The Great Declutter Part 2

camelot1001

MsHalffull - I love that quote and I think that's where I want to be. Not too far to go now.

Not much out apart from the branches of a tree that I cut last autumn. I have cut them all up and burned the lot. It was a bit hot what with the weather and the heat from the fire! The garden is looking a lot better without them.

Have the house on the market and had first viewers yesterday so am pretty exhausted with all that cleaning and tidying. At least the de-cluttering has had a meaning.

Will think about the big shed soon - has all late husband's tools in - may have to enlist DS1s help.

Good luck all!

plimsoll

IN
nothing!!!

OUT
more dandelions & other weeds dug up, few more bits rubbish randomly found in flower/veg/fruit bed

PENDING
few more strawberry plants potted up, hopefully they'll all survive lol. put some back in the bed today as was main strawb area I was weeding but though would give them a bit space not crowd.

DONE
erm apart from the gardening not a lot lol. 1x washing but no washing up (loads to do just my time when was gonna do while cooking tea I ended up messaging someone who'd asked for advice on FB... & cba once kids in bed will do first thing in morning)
some fun stuff like 3rd garden picnic in 3 days.... need to buy charcoal before can do BBQ lol maybe when my brother's up next weekend! plus DD noticed the "Easter" snazaroo face paints bought cheap in Tesco the other day so we did some face/arm painting (I did mock tattoos of kids names on my arm, so she asked for "me" on one arm & "my arm" on the other pmsl!!!)

purplevamp

For Saturday and Sunday

In

• Post (sorted & recycled)
• Take-away menus (recycled)
• Kleeneeze catalogue (quick look through ~ nothing I want)

Out

• DS2’s shorts ~ he bent over and they split :eek::rotfl: (bin)
• Few sheets of old paper (recycled)
• Long plastic stick (thrown over the fence by the kids next door :mad:) (bin)
• I put the 12p they threw over in my money box!
• Frozen potatoes from previous dinners (for our dinner)

Done!

• Washing up

Went into the attic today to try to sort some boxes out, but ended up just looking at things, putting them back, shifting them around a bit, and then coming back down! There’s quite a lot that we could take to a car boot, but DH is a bit reluctant and says I have a selective memory when it comes to car boots ~ I always think they’re a good idea but come home deflated that we didn’t sell much or make much money.

Made a lovely roast chicken dinner and only had 5 small potatoes for making roasties, so used the frozen boiled and roast potatoes from the freezer and no-one could tell the difference! I also makde jelly and custard, sadly the custard was too hot and melted the jelly, but everyone still ate it up!

Back to work tomorrow, so I should be getting an early night after my shower and making lunch! I’ve had 2 weeks off work yet I haven’t made as much progress as I wanted to.
　

longhotbath

Grief - where is it all coming from?

In - 3 bags of pebbles for the garden

Pending - 2 carrier bags for charity

Out - 1 large bucket garden rubbish, 1 bag for school fete, 3 bags for of stuff for nct sales

The house still doesnt look any better. Am painting the inside of the wendy house - orange pine to off-white. At least a couple of coats still to go, my back hurts as its not very high, and my hair is white!!

seabright

Hi - Think I'm going backwards slightly!

IN: Big box of chocs from house guest (don't think they'll be "in" for long!)
Two fabulous lots bought at auction - handmade lace & lace making
equiment (and some other stuff bundled into the same lots that I will sell
on)

OUT: 7 roller blinds (freecycle)
One ebay sale

ThinkingOfLinking

In: 2 experience gift packs and some food about to expire from a friend plus a 2l bottle of diet coke and a book.

Out: Nothing yet but will be eating the food and decluttering today and 4 books are now pending as I have listed them for sale on Greenmetropolis.com

wilf55

in

8 venetian blinds from freecycle some of which will be out again shortly
golf battery

out

lots of contents from wheelies kindly just emptied
all household bins emptied
1 golf bag
set of clubs
1 other club
crosstrainer

Kaz2904

Not been on here for ages. I've made massive progress today.
In: New mattress for DS's bed. 2 sets of roller blades for the kids.
Out: Old mattress. 5 rubble sacks of rubble from our bedroom wall. 1 bag of non recyclables. Recycling bin full of cardboard. Carrier bag of metal cans. Huge binliner of clothes for charity.

Tons more to be getting on with so will hope to get more done as I'm not in work again until Saturday 24th.
Want to get garden rubbish cleared up and also get the rest of our bedroom wall(s) ripped down (if I get time). Then DH would be able to get on and rebuild the walls.
Rightyho, off to get some more stuff done before we have tea!

mineallmine

purplevamp wrote: »

Out DS2’s shorts ~ he bent over and they split :eek::rotfl: (bin)
Went into the attic today to try to sort some boxes out, but ended up just looking at things, putting them back, shifting them around a bit, and then coming back down! There’s quite a lot that we could take to a car boot, but DH is a bit reluctant and says I have a selective memory when it comes to car boots ~ I always think they’re a good idea but come home deflated that we didn’t sell much or make much money.

Hia purplevamp, can see you (and everyone on here) has been really busy. Woohoo stuff gone! Don 't know if you know but some /many charity shop will take scraps of material (think someone had a post about this earlier). They sell the stuff to the ragman. Poor DS2, I hope he laughed!

purplevamp

mineallmine wrote: »

Hia purplevamp, can see you (and everyone on here) has been really busy. Woohoo stuff gone! Don 't know if you know but some /many charity shop will take scraps of material (think someone had a post about this earlier). They sell the stuff to the ragman. Poor DS2, I hope he laughed!

I didn't know that, I thought they only took decent clothes, oh well the binmen came this morning so it's on it's way to landfill now

Yes, DS2 thought it was really funny, he said he had to go and show his Dad! I was only telling him the day before that they were getting too old and holey, but he said they were really comfy ~ aged 4-5 and he's 8!! :eek::rotfl: