The Great Declutter Part 2

inaminute

inaminute wrote: »

I want to get rid of some more rubbish this week if I can so will continue on my count down. My aim is for 100, so that leaves me with 80 more items..... Mmmm I will give it a go.

Happy de-cluttering everyone

Well its now Thursday and I've not managed my 80 more items yet :rotfl:.

I've been busy doing other bits and pieces all week so haven't had chance to de-clutter. I've worked in the garden all afternoon cutting back shrubs and feel all hot and bothered now so may have to have a cool beer to revive me! :rotfl:

I might have to make it 80 items in June as I want to achieve another 100 items asap.

175 items of cr*p have left our home since February, when you put it like that it doesn't really seem alot does it? However, that's 175 items of clutter that we can obviously live without and wouldn't have got rid of without everyone's encouragement on this forum so THANK YOU

mineallmine

Evening fellow declutters,

Right...

24. Old jar of tartare sauce (bin, sorry too yucky to wash out etc, off too!)
25. Bag of rubbish from bathroom, count as 1 item (bin)
26. Box of not so Finest chocs, been open for weeks (packaging recycled)

So up to 26 things gone, 12 binned sadly. Must keep pushing tho, I want this place sorted!

oceanspirit

Not much achieved today - just one magazine from the paperwork pile taking the grand total to 38. No change on the general total.

Money_maker

I've been away from this thread for quite some time but now I'm back!

Have finally decided that I need to do a boot sale as even ebay and freecycle wouldn't be able to rid me of all I need to get shot of and I could do with a few pennies.

DS1, DS2 & DD have been away at MIL's since yesterday so have been on a mission to once again find the bedroom floor (it went missing again a few weeks ago...) so have been busily filling bins with rubbish and shed with boot sale potentials.

My problem areas seem to be clothes (still have some of DD's baby stuff), stuff like towels/duvets/lineny sort of bits (most no longer used) and old school paperwork of the boys.

Am now in full 'save it for the boot sale' mode so hopefully I will get carried away and be able to take lots with me.

greent

Very quick update:

OUT:
35. birthday card from general stash to DS1's friend
36.- 40. old packs of seeds scattered in garden - if they grow, great; if they don't, well, I've lost nothing!
41. 2 part bags of compost (1 from last summer, 1 from the summer before!!) used to top up garden pots.
42. old broken battery toothbrush of DS1's

IN:
new toothbrush for DS1

cyclingyorkie

DD2 off out today and tomorrow pm - breaks from revisions......this will lead to more decluttering!

Welsh_Totster

Im back on the case! Just had a new kitchen fitted so had LOTS of kitchen stuff still in boxes from our move that Id not unpacked. so here we go....

25 packing boxes and 3 boxes of bubble wrap being picked up by someone in work on Sunday as they are moving house (so a bit of recycling there!)
2 boxes full of unwanted kitchen items sold to someone else at work for £25 being picked up on Tuesday
Old back door been bought for £15 by yet another person in work, being picked up on weekend
2 black binliners full of unwanted and unusable kitchen items (broken or past best use) gone to dump and recycled
Old gas cooker taken to dump last Monday
Will have at least another 10 packing boxes available to someone else in work this weekend as we are unpacking the final room, the dining room, so they will be recycled too

Im quite pleased!

greent

Welsh_Totster wrote: »

Im back on the case! Just had a new kitchen fitted so had LOTS of kitchen stuff still in boxes from our move that Id not unpacked. so here we go....

25 packing boxes and 3 boxes of bubble wrap being picked up by someone in work on Sunday as they are moving house (so a bit of recycling there!)
2 boxes full of unwanted kitchen items sold to someone else at work for £25 being picked up on Tuesday
Old back door been bought for £15 by yet another person in work, being picked up on weekend
2 black binliners full of unwanted and unusable kitchen items (broken or past best use) gone to dump and recycled
Old gas cooker taken to dump last Monday
Will have at least another 10 packing boxes available to someone else in work this weekend as we are unpacking the final room, the dining room, so they will be recycled too

Im quite pleased!

And so you should be!!!:T:T Well done on your decluttering efforts - and money made from them too!!

short_bird

Money_maker wrote: »

stuff like towels/duvets/lineny sort of bits (most no longer used)

If it isn't "bootable" or doesn't sell at the boot, towels & blankets are always useful for animal charities...

Welsh_Totster

greent wrote: »

And so you should be!!!:T:T Well done on your decluttering efforts - and money made from them too!!

It just feels soooo good and I can now see the floor in what should be the dining room. Im never moving house again!:rotfl: