The Great Declutter Part 2

Sunny_Donny

Hi All

OUT
2 large bags to charity shop
2 things sold on ebay
1 wedding anniversary card
gifts to godchildren (3) for easter
cr*p from 3 kitchen cupboards that I felt compelled to tidy - OH snoring in front of tv (don't worry he will be washing up!!)
1 broken wine glass, I hit the kitchen tap with it trying to put it in the washing up bowl
3 used up shower/bubble bath bottles
1 empty shampoo bottle


IN
monthly shopping
2 new plates - cos OH broke them (wedding gift from Debenhams - thanks goodness for their 20% off sale)
2 belts for £4 fron Next sale - same colour, but will wear 2nd one when first has worn out
2 soaps in dishes from Debenhams £1 each from £7 - 2 birthday/xmas pressies
for goody bags
3 large black sacks worth of stuff for PDSA charity collection tomorrow morning.
1 sack of cement - "It will be a solid block if I put it in the shed!" comment from OH
bottle of home made rose wine from friends - in the fridge

Off for a large glass of homemade wine then tackling the ironing

longhotbath

Thanks ms halffull, will get back onto the wheelchair tomorrow. ds is very busy over easter, and has to use his chair!! the red cross are great, but only loan out adult ones here.

Went to a lovely 1st birthday party yesterday, and have decluttered the party bag leftovers!! (yum cake)

now sitting in bedroom surrounded by loads of small scale generalised stuff - is this 'gibble?'

Still working on getting a bag full of it to get rid of....

camelot1001

Sorted out storage spaces in roof today (not tackled the actual loft yet).
Re-packed children's old school work, etc into nice new plastic storage boxes. The cardboard ones had had it.

Managed to take loads of stuff to the tip or freecycled it so lots of things out today and everything much tidier.

Thanks for your support again. Take care everyone.

paybacktime2008

48. Application form posted-only had it since 3rd Feb!
49. Black bag full (yes i'm on a mission. actually investing in black bags!) of gibble (into neighbours skip! SShhh!)

I don't know what the actual definition of gibble is but for me it's just that general carp that lies around the place that any sane and normal person would put in the bin as they went along.

My dog has a nasty habit of finding 'treasures' generally socks, anything ball like, empty cat food tins and homing them lovingly under the dining room table. I can tell you a fair bit of 'gibble' was cleared from under there today. I also about a 3rd filled a black bag of car boot stuff. Hoping to do one at some point soon.

Kitchenbunny

Managed to get rid of a couple of things today. Here goes:

Sorted out kitchen shelves so

OUT: 2 cookbooks, some old undelivered cards, recycling to the bin
IN: 1 loaf of bread.

Not a bad start! There's another couple of books for the charity shop, so I must take them into town tomorrow. Thanks for the motivation to keep on decluttering!

KB x

plimsoll

yesterday

OUT
just paper/card for recycling

IN
3x takeaway leaflets
1x clothing collection leaflet
3x post
Mirror plus playmat
ice creams (mmm!)
eggs

DONE
4 loads washing
washing up

today:

IN
small toy cat (toilet training reward/treat)

OUT
bits paper to recycling bin

PENDING

bottles, jars, tins - to go in recycling bin tomorrow
tetrapaks etc - to be taken to the tetrapak bin at some point (was full last time tried offloading any lol)

so not so much over weekend.... still got the carseat pending tho, that'll clear some space lol

Callisto

In

Book
Notebook
Two chocolate bunnies (one each for me and OH) :EasterBun

Out

Jumper given to Mum

Pending

Two items sold on Ebay, awaiting payment
Two tops into charity bag

purplevamp

In

• Nothing :T

Out

• 4 local ‘Bus Times’ magazine (recycled)
• Window sticker (bin)
• Empty fabric covered notebook (bin)
• Sim cards ~ unused (bin)
• Empty drawing pin pot ~ 2 left in it & put with others (bin ~ can’t recycle)
• 21 dried up felt tips (bin)
• Activity sheets from when DS1 was little (recycled)
• Dried up ink cartridge (bin)
• 3 old floppy disks (bin)
• Wing from broken toy plane chucked years ago (bin)
• Weekly rubbish (collection tomorrow)

Done!

• Washing up
• 1 load laundry ~ washed, dried, put away

Didn't realise it was so late! I've got some ebay items to post tomorrow and am still waiting for a couple of payments, fingers crossed they pay soon.　

mrs-moneypenny

paybacktime2008 wrote: »

I don't know what the actual definition of gibble is but for me it's just that general carp that lies around the place that any sane and normal person would put in the bin as they went along.

i feel really horrible now ive found out this word has a meaning:o our darling lovely youngest DD who wll be 18 this summer has affectionally been called gibble since the day she was born:eek:. The deffinition is definately NOT true in her case. (Neither me nor her dad know why we call her it it just happened and stuck.) I must stop calling her it.

carboot season has started which is the main reason we accumulate clutter. but i am going to be much more restrained this year.

IN
6 dvds and a dvd boxset
tube of silicone sealer - to fix around bath
2 packs of baby wipes - DH uses them in the car as hand wipes dashboard cleaners etc.
1 paperback book - really want to read and it was a bargian
3 small candles - i will light them and use them honest.
crochet hook, small silk flowers and silver threads - flowers and threads are for DDs art work
alarm clock - DH back up clock had broken
pack of postcards that i will use
3 school tops - im testing them for MrT

OUT
4 easter cards - posted

pending out
3 parcels still need posting - its too wet to walk down post office today
glass and jars - bagged ready for bottle bank

loopychriss

mineallmine wrote: »

Some of us are struggling with the 100 in 10 days stuff (me included) - I wonder if we should do a turbo declutter day? So instead of trying to declutter for a full 10 days, go for a target of say decluttering 25 items in 1 day? So still really tough but not too exhausting for us (or me I should say). Who's up for anything like this? :A

That's a great idea.... I might join you in that. I keep saying I'll do 100 things in 10 days, but most days I'm not that enthused about decluttering. Once I start I like to have a good old clear out, not keep stopping and starting, so I'll join you on this one. I'm going to dedicate a day over Easter to do it.