone so hard like concrete - bin
9. pr of DD2s knickers - cut off whilst in traction - washed - charity rag bag
10. old razor - bin
11. tube skin scrub - used up - recycling
12. 2 x glittery stetson hats - crushed - bin
13. couple of broken clothes hangers - bin
14. sock with hole in toe - charity rag bag

have to swap wheelchair this morning for one she can wheel herself round in, and have physio this afternoon so that might be it until the weekend.

essexgal

Megs_mum_2

Hi All - I have had 2 days "out" - my organised, tidy, glam friend has been staying and we have had fun but I feel permanently guily about the state of my house despite a week of cleaning, clearing, decluttering, wiping, rubbing, chucking ... Grrrr. Why can some people make it look so effortless? She is such as lovely lady - why cant I be as good??
OK - enough self examination - lets get on with it ...
My list starts with
1. Finish some of the craft projects I have on the go - 2 jumpers, one dolly (sewing), one patchwork bedspread, one quiz (writing questions). Each of these have about 6 hrs work required so maybe 2 days each? Then they can be wrapped and sent out (they are all presents...hence no time scale)

Take care
XX MM
PS Hope your DD is OK Essexgal

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

hope your DD is happier now she home essexgal

well done to all the declutterers:T everyone is doing brilliantly.

OUT
4 old posters that no one wanted up
box of tiny glass beads - given to a neighbour whos making some decorations for local church
1 black bag of rubbish - bin day
4 brown bags of paper and cardboard - recycling day
2 green bags of tins and plastics - recycling day
empy glass perfume bottle - bottle bank
new home card - posted

IN
local free paper - will be recycled