The Great Declutter Part 2

Karmacat

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Yes I would definately see how much a dress agency would give you for it Karma.

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Callisto wrote: »

I just list things on Ebay I think will sell - I don't bother checking the unsold history, if somebody wants it - great! If not - at least I tried. It's really nothing personal if an item doesn't sell - it may just be the day of the week or the time that an auction ends that means less people are around when auctions finish - ie I time auctions to finish early evening on a Sunday, when the majority of people are likely to be in due to the working week about to start again, are bored on the internet and looking for things to buy! I relist things once and if they still don't sell I look at a different way of selling it or give it to charity.

Absolutely! I understand its not personal... and I admire that attitude of listing and seeing what happens; I guess when I started doing all of this, I felt I was too deeply in debt to be able to pay the ebay fees if things happened not to sell, so I never got into the habit of doing it, just selling books and CDs on amazon, and being happy with that.

I'm back from my long weekend in the Lake District now and have caught up with the thread, well done everyone! I will restart decluttering tomorrow with renewed vigour. I've even managed to not bring back a single souvenir from holiday which is a first!

That sounds great! Like the whole "leave only footprints, take only memories" thing

pippo

Well, it's day two for me.
came home and 2 charity big bags had been delivered! (Who told them?)
So 10 items of clothing straight in.. even before I engaged brain or took my shoes off!!
Plus.... one nearly full bottle of olive oil I dropped and smashed over kitchen floor! does that count? It resulted in using up 1 bottle of Ajax liquid, half a kitchen roll & 3 elastoplasts!!
I have also shredded/recycled junk mail, but don't count that.


Total:-
Day 2 22 Items

Pip
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Sequeena

I've fallen off the wagon. All that's gone out of my house is rubbish and recycling but on the flip side I haven't bought anything aside from food, pet stuff, house stuff etc

Karmacat

Thats not falling off the wagon! Thats just holding steady, getting your energy up for the next round

mineallmine

mineallmine wrote: »

Day 2 of 10 - get rid of 100 things in 10 days

Thanks for the support karmacat and oceanspirit. Cannot believe it's only day 2 and I'm up to 27 already.

28. Book (charity)
29. Toiletry used up (recycling)
30. Toiletry used up (recycling)

Phew it's hot. The really REALLy cluttered spare room is a rich source of stuff to go. Just off to read some magazines - see some of this decluttering can be fun - finding dusty bottles of wine that *have* to be drunk and magazines to read. :A

Day 3
31. Magazine (recycling)

I found a pile of magazines so this is fun decluttering. More to come.

Karmacat

25. blue skirt, from the same underbed storage, to charity shop tomorrow.

greent

Karmacat wrote: »

Its probably a self esteem issue but I never believe my stuff will sell on ebay - and I've just been looking at all the unsold radley dresses too - 7 at the moment, with no bids.

search for the completed items for radley dresses - lots have sold - and some at VERY good prices.

I never knew radley did dresses - radley to me = handbags......

Karmacat

Thanks greent! I'll have a go - what came into my head, tho, was a quote from TS Eliot, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" - bonkers, I tell you, completely bonkers.

26. work journal, to recycling (they archive them on the website, bless them).
27. massive great countryside magazine from a freebie bag to recycling.






EDIT - just checked out the completed listings - 22 dresses, 7 of which didn't sell (two were relisted, I didn't count that, it was really old fashioned by today's standards. Oh, and one of that 7 didn't even bother to put a photo up!).

esmf73

Got a bit distracted over the last few weeks - but :

71 - chairs & table - Freecycle
70 - Freezer - Freecycle
69 - garden waste - skip
68 - Boys toys to thrift shop
67 - unwanted pillows to thrift shop
66 - cakes - church cake sale
65 - paperwork - recycled
64 - computer bits - freecycle
63 - printer - friend on freecycle
62 - spare computer tower - friend on freecycle
61 - clothes to a friend
60 - candles & unwanted nik naks - thrift shop

Now I know where I am I'll be able to crack on. Hope its going well for everyone else.

KarleyMarie

So my assistant manager and I spent about 2hours discussing decluttering today and how we were "really gonna crack on" (we're both moving house, her sooner than me thank goodness;)) ...

Now I'm home, I just can't be bothered! I wish motivation could be bottled instead of coming when am at work! Lol!

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