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The Great Declutter Part 2

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  • Ishtar
    Ishtar Posts: 1,045 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Hi all

    Not too bad so far today...

    IN:
    Newspaper
    Eye pencil
    Library books (not sure they should really count!)

    OUT:
    Bag of charity things
    Library books

    PENDING:
    Box of things for mum
    eBay items

    Am going to catch up on the washing this afternoon and perhaps do some baking...

    Take care
    D
    x
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,921 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Ooops!!:o

    IN:
    • Set of storage drawers for DS1 (to organise his clutter!:p)
    • 2 paint testers for DS2's new room
    • Sheet & pillowcase to go with DS1's new duvet set
    • Ceiling spotlight and wall light for DS1's room - already fitted
    • 4 fabric flowers
    • 1 plastic storage crate for DS3
    • mirror for DS1's room - fitted
    • duvet and pillow for DS2 - moving to normal single bed from cot bed
    • duvet set for DS2
    • curtains for DS2's new room
    • 4 rolls xmas wrap & 2 packs tissue paper
    • 4 glasses - 3 broke last week
    • new fishslice - DH melted the old one:rolleyes:
    • new radiator for DS2's new room - new valves etc too
    OUT::o
    1 pr ripped school trousers


    must try harder....:rotfl: will attempt some ebay listing tomorrow........

    greent x
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • Mumof2_2
    Mumof2_2 Posts: 2,694 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Great success here:

    IN: Nothing

    OUT: Big nursing/rocking chair - and I got £50 for it :j
    Yet another of those sentimental things I've been holding on to; it gets easier over time.
    Flymarkeeteer: £168 and counting
  • Sequeena
    Sequeena Posts: 4,728 Forumite
    Out
    Another binbag of rubbish
    More tins/bottles for the recycling
    Shredded paperwork for the recycling

    I've started my spring clean :) The living room has been decluttered and any loose paperwork has been filed away.
    Wife and mother :j
    Grocery budget
    April week 1 - £42.78 | week 2 - £53.05
    24lbs in 12 weeks 15/24
  • calleyw
    calleyw Posts: 9,896 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper I've been Money Tipped!
    Right lets see what I have done the last few days.

    In: Food and loo rolls on special offer. 2 X Cream fleeces from Asda 2 for £3 :jgoing to use curtain linings in my living room curtains. 2 X Curtain tracks. Going to take the ones back to wilkinsons as the new ones are cheaper :rotfl:3 X square baskets from poundland. They plastic and square and show someone washing up in one. Easier for my one handed husband. And I am going to keep one in the car for going shopping with. Easier to use then carrier bags.

    OUT: All cardboard and plastic to the tip (walked it over) also took broken toaster as well as the kettle my husband chucked down the stairs (don't ask:rolleyes:) All my rubbish and recycling out in the bins,

    Kitchen looks like a bomb has hit it. Never mind :rotfl:

    Think that is me done for today.

    Yours

    Calley
    Hope for everything and expect nothing!!!

    Good enough is almost always good enough -Prof Barry Schwartz

    If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try -Seth Godin
  • Aril
    Aril Posts: 1,877 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hello:D
    In: weekly shop

    Out- all the bits I've decluttered from the kitchen [now finished it- don't seem to be able to find my halo at this precise moment:rotfl::rotfl:
    birthday present
    book via freecycle
    glass recycling

    Found 2 fleece tops that I will offer on freecycle

    Aril
    Aiming for a life of elegant frugality wearing a new-to-me silk shirt rather than one of hair!
  • carol22_2
    carol22_2 Posts: 650 Forumite
    IN
    Peppermint teabags
    A dozen pink roses (:D)

    OUT
    Empty box from peppermint teabags
    Two old coffee jars (why was I keeping these??)

    xxx
    Chifundo Uzuri Siochain
    "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost" - JRR Tolkien
    ~ <3 ~ Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, but love leaves a memory no one can steal ~ <3 ~
  • lola34
    lola34 Posts: 1,205 Forumite
    Haven't been on for a few days:

    IN

    Money box for saving loose change
    Few bargains from the CS £1 each
    Top for me from Primark
    New make up bag from Accessorise sale - only £3.40 instead of £12:D

    OUT

    1 school shirt DS left lid off pen:o
    Few Ebay parcels
    3 Charity bags - all full up
    Broken shredder

    Also tidied out the table in the lounge- has a storage compartment that gets full very quickly:o
  • kte
    kte Posts: 242 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    IN: Nothing :)

    OUT:
    Cleared out a cupboard so:
    Three items listed on ebay
    Half a black bag of rubbish
    2 old handbags to the charity shop
    2 in the bin

    Few tins of tomatoes from the back of the cupboard now made into 3 portions of tom sauce for the freezer
    Old IKEA furntiture packaging made into reflective panels for the back of the radiator with the help of some foil I bought in the 99p shop

    Every bit helps...
  • keys_2
    keys_2 Posts: 1,070 Forumite
    edited 16 January 2010 at 6:39PM
    WOW ; I have just had a quick look through this thread and think its FANTASIC ...Well done for the idea and all the motivation ongoing :j:j:j
    I would love to join please ?
    As I am definately a hoarder { and all my friends are always telling me off about it } However Just after the New year I devised myself a plan of action this year that I am slowly working my way through ;) Which includes emptying cupboards / rooms etc of items I have not used within 12 months and my plan is to rid of them or sell them some way or another .:o

    This week alone I have
    OUT :
    • I have taken About 10 bin bags of papers / wrapping paper from xmas and other rubbish to the tip { as someone has stolen my wheelie bin } :eek:
    • Placed 3 items on Freecycle last night and am awaiting there collection
    I plan to empty all my letter draws tonight if I get time after dd goes to bed
    And tommorrows task is to clear dd bedroom of toys and put away for a car boot which I plan to do soon when the weather gets better along with the other 3 huge boxes I have stored in my bedroom ready for car boot soon :o

    My plan for the near future is too hopefully cash in on some items best I can like toys / books / some clothing . Hopefully on car boots / Ebay .
    I have 4 boxes and suitcases also filling my bedroom of books which i need to get round to and put on Green Met and Amazon ....Any other sites if anyone has any ideas ?
    I NEED to sort out my wardrobe of mountains of clothes I dont wear and car boot them / freecycle or charity shop I think - also my ever growing 3 year olds wardrobe of clothes that she is growing out of .

    Im loving reading through all your ideas and its all giving me so much more motivation Thankyou :beer:

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