The Great Declutter Part 2

angelaf_3

1 black bag of general rubbish
2 bags for the charity shop
Both waiting to be picked up on Monday along with another black bag that wasn't picked up last week because of snow.

1 bag of shredding waiting to be picked up on Tuesday

1 bag of recycling to be picked up on Thursday.

Still no one would notice the difference lol

charlies_mum

Kailua wrote: »

Hi, hypno06

Please reconsider before shredding the photos that you don't want. If there are old ones where you don't know who the people are - there may be other people, family historians, whose family they might relate too who would be very very interested. In my family - when my Great Grandmother died one of her children wanted to find a letter he had sent that he didn't want anyone to see and because he couldn't find it he burnt everything - all the photos, letters everything. As a family historian it is heart breaking. There are also people who collect photos - just check on ebay - old photos of people (people who are interested how people dressed etc) are popular as are photos of places, streets, etc - there is an album of old photos of india that was put on for £400+ and has already had a bid! Other old photo albums tend to go for around £20 upwards. It's not just photos - when people are decluttering think about bits of papers that most people wouldn't consider important. I was really lucky with ebay a few months ago when I managed to get a memorial card for a distant family member. It was so amazing to think that my great, great, great grandmothers sister would have held that card. A colleague cleared out his parents loft for them and there were loads of 1960's Radio Times and he put them in the recycling - it didn't even cross his mind that people might be interested but you never know. Old bills as well - there are quite a few on at the moment. Sorry for going on but once these things are lost there is no getting them back and people often think that others won't be interested in photographs and other bits of paper.

Best Wishes
Kailua

Absolutely agree, I sell on Ebay and one of the best sellers is ephemera (paper products). Some old photos (especially WW1 military) can do well, also old maps, postcards etc

Kailua

charlies_mum wrote: »

Absolutely agree, I sell on Ebay and one of the best sellers is ephemera (paper products). Some old photos (especially WW1 military) can do well, also old maps, postcards etc

Thanks, - the more we can raise awareness the more we can hopefully save before it gets destroyed forever.

Best Wishes
Kailua

Kailua

Oh, yes and if any of you are selling postcards etc - please mention who the card was sent to and where - for us family historians out there looking for needles in a haystack.

Best wishes
Kailua

hypno06

Oh believe me - I have been through every single photo.......nothing is going that will be of any interest to anyone.....unless you are a collector of blurry, out of focus photos of the barbecue that was built with the help of a neighbour, the progress of the leylandii we had to shield our house from the road, and the like!

All family shots have been kept and catalogued.

mineallmine

Well done Hypno06, I got quite emotional reading your post. I have some photos that I need to sort/frame in a similar way. :A Your Dad would no doubt be so proud to know you've been brave enough to do this and can now treasure his photos.

Good point harib0uk, about recycling in your own home, earlier I decided to keep 2 dishes that weren't oven-proof, they're now posh cat bowls! :T Sadly my house is at bursting point so a harsh cull is essential.

OUT (to recycling)
2009 calendar

koolkid

Hello my lovelies.... can I join please? I have the hideaway cupboard from hell in my spare room and a understairs cupboard full of absolute carp- they desperately need a good declutter- I'm convinced it's the route to all the evil clutter in our house!

Had a very good start...
OUT: Random mismatching plates
IN: Shiny new Denby dinner set which I will treasure and love for the next 20 years:)

Tomorrow... the Christmas decs are down and the evil-cupboard might get attacked!

kkx

paulabear

Hi hypno, I inherited some of my mum's knitting things when my dad brought them to me recently and it was very emotional - there were things she'd been working on and never finished, and it even smelled a bit like her - some things are not to get rid of! I've kept it all know what you mean about photos, we have lots that my grandma takes which are awful, she points the camera wildly and clicks at nothing, but you feel bad getting rid of them!

I'm doing rubbish, here, roll on OH going back to work and DS back to school!

In; -two big Really Useful boxes!!! I now have a collection of 8 and no real order to the toys that go in them but hopefully...

Out; -um, nothing... oops...

koolkid

I've read about really useful boxes- are they good?

hypno06

I've got a long "Really Useful" box for my rolls of wrapping paper - it cost me £9.99 which I thought was expensive at the time, but has paid for itself in keeping rolls of really nice paper, really nice - not torn or squished or dog eared in any way.