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The Great Declutter Part 2
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Quiet on here today!
In- Post (sorted and recycled)
- DVDs from my Dad
- Magnetic meal planner (freebie)
- Remote control for a car that’s been MIA for years ~ batteries leaked everywhere (bin)
- Strap for toy guitar that went years ago (bin)
- Packaging for light pull switch ~ not recyclable (bin)
- 1 toy drumstick ~ drum went years ago (bin)
- Run-out felt tips (bin)
- Sim card (bin)
- Blown fairy light bulb (bin)
- Noise stick (the ones you hit and “music” comes out ~ corroded batteries (bin)
- 2 large cardboard boxes (recycled)
- 1 item on eBay has a bid!
- 3 books on Amazon
- Vacuumed top of wardrobes in my bedroom
- Put all my :heart2:Adam Ant:heart2: memorabilia in large rigid plastic box & put on top of wardrobe
- I found a 1/2p!! :rotfl:
Mortgage: Was: £154,495 Oct 2039 Now: £82,340.34 May 2037Swagbucks ~ £130 (2024 ~ £395)Surveys ~ £141.14 (2024 ~ £280.14)Make £2025 in 2025 #5 ~ £964.62 ~ (2024 ~ £2,561.04)0 -
You're all doing very well!
i've been making use of my week off by chucking stuff out
Kids playhut emptied of broken toys
Loads of broken plant pots out
1 over stuffed wheeliebin out for tomorrow
1 charity bag of clothes and about a thousand plastic hangers to be collected tomorrow
Tidied DS2s wardrobe and grown out clothes put away for DS2 to grow into.
Shredded huge pile of reciepts etc
Quite pleased so far - got another week off next week when I'll get really stuck in!Just call me Nodwah the thread killer0 -
Well done everyone - the Spring Declutter Fever goes on!
Purplevamp ?! Adam Ant Memorabilia!!?? I guess there are some things that are sooo precious ....
I dropped off another bag at the CS yesterday and noticed it was really busy with people buying things (not me - I am trying for a one way stream of stuff OUT of this house)
So yesterday
OUT Bag of bits to CS
12 lbs of fruit made into jam (so out of the freezer and into the energy non-using cupboard)
6 lbs of jam/marmalade in box ready to "go North" at the weekend
1 cake ditto
usual recycling of post, packaging
2 rows of pea plants from g/house to vegetable garden where planted out under protective wire (blasted pigeons and rabbits - grrrr)
chicken carcass made into delish soup for supper
IN Veggies for soup (our own leeks and carrots all used up)
zip to mend OH trousers
IN and then straight OUT again
2 prs jeans for OH - he said they were too expensive for just jeans. Good MSE OH - it was extravagant but they were very nice "best" jeans ... trouble is he doesnt see any difference and would wear them to garden/climb trees/make mud pies.....
Have another great day.
XXMMXXStay clutter-free
No new stuff unless to replace broken items that are essential.
£2 savings pot (started Oct 09) £182 so far (£100 of which is banked)
Roadkill jar (found money) 87p and 20 eurocents0 -
The boxes in the bedroom are being sorted, and are getting closer to the bedroom door.
Pending - 1 bin bag charity, 1 to school fete and 2 to next nct sale which is in 8 weeks...
Lots of garden tidying - isnt it great to see the sun again ! 4 bags to tip yesterday - green bin full.0 -
Purplevamp ?! Adam Ant Memorabilia!!?? I guess there are some things that are sooo precious ....
What can I say? The man is a GOD (I named my first son after him)
Mortgage: Was: £154,495 Oct 2039 Now: £82,340.34 May 2037Swagbucks ~ £130 (2024 ~ £395)Surveys ~ £141.14 (2024 ~ £280.14)Make £2025 in 2025 #5 ~ £964.62 ~ (2024 ~ £2,561.04)0 -
Had my parents to stay over Easter and we seem to have done well at reverse decluttering.... (not all connected to that)
In:
model railways stuff for OH
clothes for us both
Wii and Wii fit
blu-ray player
random stuff OH has accuired from work
chocolate
Out:
Gave them a board game they leant us and a pile of active kids vouchers to take home.
Need to get cracking and back on track. 5 more weeks until I have a week off work at home so need to try and sort now so I can do some bigger stuff then.Initial Mortgage January 2024 - £160,000
Initial Mortgage free date - January 2058
Mortgage as of 1st February 2024 - £159,134.98
Overpayments to date - £79.62
Current Mortgage free date - January 20580 -
Is there no end to it? I'm struggling ATM to seen light at the end of the tunnel!
IN
post & food
some treats from my shopping trip to Glasgow yesterday, DD2 lives there and she introduced me to the Cath Kidston shop. I've never been in a shop dedicated to only Cath kidston goodies before:)
OUT
12 childrens videos to charity shop
12 books donated to libraryVirtual Sealed Pot Challenge #22£2 savings 2010 Challenge #8Great Declutter 2010 Challenge0 -
Hi all
Hope those who have had their weeks holiday have enjoyed the sunny weather - if we were paid by the lb for the sheer weight of stuff we have recycled/binned/ebayed etc we would be millionairesses!!!!!!
In
3 books - (given to me) but joining the pile of 6 by the bed still to read!!
6 free range eggs
Pending
4 items on ebay with bids - yippeee
Out
1 book sold on Amazon (been posted since after xmas!!)
2 bags of books to charity shop on my way shopping tomorrow.
Will update during the weekend as OH working, so can declutter/bin stuff in peace!Mortgage free as at 1/9/13 :j
To start work on the credit cards now!!0 -
Well Anewme - at least you have taken the brave step to enter the tunnel!! But ... finding that whole Cath Kidson shops exist is not a good thing MSE-wise although looking (and stroking ...) cost nothing.
Lovely weather here again which really lifts the spirits. I ventured into the loft (to get bags down for our weekend away) and actually saw quite a few things that had me itching for my CS bag. So when we come back and the weather isnt good for gardening I will spend an hour or two making a start (by that I mean creating a hole in which I can work so that I can gradually tackle it. It really is just a conscience-salver - "put it in the loft" = I didnt need it/dont like it/dont want to see it but am too guilty to get rid. Like eating up your plateful (when you are full/overweight) because binning it is such a waste)
Grrr - sorry to ramble - Friday night on my own.
XX MM XXStay clutter-free
No new stuff unless to replace broken items that are essential.
£2 savings pot (started Oct 09) £182 so far (£100 of which is banked)
Roadkill jar (found money) 87p and 20 eurocents0 -
In
- Free local paper
- Weekly shopping ~ a day earlier as DH is out with his brother tomorrow
- Get well card for my Nan
- 1 item on turbo lister
- Washing up
- 1 load laundry, washed, dried & put away
Mortgage: Was: £154,495 Oct 2039 Now: £82,340.34 May 2037Swagbucks ~ £130 (2024 ~ £395)Surveys ~ £141.14 (2024 ~ £280.14)Make £2025 in 2025 #5 ~ £964.62 ~ (2024 ~ £2,561.04)0
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