The Great Declutter Part 2

Kaz2904

Managed to get all the non ironing folded and put in the bedrooms it lives in (thanks DS aged 6!) and I did all the ironing. If you hear on the news tomorrow that a family have been found murdered and the wife is in custody then you'll know that I've got home from my night shift to find 1: that DH hasn't put away the ironing like I've asked him to do and 2: the kids have got up and knocked it all off the sofa onto the floor and left it screwed up where it's landed and 3: that this may well not be the first time that's happened!
Need to empty hallway as it seems to be full of parp at the moment too!

loopychriss

luxor4t wrote: »

I have started making a 'string' quilt with all my fabric scraps http://loftcreations.blogspot.com/2010/01/while-abby-sleeps.html
It's a brilliantly efficient way of using up the scraps, getting the most out of the smallest bits plus it creates a lot of space

Oooh, I love your quilt....! I need to do that... I have hundreds of little bits in a crate upstairs, plus bigger bits (from 1 yard up to 6 yard lengths!). Would take me approx 20 years to use it all up at my current rate of sewing though.

Megs_mum_2

Just popping in quickly - lovely springy sunshine beckons me outside - has duel effect of no decluttering time indoors BUT less opportunity to clutter in the first place. Thats fine if the house is reasonable to start with (giving myself 7/10 on that one - sewing stuff all still out from yesterday as I am making a nightie - going well and total sewing time will probably be about 6 hrs in all.) (And that includes the time taken to rethread my lovely overlocker with white thread ... you have to have rethreaded an overlocker to know how offputting that can be!)
Anyway - yesterday
91. Olive oil bottle (contents amalgamated with other identical 1/2 full one)
92.Rather old pasta (used up in innovative salad - bag binned)
93. Committee paperwork recycled
94. 2 buckets of weeds (recycled through hens)
95. 4 items of junk post (recycled)
96. 12 eggs (sold)
And thats all I can remember BUT only 4 to go (its taken way longer than 10 days though...) Miffed that I still only have 2p in my roadkill jar but then again I dont get out much!
Off to the greenhouse/woods/garden/fruitcage.
XXX MM
Have a lovely day all.

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

sorry been awol for a few days (and totally gone to pot) if you could see the mess on this puter table you'd throw me off the thread for not trying:o.

IN
weeks worth of shopping
post - dealt with
2 mothers day cards
3 lots of flowers
1 hm cake and a box of hm muffins
box of chocs
toiletries and pampering bath treats - we have got 5 kids:rotfl:
selection of seeds - won will plant up when time arrives

OUT
letters and cards that needed writing - sent
2 fake pendelfin rabbit ornaments - church table top sale
3 trinket pots - church table top sale
pair of feng shui chime balls - church table top sale
3 old bath toys - binned
various godmothers/granmothers/mothersday cards - given out
bunch of flowers/dvd/snuggly blanket - mil for mothers day
bottle of baileys/dvd/ cardigan - mum for mothers day
bunch of flowers and box of chocs - stepmum for mothers day

i must get this puter table cleared and tidy before the day is out

greent

What a beautiful day!!!

IN:
nothing

OUT:
55. alphabet poster with hole in
56. top to chrity bag
57. pair of DS1 boxers with hole to rag recycling!
58. some boxes to recycling
59. dead felt tips
60. teeny bits of wax cryons
61. broken toy
62, baseball cap to charity bag
63, 2 x bin of general rubbish bits and tat & stuff from DS2's rrom (currently sorting for him to move to new room and DS3 to move to that room - still in with us at teh mo)

64. lots of plastic soldiers
65. a 2006 baby calendar (x2!!)
66. border from DS2's old room

'Scuse all the typos - growing my nails and not used to it!!

muchowing

I think Spring has arrived! Lovely sunshine here in Yorkshire!!
Back to the decluttering yesterday Finally got around to those bathroom cupboards! I am the not-so-proud owner of 23 bottles of shower gel!! Surprisingly little to bin though!

IN Box of Chocs from DS
Newspaper
Post
Naan Breads for Tea

OUT 1. Empty E45 Tub
2. OOD Prescription Face wash
3. OOD Eyedrops
4. Manky Night Cream
5. Box from new night cream
6.Shower Cap
7.Saturdays Papers
8. Sundays Papers
9. Junk mail from the last few days
10.Bag of Shredded paperwork
11.Black Bag of general household rubbish
12.3 wine bottles
13. 2 Glass Jars
14. Old Address Book
15. Packaging from Steam Floor Cleaner my Mum bought for me!! (Hint - Hint??)
16. RISI parcel posted
17. 2 letters and a postcard posted

I think thats it! All recycled where possible of course!

Going to do a bit of tidying in the garden now! See what else I can get rid of!!

purplevamp

In

• Junk post (recycled)
• (One junk letter had 2 cards & envs plus a pen in, so they went in my card box)
• DVD for DS (from his Dad for his birthday…in February )
• Large ceramic jug with pot of roses (comp win)

　
Out

• 1 book (Amazon sale)
• Baby card match game ~ bits missing (recycling)
• 2 OOD catalogues (recycling)
• 3 old colouring books (recycling)
• Old receipts, letters (shredded and recycled)
• DS2’s reading book from Yr 1 (he’s Yr 4 now!!)
• Gumball box (refilled machine, recycled)
• Upside-down shower gel (recycled)

　
Pending

• Photos taken for eBay finally as the rechargeable batteries are so old they keep running out really quickly.
• Found DVD’s for sister, put in envelope and will post tomorrow in internal post for free (we both work for NHS)

　
Done!

• Cake, made and half eaten
• Washing dried on line and put away
• Found £70 in vouchers (will buy some new rechargeable batteries with them!! )
• 3 dvd’s on Amazon
• 1 video on Amazon
• Kids showers!!

　
Not much done else. My problem is I come onto the computer just to check my emails and end up doing surveys, checking MSE for interesting posts…that’s how I found this thread!

Megs_mum_2

'Morning Everyone ......
Must keep on top of the creeping lava flow of stuff - went out yesterday and had a busy evening (productive and enjoyable but busy) result is the d'room which was all tidy and looking like a d'room now has sewing and overlocking machines on table, plus scissors, threads,button box,fabric strewn over it. The floor is decorated with threads and snippings, the ironing board and iron are still out too. So I must do a flylady hour and tame it all (mixing my metaphores as I go! Hey I can multi task I am female!Ha ha) Desperate to get to the magic 100 here goes for yesterday:
In: Milk, spuds (we just used up the last of our HG ones from last year but this years are not yet planted!) ham for OH sandwiches
Out: Me (to lunch!)
97. Organics to compost bin/hens (actually the naughty dogs got to it en route so they ate the cabbage leaves - whaaaat? Silly dogs)
98.Junk mail (again - 2 catalogues, 2 letters, 2 fliers)
99. 6 eggs sold by OH at work (they cant get enough of them - maybe we
should get another couple of hens....)
100. AND FINALLY Ta Da .... bathroom empty bottles , packaging and general clutter.
Phew .... OK going to take a bit of a rest (from listing not from chucking/recycling/charity shop donating)BUT will organise flyladyship to fit into the morning hour when its too chilly,dewy to garden so that I keep on top of things. Its so lovely to have a tidy clean clear house and so disheartening when it all goes to pot!
XX MM

Emptynester

If anyone remembers me mentioning coming home to find some of DD2's belongings after her moving in to her new flat, I can give an update.

A now happy DD2 is visiting for us oldies for a week and went through this "stuff" with me yesterday.

Result 2/3rds of a wheelie full of old cushions, pillows and a double quilt. Her old flat was damp and these things were going mouldy and only fit for bin.

2 washing machines full of good towels and a bedspread have had a good, long, hot wash and are now out on the rotary line to take whatever the weather throws at them for the next week. I'll then do a sniff test to see if I need to repeat the process. These are good things and will be useful too as the offspring have been depleting my towel pile each time they head back for another term for the last 7 years.

A decluttering failure to report. I thought I was being clever painting the woodwork in the bedroom with old gloss paint found in garage! Mistake it was too far gone and I have had to sand it down AGAIN, buy new paint and start again! Not sure if emulsion keeps longer than gloss, cos old emulsion was OK. The emulsion was 3 years old, I suspect the gloss may have been an antique.

Now off to do a little painting before getting ready for work.

Empty

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

meant to say yesterday luxor4t that quilt you are doing looks fantastic, i enjoyed looking at your blog page with all your creations on:T

emptynester sorry to hear you paint was spoilt what a shame youre having to do it again:(

OUT
finally managed to get the bags of stuff down to the church lockup so 4 big heavy bags of stuff are now gone:T
2 old dried out lush massage bars i found on top of a cupboard - binned
small plastic toilet shaped pot full of dried up slime:rotfl:- binned
empty toiletry bottle - recycled
glass candle holder jar that had crack in - recyced
another bottle of gloopy thick nail polish - binned
40 items of post (letters cards postcards) - posted last night (need to get more stamps)
load of out of date school/club/choir letters - recycled

have a good day all