The Great Declutter Part 2

MadamMim2013

LydiaJ wrote: »

Can I join in please?

I have a total nightmare of clutter including a whole load of stuff I inherited recently. I'm a teacher so I find it hard to make much progress in term time, so I want to make a big push between now and the beginning of term. The big push starts tomorrow morning, so I'm typing this tonight to try to make myself follow through on my intentions.

Helloooo LydiaJ, Welcome & I hope you have a great time decluttering today! The weather here is awful so I've already attacked a piled up corner within the front room:D
My sister is a teacher & I know she finds it really hard to fit everything in during term time so good on you for trying to get motivated during your time off (ha ha, I know you don't really get much of that either what with lesson planning etc!)
So, enjoy and keeps us informed of how you go

LydiaJ

OK. So far I have dealt with my desk. It was about 5-6in deep with mostly paperwork but also other things. It is now clear apart from one neat pile (about 3in thick) of stuff to file. I have put loads of paper out for recycling, and massively increased the pile of kids' paper - ie stuff that's printed on only one side so I give it to my kids to draw/write on the other side.

I have started a freecycle list and put four things on it. I'll upload it to Freecycle at the end of the day.

misshighlander

Out
2 shoe boxes (binned)
1 cardboard box (recycling)
4 very large film posters (recycling)
Various Spanish tourist info booklets - got about 5 years ago (recycling)

Pending Out
1 Amazon sale (posting on Monday)
Plastic clothes hangers - about 30 of them (Freecycle)

MadamMim2013

Have gone through a HUGE and I mean huge box of Cross stitching mags that were given to me last week. I've selected the ones and bits I need but I'm not quite sure what to do with the rest?? should I put the lot on Freecycle?? The mags go back to the mid 90's but I'm sure they would be wanted by someone and it seems a shame to put in paper recycling!!

Sue14

I would give them a try on Freecycle, someone might want them, and I agree it would be a shame for them to go in for recycling if someone can make use of them.

Hugs
Sue.

Mrsgibbs1503 wrote: »

Have gone through a HUGE and I mean huge box of Cross stitching mags that were given to me last week. I've selected the ones and bits I need but I'm not quite sure what to do with the rest?? should I put the lot on Freecycle?? The mags go back to the mid 90's but I'm sure they would be wanted by someone and it seems a shame to put in paper recycling!!

Sue14

Ex-contents of DPs wardrobe partly sorted, and he is only keeping 2 brand new jackets (which he didn't remember he had) out of all the clothes that were in there.

2 suits, a tie, 5 jackets and some old drawer handles have been put in shed, ready to be taken to charity shop sometime this week, another jacket which has hardly been worn which I'm going to try on Ebay, and put about 10 instruction booklets (for items we don't own anymore) into recycling. I just need to get him to sort through the electrical leads and other bits, which he has in a couple of holdalls that were in his wardrobe, and decide what he needs to keep (any he needs to keep will go in a box in the shed) and then find new homes for the old video players.

I've also got rid of 2 carrier bags of shredded paper, some cardboard boxes and some batteries to recycling. DP & I both have the next week off, and I'm hoping to get at least one of the sheds sorted if I have time, as there is a lot in there that I can probably get rid of, and I want to get that done before the bad weather comes, then I can carry on with the house.

LydiaJ

One huge and three medium boxes of "stuff" have been transformed into just two medium boxes - one of my daughter's belongings, and one of things to go in the loft that might be useful when we move.

In
Nothing :j

Out
One black sack of junk (from the boxes, not ordinary rubbish) now in the wheelie bin.
Lots of card and paper now in the recycling box.

I'm stopping on boxes for today but will try to do some paperwork tonight.

luxor4t

23 items of out of date make up to the bin

17 items ready to list on E-bay, plus more to sort out

mineallmine

Evening all,

Not been doing much decluttering, been busy. But...

1. Returned a book to a friend, with an apology, I hadn't gotten round to reading it and have heaps of stuff from the library, so they immediately lent to another friend. I hate holding onto people's stuff (repatriated back to its owner)
2. Magazines (to a friend)
3. Some cardboard boxes/packaging from the garage - for stuff bought ages ago. (recycling)

So not much really. Going to get rid of some furniture on freecycle. I'm calling it a day on some bad buys and sending them on their journey to someone else's home.

I'm now finding that with the clutter that's left I'm kinda only moving stuff around now. I think I need to pick a room, haul all of the clutter out and put it on say a sheet in the lounge floor and look at it critically. Somehow stuff that is sitting in a room seems to become part of that room.

Good luck everyone.

dannie

Most of the latest decluttering has been garden related -

Lots of old homemade plant pots and trays (recycled).
Glass jars (recycled).
Emptying compost bin and using contents.
Finding an empty washing up liquid bottle to reuse as a handwash container.
Weeding seemed like decluttering.
Collected edible food.

Now will be some indoor decluttering.