The Great Declutter Part 2

Megs_mum_2

So - the mascara did the trick.. so much better today. :T
Hope you are feeling better too Longhotbath.
Attacked the garage - yep I know - mascara and all ....
and to say it needed it is the understatement of the decade so OUT OUT OUT
18. Receipts fr purse
19. Books and card sent off to dgd
20. Broken plastic basket
21. letter rack
22. ice bucket
23. bbq tongs - all to cs
24. plastic bags to recycling
25. sprouting onions (hens wont eat 'em)
26. sprouting potatoes "
27. old screws
28. old old gardening shoes
29. 3 cardboard boxes to recycling
30 broken jam jars " "
31 Emptied screenwash bottle "
32old spray cans
33 coal tongs to cs (open fire went 2 yrs ago)
34 broken garden chair
35 Plastic bags from chair cushions
36 old freezer basket
37 T cut stuff (from when we had a white car 10 yrs ago)
38 gunky glue
39 old jam (furry)
40 Old jars (yukky - previously used for cleaning paintbrushes?)
41 Old plant (oops dead) Composted
42 Old tree (rotten - pulled it out with my bare hands - superwoman)
43 2 buckets of weeds (to hens for converting to eggs)
44 old toast}
45 seeds } to bird table
46 Chicken
47 Brocolli lurking in fridge - cooked for dinner
48 Egg with broken shell - into pancake mix for dessert
49 Old plastic cards from purse - chopped up
50 old string and general plastic carp from garden

Yeah - made it to 50 in 3 days and I have a usable garage (of course not usable to put a car in but at least we can get in without limbo dancing and simultaneously barking our shins and gashing our heads....:eek:)

Only problem is that the bins are all full and they dont get emptied til Friday!
Take care. All love MM

purplevamp

In

• Post (sorted & recycled)
• 2 mouse mats for DS2 & DD
• Payslip
• Jar of coffee
• My Mum (babysitting )

Out

• 1 holey sock (bin)
• Random tat from kids shelves (broken crayons, fluff, old bits of paper, etc) (bin/recycled)
• Old magazines (recycled)
• Me & DH ~ cinema :j

Pending

• 2 jam jars for school tomorrow

Done!

• Washing up
• 1 lot of laundry ~ washed, dried and put away
• Sorted a cupboard and 2 shelves of kids bits
• Put DS2’s jigsaw away (it had been out for over a month and he’d only done the edges)
• Transferred contents of old handbag into new one and got rid of random bits of tat (old bag put in understairs cupboard ~ may come in useful )

Megs_mum wrote: »

Yeah - made it to 50 in 3 days and I have a usable garage

:T Well done Megs mum

inaminute

Afternoon ladies,

I've had quite a productive day today starting with 2 loads of washing that I've managed to line dry before the rain arrived! We now have a tidier spare room - HOORAY... its looking lovely if I say so myself and very clutter free ready for our friends arrival on Monday. OH is on strict instructions not to dump anything in there!!

In:
OH watch back from jewellers with new strap and battery
Parcel for OH

Out: 50 in 5 day challenge

12. Icing & caster sugar, free range eggs, sr flour all close to being OOD used up to make a birthday cake for my OH mom who we are seeing later (can I count this? )
13. Hat - charity bag
14. Draw dividers - charity bag
15. Birthday card - OH mom out later with the cake
16. Pile of paper work filed into recycling bin
17. Dog toy - bin
18. Cheques paid into the bank
19. Old flannel - seen better days bin
20. Newspaper / magazine cuttings of recipes - Kept a few, others recycled.

Glad to hear you're feeling better megs mum

Off to put the butter icing on the cake and then will walk the dog in the rain....:o

camelot1001

Well done MegsMum!

Had a wake up call today cos after Estate Agent's visit I put the house on the market. Came home from work today and there are for sale boards up! Made me realise that this is real!!

Tidied up a bit of the garden today and it looks much better - still a long way to go but thought it would look better for any prospective viewers.

One big plus to the house going up for sale is DD cleaned and tidied her bedroom and there is a carpet!!! Hope she can keep it up.

Take care everyone.

longhotbath

Thanks megs mum - still feeling rubbish, but have accomplished a few tricky tasks today, inc a phonecall that I wasnt looking forward to..

67. cd sold on amazon
68. - 88. baby clothes to freecycle - just been collected.

freakyogre

I did intend to follow this thread but I am hopeless!

I have booked some holiday at work as i'm going away with my brother and sister later in the week, but will be back on Friday evening, so I will make a real effort over the weekend to do some sorting out and tidying. I don't have that much stuff, but I have realised that i've been living here for about 15 months and never used some things, so why have I still got them?!

My dad is coming round first thing tomorrow morning to help me put my new chest of drawers together so my first 'sort out' will be what was in my old ones (really, how much underwear does one person need?!) I think this was part of the reason my old ones collapsed

I see a lot of you get rid of a number of items in x number of days, so I think i'll follow you all and go for 30 'items' by Monday (I go back to work on Tuesday). Not a huge amount, but it gives me a start.

Right, enough rambling, i'll try and update over the weekend.

Sunny_Donny

Hi All

Pending:
Black sack full of stuff for the next charity collection that comes through the door
2 carrier bags full of stuff for the charity shop that hasn't gone via Freecycle
3 items with bids on at Ebay that finish on Sunday
Big bag of unused toiletries I will never use to be sent to soldiers in Afghanistan on next transport I can locate.
3 lots of freecycling stuff for people to collect
conservatory suite to be collected on Friday
rotary dryer to be collected Wednesday

In
empty big grey dustbin and recycling bin


Out
Shredded old receipts, bills and receipts for posting ebay items (2 months worth)

I will have a clean front room by the end of the month or else!!!!

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

IN
easter eggs for the kids
DS birthday pressie
shopping (1 bag full)
magazine
new swimming trunks for DS

OUT
3 dead bunches of flowers - compost bin
bottles and jars - bottle bank
birthday card - posted
fabric scraps - binned (did some sewing to use up some spare fabric)


must get organised enough to clear some of the wool and fabric stash - trouble is that involves lots of knitting and sewing so it all takes time.

have a good day all

longhotbath

So far this moning...

89. old tin form my mum - was used for wax crayons. wax crayons used by children.
90. glass jar that had a yankee candle in it - all used up.
91. very old packet of bread sauce

in all week - only food, being gobbled up by hungry gannets (oops - and writing slope which dd forgot to take into school this morning, but she WILL ! remember tomorrow!!?)

greent

IN:
nothing

OUT:
85- 87.. DH's shirts x3 - charity
88. brand new woolly hat for DS3 - too small - charity
89 - 97. Tops of mine to recycling or charity as appropriate
98. & 99 2 bottles gloopy nailvarnish
100. old shoe box
101. pair of shoe trees
102. shoehorn
103. lots of paperwork shredded/ recycled

greent x