The Great Declutter Part 2

MsHalffull

Been pretty quiet on the decluttering front this weekend but my 2 day decluttering marathon on Thurs & Fri has meant that it has been fairly easy to keep on top of things.

IN

New toilet seat
Shorts for DS

OUT

garden cuttings
Box of Xmas stuff put aside for CS
potted geranium - stolen from outside my house :mad:
compass returned to shop

Karmacat - Best wishes for your move.

Callisto

Harumph! Spent longer visiting relatives than expected, so now am behind with decluttering and housework (house looks worse than ever!?) and back to work tomorrow.

In

New lamp for living room

Out

Two carrier bags of recycling
Necklace given to Mum

Pending Out

Four tops into charity bag
Microwave has expired, so OH to take to tip probably (have had a spate of electrical items giving up the ghost on me lately, starting to take it personally now!)

bestpud

I've had a few days away from major decluttering as I've been painting and doing last week of school term type things!

Anyway, I've got back to it over the weekend so can add to my list:

26. 4x single sockets (replaced with doubles ages ago)
27. A money counter that eats batteries (charity)
28. Loads of books back to friend (pending)
29. One book back to another friend (pending)
30. Box file of old instruction manuals (recycled)
31. Pile of dd2's drawings etc (photographed and recycled)
32. Some old headphones (bin)
33. Bag of books (charity - pending)
34. A huuuuge spider that was lurking in a box (spider heaven - sorry )
35. Pair of ripped trousers (charity for rag bin)
36. Another old towel (ditto)

There is more to come later!

Quite a bit in as I'm decorating etc:

Picture frame for card I liked and have kept for this purpose
Lap table thing for dd to use lap top
Big mat for front door to save new carpet (old one now in playroom)
Pictures - on wall (no old ones as didn't have many before)
Some baskets for storage (on sale in Dunelm)
Bean bag for dd
Floor tiles and carpet (now on floor and left over in bin!)

Well done everyone and thanks for updating - I love this thread! :j

We will all get there - slowly slowly catchy monkey!

Karmacat

MsHalffull wrote: »

Been pretty quiet on the decluttering front this weekend but my 2 day decluttering marathon on Thurs & Fri has meant that it has been fairly easy to keep on top of things.

IN

New toilet seat
Shorts for DS

OUT

garden cuttings
Box of Xmas stuff put aside for CS
potted geranium - stolen from outside my house :mad:
compass returned to shop

Thats dreadful :eek:

Karmacat - Best wishes for your move.

Thank you :kisses3:

And I have a bit more:
36. loads of polystyrene, binned.
37. 2 pairs of jeans cut up for future use in patchwork, remnants binned.

misshighlander

Out
3 old cardigans - was used by 1 cat to sleep on. Now binned
1 dressing gown - used by 1 cat sleep on. Now binned
1 small bag of rubbish from bathroom bin.
1 bag of shredded paper - recycle bin
1 book - Amazon sale
Newspapers/Magazines/Junk mail into recycle bin

In
Mail
1 magazine
Some food

NualaBuala

I love this thread!

I've been trying to declutter for over a year - it's going so slowly though as I'm determined to keep stuff from going into landfill so I'm trying to freecycle/donate/sell as much as poss. The temptation is to keep junk to find some way of reusing it in crafts or other projects. Has anyone else had this kind of problem?

Today:
IN - groceries
OUT - recycled a load of cardboard and plastic

Sue14

Tackled the cupboard on top of DP’s wardrobe today, as he doesn’t usually horde and is happy to throw away anything that’s not nailed down, I was shocked at the amount of crap I found in there, including 2 identical CD’s which he didn’t know he had!

Out:

Loads of paperwork put in recycling, some to be shredded tomorrow
Other paperwork ready for filing
Pile of old birthday cards - recycled
2 remotes for video recorders we got rid of years ago – charity box
Bag of 22 books – charity
10 audio cassettes - charity
2 blank videos - charity
4 road maps - charity
2 road atlas books – charity
Electric shaver – charity/Freecycle?
Hair conditioner bottle – recycled
A few random items - binned.
Also DS visited yesterday and took 3 bags of stuff from his room

Pending:

DP’s duplicate CD – Ebay
Camera – Ebay
47 other items listed on Ebay over the weekend (2 with bids)
About 10 used envelopes to take to work later in the week

Sue14

NualaBuala wrote: »

The temptation is to keep junk to find some way of reusing it in crafts or other projects. Has anyone else had this kind of problem?

I used to have that problem, but since finding this thread I've been more ruthless, and have got rid of loads of stuff I've kept for years just in case it came in handy for something, lol! However, like you, I don't want anything going to landfill if there's an alternative, so most of it has been recycled in some way, i.e. recycling bins, Ebay, charity or Freecycle.

NualaBuala

Sue14 wrote: »

I used to have that problem, but since finding this thread I've been more ruthless, and have got rid of loads of stuff I've kept for years just in case it came in handy for something, lol! However, like you, I don't want anything going to landfill if there's an alternative, so most of it has been recycled in some way, i.e. recycling bins, Ebay, charity or Freecycle.

Glad I'm not the only one Sue ... I can see by the list above that you're a reformed character!

I'm delighted to have got rid of over 150 VHS tapes via freecycle - your list reminded me I've also got some old audio cassettes too. No idea what's on them but I'll try freecycle, I'm always amazed by what people will take!

I haven't tried Ebay or Ebid yet but I will soon.

bestpud

NualaBuala wrote: »

I love this thread!

I've been trying to declutter for over a year - it's going so slowly though as I'm determined to keep stuff from going into landfill so I'm trying to freecycle/donate/sell as much as poss. The temptation is to keep junk to find some way of reusing it in crafts or other projects. Has anyone else had this kind of problem?

Today:
IN - groceries
OUT - recycled a load of cardboard and plastic

Oh yes - that's me too!

But I'm being ruthless this time and tbh it gets easier as you get into it.

It is definitely less work when you end up with less to put back and it feels great! :j

When I hear myself saying I might need an item for something, I remind myself I've said that about the same item at least once or twice and haven't ended up using it!

I've just made up a box of craft items for my local Womens Project as they run craft sessions. I feel it is going to good use and that helps.

Also, if you have stuff that can be used for crafts, your local childrens centre or youth clubs will probably be glad of them?