The Great Declutter Part 2

MsRed1

blushingbride wrote: »

In:

Will hopefully being doing lots more decluttering tonight & tomorrow, need to make space for my christmas pressies!haha

Excellent reason.

MsRed1

De cluttered my desk:j. Now have to declutter the floor.:rotfl::rotfl:

mrs-moneypenny

box file, school file and letter rack are now de-cluttered:T

ASC

Hello everyone, do you have room for another?

I finally feel able to poke my head above the piles of clutter and not just lurk as I’m starting to make progress. I’ve been trying to follow flylady on and off for a while, but had come to the conclusion that we simply have too much “stuff” so that needed to be addressed first. I’m a hoarder (one of the “it might be useful one day” brigade), DH is simply messy and I can’t expect any better from DS and DD with the example we set…

However, since Christmas I’ve been trying to keep on top of a relatively tidy house and in addition I have decluttered and tidied the hall cupboard, the cupboard under the kitchen sink and most of the bathroom. Oh, and some paperwork and some of the childrens old toys. We’ve had no rubbish collected since Christmas so the council say they will take extra when they finally do collect so I currently have three extra black bags as well as full rubbish and recycling bins. Inside I have three (neat) piles of stuff for charity, freecyle and ebay.

I know it doesn’t sound like much but we’ve brought nothing in other than groceries and two future birthday presents from the M&S sale so at least it’s headed in the right direction. I guess too much snow and not enough money has an up side!

I want to thank whoever posted the Conran quote earlier, it really made sense. Living in a messy house has been making me quite depressed so it’s useful to remember that space has a purpose too. I think I’m going to copy it into my diary.

Sorry for the long post, hardly in keeping with the thread!

A x

MsRed1

ASC wrote: »

However, since Christmas I’ve been trying to keep on top of a relatively tidy house and in addition I have decluttered and tidied the hall cupboard, the cupboard under the kitchen sink and most of the bathroom. Oh, and some paperwork and some of the childrens old toys-I know it doesn’t sound like much
A

Well done. Sounds like a lot to me. I'm having enough trouble decluttering one cupboard.:rotfl::rotfl:

Yorkielass

Well recycling was collected yesterday so can start filling the bins again! and I successfully found the floor in the office :T:T the whole pile either was found a new home, was recycled, put in a pile to shred or in a pile on my desk to deal with!

So out:
lots of recycling
a few bits of rubbish
all the shredding (bought it into work and put it in the confidential waste disposal thing - much easier than putting every sheet through our shredder at home even if it's a bit naughty).

Saying what I am going to do does seem to help. I'm out tonight so not a lot of time but I'm going to do another cosmetics inventory, have gone a bit lax since finishing my 100 days challenge last July but haven't really bought anything new, mainly been pressies, but a new list of what I've got is a good idea as I'm joining the not buying beauty products challenge on here!

sleepless_saver

I'm enjoying reading what everyone else is up to, it's very motivating. Tomorrow I will tackle corner of living room which has stuff piled up in it.

IN

Bird feeder
Pack of paintbrushes (will declutter old unusable ones when I find them)

RECYCLED

Bag of worn out textiles
Empty plastic bottles
Cardboard
Glass/empty cans

OUT

Returned impulse buy rug to shop

wendy+5

I decluttered my bedroom! I'm still in shock. 2 bags of rubbish, 4 bags of recycling, 3 nappy changing bags and 9 (9!) bags to the charity shop.

Floor is now clear. I can get to the wardrobes. I took the drawers out from under the bed and hoovered under there. All the kids' toys have gone back to their rooms. Cleared the tops of the drawers and tidied spare toiletries away.

I'm absolutely knackered, but man, I feel good!!! :D:j:j:j

Aril

Hello:j
In: Milk

Out: 2 bags of bean bag stuffing
In/out/In/Out - the small person plus best friend all morning whilst off school building a snowman in the garden. Now decluttered the best friend back to his home:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Aril

greent

Had to post this

Pending Out:
OH - had interview this afternoon and job offer an hour later! :j:jStarting next month (was made redundant end of Nov - 2nd time in 7 months )
He's doing my head in being at home! (however, the downside is I'm having a hysterectomy later this month,so need his help lots following that - 4 kids inc a 7mth old (still feeding him) and a 4 year old (so not at school) means I normally do loads of stuff which I just won't be able to...

However, it's good stuff overall!:T

greent x